If even the district court rules this way it's hard to see a World where the supreme court doesn't also rule that way.

Unless there's been court packing by then of course.

I've given up trying to logic out what the court will decide on many issues, they're quite willing to find new legal arguments to allow their preferred outcome in a particular case.

I can't help but think of the classic XKCD example of breaking a user's workflow [1].

Doing research though a spinlock actually doesn't seem as unusual a hack as it would first seem, do drivers and the like not have similar issues because they don't trigger a page fault I guess?

[1] https://xkcd.com/1172/

From what I understand userspace spinlocks are particularly hazardous whereas in-kernel spinlocks are the norm

>Well, Iran closed the Straight and the world is facing biggest oil crises since 90ties. US was in fact incapable to prevent it. Even if the Straight opened today, harm already happened and will continue to happen for months. And I dont think it will open today.

Adjusted for inflation the price of oil isn't even the highest it's been this decade, let alone historically.

The price tripled from 2003-2008 as well.

>The war did not had to start at all

We probably won't know for twenty years if that's true or not. It's not as Iran's been some peaceful country for the last twenty years, they actively have sponsored terrorist organizations with the purpose of destabilizing the region. The country also sits on a wealth of natural resources but was solely researching nuclear power for peaceful purposes.

Really the big lesson for the next superpower is to simply act earlier. If you don't care about winning and just being a thorn in everyone's side, ballistic missiles are a great investment, and it should have been taken more seriously when Iran started stockpiling thousands of them.

> Adjusted for inflation the price of oil isn't even the highest it's been this decade, let alone historically.

I dont think UAE cares about American oil prices that much. Nor does Europe nor does Asia. That just meand America is less motivated to solve clusterfuck it created.

And yes, it is huge issue already. With flies cancelled for summer, with strategic reserves already being used, with homeschool and home office in some countries, shorted workweek in others, factories producing less.

> We probably won't know for twenty years if that's true or not.

We do know that. There was no urgent reason to start badly prepared war. And no involved country is peaceful.

> The country also sits on a wealth of natural resources but was solely researching nuclear power for peaceful purposes.

It was entirely legal for them, because literally USA teared down agreement to do the opposite.

And what everybody knows now is that the only way to be safe from aggression is to have nuclear.

This has to be one of the strangest "debates" in history.

Congress and the courts obviously.

If you think there's a hole in the law tell your congressman, don't, for some reason, try and put Google or any Ai company above the government.

> Congress and the courts obviously.

The first is fully neutered. The second is far too slow.

"Nothing unlawful" needing to be in the contract is inherently concerning, as it's typically the default, assumed state of such a thing.

"follow the law" in contracts IMO is there to be able to claim a "breach of contract" by one party.

Please! That ship sailed a long time ago. Sure tell your congressman, who is most likely bribed (lobbying is bribing, lets use the real words) by the same companies to accept the deal. The courts can try, but who is going to enforce it when the people above says that its fine.

Yea, op just handwaved away all scalability. Guessing their response would be 'launch more vms'.

Scalability is great, when you need it. Most companies don’t need it.

Why does the Dutch Central Bank need scalability?

VMs scale just fine.

I have trouble not believing the 'theory' that it's the carrot that gets some percentage of voters out to vote for you. Actually solving it removes the carrot.

And with most presidential elections actually being quite close, and only ~70% of the population voting at best, even getting 3-5% voters, who otherwise don't care at all about politics and wouldn't bother voting for any cadidate, to vote for you simply means you win.

If it was at all true there'd be companies out there offering to build you rooftop solar in exchange for x years of the generation value.

That that industry doesn't exist is pretty much proof that the numbers aren't what they think they are.

That industry exists, it is called Purchase Power Agreements. The value of x is usually 20 or 25. It is typically lucrative for the company, not so much the homeowner.

This indicates to me that the payback for a homeowner is probably in the 7-10 year mark, if they weren’t somehow getting screwed over in the process.

Home HVAC is the most obvious current regulatory caused scam in the US. Virginia just added an 'easier' license that 'only' requires two years of experience to receive (and 160 hours of formal training, but that's not the bad part obviously).

Something like a minisplit though can literally be DIYed in under a day. With experience, a DIYer can do it in a couple hours. They're literally designed to be easily installed as a complete system. Even in Japan you can get one installed for under a grand (including the unit). In China it's obviously even cheaper.

Obviously HVAC companies don't want it to be easier to get a license, they make boatloads on entire home systems and maintenace. Being able to just replace a broken unit for $600 would kill their entire business model.

Electrical is a similar scam, though for some reason if you get enough quotes you can usually find one that isn't charging the equivalent of $1k/hr in labor like getting a mini-split from an HVAC company tends to be.

There indeed are plenty of mini-splits you can just buy & install.

I would too. Alas mom lives in a northerly area, and we really would prefer something high efficiency. There's some rebadged 37mpra units about that are 35+ SEER2, which if the number means anything is a colossal leap. The good stuff though doesn't seem to be directly purchaseable. I'd be happy to lay the concrete bed, set it up, drill walls, mount the ductless... Getting help actually vacuuming would be good but I could do it.

But I can't go purchase the system.

It's all deeply infuriating. This is just such a rude awful thing that American society keeps having to put up with such deeply captured deeply absurd base costs everywhere. These tradespeople deserve to make a living, I don't bergrudge them that, but this feels like there has to be so so much more going wrong for these prices to escalate like this.

You can get efficient DIY units - specifically look for mini splits with quick connectors and you’ll find them. Installed one last year and the efficiency is actually better than it says on the box.

Show me anything that promises anywhere near that SEER2. 35 is absurdly better than what the market has seen. High efficiency used to mean >10.

The walmart near me apparently doesn't even use the scale at all, I had a full cart once and asked the attendant what to do, and they said just put the bag back in the cart.

The grocery store down the street though is exactly like this, gotta stack everything up on the scale to make it happy.

The only time I had Walmart bitch at me was when it thought I hadn't scanned an item - it was all camera and not weight.

And yes, the grocery ones all seem to be tuned really high.

Sam's club has 'the arch', and one time when I did self checkout I did miss an item (thought I scanned it and I didn't apparently) and so far that's the only time they've actually checked the cart, the rest I was just waved through.

So seems pretty good. Obviously erring on the side of having an employee double check makes sense when their profit margins are generally single digits. One missed tshirt means they lost money on your $300 cart.

Well, Sam’s Club and Costco are kind of their own things since they’re members only, you sign an explicit agreement with them saying it’s fine for them to look at your cart, and if you refuse they can just revoke your membership and refuse to do further business with you. You’re under no obligation at Walmart or Target to get your receipt checked, although most people are polite and fine with it.

Personally, I always just say “no thank you!” and walk past the receipt checker at non members stores. They know me at Walmart and know I’ll refuse the receipt check and stopped bothering me.

The explicit agreement also says that you'll return your shopping cart to the coral, and see how well that works.