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The Pentagon’s budget is 900 billion per year. That 150bn ICE figure is over 4 years, so 37bn a year. You are wrong by a factor of 24x.

Remind me which side of the Atlantic is throwing its citizens in jail for tweets?

The tendency to replace what is actually happening with some dark figment of the imagination is telling. Do you have real objections or just conspiracies?

That was a Democrat president.

That (conspiracy) theory pertains specifically to France, and Europe more generally w.r.t. Muslim immigration. It gets mentioned over here but it’s not a US thing.

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> Now, there's basically nothing stopping immigration officials from immediately deporting anybody they want, citizen, non-citizen, illegal or legal immigrant.

What nonsense. We have the courts. There must be a valid determination made that a person entered illegally for expedited deportation to apply. Due process applies to that determination - if it is not made correctly then sue. But more importantly why on earth would it not be made correctly? If you can’t prove that you’re a US citizen then something is very wrong.

That’s not true. They have the right to due process, as enshrined in the constitution. Clinton did not suspend that right he merely limited specific legal options available.

I didn’t realise we’d entered a time machine to 2007. I’ve worked extensively with OOXML and yes, the documentation is cryptic and often absent, but Microsoft will help you out if you contact them on their forums. I see Libre Office devs there all the time!

But the complexity is not some kind of conspiracy - it’s inherent - it comes from the fact that Office is ancient and very, very complex with a huge number of features. Many features are implemented in backwards compatible way on top of the old version of similar features and then the whole thing has been back ported from a bunch of C structure to XML which has the most woeful and underpowered schema language imaginable.

Ooh that’s not fair. Many PDFs don’t conform to the spec and how Acrobat processes them is completely undocumented.

Sam has been very pro-regulation for a while now. Remember his “please regulate me” world tour?

> is it clear yet if it can be called fair use?

Yes.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyrig...

Though the EU has its own courts and laws.

There’s a summary of the guidelines here for anyone who is wondering:

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/introduction-to-code-of...

It’s certainly onerous. I don’t see how it helps anyone except for big copyright holders, lawyers and bureaucrats.

You’re in luck, around half the page linked to above is devoted to explaining that:

> The idea for tsx came about during a time when the Node.js ecosystem was getting fragmented due to the release of ES Modules (ESM). As packages migrated to ESM, projects struggled to reconcile their CommonJS apps with ESM dependencies.

>Back then, ts-node was the go-to tool for running TypeScript in Node.js, but it lacked ESM support and was quite complicated to use. We noticed several open-source tools using esbuild to run TypeScript in Node.js and decided to bring these efforts together into one simple, cohesive project.

> “I don’t feel good today,” Gelsinger said told employees Thursday. “I’ve agonized over today for the last three, four weeks. Many nights waking up at 2 a.m. because I know that what we do, and how we’re affecting you and your families, it matters.”

Sounds pretty empathetic to me. I’m guessing he also has empathy for Wall St and his shareholders. Ultimately Intel has no choice but to either grow or downsize and the former hasn’t materialized. They’re losing market share and revenue and if they keep that up they will be empathizing with their creditors and the bank.

> promises to only work 8 hours a day, only use union labor, hire x police officers for y hours in overtime security positions a month, use xyz contractor etc.

Those are not pre-construction costs are they? Massive differences in labor costs described there.

Then cut off the free riders. Problem solved overnight.

You don’t understand how the world’s 5th largest company by market cap makes money and this is evidence of… something?

The ignorance here is just staggering. Every single person arrested for any and all crimes in the US is initially detained without being charged with a crime. This is normal. The police do not charge people with crimes: courts do. This is called an arraignment and it must occur within 48 hours of arrest. There is zero non-standard conduct from ICE in this regard.

ICE officers are required to identify themselves “as soon as practical or safe” as a regulation. They are not required to identify themselves in the same manner as state police because they are not state officers, they are federal officers. Federal law applies to them, not state law. Again, zero non-standard conduct from ICE.

> Do these actions not fit these definitions?

No they absolutely do not, because we’re talking about law enforcement so the only reasonable frame of reference is the legal definition of these words not the “I feel like it” definition. By your definition all arrests are “taking someone away by force” and are therefore abduction: obviously a stupid definition.

I think it’s entirely possible for the government to abduct people: please don’t put strawman words into my mouth. You have, however provided zero evidence to make your case and in fact demonstrated quite clearly that you don't understand the most basic everyday workings of our legal system.

Why do you use these silly words: “abduct”, “kidnapping”? Those are specific crimes and by trying to exploit the emotional weight of those words instead of making an honest account you come off as unsophisticated and manipulative. If what is happening is so problematic why do you need to describe it in bombastic, provably untrue terms?

I’m sure they’re not but we’re talking about the statistic for unsolved crimes not uncaught criminals.

You think the police have adequate resources to solve package theft? I’m sorry, what? That’s ridiculous. Here’s the 2023 stats for SF:

Porch thefts: 25,000 Cops: 2000

Obviously not all of those cops are on duty simultaneously, let’s assume they do a 12 hour shift every single day: they would have 25 porch thefts each to solve!

This isn’t a US centric phenomenon either: 70,000 cell phones were stolen in London last year.

I guess this depends on how one defines the public interest. Shielding data from federal authorities surely has both upsides and downsides.

Bail bonds exist.

Given the amount of fuel on board the answer is probably “not by much”.

Brain farts are literally not a real phenomenon.

Forking Linux is very easy; you can do it in 1 hour.

I'm yet to drive a car with a doorknob but it sounds awesome.

John Quincy Adams was arguably such a 99.999th percentile person though.

Arrests are based on suspicion. As long as there is reasonable suspicion at the time of the arrest then it’s valid.