This is insufficient, since the 22nd amendment only limits the number of terms to which a president can be elected. A president can legally serve longer than that.
For example, consider a president who dies in office a few days into the term. The VP becomes president, serves out the remainder of that four-year term and then be elected for two more terms. The statute of limitations would therefore need to be 12 years or more to have the desired effect.
> For example, consider a president who dies in office a few days into the term. The VP becomes president, serves out the remainder of that four-year term and then be elected for two more terms
text of the 22nd amendment covers that. serving more than 2 years of someone else's term means you can only be elected once.
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
While I certainly understand the appeal of tax arbitrage, California has at least one thing going for it. Unlike most states, it generally disallows non-compete clauses as a matter of public policy.
Tech thrives on the mobility of talent, so it's no coincidence that California is where the tech industry thrives. Almost 70 years ago, eight engineers at Shockley Semiconductor had a better idea and left to start Fairchild Semiconductor. That led to Intel, AMD, and National Semiconductor, later spawning NVIDIA, SGI, Qualcomm, and ultimately creating trillions of dollars in wealth. No other state will ever overtake California's dominance here unless it allows for that same mobility of talent. Almost every state tries to _attract_ billionaires these days, but this is one reason why most states can't _create_ them.
California has a lot going for it. Great geography, lots of university, great talent, talent with many different backgrounds, momentum from industry. Non compete non-enforcement also exist in places like North Dakota (which has nearly as a high a GDP/cap), but they can't offer a lot of these other things.
In many ways California is just being capitalist like the "actual" capitalist and taxing whatever the market will bear. It will probably bear a lot in California. There's no need for them to dress it up as a social project, it's just the ruthless gears of the state run by people with personalities nearly identical to the CEOs that would also do the same thing in their shoes.
The poor will continue to suffer the ~same fate and the friends of politicians will continue to be enriched. The middle class sees maybe the ever tiniest budge from one or two billionaires pulling out along with whatever jobs their capital provides, but otherwise their lives basically move on as usual and they can preach about their support for the poor using someone else's dime at almost no risk to themselves.
Much like an operating system promises to make everything easy if you use its APIs for file I/O instead of implementing your own low-level code to control the hardware yourself. Personally, I'd much rather think about storage in terms of files instead of sectors on a disk.
> It'd be an interesting experiment to take memory snapshots after each step in a workflow, which an API like Firecracker might support...I think some durable execution engines have experimented with this type of system before, but I can't find a source now - perhaps someone has a link
Trigger.dev currently uses CRIU, but I recall reading on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251132) that they're moving to MicroVMs. Their website (https://feedback.trigger.dev/p/make-runs-startresume-faster-...) suggests that they're using Firecracker specifically, but I haven't seen anything beyond that. It would definitely be interesting to hear how it works out, because I'm not aware of another Durable Execution platform that has done this yet.
One day I'll retire, and the day after that I will still write code even though I'm no longer being paid to do it. And I'll still play my guitar every day even though I have no interest in being famous. I'll do both of those things for as long as I am able because they bring me joy.
When I retire (hopefully in a couple of years) I’m planning to get rid of my computer and smart phone. I might keep a Chromebook or something for email. I’m so over it all.
Same. I still kind of look forward to work Sunday night.
It's also the case with my other hobbies. Aside from chores and responsibilities, most of my days consists of doing things for fun. Sometimes it aligns with something people will pay me to do.
For all of these same reasons, I never signed up for the "member rewards" program at the local grocery store. I did read the terms and conditions once, when I needed a good laugh.
I feel sorry for their database because I was a teenager with a bunch of guitar pedals and an ongoing need for 9V batteries. I made up a LOT of phone numbers.
> I vaguely remember, back in 2010, when I wrote my app, you couldn't style a button consistently across all browsers. They were grey boxes in firebox, or used other OS standard styling.
I'm sure I'll trigger a lot of designers by saying this, but I'm probably not alone in valuing basic usability FAR above styling. I much rather have an ugly button that looks like 90's era Tcl/TK than something pretty that doesn't behave like I expect it to.
At the time we were trying to get away from Flash and embrace HTML5. We would never have been able to compete against nice looking flash games with un-styled grey boxes.
I find non-selectable text maddening, but I recently found an macOS app called TextSniper that restores my control. It lets you select an area with the mouse (as you would when taking a screenshot) and it then OCRs the text and puts it into your clipboard. It almost makes Google Analytics usable again.
For example, consider a president who dies in office a few days into the term. The VP becomes president, serves out the remainder of that four-year term and then be elected for two more terms. The statute of limitations would therefore need to be 12 years or more to have the desired effect.
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