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Sorry, should have said “public official”. Regardless, the president is covered by 18 § 201

I mean that’s the only way anything gets to the Supreme Court. “Court of review, not if first view” and all that. They’re not structurally or practically equipped to preside over the early phases of q…

> and if successfully impeached and convicted can then be charged with said crimes The opinion explicitly rejects this line of reasoning. > Transforming that political process [impeachment] into…

I don’t think this is a helpful comparison. A citizen in the service of an enemy engaged in war against his country does not enjoy the protections of an arbitrary citizen. We can rightly argue whether…

Federal law prohibits gratuities for federal employees. That ruling applied only to state officials.

No, the bribery would not be an official act, see footnote 3 of the opinion: > in a bribery prosecution, for instance, excluding “any mention” of the official act associated with the bribe “would …

> Generally the way to hold a president accountable is to impeach him and remove him from office. Impeachment is a political solution to political disagreements. This opinion makes most disagreemen…

This is the biggest impact of this opinion IMO. The president can do basically any supervisory action within the executive branch for any reason without risk of criminal liability. His ability to di…

That's not quite it. There's absolute ('blanket') immunity for acts that exclusively reserved for the president (vetos, pardons, etc.). There's presumptive immunity for other …

Not without timely notification of and authorization by Congress.

> The Constitution does not say that war must be declared for the armed forces to operate. Yes it does, by reserving for Congress the right to declare war. Obama's drone strikes were carried o…

The ultimate Congressional remedy is impeachment, which this ruling doesn't contemplate (except to reject silly arguments presented by the defense). However, the limits on congress and the judic…

No it doesn't. The conclusion III(B)(2) of the opinion: > It is ultimately the Government’s burden to rebut the presumption of immunity. We therefore remand to the District Court to assess i…

I don't think that's the dispositive part of the opinion for Sotomayor's hypo though. Roberts finds that the President enjoy absolute immunity for acts that can be construed as part of…

Newton's method related to universal function approximation in the same way a natural oil seep is related to a modern IC engine...

The comments here are kinda silly… the haystack test measures how well a model can natively attend to its entire context window. Of course a more elaborate pipeline, or a way for the model to use a s…

You asked why the opinion is worth reading: because it lays out an argument for why a distinction exists, and has been recognized and differentiated by comparable laws, and isn't by §666. You can…

Because, as should be unsurprising, both the controversy and decision are more nuanced and more limited than the headline you're reading.

Supreme Court finds that (a) bribes and gratuities are a different crimes under federal law and (b) the specific _federal_ law that prohibits _state_ officials from accepting bribes cannot be construe…

Some people want to buy a car _today_. Lots of people want to buy a car this week. Fewer people have the patience and funds to pay and wait for car on order.

It's also very, very difficult to get them repaired...

Dealerships are more entrenched, but the economics aren't that different from big box stores selling white goods, bike shops selling bikes, etc. Retailing is hard, expensive, and idiosyncratic; …

Iff you’re going beyond stdlib. Which lots of useful python programs don’t need to do.

Uber/Lyft/Taxi drivers as sin-eater is one of their great values. Rider gets all the benefits of drugging like an asshole with none of the social/moral shame

Sounds like many of the acute problems are microfrustraions created by poor software design and engineering. Slow login/relogin, unrealistic scheduling, illegibility of pre- and post-surgical ta…

The unanimity should also be an indicator of the technicality of the decision. This isn't some broad statement on the power of unions or organizing laws, it's a narrow clarification of the …

All the interesting features appear to be de novo models from Apple? Only the last fallback-to-ChatGPT feature interacts with OpenAI.

Seems like the OpenAI integration is a nice-to-have, but mostly separate from Super-Siri?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/why-were-turni... …

At some point the question is “why?”. We can keep atomizing human variability into smaller, more graduated buckets of neurodivergence, but what’s the point, esp. for those that don’t really suffer neg…