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As an individual and not the government, you can't file a criminal action. You could file a civil action for violation of constitutional rights, but under Roberts, SCOTUS has basically been ripping out all of the mechanisms that would
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Whenever you talk about potential cures for cancer, also remember this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/ It also sounds like there's nothing in the document that's not already been investigated for cancer treatmen
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About 20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which is effectively closed right now. So far, the economy is coping by drawing down inventories elsewhere and praying that the strait reopens soon , but even then, crud
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You're not wrong here. Not that I'm entirely up-to-speed on all of the deep Rust discussions, but the sense I have of the language evolution is that while there is definitely a loud contingent of people pushing for a lot of the
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I'm not sure that's really the case. The fundamental issue with the idea of a Roman Industrial Revolution isn't that Rome didn't have the technical antecedents (although that's still a big issue), but rather that th
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The "unexpectedly" is because the people looking at more real-time (but more indirect) indicators were expecting jobs to increase by about 50k or so. It's rather more like someone going "based on the daily footfall numbe
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> Your CPU doesn’t know or care what functions are This has already been commented on by a couple of people, but yes, your CPU absolutely does care a lot about functions. At the very least, call/ret matching is important for branch
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> Besides retelling a story is fair use, right? Actually, most of the time, it is not.
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SCOTUS hasn't ruled on any AI copyright cases yet. But they've said in Feist v Rural (1991) that copyright requires a minimum creative spark. The US Copyright Office maintains that human authorship is required for copyright, and t
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> what? 3 of the justices were nominated by Trump. You think the people appointing them didn't have internal deliberations before they were appointed, including about things Trump had thought about like tariffs? They were nominated
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> And the supreme court doesn't hear cases that are 100% obviously illegal. There is an argument in about two months' time as to whether or not the Birthright Citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment actually guarantees birthri
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I'm not aware of any major BLAS library that uses Strassen's algorithm. There's a few reasons for this; one of the big ones is Strassen is much worse numerical performance than traditional matrix multiplication. Another big o
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I am extremely skeptical that that would be the case. Local stack accesses are pretty guaranteed to be L1 cache hits, and if any memory access can be made fast, it's accesses to the local stack. The general rule of thumb for performanc
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In the publishing world, there is this thing called the slush pile: the collection of unsolicited submissions, essentially the only way a person without an agent can break into the field. And you can find quite a few editors' experienc
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Yes, break, continue, and return are all "just" gotos in disguise. But they restrict the power of the goto enough to not cause the problems that goto causes while providing a good deal of semantic power to users. Namely, all of th
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For my anecdote, I don't frequently deign to look at the overview at all... but every time I have, it has been completely and totally wrong. There's probably some selection bias going on in when I choose to try looking at it aga
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For extra fun, "flang" actually refers to three different projects, one of which also completely rebuilt its frontend, so there are four separate "flang" frontends to LLVM. And I know of at least one proprietary LLVM-bas
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A lot of people hate standard time in winter because the sun sets at 4 or 5, and they want the sun to instead set at 8 or 9 like it does in summer. DST in winter doesn't actually give you the 8 or 9 sunset, it gives you a 5 or 6 sunset
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The ultimate purpose of copyright is to protect creators from the rapacious publishing industry. Now, it doesn't do a good job of it, in large part because the publishers have twisted it to mostly be a tool for publishers attacking pub
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So what you're saying is that you think George R R Martin should not see a dime of revenue from the hit TV series made off of his books? Because Game of Thrones came out 20 years after the first book was published.
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Oil companies have a definite history of punching people and then suing them for running into their fist. But I should also point out that Greenpeace is the kind of shitty activist company that also does those kind of tactics, so an oil c
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The Ottoman Empire lasted 600 years with only one major civil war, a feat not matched by any major Christian European country. England faced 3½ civil wars (counting the Hundred Years War as a ½ civil war here, because while it is essentiall
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As I understand it, the IGRC doesn't particularly rub happily with the clerical council, and it's not entirely clear to me who will win that the power struggle. But the ultimate loser of the power struggle is clear: the Iranian po
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Arms control treaties are effective only if they are banning weapons that aren't useful. The problem is that landmines are incredibly useful weapons. What that means is that every country that has signed up to the Ottawa treaty either
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Per Wikipedia, the Golden Gate Bridge was proposed in 1917, approved by the state for design in 1923, funded in 1930, started construction in 1933, and completed in 1937. The reason modern projects take so long is that so many of them are s
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Battle of Fallujah? The war against ISIS in Iraq in the 2010s? Before the most recent invasion of Gaza started, there was an interview with an Israeli general about the imminent invasion. And when the question came up about what lessons Isr
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Honestly, I don't think any autopsy of Fry's Electronics can be complete without explaining why MicroCenter didn't follow Fry's in falling under. It seems that every story discussing the impeding end of Fry's had
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When the first attack on an aid convoy to provoke outrage came out, I saw someone put it best: there is a difference between "war is chaos, and no matter how hard we try, some incidents regrettably occur" and "our rules of en
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The right wing went full censorship and surveillance long before the Charlie Kirk assassination. Anyone who believed that the right wing (or the left wing, for that matter; let's not pretend that censorious dipshittery is not biparti
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> Tell 50 million people they’re likely to have Alzheimer’s then tell them where to donate towards a cure, or treatments to slow it by a decade. Pharmaceutical companies have spent something like $50 billion on developing Alzheimer'

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