This is rich. The Universities that caved to student activists engaged in antisemitism and other egregious activities should now fight for their rights to be cowards? Or the Universities that engaged in racist DEI programs are now going to stand on principal?
If tenure was designed to protect intellectual freedom, but academics are consistently the biggest cowards failing to stand up to anything - what does that say about academia?
I thought private institutions weren't supposed to worry about federal guidelines. Does this mean Trump University can be attacked if a sufficiently powerful liberal wants to smear their university president for his antisemitic behavior?
Not at all. Mozilla is now controlled by hyper partisan political operatives. There should be zero intersection between partisan politics and my web browser.
In the mid 90s, I recall talking to some of the people working on the current scheme to modernize ATC. This was the 3rd or 4th attempt, and billions had already been spent.
Since then, there have been many efforts and many more billions spent. I'm sure all of these efforts went through the proper channels, etc, but all that has shown is that (a) FAA has no clue how to manage these contracts, and (b) the normal way of doing this absolutely doesn't work.
In contrast, this is how civil infrastructure used to get done in the US:
For political reasons, but that's the least expensive and least technically risky portion. The portion back into LA and the portion back into SF are going to make the prices they're paying for this easy section pale in comparison.
They're hoping the sunk cost fallacy will get them the money they will need on the hard parts.
Having done a lot of Java and Go, Go has much better mechanical sympathy between the language, libraries, and vm than Java does. The JIT GC in Java are marvels of engineering, but they have to be.
As an example, in Java, everything is a pointer, so pointer chasing all the time, which is not good for cpu cache, etc. In Go, there is first class support for composition.
The other main adjustment, if coming from Java, is reduced cognitive overhead. It usually only takes a week or two for an experienced Java dev to be reasonably effective in Go, but it takes a few months to break the mental habits of overthinking everything.
Despite all the advances in JIT, I've literally never seen it correctly optimize a HashMap<Integer> (happy to be proven wrong). Hopefully the renewed focus on value types can finally bring some sanity.
After the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, there was a big RIF (reduction in force) at places like the NSA.
These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized.
The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years.
Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.
The US is in no position to fight a war, regardless of supposed "dead wood". This is just a purge and further attempt to weaken the state intelligence apparatus.
The context of this was that Zelensky was being asked about corruption in Ukraine, and he was hinting that maybe USAID and State Dept might also have a problem.
I don't think it would be corruption there tbh. More like bureaucracy, red tape. Like the OP says a lot of such funding is conditional or earmarked for specific things and checking all that is difficult.
> Trump has indeed declared a national emergency at the border. But there is nothing "extraordinary" or "unusual" about either illegal migration or cross-border fentanyl smuggling
Yes really. Illegal migration is not extraordinary or unusual in any definition of the terms; the fentanyl crisis can't be stopped at Mexico's border according to the DEA's own words[0].
Consider actually researching the topic at hand before responding to it for the purposes of defending a politician. This is the same flytrap that catches liberals who rush in to defend Chomsky or Žižek after they make a vague and absent-minded claim. Think before you take a bullet for some fickle swamp creature, and maybe you'll come to learn what self respect is.
> The #1 cause of death of working age adults during the pandemic was not covid. It was opiods.
How scandalous! Imagine if the United States was complicit in the manufacture, prescription and distribution of opiates to their own citizens and nations abroad. It's a real shame that there's nothing the United States government can do to stop their citizens from getting addicted to extremely potent, expensive and lethal drugs. Absolutely nothing - their hands are tied, guys.
