Last time I checked, only congress can declare a war.

Remind me again when was the last time congress declared war and how many other wars the US was involved in since then.

have you consider the possibility that... it is just too much work to merge/port the code when upstream is actively breaking them?

The difference is huge - It burns money quicker and nobody understands the code

you got that piece of non public information was not because you are an insider. As long as the bar is not exclusive to insider, i don't see any difference

Isn't it exclusive to people who live in the area of the bar?

What if the bar has a cover charge, so only those who pay get in?

What if the cover charge is $10,000 and the bar is advertised as "the place where public company execs love to come talk to each other about private deals"?

> I happen to guess the URL, and then I trade on it: Unfair

I can argue it is fair - anybody can try guessing the url, you don't have to be an insider to guess it

No. If you actually read the history, many slaveholder delegates management works to slaves

So not much has changed really?

Yep pretty much no difference between 1800s chattle slavery, and having to work in an office.

I don't understand. We don't have real time revocation for passports, do we?

In fact, we don't have real time revocation of any document until very recently...

We do. There are centralized databases of passport serial number, for blacklisting (revocation) or just persons of interest.

For all countries? I was always wondering about that when doing one of these wonderful "take a selfie of you holding your passport" "authentication" procedures...

don't we? We call somewhere and revoke the Passport, atleast in Germany.

But does that propagate to every entity worldwide using passports for identification, including all non-government-affiliated companies and KYC providers?

That's very true for a lot of PKI systems too. The revocation lists are published, but nobody is reading them.

At least they exist. I've tried looking into this in the past, and I haven't really found any public passport revocation list, even of just numbers (i.e. without disclosing associated names or any other sensitive data).

This is not answering the question.. and HN ain't US only.

You can say the same for any other country... What if Japan employee refuse, but American want that anyway? What if China employee refuse, but Russia employee want that anyway?

The implication are still the same -- social, culture, jurisdiction, national interest, company interest don't share the same boundary and don't align on their priorities.

I don’t think they’re refusing all military involvement. Autonomous-decision making is the problematic part.

The US military has deployed fully autonomous weapons systems since 1979. If you're worried about that then you're a little late.

It seems weird to equivocate the capabilities of "ai" in 1979 to what we have now; clearly it is on a different level.

Really? Autonomous weapons systems hold a lot of potential but as of today they haven't been very useful in real operations.

Yes, but we both know this is not the same kind of “autonomous weapons”.

No, I don't know that at all. The differences so far are only incremental. There is the potential for another revolution in military affairs due to autonomous systems but so far it hasn't actually arrived.

Over many years, I have got email from university for survey / research.

This is not GitHub only, I have got a survey on how my experience interacting with folks on lkml

in a company of this size ... left hand don't know what right hand is doing