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But I would also say, the only impediment to executive overreach has been the constitution, as little as that impediment has been.
Albeit the current supreme court has also stretched the interpretation beyond all previous bounds.
The US certainly needs a modern revised constitution, but I don't see the DNC as having the vision or the balls to accomplish such a thing.
We're pretty much fucked here...
I have to agree with this in whole.
It's like looking at the EU now and wondering, how did they not see this glaring dependency before now? Both the petro energy source and the US military support were never as secure as it seems they were assumed to be.
Here in the US, we're still sitting on a constitution from 250 years ago. Apparently no one though an incoming presidential administration would rape and pillage the place like we've seen in the last year and a half.
European countries did largely overhaul their constitutional documents after WWII. The EU in general has much more modern legislative bodies, and electoral systems.
Here in the US, we're still stuck with founding documents that expect Pony Express to deliver the ballots 8-/
Which of course means it's facing major opposition from capital interests.
Apparently no one ever thought an incoming presidential administration would literally wipe gigabytes of government funded research results off the web.
Now we see in bold type how precarious is our democracy...
The jump in EV sales this year are primarily driven by seeing what a psycho in the US whitehouse can immediately do to gasoline prices.
Gasoline only comes from one source., and is largely delivered around the world by shipping.
Electricity is able to be generated by many means, and is available everywhere.
I know several people in modest suburban homes, who generate all of their own electricity, including driving two EVs.
The supply chain can be very short.
There is no other form of energy that can deliver the individual and national energy independence that can be delivered by electricity.
Gasoline and petroleum in general can never, ever, ever, deliver this degree of autonomy.
Facing reality is so boomer...
A phenomenon otherwise known as democracy...
There are plenty of young wealthy people that are contributing to fucking the place up.
I'd trade an elon or a suckerberg for a Bernie any day...
Compared to either alcohol or tobacco, the risks are minimal.
The petro mafia is preventing a transition away from oil, the alcohol and tobacco mafia are fighting the use of cannabis.
Anyone who doesn't like the effects, or has any other reason, shouldn't use it.
It certainly does much less damage to the teenage brain than instagram and the other faceplant products.
All through the 60's and 70's when cannabis use was increasing, we were still seeing a steady increase in US educational outcomes.
Ever since the iPhone and friends, and associated online shitpost websites, proliferated, we've seen a steady decline in education.
Git does not require M$, or any external company's online service.
The EU has finally woken up to the "threat" of their over-dependence on US services, but the same risks are no less valid for companies located inside the US.
I'm not talking about political sanctions, I'm talking about loss of your corporate jewels.
In the world of training models on other peoples data, no company should be dismissing the risk, that having their code on another companies servers, exposes them to.
My preference is to cross build packages for each application on my workstation, and maintain a local package repository from which individual packages are installed on the target.
I find archlinux extremely useful in this configuration, because even if I'm not building on the target, the same package maintenance and other system commands are identical to my development workstation.
Additionally, archlinux provides a well documented, and fairly simple process for hosting your own local repositories.
My impression in recent years is that these image cross build environments are just not as frequently needed as they were back in the day of their invention.
My most recent embedded linux environments were just embedded archlinux.
No need to cross build an image, just install and run the minimized linux environment right on the target.
Of course, a big part of the need for these cross-tools is that it seems most modern embedded linux developers are running windoze on their development workstations 8-/
> "Turn's Out..."
There's been a psycho cabal of the idiot wealthy trying to run the world since the invention of currency...
Before that, there was a murderous cabal of warlords. They haven't gone away, they've just been joined by the idiot wealthy...
I fired them years ago, and not just the kitchen countertop puck, every service they offer. Yes, that's right, I don't watch youboob, or use their search or gmail!
And you shouldn't either!
I discovered it for myself some years ago, when I wanted to make simple network test scripts run without depending on curl or telnet, or other executables outside of bash.
For dipshits who think aggregating ad-based websites, and hate filled doom-loop algorithmic feeds, are "the web", this may be true.
But the rest of us, who aren't part of this "we", will still be here...
See the post above, where I criticize him and am being downvoted into oblivion...
Someone who lays bricks, "earns" their income; someone who's wealth increases as a bricklaying company's value increases, does not.
In this sense, it is indeed impossible to "earn" a billion dollars...
People should use alcohol, tobacco and firearms, like the little baby jesus intended...
Once you take the leap of believing there is some big invisible guy in outerspace, pretty much any belief is possible after that...
Shouldn't human-made exclude injection molding, or CNC metalwork?
Or maybe this is for people who think software is everything?
Sadly many recent electrical engineering grads also have this perspective...
There are more articles in the HN feed on AI than any other topic, by far.
A certain amount of the push back is just because of how much it displaces all other subjects.
Another amount is just trying to overcome explicit fan-boi-ism. A year and a half ago, I was a total skeptic. The tech has evolved considerably since then. Now I find it has very strong results in some applications. But there are still certain demographics who want to believe its great at everything, which is just not true.
One thing that I think is commonly misstated though, is that this period was one of "peace".
When viewed from the elite perspective, the power struggles between daimyo in the Warring States Era had subsided, but for the common people, the Edo Period was anything but peaceful.
The samurai class could chop up any commoner at any time, for any reason, or no reason. Sometimes just to "test" a new sword, or because their "honor" had been challenged (maybe the person didn't get out of the way and bow fast enough).
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