It is extremely important to distinguish between people who are here illegally and people who are subject to a deportation order. ICE's mission is to deport people with deportation orders, and get people suspected of…
I don't think buybacks are really the thing here. The question is why a stock would have value if it doesn't pay dividends. If there's a good reason for that then buybacks are perfectly sensible. If there isn't then…
It's not going to be a popular take because you're defending pretextual stops and you're repeating the lie that illegal immigrants vote.
Because instead of merely being scrutinized, you get sent to jail.
In the US, I think a big factor was world events getting so much faster while Congress did not. For an extreme example, the President has the authority to unilaterally launch a massive nuclear strike, because there…
Are those procedures described in law or were they created by the executive?
Ridiculous as it may be, I'm not sure the argument is incorrect under the law. The president is the ultimate classification authority. The only reason he was prosecuted for mishandling classified documents previously is…
In a just world, someone arguing against open records laws because they’ve been personally embarrassed by them would spontaneously combust in shame.
It’s definitely deliberate. It’s not like this is a natural phenomenon. The only question is who makes the choice and whether it’s a choice specifically to make the FOIA process painful or merely not to give it enough…
They thought one was worth it and the other was not. That’s only similar if you ignore the concept of tradeoffs being different.
Isn't that due to the cheapness of communication? When your options were a long-distance phone call or a letter, incoming communication could be treated as if it had some value. When a message costs an amortized…
The wealthy pay more than their share of taxes, if you define "their share" as a percentage of income, but they do not pay the majority of taxes, let alone the vast majority. The top 1% (which includes a lot of people…
Wealth is power. If the ceiling is unlimited that means power is unlimited, which is incompatible with democracy. The problem with inequality isn't just that extremely wealthy people exist or that they live really…
This is getting real close to "yet you participate in society, curious." Yes, Google chose not to use some software and chose to use other software. It's not ironic to decline to use some software because it increases…
It kind of is, as is any other memory safe language. You certainly can still write security vulnerabilities that don't involve memory safety violations, and these languages always have unsafe escape hatches that you can…
That overestimation only lasted a few years. At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the USA was still nearly untouchable. The Soviets had a small number of rather bad ICBMs, plus a fleet of bombers that would mostly…
If the odds of all-out nuclear war are, say, one in a million per year, that's pretty good. Seems very likely nuclear weapons would stop being an issue first. Worth it for the era of relative peace they ushered in. If…
And how many C projects is it not in?
Please bargains should not be allowed. Rewarding someone for not going to trial is equivalent to punishing them for insisting on their ancient legal right to a fair trial. If the prosecution wants to make a deal with…
The models don't have access to new information. The harnesses do. All the major chat interfaces now provide the model with web search tools that they use to locate anything beyond their inherent knowledge (whether it's…
If the bug isn't being actively exploited in the wild, then you want a coordinated disclosure/patch. If it is, then you just want to get it out as fast as possible. The PHP team thought they were in the first case and…
It looks to me like the world was decently prepared to deal with it. The bad certificates are being blocked and there don't appear to be widespread compromises. That doesn't mean it's cheap or easy, or that it's…
You said that, and you also said your experience was "nice" and accused me of virtue signalling about how you should run your life when I mentioned that the advantages you listed are pretty insignificant. I hope you'll…
It's C's equivalent to exceptions, except without any of the stuff that might actually make exceptions safe and reasonable to use in other languages. There's no automatic cleanup of anything, no built-in way to even…
Yes, mass starvation is an extremely effective weight loss technique. However, some feel there are downsides to this approach.
It is extremely important to distinguish between people who are here illegally and people who are subject to a deportation order. ICE's mission is to deport people with deportation orders, and get people suspected of…
I don't think buybacks are really the thing here. The question is why a stock would have value if it doesn't pay dividends. If there's a good reason for that then buybacks are perfectly sensible. If there isn't then…
It's not going to be a popular take because you're defending pretextual stops and you're repeating the lie that illegal immigrants vote.
Because instead of merely being scrutinized, you get sent to jail.
In the US, I think a big factor was world events getting so much faster while Congress did not. For an extreme example, the President has the authority to unilaterally launch a massive nuclear strike, because there…
Are those procedures described in law or were they created by the executive?
Ridiculous as it may be, I'm not sure the argument is incorrect under the law. The president is the ultimate classification authority. The only reason he was prosecuted for mishandling classified documents previously is…
In a just world, someone arguing against open records laws because they’ve been personally embarrassed by them would spontaneously combust in shame.
It’s definitely deliberate. It’s not like this is a natural phenomenon. The only question is who makes the choice and whether it’s a choice specifically to make the FOIA process painful or merely not to give it enough…
They thought one was worth it and the other was not. That’s only similar if you ignore the concept of tradeoffs being different.
Isn't that due to the cheapness of communication? When your options were a long-distance phone call or a letter, incoming communication could be treated as if it had some value. When a message costs an amortized…
The wealthy pay more than their share of taxes, if you define "their share" as a percentage of income, but they do not pay the majority of taxes, let alone the vast majority. The top 1% (which includes a lot of people…
Wealth is power. If the ceiling is unlimited that means power is unlimited, which is incompatible with democracy. The problem with inequality isn't just that extremely wealthy people exist or that they live really…
This is getting real close to "yet you participate in society, curious." Yes, Google chose not to use some software and chose to use other software. It's not ironic to decline to use some software because it increases…
It kind of is, as is any other memory safe language. You certainly can still write security vulnerabilities that don't involve memory safety violations, and these languages always have unsafe escape hatches that you can…
That overestimation only lasted a few years. At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the USA was still nearly untouchable. The Soviets had a small number of rather bad ICBMs, plus a fleet of bombers that would mostly…
If the odds of all-out nuclear war are, say, one in a million per year, that's pretty good. Seems very likely nuclear weapons would stop being an issue first. Worth it for the era of relative peace they ushered in. If…
And how many C projects is it not in?
Please bargains should not be allowed. Rewarding someone for not going to trial is equivalent to punishing them for insisting on their ancient legal right to a fair trial. If the prosecution wants to make a deal with…
The models don't have access to new information. The harnesses do. All the major chat interfaces now provide the model with web search tools that they use to locate anything beyond their inherent knowledge (whether it's…
If the bug isn't being actively exploited in the wild, then you want a coordinated disclosure/patch. If it is, then you just want to get it out as fast as possible. The PHP team thought they were in the first case and…
It looks to me like the world was decently prepared to deal with it. The bad certificates are being blocked and there don't appear to be widespread compromises. That doesn't mean it's cheap or easy, or that it's…
You said that, and you also said your experience was "nice" and accused me of virtue signalling about how you should run your life when I mentioned that the advantages you listed are pretty insignificant. I hope you'll…
It's C's equivalent to exceptions, except without any of the stuff that might actually make exceptions safe and reasonable to use in other languages. There's no automatic cleanup of anything, no built-in way to even…
Yes, mass starvation is an extremely effective weight loss technique. However, some feel there are downsides to this approach.