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> Do you honestly think if you or I had classified material, it will take years to prosecute us? He had classified material at his home, by the boxes, including some nuclear secrets There was a DoJ…

That would prevent NATO from allowing Sweden from ever joining, as well as pushback from the EU (there goes the Iran Nuclear Deal). It could be done in the same way that Taiwan, Japan, and SK have cla…

Agreed! The pardons usually come towards the end of the 2nd president's term (good old election season), and after the whole semi-politically motivated litigation. But Turkey is in the same posit…

> However, wouldn't that mean that those in power would have nothing to fear to do the worst tings possible? Yep. That's the MASSIVE downside of the Korean model and why there is an insan…

To add on to krastonov's explaination, to help ensure peaceful transitions of power, lots of younger democracies like South Korea will give outgoing presidents a blanket pardon of any crimes. Tha…

The American legal system is slow. Most litigation against Trump only really started in 2017 or 2018. A couple were thrown out due to procedural issues (blame that slimeball Avennati), but others have…

Hot/Unpopular Take: For the sake of developing Turkey, it might be best for them to adopt the South Korean model of the incoming President pardoning the outgoing president of wrongdoing and ongoi…

I'd recommend comparing at the region level instead of by state government c. 2010-2023. Different regions of the US became developed/first world at different times. The Mid-Atlantic and New…

Solved problem (by governments and industry). It's called Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). I'm not raising the bar btw, I'm just someone who works in the intersection of cybersecu…

That makes sense! I was giving early career ranges in Chicago in the mid-2010s (without factoring in bonus). NYC PropTrading salaries are (unsurprisingly) higher. That said, mid-career (5-7 YoE) tech …

1. The primary definition that is used in PoliSci is the one Fareed Zakaria coined in his paper in Foreign Affairs in 1997 [0]. 2. "Socialism" is an economic not a social philosophy. Note ho…

It's called Illiberal Democracy. In political science Liberal/Illiberal doesn't mean socially Progressive/Conservative, it means Open/Restricted from a civil liberties standpo…

It's happening at other Big Tech firms as well tbh. Also, plenty of Indian Nationals working at these firms who are stuck in the immigration purgatory have started returning to India to work at t…

The total number of PropTrading engineers in the US is most definitely in the low to mid thousands at most. Most PropTrading firms are tiny from a headcount perspective For example, Citadel has around…

Indeed I did! Good catch!

Oh my. My condolences.

Mind reading Necromancers (probably) don't exist, but every example I listed above has already been deployed in a piecemeal manner in various countries the last 10 years. Mass File Sharing Blackl…

Down the grapevine (this is the internet so take with a massive grain of salt - I trust my source but you shouldn't trust me or any other anonymous commentator) I heard from Hill adjacent friend…

Unrelated, but did you find that book I mentioned?

> Which Indian newspaper has press offices in "every major city in Pakistan"? Hindustan Times, Deccan Chronicle, Indian Express, The Tribune, The Print, NDTV, The Wire, Scroll.in, Outlook…

Those sites hosting degoogled Roms might be blocked themselves by the ISP. In addition, certain countries may require you to run approved Roms, and if you don't you can face prosecution. This has…

How do you download a Tor client if every repository providing it is blocked by default? What if Bluetooth File Sharing is disabled via a region lock? (Eg. China) What if the only VPNs allowed are tho…

Hypothetically, if sideloading is allowed 1. How do you access said apps? There has to be some repository storing the apps. 2. Certain regions can straight up ban sideloading by only allowing pre-appr…

Lots of Pakistani journalists publish in Indian newspapers due to censorship in Pakistan. Just about every English language Indian newspaper has a column published by senior Pakistani journalists and …

HK protesters tried mesh networking in 2014-2019 as well as anti-Covid protesters in China in 2022 but both were quickly shut down by blocking the service providers (Bluetooth mesh sharing apps were r…

I was a kid here in the late 90s/early 2000s. It's still as crummy now as it was then. I remember seeing drug addicts on market as a kid, as well as the gang crap in Hunter Points (what'…

Most of those cities on the less than 100k list have Dems in government as well, but imo this isn't a Dem-GOP issue and more of a "urban" versus "rural" issue - specifically t…

Ehn, SF is returning to its pre-2010 roots (heck, even the population in SF has fallen to the same level as it was in the 2000s). The entire sofrware+hardware industry before the 2010s was south of Re…

The Chicago to Miami move is primarily an income tax avoidance scheme common in the HFT industry within Illinois, especially after the state instituted a 5% income tax after the IL budget crisis in 20…

Not a fan of the GOP and I have actively worked with the DNC, but using HDI (which is the goto metric for comparing development across regions), most US states Red and Blue are roughly comparable to o…