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On paper he can't do a lot of things but the amount of gutting and cutting that's happened in the last two(!) months makes one realize the laws aren't worth the paper they're written on without a proactive congress interested in keeping the executive in check. Suspending birthright citizenship as established in the 14th amendment is a big one that "he can't do." Challenges to E.O. 14160 are going through the courts right now so we'll see.

Legally speaking, I think an outright challenge to the 22nd amendment will be interesting. As a 20th century amendment the language is pretty clear. But once again we look to what would actually enforce it?

You should try out FlipFlop solitaire by Zach Gage if you haven't already, definitely a fun spin on the solitaire concept and the game plays very smoothly.

The line you quoted caught my eye too and confused why it was in there without an explicit or implicit mention of "in ten years we'll be so productive we'll have 3-day work weeks".

I think you make a great point about LLM's being able to absorb new possibilities. I like to cite the invention of the MRI machine as an incredible innovation that took three independent discoveries over forty years to realize, not to mention commercialize. Maybe if (big if) when AGI comes it will be able to spit out dozens of inventions that are some culmination of similarly independent discoveries but I'm not going to hold my breath. We have to remember they are just extremely good regurgitation machines which, in my experience, why I've found they're nearly useless in niche programming tasks.

Since losing in 2020 the various think tanks and groups that make up the right-wing have settled on a unified, frightening, vision of what the US government should look like equipped with (extremely dubious) legal rhetoric and reason to back it up. Most notable of these is Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation[1] which is a keyhole glimpse into the chaos of this last week and in the years to come. The section relevant to this action is chapter 14 which describes each HHS division as maligned, woke, and in need of reform.

A less nuanced answer is the HHS/CDC made Trump look bad in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and so they’re now ordered to say nothing about anything ever again.

[1]: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FUL...

I visited Iceland in 2013 and between Keflavik and Reykjavik there was a single billboard with the EU emblem and the words “Nei Takk” (no thanks). This article puts a lot of that sentiment in perspective.

Our takeaway at the time was that this has to be the most effective billboard in the country as there is only one road between the major international airport and the capital.

This is an article from May 2024 about a CDC report published in March. The report itself is more insightful: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7312a4.htm

This seems like a plug for a book than anything with a definitive answer. The pull quote near the end of the article implies that the rest of the world has simply caught up and is pressing forward while the US has simply stopped.

I was in Florence not long ago and they are building out a very impressive light-rail network [1]. Twenty years ago a similarly ambitious network was planned in Cincinnati, OH and it was voted down 2-1 [2].

[1] https://en.comune.fi.it/administration/tramway/system.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroMoves

> "useEffect" [...] this function is absolutely not intuitive

100%. I've found `useEffect` is an effective foot-shotgun, even I still blast away some toes with it. What makes it some weird to me from the start (React 16.8, ~2019) is how they folded several, clearly named, lifecycle methods into this one callback. The motivation for this change [1] informs me that maybe I've just never worked on Facebook-scale front-ends or I've just forgotten the pain of explicitly having to write all those methods, but I rather liked their separation.

[1]: https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#complex-com...

I think you would get an answer that implies not caring. Pichai is a former Wharton and McKinsey guy, his job description is "provide value to shareholders" and cutting products and headcount does just that. I share your frustration, I hope we one day find a way to move past this brand of business management.

The first link is 2023’s race. The second link is 2014 and is probably how most people learned about the race since it was on Netflix. It’s amazing to compare the two race years to see how much it has changed in terms of competition and popularity.

As the article notes, what is remarkable about the Gardner Museum thefts is the quantity of items stolen _and_ that none of them have turned up. A similar crime is de Kooning's Woman-Ochre in 1985. Its theft and recovery in 2017 is an interesting story[1]. Either someone is holding these artworks privately in some remote area and it's an incredibly well kept family secret or, in my sole opinion, the works have been destroyed or damaged beyond recovery i.e. disposed into the Boston Harbor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman-Ochre#Theft

There is a contrarianism that runs on HN and adjacent communities that also comes with a myopia of empathy. I observe about one article per month where there's a comments section like this expressing opinions that if you ever were to say out-loud in a social setting you would get some weird looks.

You need to go back and read the second part of that quoted paragraph to find out why it’s a problem.

A professor liked to point out that if you do prove P=NP you could exploit it to solve the remaining open Millennium Problems netting you a few more million dollars and historic fame.

Knuth's opinion on it is that you couldn't do much with it otherwise. "Knowledge of the mere existence of an algorithm is completely different from the knowledge of an actual algorithm." [1]

[1]: question 17: https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT....

Carica papaya versus Asimina triloba

A fun search I do is “McKinsey estimates” and see some bonkers numbers about hyped things that never really took off, at least nowhere to the degree they estimate.

Last time I had an intractable yet fundamental issue with an ISP and its support I reported them to the FCC[1] and got a response and resolution from the ISP the next day.

[1] https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

The taken down profile for anyone who wants to see just how wild they were about SBF: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...

I think your comment is the only one here mentioning qualified immunity. This is definitely another qualified immunity case disguised as a free speech case, I'd expect the outcome to be similar on that alone. Until qualified immunity for police is done away with, police essentially have carte-blanche to do what they want without consequence (barring extraordinary incidents of violence).

I share this sentiment. It feels a bit like a product pitch that is intended to be acquired away.

What separates the two cases for you? Does it come down to there being more gaming companies compared to Microsoft than there are application-design companies compared to Adobe?

In a book today I stumbled on a similar accident almost ten years ago in New Jersey[1]. This one seems much more hazardous due to the combustion as well as scale of the accident.

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/train-dera...

Final NTSB report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

A very stacked legal team, some good acting, and an overconfident prosecutor?

This is great, would love it on my wrist! I think digitally making analog clocks is a really fun exercise in design. Basically asking "how far can I stretch this concept without breaking it?" I've made a small CodePen collection of such experiments: https://codepen.io/collection/AQawkJ

1 is equivalent to a rhyming Swedish proverb: Det finns inte fel väder bara fel kläder.

Eric Hobsbawm’s “Age of Revolution: 1789-1848” followed by “Age of Capital: 1848-1875”

I think crypto aligned itself more with finance in the last year or two. E.g. Super Bowl ads, big bank partnerships and that may influence how a company is covered. The culmination of this was Roose’s “Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto” which was generally uncritical.

> The inscriptions are not a Viking script, but a combination of [runic languages] Elder Futhark and Younger Futhark, which predates when the Vikings would have been traveling

Well there you have it, it's not from when it's claimed. There is a similar out-of-place rock in New Mexico called the Decalogue rock that has the 10-commandments carved into it in old hebrew. The problem is that it uses more modern punctuation and it's more likely the product of some UNM students who were messing around or Spanish settlers at the very least. Nevertheless, people use the rock to claim it's evidence of a lost tribe of Israelites.

The claim in the third link implies that vikings were sailing around during the time of the dinosaurs!

A good analogy is that it was a bit like Operation Gladio[1] but for Japan. A short article from the LA Times (1994): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-09-mn-48400-... A longer article from NYT (1994): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio