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Show the part of the constitution that mentions immunity for presidents. I read it again this morning after the decision and found nothing.
> White House spokesman: "As President Biden has said, nobody is above the law."

Well yes. And since the Supreme Court just clarified the law... Isn't THIS White House the first that might use what was until now a misunderstanding?
and yet the size of the government as % of GDP has increased every decade for over 100 years
No, don’t you see, removing those burdensome taxes will spur corporate investment and grow the economy. You may Laff, but I can draw a curve that shows eliminating corporate taxes is the right thing to do. Just don’t ask Kansas.
It could be that they were referring to his prominence as a non-labor lawyer, or that he hadn't had as many prominent cases after fallout from the LA Times case, but it is generally a strange statement. No, he wasn't as famous before Leopold and Loeb, and Scopes, or the culturally immortal figure he became, but he had certainly been a prominent lawyer at a national level, not a local one.

He had, as you point out, represented Debs, in federal trials over a major national strike, up to the Supreme Court. He had represented labor leaders in Idaho charged with conspiracy over the assassination of a former governor. He represented defendants accused of the LA Times bombing in California. For Leopold and Loeb, a question in the media was about wealthy families hiring such a prominent, high-priced lawyer. And the Scopes was essentially an organized publicity stunt that chose lawyers for both the prosecution and defense because they were famous and would attract attention.
I believe in freedom and democracy. I don't believe in mobs attacking the Capitol or "find me some votes" or minority rule or massive roundups and detention camps or any of that.
I am trying to confirm if MOVEit Transfer was involved...does anyone know if it was? If not does anybody have any technical details?
> why would they need legal immunity?

Because there's a gap between here and there, and we don't want to make that gap narrower than it already is. The president can now do a whole lot of illegal shit that falls short of "assassinating anyone at any time," and face no consequences. By allowing one we inch closer to the other.
Not without timely notification of and authorization by Congress.
You can probably dodge the taxes too by incorporating a company in a tax haven, "working" for that company, and then selling your services through that company. The company can pay you a minimal wage, which would be taxed, but everything else can be stashed in that company tax free.
<< Encouraging a vitriolic crowd to take back their country and transferring blame to Pence, who was going to be in the Capitol performing his Senate duties.

Yeah, I.. I think you will want to find a better example than what he actually said[1]

<< Failing to execute his office by failing to defend the Capitol

So a lack of an official act is an official act? This does not fall under what I asked for, but good try.

<< Elector conspiracy

You have something there, but you want something more concrete. What was his exact step that was NOT an official act in your view.

<< Telling the Proud Boys to stand by rather than stand down

You have something there, but again not much to go after unless you want to argue actions vs words.

<< There comes a time when we have look past the mob-boss-need-for-explicit wording schtick and recognize a space as a space.

Listen, rules exist for a reason. You break those rules and you deal with consequences of that break. If Trump did not break those rules and you think those rules do not meet the current needs, then you may want to change those rules, but arguing 'well, he is guilty of something' is a little silly and, frankly, against the very foundation of this country.

The funny thing is, you clearly recognize the 'exact wording' issue as an obstacle to put him away.

[1]https://www.wsj.com/video/trump-full-speech-at-dc-rally-on-j...
This is good advice.
Also consider taking some sick leave in order to kick start your health recovery. This is likely to lead to a much better outcome than reactively quitting and then working out what to do. In other words keep your options open. Your employer has a duty of care towards you and should be able to help you.

This may lead to a win win situation for everyone, but if your employer is at fault for whatever reason then you will be in a much stronger position (legal and otherwise) if you don't quit, at least for the time being.
The industry may learn from failures, but the shareholders of private companies want a return on their investment. I sure as heck don't want my 401k tied to oncology.
> It's a strange world we live in where a president can order something illegal but not face any consequences. I suppose you could argue we already lived in such a world, but now the difference is that he can brazenly do it.

We always lived in such a world. I know you might think the court did this to protect Trump, but realistically, the one who's more protected (since murder is a much worse crime than anything Trump's been accused of) is Obama, who ordered the murder of an American citizen by the American military.

I'm not sure what your standard of brazen is, but since he basically got not even a threat of impeachment for that, I'm going to go with that being much more brazen.

Not that I particularly care. Obama made the right call IMO.

EDIT: Here's an article in which the ACLU raises the same hypothetical concern you do (the president will now be able to kill whomever): https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-drone-memo...
Je suis franchement impressionné when I see a single person accomplishing that type of tremendous work!

Keep up the good work
The Taiping rebellion started before the American civil war and lead to far more deaths. On wikipedia the estimate is 20-30 million. Outside of that, just going to the wikipedia page for deadly wars will find many that dwarf the American civil war.
Reading this, I wonder if quitting is the right thing do to. It could be, but it also might not be. How do you plan to reintegrate into work after quitting? What is the plan beyond quitting?

I also wonder what you have done to address anxiety before getting to the point of quitting? You don’t have to tell me, because I don’t need to know. I only ask, because there’s a lot a person can do to manage anxiety before quitting. Especially as you’re 4 months into a new job, and it can take between 6-12 months before a person feels settled into a new job. It is sometimes normal to feel overwhelmed at the beginning of a new job, especially after the novelty has worn off.

I’m not saying that your job is more important than your mental health (it definitely is not), I’m just offering another perspective which you may or may not have already considered.

Have you tried other things like; detoxing from social media, meditation, massage therapy, CBT, etc…

It sounds like you’ve worked pretty hard to get to where you are today, and quitting might be a knee-jerk reaction to an anxiety issue. The problem with anxiety is that it can be pervasive and creep into every facet of your life, whether you’re working or not.
Sometimes the challenge is learning to manage anxiety while managing other life responsibilities.

Good luck. I hope you feel better soon.
and do they? if your money is in a tax haven, you don't pay income tax there. if your ghost company from the tax haven buys a private jet, you don't pay any tax on it. if you then rent it from yourself, you can call it a business expense, and deduct it from your company's profits. if you get a loan from yourself in the tax haven, that's also tax free.

where does the paying income tax come in? rich people are always, legally speaking, on the brink of bankruptcy, and can't afford to pay tax.
Here you go :)

https://github.com/hnarayanan/sicm
In a technology career that started in the early 1990s, one of the constants has been relational databases and SQL. There is no better general-purpose data storage and query architecture, and it's the first (and usually last) thing I consider for almost any new development project that involves storing and retreiving data.
Writing my own SSG was the best investment I ever made into my own sanity.

The only drawback is that I can't really help people when they ask me for an SSG recommendation since most people won't want to do the same. I recently suggested to someone that they use Jekyll (after I did a small amount of research) but reading these comments makes me worried that was a mistake lol
can you find any comments anywhere here which seem to support " mobs attacking the Capitol or "find me some votes" or minority rule or massive roundups and detention camps or any of that"?
This was my thought too. The ruling doesn't seem crazy; being legally liable for every single official act would actually make it untenable for the president to do many things a president needs to do without the real fear of prosecution if anything goes wrong. (And things go wrong! All the time!)

But what's an "official act"? I would hope that courts consider that definition very narrowly. Also disallowing juries to see discussion of official acts as evidence for related wrongdoing is disastrous.

Ultimately, though, it won't matter. Trump has effectively managed to delay this particular trial, and much of the remainder of its pre-trial process, until after the election and after the inauguration. I assume if he wins and takes office, he can instruct the DoJ to dismiss the case against him.

The Georgia case can still proceed, regardless of the outcome of the election, but Willis completely screwed that one up with her idiotic romantic decisions.
A real shocker
> 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.

No, we do not. That's the whole point of the checks and balances. If his political opponents are able to prove their case before the courts, showing that the president broke the law, then they should be able to.
Tax what you want to eliminate. Don’t tax labour. Tax pollution.

Of course policy changes tend to remain half done, like Davos’ motto, and we’re left with two taxes.
Good to know! Thought it was similar to the difference in I and l in things like typosquatting.
How is eradicating stare decisis considered "solid legal and philosophical principles"?
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I though the chevron deference related to how federal orgs like e.g. the epa pen their own policy and trying to put that policy writing power back into the legislative branch vs through the executive who appoints these orgs? I am not educated in law and would like to clear up some of my misunderstanding.
Does this install in a way I can upgrade it with topgrade?
Where does the Supreme Court get it's power? In practice, it's from the people - nor from constitution or constitutional experts.

There may come a point where some quarters of the public will willingly accept some governor, attorney general or president ignoring a supreme court ruling: then what will they do? As Andrew Jackson apocryphally noted, the supreme court has no enforcement arm.
I fully agree, you will hate my 2 favorite languages. One of them has received a lot hate over the many decades from almost every academic person. The other one has only started getting hate over the past 10 years.

FWIW, I do not like any OO languages at all.
Much of the early development of novel new treatments is funded by venture capital and early IPOs. The big players buy them out when most of the risk is gone and it’s time to scale up.
> Recognize you're in a position so many people and even you a year ago would kill to be in.

True. But barring financial hardship, I think many folks would quickly become disillusioned.

> crush it and grind dude

I wish I could do this.

I can suppress to a point but that is what I've been doing all this time.

Once it spills over into physical pain that is where I draw a line.
It seems unreasonable to require everyone who follows orders to be an expert on constitutional law. Especially when the highest court in the land can't seem to agree.

Is it permissible to disobey an order that you merely believe is unconstitutional? What happens when your superior asserts that it is constitutional?
And based on what the court ruled they probably legally could just ignore the court and congress.
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Note that the majority opinion forbids prosecutors from referencing the official act in court, no matter the charge. So they'd have to prove the President accepted a bribe, but never mention anything about the ambassadorship. How could a jury ever reach a guilty verdict? At most, the evidence would point to a President receiving a lavish monetary gift.

This isn't a misreading of the ruling. Justice Barret dissented from that particular part of the majority opinion, bringing up the hypothetical of bribery.
I disagree, since a good many people seem ready to accept that Trump trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election (which in my book is pretty much on par with murdering political rivals since the point of murdering a rival is so that they don't get elected), is an "official duty".
This is more of a style thing than anything else. Nothing stopping you from writing Python in an idempotent and functional style. I do it all the time.

def winning_team(game_log: GameLog) -> Team:
team_a, team_b = get_teams(game_log)
points_a = get_points(game_log, team_a)
points_b = get_points(game_log, team_b)

return team_a if points_a > points_b else team_b
Framed another way, anyone crazy enough to run for a position in which your opponents will comb through all of your actions with a fine tooth comb to imprison you after the position term is over likely won't plan on their term ever being over.
Ordering the murder of someone is their official duty as commander in chief of the military. The only thing they have to do is say they feel that a person was a threat to national security.
If you order your military to murder someone, does it become an official act?
Cleaning up your PostgreSQL database
Anyone reading this thread will surely roll their eyes and move on to a different solution. Event the people who recommend this stuff to others get confused about what the fuck is even happening in the .NET ecosystem.
Trump is being prosecuted right now. That's what this case is about.
> I'm not sure what your standard of brazen is

Ordering the assassination of an American citizen not caught in the act of doing something illegal is illegal and Obama should be prosecuted for that. But his justification was that it was for national security, and as you say, some people think that's a fine justification. If his justification were that he didn't like the cut of his jib, then you'd be against it I assume.

As things lie now, rationale and justification don't matter in determining whether something is prosecutable or not, and that's scary, to me at least.

EDIT: Also, did you see my question from an earlier post:

>> One of the key things about a dissent, is that it's not the opinion of the court, but just that judge.

> Can you find anything in the opinion of the court that would preclude it? I can't.
That is a good one and in better times might have seen them recuse themselves? Justices have recused themselves in the past for apparent possible economic conflict of interest - don't know about political conflict of interest.

"shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour" is probably what's meant to address political conflict with a specific person: They nominally can't be removed by the person who nominated them.
What languages are they? As an academic, I am curious because I have languages that I hate that blissfully unaware academics use...
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I have used this technique for years that I found by accident. Those large plastic storage bins actually have rails built on the sides that allow you to put hanging folders in them for storing documents. I use each hanging folder to hold a certain type of cable. One for USB C, one for MIDI, etc. One bin can hold 100 cables and you can easily get the one you are looking for.
That is a good point. I would happily let Trump go free if it means that Biden can delete all student debt without fear of prosecution.
They just decided last week in Snyder v. United States that its only a bribe if you have clear evidence, and a suspicious gift is just fine and perfectly legal.
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No they don't.

It is called a cooperative and is working today

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

People loose their minds with the concept of forcefully transfering all companies to this model, controlled by one political party.
They are unrelated lineage wise, but accomplish similar things. One just happens to be substantially more performant than the other. I have been a psycopg user for many years but have started to utilize this lib in projects that rely on asyncio.
All official recordings are off limits. Even in prosecution of "unofficial" actions. Barrett even disagreed with this.
Was the entry added before or after you clicked the button?
I don't understand what weight impeachment still holds in today's world. Trump was impeached twice - and? If Trump, in his second term, is supposed to be held liable through fear of impeachment for his actions, I'm afraid it won't be the counter-weight the Founding Fathers envisioned.
> I can't make up my mind if this is "movie plot threat" or not. Has it happened to other important figures before?

SLAPP-suits do exist, but they're generally against poor folks who can't a long legal process rather than richer individuals.
If you have git, golang and bun/nodejs on your machine it works from localhost.

git clone git@github.com:kjk/edna.git
cd edna/server && go get && go build && cd ..
./server/server -build-local-prod
./server/server -run-local-prod
As it costs almost nothing for the country to host a multinational company, there is no pushback on the minimum corporate tax.

The question is, why do the countries tax something that doesn’t cost them anything to host.
A "SaaS app" is something rather new. In the old times (early 2000s), you would buy some proprietary server code and get a consultant to install/maintain it for you.

I think vBulletin still operates on this model, although they now offer it as a service too. phpBB is the oldest alternative to vBulletin, there are plenty.

Eventually all these CMSs from the 2000s were cloned and freed in some way or another. Our "SaaS" was cpanel which automagically installed these (they were THIS close to "serverless", if they only knew). By 2010, people barely knew what MovableType was.

cpanel is gone, shared hosting is gone, but that cloned freed CMS tech evolved and still powers a large chunk of the web.

Why doesn't it happen now? I don't know. Maybe it takes time, maybe that was a lucky decade, maybe it's happening in some place I'm not looking at.
The US Constitution does not discuss to what extent, if any, a President has immunity from criminal prosecution.
Like every firm in every sector, in other words. Writing this from a computer designed in california, built in china, marketed by a company incorporated in ireland.
If the US continues to ship them large amounts of foreign aid, aren’t we at least a little bit complicit?
Policing, or law enforcement, at the Federal level is also a part of the executive branch and under control of the President.
Appreciate your moral courage in going against the grain on HN. Not as sad, but still deeply sad that a site that prohibits ideological battle in its guidelines has become powerless to stop Twittermobbing on here.
Seems like the alternative is equally dystopian though. If ex-presidents don't have immunity for their actions in office, then every ex-president will have to fend off a flurry of lawsuits and prosecution attempts by the opposite party. It would be an absolute circus and turn the office of president into a joke.
Fine tuning doesn't quite work that way. You have to format the training data set as request/response. The idea of fine tuning is to get the model to output things in a specific format, style or structure.

Your use case is better suited to RAG. This is where you retrieve data from a large dataset and inject it into the user's request so the AI model has the context it needs to answer accurately.

But that's not a silver bullet and you would need to spend significant time on chunking strategy and ranking of results to hopefully get a decent response accuracy.
Seriously! I held off VR for years, but the prospect of actually walking around in the worlds of Myst and Riven finally made me cave and buy a VR headset. They're such a natural fit for the platform - these are worlds to be savored and lived in. Pulling levers, peering through telescopes, staring in awe at the scenery... it's profound.
The argument is that the Constitution is the law which applies here. Specifically, the powers given to the executive to execute their role and enforce the acts of Congress.
Anything can be made an official act. That's why this is unfathomably bad.
It's really weird to watch all that from the other side of the pond.
In my country for example, all politicians have immunity but our parliament can revoke it for anyone using a majority ruling... ( having more than two political parties helps )
Ah.. The UK is complying with OECD guidelines and leaving the race to the bottom.. What percentage of non domiciled have to actually become domiciled to make up for the rest, who paid flat tax and couldn't risk investing in the UK?
Since a not-small portion of the US constitutional law community does feel this way and you're playing the "cite your sources" card, cite some sources.
So, this is about connecting the dots between different Supreme Court decisions.

Further reading...

https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-136/the-imperial-supr...