This is a real news story with a real arrest on a real judge.
There is no hypothetical here.
Yes, but the judge has not been shipped to El Salvador in the middle of the night. Resolving the matter in court _is due process_.
Readit NewsHow are you or anyone else going to remedy anything when you're half a world away, with no access to anyone let alone _anything_ outside your death camp?
Absolutely yes. This needs to stop right here, and the consequences for violating the rule of law, for violating due process, for violating human rights, must be real.
You advance civil war as the remedy for the hypothetical. I’m squarely with Lincoln on the matter.
Democratic states really need to start disallowing federal agents to operate within their borders and band together.
Activate their respective national guards and make it happen.
Yes, that means defying federal law. Yes that means exactly the consequences you want to draw from those actions.
There is no other option at this point. The law is dead in the U.S.
No, absolutely not. Trump would federalize the national guard as did Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and charge the governors with treason. You advocate for de facto succession of the states - we settled that matter with blood last time. The next time will be far worse.
The rule of law does not prohibit bad arrests nor can it. The rule of law provides the opportunity for remedy after the fact.
kansface commented on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump... · Posted by u/bhouston
I still wonder why this was not done instantly by EU.
US has an imbalance on goods that was used to calculate the tariff amount, but it has the opposite imbalance on service from what I've read
The EU effectively backdoors tariffs against US software vendors via fines and the occasional if ineffective subsidy for local competitors in the local language.
kansface commented on Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life newslttrs.com/back-from-t... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> "Passenger planes with speed beyond Mach four" and "superconductive magnetic levitation railways at 500 km/h" probably seemed like reasonable extrapolations of current trends at the time.
I'm a bit upset we can't have this today.
I was going to comment that air fair is comparatively cheaper since 1995, but its only ~15% in the US (and increasing).
kansface commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz
kansface commented on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska washingtonstatestandard.c... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
It's been considered, but it's not going to help much. A tiny percentage of Alaska's goods come through BC.
Instead, alternative markets and surcharges for potash, minerals, energy, counter tariffs and bans of American goods, expanding interprovincial trade, bans on government procurement from the US, bans on American propaganda and media should be sufficient. And re-armament.
Given that it's clear that America cannot ever again be trusted, (electing Trump once was an accident, twice is actively malicious), and given that it's likely compromised by Russia, it should be considered what it is - a dangerous, unstable, suicidal foreign adversary. A kind of North Korea, but with nuclear weapons.
North Korea _has_ nuclear weapons.
kansface commented on A 10x Faster TypeScript devblogs.microsoft.com/ty... · Posted by u/DanRosenwasser
This is frustrating:
> The JS-based codebase will continue development into the 6.x series, and TypeScript 6.0 will introduce some deprecations and breaking changes to align with the upcoming native codebase.
> While some projects may be able to switch to TypeScript 7 upon release, others may depend on certain API features, legacy configurations, or other constraints that necessitate using TypeScript 6. Recognizing TypeScript’s critical role in the JS development ecosystem, we’ll still be maintaining the JS codebase in the 6.x line until TypeScript 7+ reaches sufficient maturity and adoption.
It sounds like the Python 2 -> 3 migration, or the .Net Framework 4 -> .Net 5 (.Net Core) migration.
I'm still in a multi-year project to upgrade past .Net Framework 4; so I can certainly empathize with anyone who gets stuck on TS 6 for an extended period of time.
I lived and worked through the Python 2->3 fiasco, working on a Python library that had to run on both versions. I have since abandoned the language. Python3 was both slower and and not backwards compatible whereas TSC 7 is 10x faster and uses half the memory. I'm not worried.
My experience with ChatGPT is underwhelming. It does really basic language questions faster and easier than google now. Questions about a function signature or questions like, "how do I get the first n characters of a string". Things like that. Once I start asking it more complex questions not only does it get it wrong often, if you tell it the answer is wrong and ask to do it again it will often give you the same answer. I have no doubt it will get there, but I continue to be surprised at all the positives I hear about it.
What language are you writing? I mostly write go these days, and have often wondered if it is uniquely good in that language given its constraints.
these are basic things we need to exist in society, we should not be at the whims of private organizations.
I’m not sure how the federal government would deal with fraud on the payment side, either. The US does not have a strong system of identity.