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As noted by nostramo [0], Obama already set the precedent of ordering hits on US citizens. The answer to Sotomayor's concern here seems pretty obvious: if we're concerned that the President can order hits on US citizens for invalid reasons, then we need to be very clear in the laws that ordering hits on US citizens without due process is not within the President's official authority.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849378
idk man, probably the same way that they get mafia bosses who write their plans on little pieces of paper that are given to henchmen who then burn them

I understand your point and I'm not saying it's a great spot to land at, but I don't understand how the country's President can function if it were any other way. It's not just about Donald Trump, it's about 1 through 44 and 46 through whatever number we get to before this whole place burns down.
Being solo is overrated. You know what's awesome ? Being really small with only a handful of team members who help you keep everything running while you can do whatever you want or focus on growing the business further.

I don't know how to look for those small teams but Twitter can be useful.
DokuWiki.

This database-free FOSS wiki engine [1] with a focus on simplicity is 19 years old, still gets updated, has useful plugins [2] for additional features, is a great choice for many uses, has adopters that use and love it, and has an estimated 50,000-250,000 installations [3].

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> Trump murdering his business partner at a dinner because they had a fallout is pretty clearly unofficial

Why? The majority said In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives. Nor may courts deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law.[1]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
> A two party system is the logical conclusion of a first past the post voting system, which they have created. It is a bug, and fixing it is also effectively impossible.

AFAIK it only mandates it for the President. We're free to elect representatives and Senators how we please.
> If the President claims authority to act but in fact exercises mere “individual will” and “authority without law,” the courts may say so.

I suggest that courts might be _reluctant_ to make such a finding with Seal Team 6 visiting their homes at 3 AM.

I pray when Trump is reelected he makes no such moves.
If you see something you like that drowns in the new page, you can submit it to the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
thanks for posting. this was immediately useful for me! for want of a better descriptive term this is an LLM prompt management system++. after entering various API keys, i was able to have:

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It might do if they had a chance of running them efficiently.
Agreed.

A good set of unit tests partitions the input space into parts, and then provides an existence proof that the program is correct for an example chosen from each part.

A good formal proof does the same, but provides a universal proof that the program is correct for all examples chosen from each part.

Both strategies can fail if they miss an important part of the input set. Unit tests can also fail if a program is “adversarial” and fails in a specific input that isn’t the particular example.

In practice, achieving “a good set of unit tests” requires you to mentally work out how to partition the input set in a way that matches your program, and at that point you’re most of the way to proving it correct, so you might as well do that. It still might make sense to write unit tests if you don’t have the tooling to enforce a mechanical proof.
I'm partial to mkdocs. It's designed for documentation sites, but the mkdocs-material theme provides enough functionality to make it well-suited for blogs and adaptable for almost anything.
~45% followed by Windows at ~28% iOS at ~18% and MacOS at ~6% (huge error bars on all those numbers).

But really despite having the plurality of the end user market it's real dominance is in the server market.
Wordpress is quite a big one?

I think Blogger was the main alternative back then, but there were probably several commercial ones with reasonable market share.
The fact that the courts have explicitly legalized these blatantly criminal acts is what gives the military the cover and the imperative to dutifully carry them out.
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If cops can have qualified immunity when killing basically anybody, then can't the grandcop have it. Of course.
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>> When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.

> I would consider this an extreme knee jerk take, but it's Sotomayor saying it.

Wouldn't something like that be essentially an illegal order and therefore invalid? And/or something that would be trivial to fix (e.g pass a law saying it's not within the president's official powers to order a domestic assassination)?
Yeah, sorry, this is exactly the toxic shit that makes interviews hell.

> I think the value of the question is that, all things being equal, do you want the person who wants to be there because they have a connection to what you do, or do you want someone who just wants a job?

I think it's none of the businesses' business why I'm there for. Under the capitalist system, you need a paycheck to survive. Attaching conditionals to this is shitty, no matter how you try to justify it post-fact.

Also, you don't ever get "things being equal" with candidates. They just aren't.
Turns out that mmap() is the memory allocator, nothing to do with files.
Well assassination of a political rival might be but what about the killing of the perceived head of a terrorist organization who attempted a coup to overturn a federal US election? Sounds like a national defense concern that the president could decide to handle. I think this is logically in line with the ruling but is completely absurd morally.

SCOTUS explicitly says you cannot question the motive of a presidents actions when making a determination for what is protected and not.
Related:

More Chevron discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949
There's no federal dictate on how electoral college votes IIRC. Sometimes they go rogue,though it may violate state law.
GCC's gotten so popular that some operating systems like MacOS lie about it and make "gcc" an alias by default for their clang compiler!
They wrote the document defining the currently longest running continuous government in the world.

Is the Constitution perfect? No.

But it's still fair to call them geniuses for what they accomplished.

Also, you are arguing the Founders interpretation of the Constitution is the same as the current Supreme Court. I'm not sure they would agree, but there's no way we can ever know.
This is the big red flag for me. A court can't review whether the conduct was official. This seems like the court wants to remove the checks and balances between the government branches.
> use symmetric crypto

To be clear my comment is specifically only relating to signature schemes, not encryption.

> The state is enormous

The scheme I linked to points towards efficient "pebbling" and "hash chain traversal" algorithms which minimize the local state required in quite a fascinating way (e.g. see https://www.win.tue.nl/~berry/pebbling/).

> tracking state across components and through distribution channels

Assuming you have reliable ordering in those channels I don't see how the stateful nature of such schemes makes it hugely more complex than the essential hard problem of key distribution.
In the military chain of command an order is only an order when it is a lawful order. The president does not have any power to issue an unlawful order. That would be outside of his constitutional powers and not an official act.
Reasoning that more-or-less overlooks the entire history of the United States' treatment of bad political actors, from the Nixon pardon through the Lincoln pardons of the Confederates all the way to the multiple times Aaron Burr escaped justice for his prior service to the country.

It does make one question why this SCOTUS seems to think the future will break with precedent. Almost as if they're laying the groundwork for some significant changes to past decorum...
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It's not impossible to prosecute a president though. If he commits murder... that's not an official act. It's not part of the duties of his office in any reasonable take.

Or, if the President uses his powers to assassinate a governor -- again, explicitly not an official act, as the president has no authority over state elections.

If anyone bothered to read the constitution, it clearly lays out the sorts of things that could be construed as official, and the sorts of things that are not. The President does not have unlimited authority. His scope of authority is rather small, even if several important things fall under it. Part of the problem is the pervasive idea in American electoral politics that the president has some sort of power to 'promise' various laws and such. It's so silly since no President can possibly do that.
It's certainly the main kernel in my house, between the phones, desktops, steam decks, servers, laptops... I'd put the market share at about 95% or so.

If you mean globally, not sure. It doesn't affect me
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> I don't know if it'd have positioned itself as an "open source alternative"

It was literally a pixel for pixel open source clone of GitHub for the first few years.
No, the President gets to order it and the little guys fall for doing it.
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That crucial flaw is the fundamental structure of our legal system. It's why case law is a valued and necessary part of our legal doctrine. Humans are bad at predicting the future, and attempts to write prescient laws often end with significant loopholes that must be corrected after the fact.

That this system fails to work when it's axioms are ignored (i.e. in the stated case of a coup) cannot be construed as a failure of common law or an indictment on its 950+ years of success. Such act would be a failure of the Executive solely.

The founder's stated intent for resolving such a situation is why we have the 2nd amendment.
You can just say what you mean.
I was in a similar boat last fall - I was looking for work, and it was a really rough go. I know my resume, and I've point for hiring off and on for years - like yours, my experience is _pretty good_. It was close to murder getting a job.

My working thesis is that there were a lot of senior/staff SREs on the market, so a normally unusual & fantastic resume was just normal.
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Depends on the app size also.

Is your app as large and important as the OS of the device (Chrome/facebook/etc...) you should probably have similar language across devices.

Is your app very large but not that large? (Slack/teams come to mind) I think you can go either way.

If you are smaller than that (hint: you are) then you should comply with the design language of the platform, even if that means somewhat large changes such as moving buttons from the left to the right. The likelihood that users are constantly using your app on a iphone and android is really low.
This is what "competitive" or "business friendly" tax policies look like. Sometimes also known as race to the bottom.
To be clear: Sotomayor is interpreting the majority decision, not stating her own opinion. She's opposed to the interpretation in question.

(I can't tell whether the OP was confused by this, but the linked Tweet has enough people being confused by it to make it worth mentioning.)
Well, if anyone in the military received such an order, the correct thing to do is to refuse to follow it, as it is an unlawful order. And why is it unlawful? Because it exceeds the bounds of what the president can legitimately order the military to do. Any service member who carried out such an order could be prosecuted for doing so.

So, if the president doesn't have the legitimate authority to order the military to do such a thing, could the president be prosecuted for giving such an order? As I read the decision, yes, he could.
Don’t remember the “find votes” request or attempts to find a legal-enough-to-muck-things-up way to replace real electors with fake ones, or similar to throw the election to the House to decide, then?
Would it? I am skeptical about this take and I am skeptical of Sotomayer’s take. What official capacity would Nixon have been undertaking? What official capacity would a seal team six assassination of trump be designated as?

I’m also skeptical of her dissent strategy; dissents are key places to limit a ruling. Why not just say what seems crystal clear and say ‘nothing about this ruling should be taken to mean calling something an official act as a fig leaf for criminality is okay; it’s not okay to assassinate a political rival ever.’ Instead she says it might be okay by the ruling. I dislike this approach in the extreme; it feels like grandstanding and complaining about the Roberts court rather than engaging with her own substantial influence.
Why do we keep trying to import european/chinese ideas and force them to fit the american mode. LA has plenty of transit options, trains and buses that never get used... Americans hate public transportation and no one ever uses them even when they are built.

Why does the government keep trying to do these giant infrastructure projects that puts billions of dollars in the pockets of consultants and have very little chance of completing on time and on budget?

Why does socialism keep creeping into every inch of our republic? Leave these ideas to private industry which is proven to be more efficient over and over again....
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It can't be used to distinguish between an official act and an unofficial act. That wouldn't make sense anyway.

Motive can be used to defeat the presumptive immunity for an official act.
Note v. United States, not v. FDR
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And we have a way to deal with that. It's called impeachment and is the process by which one tries a sitting president for things that are part of his/her official powers. Impeachment is not a legal process but a political one. Congress can try a President for anything at any time, if they can muster enough votes for it. That's what the Supreme Court has said before -- Congress's motivations for impeachment are above any judicial oversight.
And the quality of software has gone downhill. HTML and CSS can be RAD, but they rely on millions of line of code in the browser engine while having subpar models for gui layouts and custom widgets. And building a native app is not that necessarily complex, it's just different.
I have a difficult time reasoning about Trump in the age of constant hysteria. Trying to keep a clear head and an even keel has me discounting a lot of the "sky is falling" alarmism. It has me afraid that there are actual pieces of the sky falling that I'm filtering out.

All the "will you peacefully cede power" talk before the election sounded like alarmist clickbait, but he was weirdly resistive to admitting he lost, and there are a lot of batshit crazy people who seem to follow whatever he says (see also, Jan 6).

[edit] the score on this post proves its own point. Its vacillated between +4 and 0 since I posted it an hour ago, and there are plenty of hyperbolic people in the replies. Being "OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING" about everything just adds noise that makes it hard to identify truly bad things.

On a site that ostensibly has an ethos of "be curious, not ideological," it's sad to see so many people peering only through the lenses of ideology and panic.
I'm not really upset about this for a few reasons:

* Taxes are excessive and out of control in the US

* Most taxes just end up in lawmaker's buddy's pockets

* Programs in the US get created, and never garbage collected

* Literally every business is doing this

Really the only thing that upsets me is that these tax havens aren't accessible to common people like me, as I'm not blood or marriage related to a US Senator or Congressional Rep.
Sorry, but if you're gonna do the midwit whining about pomo thing, you gotta spell ressentiment the French way, them's the rules.
Who gets to decide the lawfulness of the order, and what physical power does the Executive have at his disposal to bring to bear to tip their judgment?
I have this totally hyperbolic belief that the most important part of the World Wide Web today is just CSS 2.1 and a few extra modules on top.

If anyone can implement a sane, readable, cleanly extendable CSS 2.1+ C library that gives you enough exposed metric information to do your own rendering, or maybe even expose a backing layer assisted abstraction since web rendering can be very expensive, you've solved what most people care about with making their own desktop software.

CEF is definitely not the answer for this, nor is Electron, and the people around Servo are deluding themselves or outright lying that they care about creating a solution that helps people rasterize web content. The latter most seemed to be all about self-promotion and false governance.

The WWW is great and all, but I think a lot of developers honestly want more direct control over their own apps.

I'm honestly surprised there's no popular alternative to CSS 2.1 that has come out because people realize that it's a lost cause trying to implement all of these worthless standards that get added to web browsers.

No one is using the joystick API. No one is using WebUSB. Just awful, worthless ideas.
How can it be an illegal order when this decision makes all of the Presidents "official actions" legal?
That's huge. I can fly to US 20 times in that cost..
Newton's third law doesn't explain stalls – or, at least, not their suddenness.

As angle of attack increases (or speed decreases) there comes a certain point where the lift suddenly drops in a dramatic way that wouldn't make sense from a naive application of Newton's laws. What's really happened is that the airflow has separated from the wings and Bernoulli's principle no longer applies. That's when you get a stall, and the plane starts falling rather than flying.
But Truman shouldn't have faced prosecution for that should he? It was after all done to ensure victory in Korea and he stopped after the court said no with apparent authority when he did it. This case goes too far and not far enough.