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When the case reached the Supreme Court, the Court held that systems of political patronage like the one established by Thompson violate the First Amendment. Quoting one of its first patronage decisions, the Court reaffirmed that “conditioning public employment on the provision of support for the favored political party ‘unquestionably inhibits protected belief and association.’” Doing so “pressures employees to pledge political allegiance to a party with which they prefer not to associate, to work for the election of political candidates they do not support, and to contribute money to be used to further policies with which they do not agree.” It is “tantamount to coerced belief,” something the First Amendment plainly forbids. Nor did it matter that Thompson had not issued a direct order specifying that only Republicans would be hired, because “what the First Amendment precludes the government from commanding directly, it also precludes the government from accomplishing indirectly.”

Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office.
In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring.
What about now?
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Here's the thing:
If you impose 100% tariff on tsmc chips, it's business as usual for tsmc since there are no alternatives in the market for bleeding edge chips. But for US customers it's 100% higher prices.

What are we even trying to achieve here?

It took me 30 years.
Hated it as a kid. Okay now.

Defense Chief Hegseth Halts New Army Contracts for Review The pause could last as little as 10 days but could potentially continue for months, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

When do I stop saying “sabotage”
and start saying “coup”?

Elon Musk Admits To Cheating In Path Of Exile 2 And Diablo 4 Amid Fake Gamer Controversy The Tesla CEO claims everyone at the top of the leaderboards uses account boosting

kotaku.com/elon-musk-po...

Imagine being the richest man in the world and still finding the need to cheat in a video game for bragging rights.

They can't. It's call cognitive dissonance.

Link please 🙏

US President Biden authorises US$571 million in military aid to Taiwan WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden on Friday (Dec 20) approved US$571.3 million in defence assistance for Taiwan, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the...

United States President Joe Biden on Friday (Dec 20) approved US$571.3 million in defence assistance for #Taiwan, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump.

www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us-pre...

Absolute pleasure working with Battle Order on this and providing research and translation support.

Everyone should go check it out!

"While early rumors pointed to the inclusion of the Kirin 9100 chipset fabbed using a 5nm process, the Mate 70 Pro+ instead houses the Kirin 9020, fabricated by SMIC on a 7nm (7N+2) process node."
www.techinsights.com/blog/huawei-...

A die photo of the Pentium processor with the main functional blocks labeled including the caches, instruction fetch and decode, integer execution, and floating point. The image consists of complex patterns of rectangular regions in reddish and brownish colors. The image zooms in on a small part of the floating point unit giving a detail of an adder and PLA circuit.

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

These are the official names in Taiwan: "Flying kick guy" and "Fast punch guy". I don't hate these names :)

The pokémon Eevee with its names written in Japanese, English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese

Pokémon names provide fertile ground for linguistic analysis. Many are extremely clever and subtle, and yield delightful “ah-ha” moments when you figure out how they are formed. I find it especially interesting to compare the original Japanese names with names in English and other languages.

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China's Chip Self-Sufficiency in One Chart [Opinion] It's true that the nation has become more adept at making gear which is used to make chips. But this chart puts that development in context

China has made great strides in chipmaking equipment.

Yet the gap to self-sufficiency is widening. Here’s why.

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#打臉疑美疑賴 #台美關係穩固
美國之音獨家新聞：美國眾議院現任共和黨籍議長Mike Johnson在週三與台灣總統賴清德直接通話，這是賴清德和美國高層在美國總統大選後首次直接通話。稍早在夏威夷，賴總統也與民主黨籍前議長Pelosi 直接通話。

VOA Exclusive: US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with Taiwan president

Need to remind myself to tune in to ISSCC this year.

Korean kids don't even get a coup day off

Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.

Gelsinger was the wrong person for the job, from the beginning. That his departure is being spun as a "retirement" is exactly everything that was wrong with his tenure: an unwillingness to confront difficult truths. www.intel.com/content/www/...

Intel CEO Forced Out After Board Grew Frustrated With Progress Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger was forced out after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn around the iconic chipmaker, adding to turmoil at one of the pioneers of the techn...

Exclusive: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was forced out after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around

I might have found the perfect Christmas present for myself...

Stigler’s law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Coined by University of Chicago statistician Stephen Stigler who, for consistency, says he stole it from Robert Merton.

Happens because the best story, not necessarily the right idea, gets people's attention.

Japan, US to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency, Kyodo says Japan and the U.S. aim to compile a joint military plan for a possible Taiwan emergency that includes deploying missiles, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.

Japan and US to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency, Kyodo says – Reuters: ‘Under the plan expected to be complied next month, the U.S. would deploy missile units to the Nansei Islands of Japan’s southwestern Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, and to the Philippines, the report said’

Taiwan baseball national team captain Chen Chieh-hsien the non-existent TAIWAN Logo on th his jersey with both hands in front of his chest.

Baseball. Taiwan's historic victory in the WBSC Premier12 Championship has allowed further affirmation for the country on the international stage.
This gesture by Team Taiwan's captain Chen Chieh-hsien best encapsulates this breakthrough. You can't see any logo or team name? Try harder.

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Opinion | Taiwan Is Ready to Defend Democracy. Is Trump With Us? (Gift Article) Many Americans voted for border security. Try living right across from China.

"We do so gladly; it’s part of being a citizen of a democracy and defending it in any way that you can."

Oh, what a great piece by Vicky Wang.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

A Trump voter responding to this cbs poll, after choosing Higher on Q. 30:

"Oh wait..."

Taiwan wins first gold in world-class national team level baseball - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's national baseball team made history on Sunday when the squad won its first gold medal at the world-class national team level after beating Japan in a 4-0 shutout victory in the WBSC Premier12...

focustaiwan.tw/sports/20241...

This "I'm from Taiwan" hand sign is incredibly bittersweet

Congrats on Taiwan's 1st ever gold at the WBSC Championship!

Inside joke from a CPBL Twitter group chat that started back in 2020. Figured if Taiwan has to go by Chinese Taipei that the USA is still British Washington. Lol.

Yup, my kids' The Week Junior magazine confirmed it.