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by wahern 7d ago
According to this the US nominally ran a current account surplus until the 1970s: https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/trans423-ann... Which is what you'd expect if you're exporting
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by wahern 8d ago
The FISA court only handles warrants, not prosecutions. Generally the only parties involved in a warrant request to a court (FISA or any other), are the judge and the government representative(s) seeking the warrant, though the court can pu
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by wahern 8d ago
The US was a net exporter for most of the time it was a de jure and de facto reserve currency, up until the dollar was floated (i.e. end of gold convertibility). IOW, it was arguably the reserve currency status that drove the trade deficits
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by wahern 8d ago
> When both conditions are met, the loop body is replaced with a call to std::this_thread::yield(). This gives execution of the loop the forward-progress semantics it previously lacked. That's the epitome of the hidden code downside
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by wahern 9d ago
I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that, unless you upgrade to a premium enterprise subscription.
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by wahern 12d ago
Both Monal and Conversations support XEP-0357. Each project runs their own XMPP-to-Apple/Google gateway for push notifications. It has to be that way because the gateway server and client phone application have to be signed by the same
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by wahern 12d ago
Conversations also supports Android's/Google's push notifications.
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by wahern 13d ago
That's true for states like California and perhaps the US generally, but in states like Texas industry uses half of all energy. ( https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66224 ) Likewise for South Korea and
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by wahern 14d ago
See my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49668714
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by wahern 14d ago
As a summary of American criminal jurisprudence I'm willing to stand by what I said. But I'll admit some caveats: 1) Traffic-related laws straddle the boundary between civil/regulatory law and criminal law. Someone losing the
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by wahern 14d ago
A strict liability crime is something of an oxymoron. Crimes always require intent, the mens rea element. The question is intent for what. If somebody drugged you without your knowledge and you were charged with a DUI, you would have a defe
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by wahern 16d ago
Don't forget GCJ. It wasn't removed from GCC until about 2016, a nearly 20-year long run, though interest had waned many years prior. I don't remember if GCJ supported loading and running code dynamically with a built-in JIT
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by wahern 16d ago
The manufacturers of a self-driving car can be held and are held liable today, same as if the brakes were defective (strict product liability) or improperly marketed (negligence). That doesn't mean the driver might not also be liable.
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by wahern 16d ago
The manufacturer would still be liable, same as if the brakes malfunctioned.
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by wahern 16d ago
Not sure if you meant to imply it, but you don't need to remove driver liability to incentivize the inebriated to use autonomous mode. That's a calculation even someone who's blackout drunk can easily make. Removing liability
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by wahern 17d ago
Also anyone handling cash is supposed to wash their hands before handling food, unless perhaps they're using tongs or something. Ideally an establishment dedicates one person to the register, but with the cost of labor that can be ex
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by wahern 19d ago
The writers of the US constitution were well aware of how to enumerate positive rights, as they were common in the state constitutions, as well in many European countries' declarations of rights in restraint of monarchs. Many of them r
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by wahern 20d ago
I assumed it's a figure of speech, but, yeah, the borrow checker only enforces function-local invariants, with no interprocedural analysis or memorization. Parameter aliasing is just a logical deduction from assuming local invariants a
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by wahern 21d ago
Setting aside textual analysis and how commas are used in the constitution, the point is that people claim not just that slavery is allowed, but that mandatory penal labor is slavery, and implicitly the same slavery that was ostensibly abol
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by wahern 21d ago
It's called penal labor, and it was and remains widespread around the world. (And, yes, Brazilian law requires mandatory labor for all prisoners.) It wasn't until the middle to late 20th century that countries began to reform pena
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by wahern 23d ago
One of the primary reasons for removing cars from Market Street was keeping buses and street cars moving. There was a huge citywide program to make buses faster, and many routes converge on Market St and travel some portion of it. The routi
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by wahern 24d ago
Your ID and PII was likely already on the black market, the only question is accessibility and price. You can't exactly advertise on Reddit or sell to every two-bit identity thief and not expect heat.
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by wahern 25d ago
> Nothing about preadv lets you indicate you only want to read what's already in the page cache. preadv2 + RWF_NOWAIT
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by wahern 26d ago
I once had a statistics professor (teaching a programming class using, IIRC, SAS) in college who worked as a data analyst in the federal government, possibly the Labor Department. Part of his job was working with polling and form data. Afte
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by wahern 29d ago
As others have alluded, __builtin_memcpy doesn't resolve to a runtime implementation. GCC and clang treat functions like memcpy specially. Because they're defined by the standard and are reserved names, compilers can assume the ex
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by wahern 29d ago
Few people routinely mentally visualize with the same breadth and vividness as dreaming, unless perhaps they have poor dream recall or don't dream very vividly. It's probably more rare than aphantasia. On the flip side, this means
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by wahern 29d ago
There absolutely is such a thing as epigenetic inheritance. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic_imprinting Epigenetics is a pretty broad term. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of environmentally-induced
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by wahern 29d ago
I sympathize with the reaction to the hyperbole, but it's not a binary thing. Better to think in terms of marginal increases in occurrence rate, or in a single case marginal increase in progression of an impending event (glaciers were
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by wahern 1mo ago
> "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stali
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by wahern 1mo ago
Yep. All modern Intel and AMD architectures, save maybe some Atom variants, effectively JIT compile the incoming instructions. It's part of the reason the faster-than-static Java/JVM promises never came to fruition. The goal posts

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