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by azernik 5y ago
The case would still go to the Supreme Court eventually; SCOTUS is relevant here as the court of final appeal for all federal cases. The facts of the case, as well as Assange's personal obnoxiousness, would probably not be the best cho
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by azernik 5y ago
The Senate's consent is required to ratify certain treaties. It all depends on what the treaty's terms require the government to do. If the terms can be fulfilled by executive power, the executive can sign and ratify on its own
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by azernik 5y ago
I would quibble that the name collision of the US Senate's "ratification" power is intentional and not confusing. When the Senate votes to "ratify" a treaty, it is authorizing the US government to perform the inte
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by azernik 5y ago
Yup. But also they're interesting as a theoretical construct for better understanding the whole idea of intentionally warping space.
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by azernik 5y ago
They're called "loitering munitions" in professional sources, so yes. (e.g. Israel's first drones were anti-SAM loitering munitions that would just go up and fly in circles for hours, listening for a lit search radar)
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by azernik 5y ago
The ossification has nothing to do with the distinction between userspace vs kernel. The kernel can implement layer 5 (there are in-kernel HTTP servers!), and userspace programs can implement layer 4 (using raw sockets). It has to do with t
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by azernik 5y ago
From context, I assumed detaro was referring to an ossification of SCTP .
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by azernik 5y ago
I assume you're referring to the disuse of SCTP? That's not because of ossification, it's because of middleware boxes like NATs and firewalls that will refuse to pass anything that isn't TCP, UDP, or ICMP.
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by azernik 5y ago
That depends on how big a percentage of the cost fuel is, and what government fossil fuel policy looks like. I find it far more likely it will be the other way around: current tests are using natural gas, and I'm working under the assu
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by azernik 5y ago
We don't have to look at fancy modern experiments - merchant ships going between the Americas and Europe could easily take 3 months per journey, usually with extremely cramped living conditions. The Spanish Empire's regular "
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by azernik 5y ago
For a mid-20th-century audience with a passing familiarity with contemporary communist politics, it would have been much clearer than to an arbitrary person today. Contemporary reviewers were very convinced, and also thought that the writte
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by azernik 5y ago
Especially since, with his history in the party and his Jewish name, he's clearly supposed to be a reference to Trotsky. Orwell fought in a Trotskyist militia in Spain and hence is likely to use a Trotsky stand-in to express his own vi
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by azernik 5y ago
"But I'm not sure how many people asked for Apple-style hardware in the DC." If "Apple-style" means lower skilled-labor cost for maintenance - absolutely worth it.
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by azernik 5y ago
Gulf War 1991 is definitely a victory - deposing Saddam was not the goal of the US or its allies. Similarly, Gulf War II is absolutely a loss, even though it "accomplished more" than 1991, because its strategic goals included dict
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by azernik 5y ago
Except for the Vietnamese invasion of the Chinese satellite regime in Cambodia, and the literal shooting war between China and Vietnam immediately afterwards. The Sino-Soviet split was a Very Big Deal, and Vietnam was firmly on the Soviet s
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by azernik 5y ago
Legally, whether something is a "chemical weapon" depends on whether it's used to attack people, or is used in population centers where many people will be directly injured regardless of intent. See also the legal wrangling a
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by azernik 5y ago
War movies produced in Israel are also a distinctly different experience from American ones. They tend to be made by veterans of those wars, after the ~20 year gap that seems pretty standard for the PTSD barrier to crack. e.g. the best ones
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by azernik 5y ago
Whereas in the common law, it being the f** common law, there's no fixed term and it's just "what does the judge think is in line with similar past cases".
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by azernik 5y ago
Decisions like this by the Council are legally binding on member states. Similar to how GDPR is technically implemented by each state's relevant government agency.
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by azernik 5y ago
That's a more specific thing regarding hereditary titles. Acquiescence in the common law applies to any right. Could be water rights, grazing rights, certain intellectual property rights (though those are generally registered in a wa
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by azernik 5y ago
Note the submission guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a
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by azernik 5y ago
Note that in a common law system, this would be thrown out of court under either "acquiescence" (if you don't raise a fuss for a very long time when someone unknowingly infringes your rights, you can lose those rights), or &q
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by azernik 5y ago
Ooooh ouch, yeah C++ is generally rough on static analysis tools.
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by azernik 5y ago
Since you're talking about Clang, I assume you're coding in C? In that case, Coccinelle [ https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/sp.html ] may serve your purposes, and has a long history of use in the
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by azernik 5y ago
The relevant RFCs are also fascinating https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050
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by azernik 5y ago
Not when they're on the clock. Not for the purposes of the law, nor their employment. The state has much more power in how to bring them into line than it does for private citizens (it just chooses not to use that power in the US).
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by azernik 5y ago
Or get the courts to give you special liability protection as agents of the state.
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by azernik 5y ago
I think that in most countries but the US, the state will stomp down on any such infringement hard ; and in the US the state will use a much lighter and slower hand. Every time I can think of that people have predicted (with hope or fear)
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by azernik 5y ago
When private citizens are allowed to do it (see e.g. Stand Your Ground states, Trayvon Martin, &c) it's also bad. Only without body cams, without even the possibility of institutional reform.
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by azernik 5y ago
And have a different diet, probably

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