Yep, straight to SCOTUS.
The thing that makes the outcome suspenseful is that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have been signalling “but not the Fed” when they’re attacking agency independence. Probably because they have stock portfolios.
So it seems like they may try to carve some distinction that saves the Fed from the same fate as the FTC, CFPB, NRLB, and merit protection board. It’s not at all clear what’s that might be.
How’s that reunification of Ireland going?
The deal with Utah is it’s actually only 40% Mormon. And when you have a bunch a kids growing up in the Mormon church, a decently large number of them will crash out. And when they crash out, they tend to crash out pretty hard.
So Utah has large communities for various countercultures and alternative lifestyles. You can visit a random business, and often find both types working together side by side. And it is usually quite obvious which is which from external signs.
Predictive mathematics is highly accurate and quite useful at predicting the future already for many types of problems.
As one example: we can use math models to predict where the planets in the solar system will be.
The problem with LLM hallucinations is not a general limitation of mathematics or linear algebra.
The problem is that the LLMs fall into bullshit, in the sense of On Bullshit. The deal is that both truthtellers and liars care about what the real truth is, but bullshit ters simply don’t care at all whether they’re telling the truth. The LLMs end up spouting bullshit, because bullshit is designed to be a pretty good solution to the natural language problem; and there’s already a good amount of bullshit in the LLM training data.
LLM proponents believed that if you put enough compute power at the problem of predicting the next token, then the model will be forced to learn logic and math and everything else to keep optimizing that next token. The existence of bullshit in natural language prevents this from happening, because the bullshit maximizes the objective function at least as well as real content.
The Federal gov in the US has a “road legal” standard for commercial motor vehicles like trucks and buses. The feds also have minimum rules for headlights, brake lights and turn signals on passenger cars.
Everything else in terms of road legality is a state law in each of the 50 states.
The reason is the Constitution gives the feds power to regulate interstate commerce (i.e. big commercial vehicles that frequently cross state lines). The feds do not have the general “police power” that states have to pass laws on whatever.
On September 30, the fiscal year will turn over, and the funds will not be available anyway. The case will be moot, so they will never be able to argue the merits in court, and the court will never come to a final decision.
The money will disappear. (Where? Somewhere, who knows?) And Congress’s will, expressed when they passed a law that said to spend this money on foreign aid in this fiscal year, will have been defeated.
I agree that it’s lazy copy editing. “Allegedly” is used in the newspaper business as a magic “get out of any libel suit” word.
However, I don’t think it’s necessarily safe for the news flat report that Trump “did” the thing. They can report on what Carroll says he did (those are the allegations). And they can report that a jury determined it’s more likely than not that he did the thing.
This is a situation where explaining it correctly requires several more words than the editors wanted to spare.
Except it wasn’t a criminal conviction. “Conviction” is not a suitable word here.
Trump was found liable in a civil lawsuit for the tort of sexual assault. He was not convicted of the crime of sexual assault. Many crimes also have corresponding civil torts.
You don’t wanna risk getting detained re-entering the US and this racist ass administration denying your citizenship.
Since OP stated they are a natural-born US citizen, this scenario would be a significant escalation towards authoritarianism if it does happen.
Even doing this to a naturalized citizen would be an escalation.
Right now, most “border surprise” cases involve green card holders, not citizens, who have old criminal charges that rendered them deportable a long time ago. Just no previous federal government has cared enough to go find them and put them into removal proceedings.
This is also only an interim decision that only officially applies to operations in Los Angeles for the duration of that litigation and further appeals (e.g. 1-2 years). There was no opinion or explanation on how this ruling comports with existing 4A and 5A case law.
The US has universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates and to seize their vessels. Seize does not mean “sink.”
As far as I know, they don’t have a lot of facts in this case to spin into a “the bad guys escalated a law enforcement boarding operation” scenario.
I gave you the downvote because I once attended a public lecture by Stephen Hawking, near the very end of his lifetime. It had to be one of the few, very last, public lectures that Dr. Hawking had in him. And the topic of that lecture was the nature of time, and how all of the equations of motion are fully reversible, etc, etc etc.
Out of all of the topics Dr. Hawking could have discussed, that one is the one he chose. And to me, that means that the nature of time was interesting enough to him to spread around to the public. That there are live issues that are not well settled. And so on.
Since that time, I’ve not seen any major developments in theoretical physics or philosophy to shift the status quo to an appreciable degree.
This leads me to the final judgement on your comment: You are wrong. There are live issues to discuss here, and OP deserves to further explain, defend, and debate their philosophy.
I need to get you to sit down for a philosophical discourse with the Time Cube guy.
Bush and Obama had the legal cover of the original Congressional AUMF from 2001. That has now finally fully expired.
I think they meant, “purge every Epstein list pedo out from the Democratic party.”
There’s a massive sick burn in this district court opinion aimed at the supreme court justices:
This alludes to a recent dissent from Justice Jackson which elevated Calvinball officially into American legal jurisprudence.
For 6 weeks or whatever. Enough time that if the supreme court wants to reverse the lower court, they can.
It’s pretty common for lower courts to do this if they think the decision is controversial. The lengthy time frame is probably related to the recent trend of supreme court reversing lower courts on various illegal Trump policies.
I went to Paperclip because of the connection to Huntsville specifically with Redstone and NASA.
There was a book a while back called Guns, Germs, and Steel that delves into this topic.
The root cause, as I understand it, is that Europe is on a continent oriented east-west instead of north-south. And Europe in particular is on the part of that continent that has a lot of easy access to the sea.
East-west orientation allows you to transplant plants and animals long distances and keep them at roughly the same latitudes, which means roughly the same climate. That is a big boon for spreading “civilized” agriculture, which is what creates surplus of labor, which creates non food jobs that advance technology.
Among the common 5-7 domesticated food animals people eat today, all but one or two were domesticated in Mesopotamia, but then spread all over Europe.
Access to the sea is the other component that turns tech advantage into colonialism, because it gives the transportation. Even today, China and Russia are great powers, but they are forced to be continental powers instead of maritime powers, because nearly all of their coast lines are hemmed in by narrow seas that are easy to blockade.
There are, of course, a bunch of other factors I’m not even thinking about and competing opinions. But I don’t for one second think that any of this has anything to do with European “innate intelligence” or skin color.