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mkwt

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  • The programming language is named after the comedy troupe, not the snake.

  • Quark in tears

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  • I would expect the price or relative value of gold to latinum to collapse once asteroid mining becomes viable.

  • Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately'

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  • It is likely that any tests will be conducted in enclosed underground silos in Nevada. The site to do that has been maintained at some amount of readiness since the last test in 1992.

  • Trump Hit With Devastating All-Time Low Approval Ratings

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  • Nixon was at 31% when he resigned. Dubya also hit the low thirties, but he didn't resign.

  • 2 injured, including a US Marshal, after an ICE agent’s weapon discharged during LA immigration enforcement operation

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  • No, it's clearly the fault of the guy that got shot. That's why he's been criminally charged.

    (/s but not on the criminal charges. Those are real.)

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  • And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty "dark" for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

    For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.

  • Trump Admin Suffers Blow in James Comey Case

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  • UPDATE: As the deadline expired today, the prosecution dropped this motion which discloses that they searched an attorney's phone with a warrant.

    Because the stuff on this phone is a landmine of attorney-client privilege, they contend, there must be a complicated and lengthy clean room-style process to sort the privileged stuff from non-privileged.

    Comey disagrees and wants to challenge the search warrant first.

    I strongly suspect they didn't actually turn over much of anything today, but we shall see.

  • Trump Admin Suffers Blow in James Comey Case

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  • In many jurisdictions, courts will allow prosecutors to "remedy" slipups to some degree by delaying the trial date, allowing the defense the same time they would have had to prepare, or at least an adequate time.

    It definitely seems like that is not going to happen in this district.

    There's a bunch of complicated case law about missed disclosures and late disclosures.

  • Trump Admin Suffers Blow in James Comey Case

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  • I care about the guy now. Because I care about the rule of law. I want real trials in my country, where defendants confront the evidence against them fairly. Not show trials and Col. Cathcart "we can't tell you who Person 3 is" bullshit.

  • University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

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  • Of you post a preprint to arxiv, and submit the same paper to a journal, you don't generally cite the preprint in the journal submission, and it's not considered plagiarism either.

    That's why they're called "preprints."

    This seems like a similar situation, except the "preprint" went up on some form of personal blog, and the "journal" was a class submission.

  • Who cares about time complexity

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  • You missed "CM," which was common in copyright statements in the 20th century.

  • Judge blocks National Guard deployment in Illinois for 2 weeks

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  • Almost certainly not, for a couple of reasons:

    1. This is a civil case. Can't directly arrest someone within a civil case.
    2. To charge criminal contempt, the judge has to refer the case to the prosecutor. But oh my! Look who the prosecutor is (Pam Bondi). Do you expect those dipshits to actually prosecute contempt on this?

    There's a pathway to civil contempt in this case, to remedy ongoing non compliance. Civil contempt can send people to jail until they choose to comply, but there are no criminal charges. No charges = no prosecutor.

    However, I don't expect open or flagrant violations, just some busted deadlines getting the guys out of state. I also expect an immediate appeal and at least 50-50 odds of an emergency stay is this order from the appeals court.

  • Comey Pleads Not Guilty and Launches Scorched Earth Defense

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  • Comey's attorney told the judge he has plans to bring 4 separate motions to dismiss the case, on 4 separate grounds.

    • selective and vindictive prosecution
    • Lindsey Halligan was not properly appointed as the US attorney, so she has no authority to charge the case.
    • Abuse of grand jury, i.e. the indictment is invalid because the Halligan violated the very loose rules that exist when presenting the case to the grand jury.
    • outrageous government conduct. Who knows what that is.

    I was surprised he didn't move to dismiss right there at the arraignment for failure to state an offense.

    The prosecutors said they have a bunch of classified evidence they have to sort through. The judge did not like that. There's no reason for anything to be classified in this case. Comey's alleged lie was in public to Congress on CSPAN. And he was talking about unclassified stuff.

    So this classified documents stuff seems to be a delaying tactic, because these guys have no idea what they're going to do with discovery. And I've heard that eastern district of VA is called the "rocket docket" because the judges like to move fast. They don't like delays.

  • Does anyone else get told constantly they read to slow?

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  • Back in the Roman empire, they didn't have any punctuation marks or spaces between words. Reading was a lot harder. It was normal to read very slowly, compared to nowadays. And always out loud, sounding out the words, even in private.

  • White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay

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  • Congress has to pass a budget bill to reopen the government, and the President has to sign it into law. If that bill says that the workers are entitled to back pay, then they are entitled to back pay.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Rages Against GOP Leadership Ahead of Looming Health Insurance Hikes: ‘Absolutely Disgusted’

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  • BUT this time her own children are facing the premium hikes. That makes everything totally, completely different.

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  • It's pretty well settled mathematics that infinities are "the same size" if you can draw any kind of 1-to-1 mapping function between the two sets. If it's 1-to-1, then every member of set A is paired off with a member of B, and there are no elements left over on either side.

    In the example with even integers y versus all integers x, you can define the relation x <--> y = 2*x. So the two sets "have the same size".

    But the real numbers are provably larger than any of the integer sets. Meaning every possible mapping function leaves some reals leftover.

  • Bit concerned about the view votes option now available.

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  • My understanding is that all of this vote data is already exchanged on the public Internet, and that it has to be this way for federation to work. It's a client and interface design feature to show the data or not to show the data. So you should probably assume that icky people on the Internet are already looking at it.

  • Trump Admin Absolutely Scorched By Reagan-Appointed Judge Over ‘Chilling’ Free Speech Crackdown

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  • "Scorched" is the right word here:

    • The judge photocopied a handwritten anonymous post card he received directly at the top of the page, before the case caption.
    • The post card reads like a veiled threat: "Trump has pardons and tanks. What do you have?"
    • then the judge writes a public letter to the post card writer, inviting them to read the opinion too see how it works. At the very end, he invites the post card writer to come see the administration of justice in person, at the Boston court house.
    • Out of 161 pages, the judge spends 12 pages talking about Donald Trump's flaws as a person and as a President. This section is not super related to the main opinion, which is about the first amendment and immigrants.
    • This judge was appointed by Ronald Reagan, and he's been on the bench since approximately forever ago.

    The whole piece seems to have serious literary aspirations, not typical of a judicial opinion. Especially with the post card as a literary framing device. The judge seems to be talking, not just to the litigants in this case, but to the average MAGA American, represented by the post card writer. And also to all patriotic Americans, now and in the future. This is a bugle call, cutting above the din, calling to ordinary Americans to retake Constitutionalism as Americanism. The rule of law as American patriotism.