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> Any foreigner can be denied entry to a country for any and no reason whatsoever

That's a completely different thing than what happened here. Those are the rules, everyone knows that, and acts accordingly. The biggest problem in the US right now, is that the government isn't being ruled by it's own laws (sort-of). That's what's meant by a "constitutional crisis".

If the US government changed the rules to allow non-citizens to be arrested & held without warrants, then that would a different kind of thing. It would be a little totalitarian, but not a breakdown of the rule of law.

Note, I said sort-of above because the laws are written in such away as to be somewhat vague so that some people claim the government is acting legally.


What about the part of the Python ethos where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"


A) PowerShell isn't Python, it doesn't have to (and doesn't) import the whole Python ethos, just the parts that make sense for a Shell and Shell language with different end goals.

B) PowerShell doesn't care as much about the first part because shells have always had aliases and macros, but it does care about the second half "obvious way to do it". The other reason for starting with verbose names and aliasing them for day to day REPL use is to aid discovery. It's often very easy to discover which command or cmdlet does the thing you need simply because it is right there in the name. Sometimes you can just guess the name because there are only so many "allowed" verbs and you just need the noun you want to "verb". `Get-Help` can be quite powerful, `Get-Verb` can help explain some bits about what the verbosity is meant to mean. You can search for commands with `Get-Command`.


Python itself doesn't follow that at all, ignore it.


That might be more exponential than polynomial.


Also, the classic issue with tumors, is that they're your own body, and it's hard to selectively target them. Any treatment that hibernates tumor cells is likely hibernate normal cells, and be incompatible with life; unless you get really lucky.


Historically at least, one of the significant jobs of a wingman has been to act as bait. With dogfighting, with cannon fire, fighters are most vulnerable when they're trying to shoot down another plane, because they need to be pointing to their target so they tend to be going in a fairly straight and predictable direction. The idea was the wingman would lure one of the enemies onto their back, and then the their partner would dispatch the relatively easy target. This is one of reasons why fighter aces in WWII had such a lopsided kill count compared to everyone else. In order for this all to work, the pilots have to trust each other, and it was certainly the case that some fighter aces put a higher priority on getting kills than preventing the death of their wingman.

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about these things (and most of it is theoretical anyway because most of this tech is untested), but I suspect that there will be a similar mechanic with modern stealth and beyond-visual-range air warfare, whereby firing missles makes you easier to locate and ultimately target, so having a wingman who's willing to act as target practice while another pilot waits for an enemy to betray their location could be useful.


Yes, but it was coined to promote specific view of Eichmann that he himself tried to cast himself in: that he didn't really like murdering Jews, he was just following orders.


> I don't understand and can't accept why crimes committed while drunk get you a lesser punishment than a crime committed while sober.

Where I'm from, most people who kill other people while driving get off without any punishment at all.


The unwillingness, on all sides of political spectrum, to provide physical and psychological support to former military members in modern democracies is something that completely baffles me.

In Canada, at least, no-one wants to join the military because it's a shit job with shit pay, and what we end up with is a small contingent of volunteers who are either a) highly idealistic or b) excited to commit war crimes, and that is why the Canadian Airborne Regiment is no longer a thing.


Is Microsoft's sub claim unstable?

I think you might have misunderstood the point. Miscellaneous claims like email/preferred_username shouldn't be used to identify 3rd party logins. Apart from not necessarily being unique, they're also vulnerable to change. Changing your email shouldn't make you lose access to all your accounts. The point of the sub claim is that it's it's unique and stable.


No the sub is not unstable, it’s just the sub is unique per client_id.

yeah I know that. We basically do both. You create the account with the email/upn but we also save the oid and than we use the oid for matching. If the email changes we update it. If you started your account without the provider and than somebody configured domain+tenant id we first match via upn and after the first login it will use oid. User still uses upn to start the flow but the matching uses oid. But we are only dealing with b2b tough. And we have our own login site that of course needs a upn as well, thus the upn of Microsoft is the same as ours. If you change the upn on the Microsoft side you need to change the login upn on our side aswell. Another solution would‘ve been to have a unique logon site, in this case it would be possible to directly go to the IdP, but it does not matter that much with login_hint.


It's worth bearing in mind that the people making these policy decisions in 2020 were doing so without any objective knowledge of how the pandemic would actually end up playing out.

Car safety is somewhat different. While the harms of a car-dependent society are subjectively hard to come to terms with, especially for those who have grown accustom to it, it's a lot easier to objectively measure and predict.


I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Even in 2020, they knew that the fatality rate was very low for most of the population and was only an issue for the elderly and those with specific comorbidities. Many of the secondary and n-ary effects of either the pandemic or eliminating cars are unknown until they actually play out. There may be some projections, but those projections tend to change. For example, maybe electric scooter become a huge problem because people refuse to walk after cars are banned (negating the potential exercise related benefits).


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