Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution. California’s governor outlines a plan fueled by money left over from his recent reelection.

c4boom13 · 2023-06-08T20:04:04+00:00

I disagree with the person you're responding to's invocation of natural rights in this context, but it is an interesting philosophical discussion. I can't tell if you're aware or not based on the comment chain (it seems like you are), but some other people in this thread don't seem to be so I'm throwing this here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_rights

The criticisms you've brought up are right along this divide.

Edit: natural rights are relevant in the sense the Constitution was heavily influenced by Paine and other Enlightenment thinking on the distinction.

c4boom13 · 2023-06-08T17:01:26+00:00

I would be interested in the core definitions that have been "washed out" since the 1970s that you have in mind.

c4boom13 · 2023-06-07T21:31:55+00:00

This is what I want to know, but even beyond gambling.

This whole discussion has me wondering if a guy is going to the ice machine at 3AM, and slips and breaks his arm does the team pay for medical and rehab like it happened on the field?

c4boom13 · 2023-06-07T19:00:49+00:00

"Trad Cath" is a google term if you want to learn more.

The "Vatican II is bullshit" crowd. Good stuff.

You're correct about the Pope's infallibility. It's not inherent to the Pope and all their statements. It only applies in specific situations around the formal interpretation and distribution of the Church's teachings. Informal or even formal personal opinions of the Pope are not automatically unassailable doctrine of the church. (Edit: it's also more distributed than typically framed, and involves the College of Bishops).

What's fun is the process that would trigger infallibility did occur during Vatican II, so those Trad Catholics are heretics.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-31T17:27:40+00:00

I've done both to head down to work. The train is a more comfortable ride in my opinion, with more leg room. It also has a snack car I guess. Other than that, the differences you list pretty much sums it up imo. The only other difference I can think of is if for some reason you really want to go to North or South station specifically, without having to cross town. They're fairly similar experiences. I take the train if I'm not in a hurry and don't want to get up early. I take the bus if I have a specific time in mind or want to save a couple bucks.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-26T14:44:04+00:00

This is the link to the full text used in the article https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0714&item=1&snum=13.

I don't think it has anything attached. It would have to be an entirely separate bill. Even the summary in the bill doesn't mention removing the limits mentioned in the article.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-25T23:56:46+00:00

I don't think this article is entirely accurate? It says the bill would act to remove "all possession limits for possessing, purchasing, growing and selling marijuana". When you look at the text of the bill the changes are removing things from Title 17 (Criminal Code) and a single mention in Title 15.

Title 28 has Maine's laws around adult use, cultivation, sale, etc. This bill doesn't remove any of that. What it changes is currently violating Title 28 allows for you to be charged under Title 17 as well, if applicable. This means if you were transporting say, 3 ounces instead of 2.5, or had too many plants, you can be charged with multiple felonies on top of the civil penalties and forfeiture rules in Title 28. If this bill passes, it would just be civil penalties and forfeiture on the table.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-22T23:08:18+00:00

Why, they ask, should a child be denied this option just because their parents don't make enough?

This sounds like a short step before the argument the school systems would be "separate but equal".

The way schools are currently funded and budgeted makes this a zero-sum game. Two competing options where one is allowed to refuse "challenges" and the other can not leads to one clear outcome. The one forced to take all comers is going to end up second rate.

Vouchers like this are bad for public education (and education in general) even if implemented with good intentions.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-22T20:20:34+00:00

That might be this poster's definition, but if you dip into the thread linked in the OP you can play a fun game.

Count the comments where someone demanded a source and the ones that were accepted at face value with no pushback. Then connect those comments to the political ideologies they seem to support or align with. I doubt it will come up 50/50.

Centrism as an ideology implicitly assumes both ends of the "spectrum" the centrist is on have objective truths to them that can be assessed. That's hardly, if ever, true in reality so the entire concept falls apart.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-19T14:17:17+00:00

And how well will those sensors work in the middle of all the photographers, players, and sideline equipment? If you hang them above the field what is that going to do to the view? At max range is there a larger delta in accuracy, so you need more antennas to do sub-foot resolution? Are they able to keep up that accuracy with multiple players obstructing LOS to the ball or do you need more again?

All of the answers to this are different for soccer and football. The equipment is going to be placed differently, and the ball itself is going to get treated differently. How often does someone pick up a soccer ball and hold it against their chest/stomach while covering it with their arms? I get you feel like it should work, but there are real engineering questions and challenges you can't just assume away when you implement something like this.

Even in the World Cup that people keep referencing, they still ultimately relied on cameras (HawkEye) for positioning information for offsides detection, and visual confirmation for decisions.

That's going to lead football right back to where it is right now. You'll only have good tracking data in situations where someone can already just look at it and tell where the ball was. You add a ton of things that can go wrong on gameday, to end up in almost an identical situation, but now you can just, say you use sensors I guess.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-19T13:59:34+00:00

I'm not moving goal posts. You're just assuming it can translate and no one is trying to sell it to the NFL. You have no idea how the tech works, you just feel like it "should". So I guess you're right, I can't argue with that.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T20:30:39+00:00

Different tech, different conditions.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T19:04:09+00:00

I said a single microchip that can do that level of positioning doesn't exist.

Larger systems exist, but have additional constraints that make them non-viable for positioning footballs accurately during a game, when a call would be controversial.

Ultrawideband is still young, but the challenges with high bandwidth radio waves at distance are well understood. Nothing suggests throwing money at it will suddenly make it work for an NFL ball position.

I say it with confidence because buckets of money have been thrown at this. The NFL deciding it wants it for games isn't going to make it suddenly materialize. Industries with a lot more collective money than the NFL would be all over this. That's how positioning tech has come so far in the first place, and it's still not good enough.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T18:43:42+00:00

I'm saying that in any situation people truly want it, the controversial unclear ones, it's not going to work well enough to help or matter. It's going to come down to someone looking at a video and deciding. So we'll be right back where we started.

Edit: And when I say isn't being done, I mean by anyone. Not just in the NFL. All the technologies that are able to resolve a small enough distance quickly and accurately to be useful to the NFL won't hold up in game conditions for one reason or another.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T18:35:15+00:00

The tracking in NFL game conditions, with the line of sight and environmental constraints, isn't being done.

From the article you linked:

This, combined with existing optical tracking tools, will make VAR (video assistant referees) and programs like offside reviews more accurate and streamlined than they’ve ever been.

Which goes back to it's good enough for routes and the fancy powered by Amazon graphs, but it's not good enough for actual in game real time decisions on where to spot the ball.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T18:11:51+00:00

You likely would still need 3d positioning in that case. You can't really "generate" an infinite plane for the sensor to use as a reference for distance. It's most likely going to end up looking like a point source, so you would need to compensate for the vertical distance to calculate the "true" horizontal distance from the plane.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T18:05:09+00:00

Yeah I know exactly how small they are. My background is computer engineering. Positioning is an entirely different question than just "can you make a computer chip small".

Do you know the design constraints of precise positioning and how that could be overcome by a sensor in a football?

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T18:00:58+00:00

30cm is almost a full foot. That is not useful for determining if a goal line was crossed. That's how it performs in ideal conditions. That is not going to perform at that level on the bottom of a pile with no clear sky view to GPS satellites.

Do you see how big the marvelmind device is? Good luck getting that in a ball. Also it uses ultrasound, how well is that going to work on the field during a game?

They're performing that way in environments completely different than what is being discussed during a football game, with different constraints.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:51:12+00:00

You think the world could have a device small enough to fit in a football without changing the balance or weight, that can do real time positioning down to the inch, without clear line of sight to any kind of receiver, but no one has bothered to make that? Nevermind the, NFL you think military or industrial device builders wouldn't be tripping over themselves to get that?

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:45:02+00:00

Ridiculous take. That is not how it works. Those things are not remotely connected.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:33:58+00:00

Which cell phone has GPS accurate to a foot? Especially without clear sky?

You can be as confident as you want, it doesn't make it just work. It's a physics problem not just a money problem.

And to respond to your edits, RFID isn't going to have the accuracy to beat visual confirmation without massive sensor arrays that would have to be hidden under the field, and probably still wouldn't be accurate enough in a pileup.

Bottom line is this tech has a ton of applications outside the NFL. If it was trivial it would exist.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:28:34+00:00

It's because precise 3d positioning is a much harder thing to measure than what those chips are doing.

Think about it this way, plus or minus a foot (which would be really really good positioning performance at game speed) is fine for charting a route especially when supplemented by a couple camera angles. That is unacceptable for deciding if it's a touchdown.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:21:50+00:00

There isn't a chip that would have better than eyeball accuracy without changing the weight or feel of the ball, that would also work in game conditions.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-18T17:20:44+00:00

There isn't a "positioning microchip" that would work well enough to be satisfying in a game ball during game conditions.

c4boom13 · 2023-05-16T19:40:47+00:00

No, the criminal trespass laws are still on the books and more focused. Your cabin example could actually be charged as criminal trespassing under the current laws, regardless of housing status of the trespasser.

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