frenchyatwork

> Any foreigner can be denied entry to a country for any and no reason whatsoever

That's a completely different thing than what happened here. Those are the rules, everyone knows that, and acts accordingly. The biggest problem in the US right now, is that the government isn't being ruled by it's own laws (sort-of). That's what's meant by a "constitutional crisis".

If the US government changed the rules to allow non-citizens to be arrested & held without warrants, then that would a different kind of thing. It would be a little totalitarian, but not a breakdown of the rule of law.

Note, I said sort-of above because the laws are written in such away as to be somewhat vague so that some people claim the government is acting legally.

What about the part of the Python ethos where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"

That might be more exponential than polynomial.

Also, the classic issue with tumors, is that they're your own body, and it's hard to selectively target them. Any treatment that hibernates tumor cells is likely hibernate normal cells, and be incompatible with life; unless you get really lucky.

Historically at least, one of the significant jobs of a wingman has been to act as bait. With dogfighting, with cannon fire, fighters are most vulnerable when they're trying to shoot down another plane, because they need to be pointing to their target so they tend to be going in a fairly straight and predictable direction. The idea was the wingman would lure one of the enemies onto their back, and then the their partner would dispatch the relatively easy target. This is one of reasons why fighter aces in WWII had such a lopsided kill count compared to everyone else. In order for this all to work, the pilots have to trust each other, and it was certainly the case that some fighter aces put a higher priority on getting kills than preventing the death of their wingman.

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about these things (and most of it is theoretical anyway because most of this tech is untested), but I suspect that there will be a similar mechanic with modern stealth and beyond-visual-range air warfare, whereby firing missles makes you easier to locate and ultimately target, so having a wingman who's willing to act as target practice while another pilot waits for an enemy to betray their location could be useful.

Yes, but it was coined to promote specific view of Eichmann that he himself tried to cast himself in: that he didn't really like murdering Jews, he was just following orders.

> I don't understand and can't accept why crimes committed while drunk get you a lesser punishment than a crime committed while sober.

Where I'm from, most people who kill other people while driving get off without any punishment at all.

The unwillingness, on all sides of political spectrum, to provide physical and psychological support to former military members in modern democracies is something that completely baffles me.

In Canada, at least, no-one wants to join the military because it's a shit job with shit pay, and what we end up with is a small contingent of volunteers who are either a) highly idealistic or b) excited to commit war crimes, and that is why the Canadian Airborne Regiment is no longer a thing.

Is Microsoft's sub claim unstable?

I think you might have misunderstood the point. Miscellaneous claims like email/preferred_username shouldn't be used to identify 3rd party logins. Apart from not necessarily being unique, they're also vulnerable to change. Changing your email shouldn't make you lose access to all your accounts. The point of the sub claim is that it's it's unique and stable.

It's worth bearing in mind that the people making these policy decisions in 2020 were doing so without any objective knowledge of how the pandemic would actually end up playing out.

Car safety is somewhat different. While the harms of a car-dependent society are subjectively hard to come to terms with, especially for those who have grown accustom to it, it's a lot easier to objectively measure and predict.

The culture is derived from the economics though. Software engineers who value simplicity don't get promoted, or their software is not as successful, because the other engineers who produce complex software produce results that users are attracted to and the cost of that complexity is not so great as to completely ruin it (at least not at first).

On top of that, a little bit of software can be used by a lot of people, but a little bit of building usually can't, so unless you're Gaudí building the Sagrada Família, nobody really wants to spend a couple centuries building a complex building.

Partial indexes are still slower, the database needs to scan the index, and then look for the data, and data is less likely to appear in the same pages.

> The point is that there’s a single standard

There already was single standard. I think your point is that you want there to be a single implementation. You can't really have that at this point without allowing powerful commercial interests to basically have free reign over what code is executed on your computer.