arlort

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by arlort 5d ago
It's definitely been a meme in the rust ecosystem (but yes, the language team and ecosystem were always making a point of incremental addition rather than full rewrite)
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by arlort 12d ago
In addition to what others added below you might be interested in this postmortem https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-24-postmortem-for-t...
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by arlort 17d ago
Big cities are not big because of tourism. Unless you count the historical city center of Venice as a big city I doubt you'd get many big cities getting even close to those numbers I can't easily/quickly find some numbers but
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by arlort 1mo ago
steadily heading towards the final goal of computers being composed of pluggable crystals as stargate intended
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by arlort 2mo ago
That's only partially true In this case my understanding is that they determined vpn-s as a tool to fall outside the scope of the law and so they struck down an attempt to enforce the law If the law got changed so that vpn-s are now wi
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by arlort 2mo ago
There's some level of difference to be fair Hacking is a concern in both but the bigger issue is potential for abuse of power. In the case of border checks the target is by necessity someone that isn't a citizen. This means that:
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by arlort 3mo ago
> hello beuracrates Just in case you missed that class, taxes are determined by legislators
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by arlort 4mo ago
Also I believe there just isn't a constitutional mechanism in the UK for parliament to bind itself in such a way
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by arlort 5mo ago
I don't think there's an injunction mechanism like that at the EU level And even if there were I doubt the legal basis in EU law exists for such an injunction
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by arlort 5mo ago
> the right framing is strategic autonomy from an unreliable partner Yes but that's an uncomfortable framing for online-americans to use when they want some gotcha argument And not a useful one for US administrations in the last 30
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by arlort 5mo ago
Would it be still a good idea if instead of being created / owned by google as an organization it was originally made by someone that didn't make billions by handling trillions of http requests over decades and you had to keep all
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by arlort 6mo ago
I can think of a few reasons why a company built on profiling (and advertising to) user interests might be interested in the private conversations of their users
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by arlort 7mo ago
> pieces of legislation were enacted and around 2,000 resolutions I'm wondering if this includes regulatory agencies which in the US operate under the executive I would guess it's included but the wording (act, resolution) is v
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by arlort 8mo ago
> this is adopted or not It's not. However from the speech it sounds like the commission is ready to put forward their proposal soon-ish After they do so the actual legislative process is going to start where the draft has to go thr
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by arlort 8mo ago
That's very much not the difference between common and civil law If the law is constitutional it can't be thrown out by a judge in common law and if it's not it can be declared so in civil law The difference between the two i
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by arlort 9mo ago
> has that made any impact on the war in Ukraine The objective of the ICC is not to stop wars The objective of the ICC is to provide a framework to enable prosecuting and punishing the people ordering particularly egregious acts in a way
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by arlort 9mo ago
There's no such flaw in most cases brought to the ICC The ICC is an international court but it administers trials (mostly) local to the members' jurisdiction so this point is moot. A warrant from the ICC doesn't ask the membe
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by arlort 10mo ago
> the power to initiate legislation are completely immune to voter displeasure Completely immune is overstating it, and the power to initiate legislation is not that meaningful given that the EC initiates what the council tells it to ini
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by arlort 10mo ago
They're not complicated for anyone with above room temperature IQ. And they're almost identical to how it works in the member countries anyway And in a democracy if you don't know how your own laws are made the fault is alway
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by arlort 10mo ago
Because it doesn't, people are just embarrassingly ignorant of how the EU legislative process works so when a vote to give first approval to a text is cancelled before it takes place journalists and reddit all over pull out the mission
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by arlort 10mo ago
The council of the EU operates on a rotating chair model (which gets called Presidency, sometimes Presidency of the EU) It's currently held by Denmark so it's the Danish delegation that's mostly doing the brokering etc for th
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by arlort 10mo ago
Yes, but have you considered US politicians don't like the ICC? What's a bit of truth in the face of that
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by arlort 10mo ago
The ICC in this case is investigating crimes committed in a party to the Rome treaty, that's not extraterritorial jurisdiction Even ignoring that one of these cases involves death and destruction and the other doesn't
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by arlort 11mo ago
No you don't, that's not how laws work, if you want society to look the way you want you need to actively work for it, you can't delegate that process to a law. It's not how participation in a free society works
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by arlort 1y ago
They're realistically not preparing for a zombie apocalypse If power goes out really bad, there's some kind of major weather event in some part of the country etc 3 days is a reasonable time frame for emergency measures to be put
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by arlort 1y ago
> would be slightly more complex than just introducing the backdor Not really, both things need to be done by a law. So it's the same signal and complexity as just rejecting the law when it's proposed And the second option at l
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by arlort 1y ago
The fact you think that qualifies as a "clear" definition is fascinating. This feels like just a reflexive regurgitation of the distinction between positive and negative rights that has no relevance to the discussion at all
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by arlort 1y ago
> Instead of discussing WHY "owned" mobile phones have a short lifespan and we can't truly do whatever we want with them (be at the hardware/software level) and forced to choose between the apple and google duopoly, w
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by arlort 1y ago
That's not how laws work. New laws always override old laws so an ECI (or any law) won't ever replace active participation in the res publica
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by arlort 1y ago
> Yet in the current model that doesn't matter one bit It matters because if it's that important to you then you have a sovereign right to leave the EU and do away with all the rules you don't want Staying inside of it and

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