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That is not true. State laws cannot interfere with the work of federal law enforcement, but can require certain behaviours.

Eg. States set speed limits. A federal LEO can break these when required for their duties (eg. chasing a suspect), but only when required (eg. if they are late for a meeting, they still have to obey traffic laws).

Body cameras do not seem to directly interfere with an LEO’s duty, unless “avoiding accountability” is literally their duty.

lru_cache has the benefit of being explicit about the replacement policy. So I find it more appropriate in cases where I want a size limit in the cache which, for me, is almost always.

I’m not sure use cases you see caches in, but any long running process should likely have a size limit on the cache.

This statement seems pretty poorly thought out. I think the argument that's being made is actually that there should be comprehensive privacy legislation, not that the TSA's use of facial recognition is bad/dangerous.

I see three risks being pointed out:

1. "the potential privacy and bias risks" -> however it doesn't expand or explain these risks. I'm on team privacy in general, so I definitely worry about this, but I think it's almost comical that any description of this risk is absent.

2. While facial ID is currently optional, "there is no guarantee that will remain the case" -> this is a textbook slippery slope argument, which means they're arguing not that the current practice is bad but that someday they might start doing something bad.

3. "the very real possibility that our face eventually becomes our default ID" -> another slippery slope argument that has even less to do with the TSA. This would require a major effort by the rest of government, so this is more a "watch out for that big cliff over there" argument than a slippery slope argument.

After all that, I think the topic sentence of this statement should be" > This is [bad] because the United States lacks an overarching law to regulate the use of facial recognition to ensure the necessary transparency, accountability, and oversight to protect our privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights.

I haven’t read the underlying paper, but from the article it seems the paper looks at if a person gets healthier when they get married.

This seems flawed because you get older as you get married, which is generally something that makes you less healthy.

This does not seem to compare health between a cohort that stayed single and a cohort that got married, so I don’t place a lot of value on the conclusions.

You might want to look a bit more closely before you write functional programming off like this.

Eg. Clojure is a modern functional language that is used for a lot of things & happens to be dynamic.

Microsoft said it would disclose salary ranges in all internal and external U.S. job postings no later than January 2023. That date is when Washington state, where Microsoft’s headquarters are located, will start requiring employers with at least 15 employees to disclose salary ranges for each position.

In other news, Microsoft to comply with a new law.

I'm very much someone who needs to write things to understand them.

Trying to figure out some new API that gives gross error messages and has zero useful documentation? I start writing down what I _think_ things do.

This helps me find patterns, but also helps me say "there's no way that is what this does. No one would write a function for that, it must do something else."

I'm very much someone who needs to write things to understand them.

Trying to figure out some new API that gives gross error messages and has zero useful documentation? I start writing down what I _think_ things do. Yhis pretty quickly