homura1650

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not nessasarily, the protocol could be written so that an instance simply tells other federared instances "X of my users upvoted this, and Y downvoted this".

The tradeoff being that instance then have less tools to work with to moderate voting. Instead of being able to do global vote ring detection, the most they can do is look for abuse on their own server, and trust that every instance they vote-federate with does the same. Even then, with every instance trying to be vigilant, no one instance would have the info to detect a cross-instance abuse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yes and no. A policy of overwhelming force is more effective if your metric is a binary peace/no peace. However, when it fails, it fails catastrophically, and you find yourself in a war that you do not think was anywhere near worth starting.

Both the US and Iran are being very restrained at the moment, and no one wins if that changes to both sides going all out. In fact, from what I can tell, both sides are being dragged into this conflict against their will.

Plus, the US has other concerns. There is still a war going on in Ukraine, where, as far as I can tell, US support is much more vital to US security interests. And there is the evergreen spectre of a war in Taiwan that the US needs to maintain posture on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Back when I was learning, I made a flashcard program. It had a class that was essentially a constant array, so you could call get(int i), and it would return an object describing both sides of the card.

How did I implement such a class you ask? First, I made a spreadsheet with 2 collumns to hold the data, with a third collumn of incrementing integers. Then, in the 4th column, I used string concatanation to right a java if statement that compared a variable against the index collumn; and if they match, return an object constructed from the 2 data columns.

Click and drag the 1 cell I wrote in the 4th collumn to replicate it in all the rows, then copy and paste the 4th collumn into notepad++.

I'd like to say I've moved past this; but my most successful projects have mostly been code generation ones; so really I've just moved past Excell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The treaty itself does not have any enforcement mechanism; however the US does. US courts recognize ratified treaties as having equal weight to laws passed the normal way Ratifying the Treaty would immediately make it federal law. The US has a robust enough legal system that the courts would the (over years of building up case law) determine exactly what that means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Everyone who would actually know what they are doing in executions (doctors, pharmaceutical companies, veteranarians) have looked at it and said "this is barbaric in concept, no matter how humanely you do it, we will have no part in it". What you are left with is people without the relevent expertise, who do not have a problem with the barbarism, figuring out how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Q: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?

Biden: Well, when you say "working". Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.

Typical US anti-terrorism policy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=33&v=Y8h2dqEIMyE&feature=youtu.behttps%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FY8h2dqEIMyE%3Fsi%3D2OC7r5ZufntZIWSI&t

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys

I get the racism angle here, but isn't this an open and shut case of sexism?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Afghanistan didn't secede. The US just got bored with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you think blockades work? The Houthi's didn't fire at ships for no reason. They fired at ships for violating the blockade. If they didn't do that, there would be no blockade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have a coworker who used to work on safty critical systems. On every system, she would write a report on what they would have to do to kill someone with it.

Remember folks, the range danger officer is a very important position. If he ever tells you to do what you are about to do then be sure to: pause; think about what you are about to do; do not do it.

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