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Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
108 points by billme 6y ago|255 comments
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Related URL: https://duckduckhack.com/
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Related Wiki page on Qualified Immunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
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How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away with Murder(nytimes.com)
16 points by billme 6y ago|2 comments
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They both have experience, US National Guard would require DoD approval to fly domestic missions.
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Here’s a map of their jurisdiction: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...
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False; Katrina & US border patrol was what officially sparked the call to (publicly) use drones in the US. CBP has used drones with FAA approval within the US since 2006; which does not included any use prior to 2006 which remains class
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by billme 6y ago
Point of adding the date to the title is to provide context where relevant as it relates to the present. Generally speaking, goal of HN is to cover substantial new information on a topic - not repeatedly rehash topics. As is, this Wikipedia
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(2006) needs to be added to the title, unless there’s substantial new information
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Here’s a recent, though very limited, example of Germany giving asylum for Hong Kong independence activists in 2019 - with China’s public response at the time: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-germany-hongkong&#
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Add the UK to that list too.
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>> “I haven't updated the original article since I'm not sure what the etiquette for updating a highly shared article is.” Adding “UPDATE:(date)text” either in the footer - with a brief dip in the header saying there’s an up
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There are a lot of “shadow” voters on HN. One might speculate there’s voting rings, but given HN doesn’t allow a given user’s voting history to be public, impossible to audit it to look dark patterns, puppet masters, etc.
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by billme 6y ago
Is there any reason to believe YouTube and not the users posting the comments, channel owner, etc - are not the ones deleting the comments?
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by billme 6y ago
This blog post from the author of the linked presentation is better online presentation of their ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23310400
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How to De-Risk a Startup (2016)(codingvc.com)
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First, congratulations, thanks for publishing, thanks for sharing your experience! Second, yes, maybe I was not clear, my advice relates to the average author on a simple straightforward method of write a book that reduces the odds of it no
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Curious as well, dragonwriter clearly has deep understanding of US law.
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All that act does is say the US will not cooperate. My statement still holds true, ICC has not given the any immunity for ignorance of the law for war crimes.
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>> “due to the general principal that the only case where ignorance of the law is an excuse under criminal law is when the mistake of law results from reasonable reliance on guidance from officials responsible for enforcing the law” R
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For those unfamiliar with the two most important terms covered in this paper, they are fuzzing [1] & baseband processor [2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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As it relates to torture, war crimes apply regardless of if a party believed they were acting legally. As for the case you cited, it was a civil suit, therefore ruling only covers civil law, not criminal. That said, does not protect "t
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>> “legally the president and anyone acting under his command are immune from prosecution if they acted according to legal guidance from the white house council“ Source? As far as I am able to tell, this is false; as in it is not that
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Supreme Court has ruled on the executive branches limited legal authority, even during war time, via “Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer” (1952): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co... T
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Supreme Court has ruled on the executive branches limited legal authority, even during war time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co... That being, “The President did not have the inherent auth
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by billme 6y ago
Neither the contents of your comment, nor that of the document on Wikipedia appear to substantiate the claims you have made. Please cite any relevant documents, laws, etc - that support your claims as directly as possible; for example, docu
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>> “Cheney ordered that Stellarwind be concealed from the judges of the FISA Court and from members of the intelligence committees in Congress.” (a) Anyone able to expand on the author’s source for this; (b) what if any US legal guida
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>> “conventional tech publishers make no sense economically” [...] “It is possible to make decent money from writing technical books if you self publish and build an audience yourself.“ Do you have an example of an author doing this?
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Love the idea of a book based on spaces repetition, but wish they had a better way to get a sense of what you’re getting yourself into, since as far as I am able to tell there’s no: - estimate of reading time - level of knowledge - way to
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Preselling good, since sending cash is a lot better signal of interest than handing over email, SMS, etc. That said, you would need to have a quantifiable definition of done and likely be a good idea to account for absolute failure in case

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