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by jahewson 1y ago
The Pentagon’s budget is 900 billion per year. That 150bn ICE figure is over 4 years, so 37bn a year. You are wrong by a factor of 24x.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Remind me which side of the Atlantic is throwing its citizens in jail for tweets?
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by jahewson 1y ago
The tendency to replace what is actually happening with some dark figment of the imagination is telling. Do you have real objections or just conspiracies?
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by jahewson 1y ago
That was a Democrat president.
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by jahewson 1y ago
That (conspiracy) theory pertains specifically to France, and Europe more generally w.r.t. Muslim immigration. It gets mentioned over here but it’s not a US thing.
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by jahewson 1y ago
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by jahewson 1y ago
> Now, there's basically nothing stopping immigration officials from immediately deporting anybody they want, citizen, non-citizen, illegal or legal immigrant. What nonsense. We have the courts. There must be a valid determination m
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by jahewson 1y ago
That’s not true. They have the right to due process, as enshrined in the constitution. Clinton did not suspend that right he merely limited specific legal options available.
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by jahewson 1y ago
I didn’t realise we’d entered a time machine to 2007. I’ve worked extensively with OOXML and yes, the documentation is cryptic and often absent, but Microsoft will help you out if you contact them on their forums. I see Libre Office devs th
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by jahewson 1y ago
Ooh that’s not fair. Many PDFs don’t conform to the spec and how Acrobat processes them is completely undocumented.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Sam has been very pro-regulation for a while now. Remember his “please regulate me” world tour?
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by jahewson 1y ago
> is it clear yet if it can be called fair use? Yes. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyrig... Though the EU has its own courts and laws.
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by jahewson 1y ago
There’s a summary of the guidelines here for anyone who is wondering: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/introduction-to-code-of... It’s certainly onerous. I don’t see how it helps anyone except for big copyright holders,
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by jahewson 1y ago
You’re in luck, around half the page linked to above is devoted to explaining that: > The idea for tsx came about during a time when the Node.js ecosystem was getting fragmented due to the release of ES Modules (ESM). As packages migrate
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by jahewson 1y ago
> “I don’t feel good today,” Gelsinger said told employees Thursday. “I’ve agonized over today for the last three, four weeks. Many nights waking up at 2 a.m. because I know that what we do, and how we’re affecting you and your families,
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by jahewson 1y ago
> promises to only work 8 hours a day, only use union labor, hire x police officers for y hours in overtime security positions a month, use xyz contractor etc. Those are not pre-construction costs are they? Massive differences in labor c
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by jahewson 1y ago
Then cut off the free riders. Problem solved overnight.
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by jahewson 1y ago
You don’t understand how the world’s 5th largest company by market cap makes money and this is evidence of… something?
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by jahewson 1y ago
The ignorance here is just staggering. Every single person arrested for any and all crimes in the US is initially detained without being charged with a crime. This is normal. The police do not charge people with crimes: courts do. This is c
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by jahewson 1y ago
Why do you use these silly words: “abduct”, “kidnapping”? Those are specific crimes and by trying to exploit the emotional weight of those words instead of making an honest account you come off as unsophisticated and manipulative. If what i
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by jahewson 1y ago
I’m sure they’re not but we’re talking about the statistic for unsolved crimes not uncaught criminals.
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by jahewson 1y ago
You think the police have adequate resources to solve package theft ? I’m sorry, what? That’s ridiculous. Here’s the 2023 stats for SF: Porch thefts: 25,000 Cops: 2000 Obviously not all of those cops are on duty simultaneously, let’s assum
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by jahewson 1y ago
I guess this depends on how one defines the public interest. Shielding data from federal authorities surely has both upsides and downsides.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Bail bonds exist.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Given the amount of fuel on board the answer is probably “not by much”.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Brain farts are literally not a real phenomenon.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Forking Linux is very easy; you can do it in 1 hour.
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by jahewson 1y ago
I'm yet to drive a car with a doorknob but it sounds awesome.
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by jahewson 1y ago
John Quincy Adams was arguably such a 99.999th percentile person though.
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by jahewson 1y ago
Arrests are based on suspicion. As long as there is reasonable suspicion at the time of the arrest then it’s valid.

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