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by openasocket 1y ago
There's another argument that you touched on in your last paragraph that I think deserves to be underlined, which is about proper accountability. Imagine an undocumented immigrant who commits a serious crime, like murder. Do you want t
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by openasocket 1y ago
> Or, if he just said "you all need to leave, none can stay" with the intention of hurrying the proceeding along so that the immigrant could leave before they could possibly return, that too is willful obstruction. In the fact
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by openasocket 1y ago
That would really depend on what the judge did, though. If the judge said, “the guy you are looking for is with the chief judge” and it turns out he wasn’t with the chief judge, that sounds like obstruction. If the judge said, “the chief ju
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by openasocket 1y ago
Devil is always in the details. But judges have a ton of discretionary power, and in fact obligations to, maintain order in their courtroom. Someone who disrupts a hearing can be forcibly removed by the bailiffs, can be fined, and can even
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by openasocket 1y ago
At the moment we don't have a lot of the facts. All we seem to have at this moment is a (since deleted?) post from the head of the FBI. There's a ton of context that is missing. Like what does "intentionally misdirecting&quot
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by openasocket 1y ago
> One of the nice things about Flajolet/Sedgewick[2] (mentioned in this post) is that it gives a nice set of combinators for (at least it seems to me, in theory) precisely enumerating how many "steps" an algorithm would ta
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by openasocket 2y ago
It is certainly insecure compared to the normal channels for sharing classified information. The US government maintains a network that is cut off from the rest of the internet (more or less, there’s some nuances). The only way to access it
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by openasocket 2y ago
For those curious, one relevant field of mathematics that could be used to prove properties of this sequence would be Sieve theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_theory
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by openasocket 2y ago
That's a good point, you can definitely optimize. I'd be curious how far you could go using static analysis. Assuming no recursion, function pointers, dynamic linking, etc; can you optimize to the point that you use as little memo
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by openasocket 2y ago
There's prior art in this, very very old prior art. If you check out the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming, it uses a fictitious architecture called MIX. I understand that while it was fictitious, it was made to be simila
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by openasocket 2y ago
> and that laws should take an 80% consensus to pass. I think this is trying to solve the wrong problem. If our concern was that the second the new party gets that 51% margin they suddenly start passing a ton of laws, that would help rei
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by openasocket 2y ago
There are several examples of this in other species. The Przewalski horse is probably one of the most dramatic examples. The population was reduced to around a dozen individuals, all in captivity. After an intensive breeding and reintroduct
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by openasocket 2y ago
My question wasn't rhetorical, I wasn't doubting that it was possible. I am genuinely asking how OP believes these elections should be conducted. We've got over 3 million Ukrainians living under Russian occupation, I don&#x27
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by openasocket 2y ago
Submarines aren't really well suited for this. You want something that can search and monitor over a wide area, and then the ability to intercept and potentially search/seize a suspicious vessel. The primary attribute of submarine
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by openasocket 2y ago
How do you intend to conduct an election during an active war when 20% of the country, over 3 million Ukrainians, are under Russian occupation? Do they just not get to vote?
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by openasocket 2y ago
In the near term, Ukraine wants continued delivery of military equipment. In the end game, they want any sort of peace treaty ending this war to include NATO/EU/US support. Ideally, in the form of NATO membership. This is crucial
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by openasocket 2y ago
That’s true, but slightly misleading. Yes, SSRIs are not much better than a placebo, because a placebo is surprisingly effective against depression! It’s not so much that SSRIs are ineffective, as the fact that the placebo effect seems to b
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by openasocket 2y ago
Europe doesn’t have the resources in a lot of cases. To start, a lot of what the US gave isn’t cash, it’s old equipment that was in long term storage. You can’t just place an order for 100 infantry fighting vehicles and get them in a month.
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by openasocket 2y ago
> That's extremely concerning. If we rely on MAD for survival, we should never signal weakness or unpreparedness with our nuclear arsenal. Not as much as you would think. Ballistic missiles are not the most reliable things in the wo
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by openasocket 2y ago
This bill is focused on handling juvenile suspects, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done to improve things for juvenile witnesses and victims. In too many jurisdictions in the US, if a young child is believed to be a witness
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by openasocket 2y ago
I would recommend against learning MIX, and instead learn the successor, MMIX. MIX was designed in the 1960s, and as a result includes things that simply don't make sense today. For example, the number of bits in a byte is not specifie
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by openasocket 2y ago
Ugh, this is why the term "hypersonics" is misleading. Ballistic missiles ARE hypersonic systems, they travel faster than Mach 5. And that's not just me being pedantic. The Kinzhal missile is regularly touted as a "hyper
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by openasocket 2y ago
Sure, but if you are holding out for something that will be militarily relevant forever, you're going to be waiting a long time :) I also think the concerns about the the ability of large ships to defend themselves in modern combat are
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by openasocket 2y ago
The term "hypersonic" is not a particularly helpful one. The generic term refers to an missile system traveling faster than Mach 5, but there are 3 distinct types of weapons that fall into this category, which are very different.
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by openasocket 2y ago
But submarines require a shipbuilding revolution too! The total number of submarines in US Navy service has been steadily decreasing over the last decade or so. We don't have the industrial capacity to build submarines faster than our
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by openasocket 2y ago
What do you mean? I see a ton of pictures in there of all kinds of things, that would certainly seem to be useful to historians
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by openasocket 2y ago
Keep in mind the purpose of these satellites often isn't to intercept the communications. A major use of ELINT to to detect and locate active radars. You don't actually care what the radar is detecting or anything like that, you a
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by openasocket 2y ago
When you get credit card debt, does the credit card company choose what job you have to work at to pay it off? Do they choose where you have to live until you pay it off? Do they get to choose who, if anyone, you are allowed to marry? If yo
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by openasocket 2y ago
No, their last nuclear test was estimated at around 250 kilotons, which is indicative of a thermonuclear bomb. That was in 2017
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by openasocket 2y ago
North Korea has successfully tested multiple missile launches on a lofted trajectory that demonstrated an intercontinental range. I believe both the hwasong 17 and 18 are capable of hitting the continental United States. Rentry vehicles hav

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