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Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term
  • But the term is his, and it's what he's using to rationalize his plans. He's not declaring that he/Trump are declaring a post-constitutional doctrine, but that we're already living in one and thus he's justified in his radical reinterpretations of it.

  • Cyclists sharing a smoke at the Tour de France, 1927
  • Those aren't tubes, they're whole tubular tires, essentially an integrated tube and tire in one unit that is glued to the rim. Changing a flat first required peeling the old one off before the new tire could be stretched (they fit tight!) onto the rim.

    Tubulars are still used regularly by at least one world tour team (French, naturally), but these days a flat is fixed by swapping the wheel or even the whole bike for a spare carried by the team car. That wasn't allowed in the early days.

  • The average Boston renter spends 47% of their income on housing. In Seattle, it's 28%. Why?
  • There's actually a decent sized income gap between the two cities, which no doubt contributes. Rents looks very comparable.

    Median income for the city of Boston: $89,212 (source)

    Median income for the city of Seattle: $116,068 (source)

    Per the same source,

    • median gross rent is very comparable between the two cities ($1,945 vs. $1,981 in Seattle vs Boston, respectively)
    • Seattle has a higher percentage of its population with college degrees, which likely explains some of the higher income
    • Seattle also has a higher percentage of owner-occupied homes, which probably influences this, though I'm not exactly sure how.
  • Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation
  • Interesting! From his post,

    Mikhail advised me to use balanced trees instead of extensible hashing

    And

    I never told Mikhail that Oracle had tried implementing a filesystem using balanced trees, and its performance was terrible leading to most insiders in the industry concluding that balanced trees performed poorly for filesystem File size patterns.

    Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

  • Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden — and whether they’d come back
  • Turnout matters, though. Biden in 2020 won more votes than any presidential candidate in history, but the second place winner was Trump in 2020. There will be similar loyalty to Trump on the right in 2024, and if Biden can't match that, he loses. So I'm not afraid of the youth vote either, but I am afraid of the lack of it.

  • Alex Jones: Conspiracy theorist returns to X after Elon Musk poll
  • They don't want this! Control comes with responsibility and is expensive. Twitter is already there, has been there for a long time, and still has the users and the mindshare. It's still the logical choice for organizations wanting to reach the widest audience.

    Fortunately that last bit does seem to be changing. It's not happening as fast as many of us think it should, some prominent organizations have left X. Hopefully more will continue to do that, but calling the stragglers fascists, as was done earlier in this thread, is not a productive way to engage.

  • Frustrated lawmakers run for the exits: ‘DC is broken’
  • It's a perfectly reasonable career. The fact that you're even saying this just shows how successful the American right's undermining of the government has been.

    Hiring non-profesionals for a job is not a recipe for successful execution of that job's responsibilities.

  • Eight Things You Need to Know About the Navy’s Failed Multibillion-Dollar Littoral Combat Ship Program
  • Every enlisted knew it would go to shit, because eventually everything breaks. And if the people on it only knew how to press buttons, no one would be able to fix what broke.

    I think you've just summed up modern civilization right there.

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