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  • Thanksgiving

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  • If drow lady evil, why so hot?

  • US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey

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  • Just musing here.

    Authoritarians think that they should have respect because they have a position. Not because they did the work to deserve respect.

    In 2022, 89.5% of federal defendants pleaded guilty, and 0.4% were acquitted (source). The Trump Administration thinks you get those numbers just because you exist in the DOJ. As opposed to building a case for a long time and only going to trial when it's already airtight.

  • US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey

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  • Right, and in general, it's very hard for the prosecution to appeal the case, anyway. Can in some rare circumstances, but generally, they have one shot at things. That's why the DOJ usually moves so slowly on everything. They build a very, very airtight case before they even start the grand jury process.

    You've heard of competence porn. Now we've got incompetence porn.

  • As Dr. Oz Helps Prove 'There Is No Republican Health Care Plan,' Democrats Have Solution Most Refuse to Embrace: Medicare for All | Common Dreams

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  • There is no Republican health care plan because Obamacare is already the most conservative idea that could even conceivably work. It was directly based on existing Republican plans, like Romneycare in Massachusetts. It only became a toxic idea to them when Obama pushed it. They've been promising an alternative plan "any day now" since 2009. That plan doesn't exist and never will.

    It's no coincidence that Republicans push HSAs. They don't fix anything, but they are a tax haven for people of means. The funds can be used for general retirement later.

    A 401k is money that goes in tax free, grows tax free, but is taxed when you take it out. An IRA is money that's taxed now, but grows tax free and is withdrawan tax free. An HSA, though, does all three. Tax free now, tax free growth, tax free withdrawal.

    Combine that with the fact that you can invest HSA funds in the stock market once you reach a certain threshold. Of course Republicans love it.

    If you're in the US, do what you need to do for you and your family. Often, taking the HSA with a Bronze plan is your best choice. Just keep in mind that it's a tax dodge masquerading as a fix for a broken health care system.

  • Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database

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  • Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.

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  • Even to some big conservative names, Tate is radioactive. DeSantis didn't want them in Florida, for example.

    Trump really does reflexively protect sex criminals even when nobody was asking.

  • Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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  • Today, we remind you that AWS isn't the only single point of failure on the Internet.

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • You could use that same argument for any other type of math. Boolean logic. Linear algebra. Hyperbolic geometry. You have to pick something for high school, and you should pick what's most likely to be useful to anybody.

  • Texts reveal Trump's right-hand man promised protection for Epstein: 'Don't have to worry'

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  • “You don't have to worry personally because I'm sending u somewhere beyond extradition,” wrote back the responder believed to be Bannon less than two minutes later.

    Epstein died about 7 months later. It takes on a sinister tone in retrospect, but given the amount of time between the two events, I wouldn't jump to conclusions.

  • Many House Republicans will back a bill to release Epstein files, leaders of the effort say

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  • Software development has the advantage of happening in an environment where the cost of failure is relatively low. A bad change might be caught by the test suite before it ever sees production. If it does get to production, there might be consequences, but not the kind that typically kills people.

    In fact, I think software engineering in general should lean into this idea on most things. Don't try to ignore failure, but catch failure as fast as possible. Things like medical devices and aeronautic software should continue using formal verification methods, but the rest of us should iterate fast.

    Iterating fast doesn't work for other things. I'm a programmer by trade, but I have enough electrical knowledge that I once took up a contract for designing a PCB. I tried to do the "one thing at a time" approach, and it just doesn't work very well there. Non-trivial PCBs will have errors in them the first few times you try them, and you'll need to go back for a redesign. In software, that potentially takes minutes or even seconds. But in PCBs, you have to order out to a company to make them and wait at least a week for them to turn it around. Even if you have equipment to do it yourself, it still takes hours. You just have to batch up your changes. (Electrical simulators can potentially help with this, though.)

    In government, the effects of policy could take years or even decades to work out. Single change at a time would be a stranglehold on the ability to fix problems.

  • Many House Republicans will back a bill to release Epstein files, leaders of the effort say

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  • It does in an indirect way due to having more parties.

    Let's say you have $1M to try to buy off some politicians with campaign funds. If there are only two viable candidates, you give $500k to both. Now you've bought both parties and can win no matter the outcome.

    If there are three or four or five parties, though, you have to guess who is going to win. You can't split it up that many times and still have much influence on the politicians in question. Your funds can be easily swamped out by grassroots groups. Your guess based on polling can also end up being dead wrong when some party makes a sudden surge in the final weeks.

    That said, it'd still be better if we ditched Citizens United and publicly funded elections.

  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • Our long nightmare of commodity hardware and open ecosystems is finally coming to an end!

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • . . . the fundamental ideas about rates of change seem like they’re something that everyone human deserves to be exposed to.

    People understand the idea of instantaneous speed intuitively. The trouble is giving it a rigorous mathematical foundation, and that's what calculus does. Take away the rigor, and you can teach the basic ideas to anyone with some exposure to algebra. 6th grade, maybe earlier. It's not particularly remarkable or even that useful for most people.

    When you go into a college major that requires calculus, they tend to make you take it all over again no matter if you took it in high school or not.

    Probability and statistics are far more important. We run into them constantly in daily life, and most people do not have a firm grounding in them.

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  • Is that anything unique to Hitler?

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    TypeScript imagines type safety in a dynamic runtime

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  • You mean the AI slop that is the entire post?

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  • Is there any value to analyzing his DNA? The idea that evil is genetic is itself feeding into some Nazi ideas about eugenics that are deeply wrong.

  • ‘Humbly, I’m sorry’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments

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  • My worry now is that the American working class hasn't learned how powerful it could be, and liberal capitalism will reassert itself with slightly more social safety net. At the very least, we should end up with European style social democracy, and even that seems like a low bar.

  • ‘Humbly, I’m sorry’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments

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  • Rats know which way to run on a sinking ship.

  • Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable

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  • But not the same standard C lib. That's probably the most important thing outside of kernelspace.