Boris Johnson was also born an American citizen, but renounced it before coming prime minister. Not technically head of state (the queen was), but close enough.
This has never been the case; JFK appointed his little brother AG. The problem is that the Congress should be investigating and prosecuting the president but will not.
It's been a nice kind of fig leaf, but constitutionally the president is the AG's boss, so it doesn't make any sense for the AG to investigate the president. There's an entire branch of government given this power in the Constitution, they've just decided they don't want it.
Exactly. Congress doesn’t want any of their duties. War declaration? Nah, let the President do it and call it “not a war.” Budget? Well, technically we’ll appropriate funds, but we’ll only do a big CR once in a while. Tariff policy? Nah, let the President do it all with the “national security” loophole, no matter how absurd. Impeachment and removal? Well, not when it’s your party’s guy.
For all the hate Trump gets, it’s Congress who’s created and who props up this monarchy.
No, OP is referring to the fact that the companies that are big enough to be subject to the EU DSA's rules about platforms are all American. So any fines handed down for violations of the DSA are exclusively to American big tech firms. The rejoinder is that the rules apply to everyone, it just happens that the companies that are subject are American.
There are European companies that are under the regulation as well.
The DSA is the part that applies to all companies in some way as well (things like the need for moderation and a way for people to reach you with complaints). The DMA is about the market and how to deal with monopolies.
No, it wasn't. The usb forum could have decided to use a lightning compatible standard, but there were problems with it.
Besides, apple are one of the decision makers in the usb c standard, the legislation mandated a standard, but not a specific one, just the same one for all, and this forum which includes apple decided to go with usb c https://www.usb.org/members
There has been maybe two dozen different barrel plugs widely used over the last two decades, and "12V" and "20V" were already a de-facto standard for laptops with 2S and 3S batteries respectively (there was some artificial segmentation like 18.5V, 19V, 19.5V, 20V, etc. but they are all within tolerance range). I have not seen a male laptop; they are always female, being the "receiver" of the power.
That leaves out all the "what is a computer?" devices that had all sort of plugs that wouldn't be barrel: tablets, chromebooks, raspberry pi, e-readers etc.
Same for all the smaller dedicated devices (audio recorders, camera, controllers etc.)
Those didn't go the barrel plug route in the first place to allow for charging through the same port, and would have been a loophole if barrel was mandated. USB-C was honestly the only option that made sense IMHO.
Most of those used either USB or a barrel plug depending on their size.
raspberry pi, e-readers
USB.
Same for all the smaller dedicated devices (audio recorders, camera, controllers etc.)
Many of those use smaller barrel plugs, appropriate for their lower voltage.
The main problem with USB-C is the tiny fragile connector (search for images of "bent USB-C"), and the fact that it's a standard that tries to be what should really be a bunch of separate standards. It's hard to get a barrel plug wrong. It's too easy to get USB-C wrong, and cause damaged devices:
I like city density myself, but you do have to remember that "high capacity accommodations" in this case means "sharing a room with a stranger and a bathroom with twenty."
I think "normalfag" is a backformation from "normie"; at any rate, "normie" is itself 4chan slang that entered norm... ie... usage one way or another. "Based" was coined by Lil B but absolutely entered wide usage via being adopted as a meme by 4chan.
Clolog is more of a direct translation of Prolog into Clojure, with an s-expression syntax rather than Prolog’s standard syntax, but close. Core.logic is a translation of Mini-Kanren into Clojure and doesn’t use anything close to Prolog’s syntax, even one based on s-expressions. Prolog and Mini-Kanren, while both logic programming systems also use different search algorithms. Prolog uses a depth-first exploration of the solution space, whereas Mini-Kanren uses a breadth-first search. Consequently, Prolog can be more memory efficient (remember, it was created in the 1970s), but it can get stuck in infinite parts of the solution tree and never find a solution. Mini-Karen is less memory efficient as it explores the solution tree more broadly, but it can find solutions even if the solution tree has infinite branches.
So, why/when to choose this? When you want something much more Prolog-like, using the same search algorithm as Prolog. That said, they both do logic programming. I haven’t benchmarked, but from comments in the README, I suspect core.logic will be more performant as it compiles down to Clojure function calls which are then compiled down to Java function calls. It’s sort of like choosing between Python and Java. They both do imperative programming with objects but they both have their own strengths and weaknesses.
core.logic has a lot of limitations you pretty quickly run into, and they languish on their bug tracker for years now because nobody actually works on it.
This isn't really true. Most non-Lisp languages I work in, like JS or Ruby or Python, have things like long_expression =\n long_other_expression, or long_expression\n.another_long_expression\n.another_long_expression.
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