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I don't think that's the dispositive part of the opinion for Sotomayor's hypo though. Roberts finds that the President enjoy absolute immunity for acts that can be construed as part of the "conclusive and preclusive authority" of the Presidency, and presumptive immunity for acts within the 'outer perimeter' of their authority. Furthermore:

> In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.

So the hypo cannot be trivially resolved by treating the kill order as an unofficial act. Instead, for the president to be _criminally_ liable, I think (as not-a-lawyer) it has to be resolved by piercing 'presumptive immunity' for actions beyond the core powers. While there's a needle to thread, it feels disturbingly narrow.
Yes. I wrote “attempted”.
Hah, fair enough! Left-pad was a terrible example to pick there.
Don't forget BSD - all Apple operating systems are based on it.
Impeachment? Wouldn't that also be an unlawful order?
My grandmother fled Nazism (and Stalinism), she would turn in her grave seeing how blind half of your electorate is.
Possible? It's always absolutely been possible, but I've considered it much less likely than I do after this ruling.

As we saw during the first trump administration, the army was unwilling to go along with his every desire. A general even apologized for getting pulled into a photo op.

The US military is large and geographically diverse. I suspect that most would not carry out such an order. But you don't need most. You only need enough.

The problem for a theoretical coup group has always been what happens afterwards. Even if they were carrying out official orders from the president, you still potentially had to face the judiciary. The rest of the military might not come after you if the president orders them to stand down, but that still left the police open as an option.

The SC has now ruled that's not an issue.

I do understand a lot of the logic that the executive couldn't function if every action was litigated. But I look at other countries, such as the UK, where the prime minister in fact can be jailed for crimes, and I don't see it really being an issue. Seems better to me if no one is strictly above the law. Post WW2, we recognize that the military can issue and carry out illegal orders. We should extend that to the presidency.

The SC has essentially handed Biden a loaded gun. If I were him, I'd point it at the SC and fire, then point it at congress and appoint a new court that will take the loaded gun away from him. Because if Trump wins in November, you can be sure he will attempt to fire it.
>The little-known structures in tax-friendly destinations have contributed to the 15 pharmaceutical firms amassing profits of €580 billion in the last five years.

>This amount outweighs their research and development (R&D) costs, despite the industry's frequent claim that high drug prices allow them to innovate and design new drugs.

R&D is one thing, but most drugs fail at the clinical trial stage. This money (hundreds of millions per drug) is just gone, unlike R&D which might result in new tech or at least a patent. For Oncology its even worse, its close to a 95% failure rate. Simply taxing companies won't make their drugs successful. Large pharma companies rely on a few blockbuster products for their profits and they milk them dry. This is standard corporate greed/behavior, but it certainly seems offputting because we're dealing with peoples lives. Personally, I think its inevitable that there is going to be some form of nationalization for a protected class of life-saving medication.

https://www.labiotech.eu/trends-news/clinical-trials-success...
> These are the results of the buggy TCP implementation?

Yes. Here's the fixed TCP implementation.

4542 open
3041 read
2990 close
2478 old_mmap
2475 munmap
2470 fstat64
1501 epoll_ctl
1007 fcntl64
1002 epoll_wait
1002 clock_gettime

I didn't do the TLS implementation, but I suspect it would be similar to the above (since it didn't exhibit the problem). You can see that ioctl() dropped from the list, and that epoll_ctl() and epoll_wait() dropped down the list.
Definitely a fan of k3s as k8s lite - complexity that your particular project may not need, particularly since every project doesn't need k8s and many are better off with less.

If you look at the history from J2EE to the k8s prototype in Java to what we have now, it's a great idea to encapsulate all of these things into a single container, particularly at Google scale, but many unintended consequences arise from complexity accruing to features and functions which weren't actually requirements for your particular project being supported, i.e. the notion that YAGNI because few orgs have Google scale problems. If so, great! Carry on... If not, consider k3s or aptible or more emergent platforms I haven't actually used.

The mere presence of unneeded items in source and documentation presents a "why am I here?" choice paradox. That's before we even get into keeping track of deprecations in the never-at-rest source/release evolution.

Federation is a good example. I've worked at places that needed it and places that didn't.
They are not clearly official acts. It's going to be years of decisions and debate to define official acts.

As an example, the fact he's in charge of the military doesn't make everything he asks them to do official because he is obliged to follow the constitution. There are arguments to make against what I just said. It's as clear as mud once you start going through concrete scenarios.
You’re creating an “any unconstitutional act cannot be official” rule that does not appear in the ruling and is contrary to tons of statute and case law. Qualified immunity codifies that rights violations can be official acts.

And as bad as today’s ruling is, I think your proposed rule would be worse because it would create tons of liability for good faith government employees.

We can’t have a world where it’s unclear if an act is official until there’s some kind of review of its outcome. The act itself has to be official (or not).
> You want a President to be able to carry out the roles of the office without concern that his or her political opponents will use the courts to try to punish those actions.

Why?

In the UK we of course have no president; all government actions can be subjected to judicial review, whichever minister was in charge. Judicial review is a civil procedure, not a criminal one. All the court can do is order the government to reverse the unlawful decision, and make good its consequences.
This seems like a "there's no way to get a bug in the hypervisor fixed" moment.
I think you’re imagining scenarios not supported in any of the written opinions.
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Now I'm wondering what constitutes an "official act". Is is anything at all done while President or is it things that fall under the normal official duties of President? If it's the former then a President is free to murder anyone, if it's the latter then what is official about a random homicide?
The prosecution of Trump was likely a big reason he's running again, for similar reasons. I'm not sure the prosecutors are even smart enough to realize they're the reason we're at where we're at.
You did have this in the past. HTML imports were a wonderful thing once upon a time. No need for heavy JS-based web components.

https://web.dev/articles/imports
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/
This, so much this. Nobody ever jails political opponents, obstructs justice and bullies media in their unofficial capacity. If there is immunity, it will be used to do all kinds of shticks.
The problem is the core of this ruling seems to be just word games.
> An old guard who had belief in the process going by it even when dealing with

To be fair the situation in Germany was multipolar. Hindenburg wasn’t a huge fan of democracy or especially of one run by Catholics, liberals and socialists and just saw the nazis as a lesser evil..
Serious question: do you think wireguard is an antivirus software? Do you think antivirus software does not exist?

Reading a historic log that shows you have been pwned does not prevent you from being pwned. It's the wrong tool for the job.
> if congress doesn't like something a president is doing, they can change the laws and remove his or her legal authority to do something.

Yep. The ruling says that if the President is acting within the legally and constitutionally defined scope of their duties then they shouldn't have to wonder if they'll later be prosecuted for it.

That seems fine on its face, but the problem people keep raising is that we live in a world where the President is legally empowered to do things that are seriously problematic. That's a very real concern, and it's been a concern at the very least since Bush and 9/11.

So the obvious answer to this ruling is to fix that. The President shouldn't have to wonder if they'll end up prosecuted for doing things that are within the scope of their official duties, so what we need to do is more clearly define and limit those official duties so that the President doesn't have to guess what will be seen as crossing an imaginary line when the administration changes.
It means, cynically, that the president may be prosecuted if the courts deem the action "unofficial" and not otherwise. Which is to say that the court has removed checks and balances for the case where the SCOTUS and Executive branch are held by the same party.

Cleary, clearly this was a partisan decision. They can't just say "We Have a King Now", so they dressed up just enough of a reasonable interpretation to be able to kill this particular prosecution, while allowing themselves wiggle room to prosecute the kings they don't like. They aren't really trying to uncork executive abuse, they really hope it doesn't happen. But they want Trump not to be prosecuted, and put their fingers on the scale with what they hope is just enough pressure. We'll see.
The 10th amendment was supposed to restrain the federal government to a few enumerated powers. It was gutted via interstate commerce being everything, and you can't give it up because people will start screaming about the civil rights act or the EPA or something.

President, as envisioned by founders, should barely even matter outside of war.
> And yet he left office on the appointed day and lost an election.

Only because his coup failed. That's a very important fact.
> Of course, if congress doesn't like something a president is doing, they can change the laws and remove his or her legal authority to do something.

Maybe.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#Judic...
And this is coming off of the heels of Chevron being overturned.
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Bad logic.

Is someone more or less likely to perform such an act if there's a possibility of legal consequences? If not, then we don't really need courts at all, do we?
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I guess this hypothetical scenario is not entirely relevant since the killing happened outside of U.S jurisdiction.
Spreadsheets are to visual box and line programming what goto spaghetti-code is to traditional programming languages.
Awfully bold of you to assume we are better governed than Rome - back when ther was still such a thing as honor.
Your grandmother is not the arbiter of politics, and we can find 2 other grandmothers with the opposite view and similar experiences.
To a large extent this immunity is inherent in the enumerated powers. Consider this general case: The Constitution enumerates specific powers to the executive branch, and hence President. Congress passes a law that makes those same actions illegal if performed by a normal citizen. If this law applied to the President, then that would mean that Congress could nullify the enumerated powers granted to the Executive, making those enumerated powers meaningless. So it makes perfect constitutional sense that actions performed by the President as part of his job that that are within his enumerated powers cannot be made illegal by Congress.

That core concept of immunity is pretty solid and essential, it is the details that are problematic, in particular the fact that the courts have interpreted "official" acts so broadly in the past in cases of qualified immunity makes one worried they will do the same here.
That's a lot of words to not contest that political assassinations are covered under this framework of immunity.

> Their argument isn't that it's not likely, it's that there's another failure mode that is even more likely.

I know its hard to imagine, but I strongly feel there is some amount of presidential immunity that mitigates what they are worried about without also enabling political assassination.
Examples I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Firefox. Atom/VSCode (Sublime Text clones). Android (iOS clone).

Various databases (postgres, mongodb, etc).

Reddit (Digg alternative, since closed source) though I'm not sure releasing their source code had anything to do with their success.

HashiCorp in general sort of counts though it's harder to say "it was competing against X".
> The internet is not dead, it is thriving.

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It's time to test this ruling. Joe Biden can have let's say oh, about six supreme court justices detained for suspicion some wishy-washy thing or another.
My naive assumption would be that giving that order must fall into the realm of official act. How can POTUS command the military, unless acting in the capacity of their Commander in Chief?
Yeah, we've been hearing the "alarmist" thing for 8 years now. "Roe is settled law, stop being hysterical".
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I've flown hundreds of hours using single-surface hang-gliders that effectively have little to no "flat plate" effect, and they make huge amounts of very draggy, slow speed lift. I've flown hundreds of hours using double-surface hang-gliders that make much less slow speed lift, but far less draggy lift at moderate to high speeds.
As in all things with aerodynamics - you optimize the design for the performance you want.
Ask HN: Whoever got a job on this "who wants to be hired threads"?
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Let me ask:

Did someone get ever (even once!) a job by all this "HN: who wants to get hire?" posts?

We see them regularly, though i doubt that someone from South Afrca will get (even) a remote conract for Canada or Australia?
The government is getting rid of tax exemptions for non-domiciled individuals who up to this point did not need to pay tax on foreign source income that was not brought into the UK. The economy overall is in a dire state, Labour are projected to win the election this week in a landslide. The rich are worried about further tax raids from a left wing government.
Lol! This is the first time I've seen squash merging be compared to lack of public transit infrastructure :-D
Arguably they aren't the "alternative" so much as a variant of the original thing that got open sourced.
> It's really impossible to understand and determine before hand how the court would rule on any of these theoretical cases that may result as a consequence of this decision.

I've got a pretty good guess, and it will be based on the political party of the defendant.
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True, but it's been open source now a lot longer than it was closed source.
compare (one of the uses of) "the Mennonite Game"
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

> The immunity the Court has recognized therefore extends to the “outer perimeter” of the President’s official responsibilities, covering actions so long as they are “not manifestly or palpably beyond [his] authority.”

I’m hoping that the assassination of a political rival would be “palpably beyond” the authority of the President.
Couldn't you get the same (or better) insight into their social skills by engaging them in a conversation about something more relevant to the actual job, such as the candidate's experiences with some technology that would be used in this job?

As a bonus, that conversation would probably be more likely to make a desirable job candidate have good feelings about you, and also give them information about what it would be like to work for you. A one-sided interrogation like "why do you want to work here" is less likely to lead to a mutually informative conversation. (Your company is also being evaluated by them; if they're someone you really want, they'll have a choice of working elsewhere. You'll need to sell your company to them.)
Generally speaking, all I really want from an SSG is to be able to keep my pages in a format that's more readable than raw HTML. A few years ago, that was reStructured Text. Since then, it's been Markdown. Shortly after CommonMark came out I converted all of my ReST docs to it, and haven't looked back.

Theming, shared blocks, etc. are all handled just fine by using includes. If those are stored in Jinja2 templates or HTML files that use SSIs is pretty irrelevant to me.

As long as I can write in Markdown, I'm happy.
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No because "presumptive" isn't as strong as you think it is. All defendants have the same presumptive innocence and yet are convicted much more often than not at trial.
I don't see how.

The President has immunity when acting with powers granted from the Constitution. Commanding the military is one of those powers. The majority opinion also specifically says motives can't be considered. So they are legally immune if they order the military to stop impeachment.
There's overlap in comp, for which people use Nuke. No one does motion graphics AND comp in Nuke. Closest would be Fusion and Flame.
I might be mistaken, but don't c-corporations split out R&D (money invested back into the company) from profit?

I'll admit I'm not as well read on the day-to-day reporting as I'd like to be.
>> The essence of the Bernoulli argument is that the top of the wing is longer -> air has to move further -> faster air has lower pressure "because Bernoulli" -> pressure imbalance means lift.

That argument doesn't hold up (no pun intended). Just because the distance is longer does not mean the air will go faster, it could just take longer to get there.
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cURL is ubiquitous. It's unclear whether there is even a proprietary alternative still being sold commercially.
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No, US citizens do not lose their rights to a trial because they're not in the US.
I agree-- though I've been downvoted for the comment. I guess Jia Tan is a user here ;p
>Personally, I think its inevitable that there is going to be some form of nationalization for a protected class of life-saving medication.

Wouldn't it make sense for governments to just run their own drug manufacturing company? All the drugs from expired parents are free game.
???

The court opinion literally says pressuring the vice president to try to not certify the election was an official act related to talking about the limits of his roles and responsibilities.

We are already well into stupid word games territory.

What is your counter argument, from the actual opinion?
Because that adds an incentive for the president to try to hold on to power.
BTW, great title.

There have been multiple awful titles of for this ruling, yours was exactly correct.
> Acts that are unconstitutional probably aren't official, by definition they are outside the scope of official duties, throw every living president into prison?

You could make a very good case that drone strikes on American citizens in foreign lands that are a part of jihadist groups without due process are unconstitutional. And yet, it happens. According to the standard Roberts puts in place, things that are on the extreme periphery of the duties of the Presidency are exempt from criminal prosecution. Does this mean drone strikes? Almost certainly. The President has an enumerated power to command the armed forces.

I fail to see why throwing all of the living Presidents in prison is a problem, particularly if they receive a day in court before getting thrown in prison. What this ruling does is create a class of American that can do some genuinely awful things and not be subject to legal process at all. There is no process, due or otherwise. The person gets to live their life as before.

Trump's being tried because the things he did weren't small potatoes. Trying to overthrow the electoral process unilaterally is a state fair record-setting potato. It's a far more immediate and widespread risk to American life and liberty than the drone strikes on foreign land that I mentioned earlier. One impacts a few dozen Americans globally at most; the other impacts literally all of them.
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