so habeas corpus just died in the US
I'm no state judge, but I think the states do have jurisdiction on kidnappings where the crime doesn't cross state lines.
Readit Newskowabungalow commented on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/intunderflow
What is the topic?
You said they should now build foreign campuses. I said they won't because it would dilute their brand. And they could have done so in the US or abroad before this.
What am I missing here?
> So let's not pretend these institutions are noble
If only the noble deserve a reasonable state then welcome to hell.
kowabungalow commented on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/intunderflow
The universities could have expanded campuses and opened up new ones at any time. Harvard could easily double or triple their class size with no negative effects in terms of student body. They choose not to because it would dilute their brand and they're more about an exclusive club than educating students or doing research. Their doner class that finds their hedge fund doesn't like that.
So let's not pretend these institutions are noble
Let's not pretend that was the topic.
kowabungalow commented on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/intunderflow
American universities are in demand among foreigners because they are a gateway to network and life in the US.
If it's a choice between say Princeton in the US and Harvard outside the US, Princeton will be the choice for many.
Foreign students interested in a US education have diverse motivations and Universities in/of other countries have done well selling programs that compete with the US' institutions for students that don't have that motivation. Soon that may also be almost all of them.
kowabungalow commented on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/intunderflow
I think the point was: Trump is just a symptom, not the disease...
Trump is a disease, the tools he uses are the opportunities given to adapt Putin's template for the American Empire.
kowabungalow commented on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/intunderflow
Universities had better hurry up with opening up their foreign campuses.
.us is not a root name server. The root name servers are one more degree removed.
Hence 'for .us'. The trouble with this form of pedantic is that the nicer way to interpret the misunderstanding is that the pedant is ignorant either of language or the structure of dns.
"He runs the Internet routers for our company." -> "Your company doesn't run the Internet" -> wtf?
kowabungalow commented on Fake skull science is back – and it's still racist npr.org/2025/04/16/126352... · Posted by u/rolph
The post claims that it's fake and racist, which is probably correct.
But could you imagine a science that isn't fake but is racist? Does something being real prevent it from being racist? For instance, if there were some connections with your skull and some characteristic, would NPR and the scientific community embrace it?
I think it's a mistake to argue that this kind of thing is both fake and racist, not because it's not fake. But I could imagine a world in which some science could be real and racist. In that case, you'd have to deny reality so it fits your world view. How could science and the laws of the universe not fit my 2025 view of race and culture??
I think its enough to say it's racist and we shouldn't pursue this field of research because of it's morally reprehensible. Consider something like the science behind creating human-animal chimeras. Even if it were real it would still be morally reprehensible.
I think the problem is social tendency toward exaggeration and categorization. There are different social groups that have different but overlapping bell curves and whether it is nature or nurture is scientifically interesting, but dwelling on it all that much tends to get people hiring, marrying, grading, etc, based on the group instead of realizing a particular person will be somewhere on the curve and then kind of rewriting all of reality to fit the assumption that they really are nearer the average in their group than pesky reality keeps demonstrating.
kowabungalow commented on What the hell is a target triple? mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/ta... · Posted by u/ingve
> There are also many ficticious names for 64-bit x86, which you should avoid unless you want the younger generation to make fun of you. amd64 refers to AMD’s original implementation of long mode in their K8 microarchitecture, first shipped in their Athlon 64 product. Calling it amd64 is silly and also looks a lot like arm64, and I am honestly kinda annoyed at how much Go code I’ve seen with files named fast_arm64.s and fast_amd64.s. Debian also uses amd64/arm64, which makes browsing packages kind of annoying.
I prefer amd64 as it's so much easier to type and scans so much easier. x86_64 is so awkward.
Bikeshed I guess and in the abstract I can see how x86_64 is better, but pragmatism > purity and you'll take my amd64 from my cold dead hands.
As for Go, you can get the GOARCH/GOOS combinations from "go tool dist list". Can be useful at times if you want to ensure your code cross-compiles in CI.
There's genuine AMD_64 and the knock off by their slower competitor who coined the genuine emphasis for the first to market. I don't see what is confusing about that.
Genuine question by the way, I would like an answer.
I think the solution is to artificially build new cities with ideal logistics. Distant cities inevitably draw away housing consumers but by least influential first and are outside each others influence for NIMBYs.