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Tue May 30 08:34:44 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven to seven. Briefly awoken by the garbage truck around five.
Seventy-four today. 20% chance of thunderstorms.
Work:
- Fund flowroute
Done.
- Destroy hard drives
Done.
- Review maintenance call project
Done.
Thirty-minute walk at lunch.
Saw a dragonfly and a crow.
Got rained on a tiny bit.
Home:
- Work on Faux Bat
Done.
SQLite and Go
https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3/issues/274
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36431452/precautions-to-avoid-sqlite-file-database-locks-when-concurrent-goroutines-try-t
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/27/jared-kushners-growing-stench-of-treason/
> In the Cold War, Kushner’s actions would have attracted the stigma of treachery because Russia was an enemy of the United States. But his actions would not have gotten him indicted because there was no ongoing open war in accordance with the legal definition of treason (18 U.S. code § 2381): “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason”.
> Similarly today, what we are talking about is not the legal offense of treason but the stigma of treachery — the broader social meaning of treason.
> To understand this broader social meaning it helps to think about the history of the concept. In the Roman Republic, there were two treasonable offenses. One was called perduellio, which basically aligns with our current definition of treason of aiding an enemy in war. The other was called the Crimen majestatis populi romani imminutae, known commonly as maiestas, which was the offense of diminishing the majesty of the Roman people. It was only later, after the Republic collapsed and the emperors took over, that maiestas became the offense against the person of the emperor, given how in this kind of monarchy, there was little difference between the sovereign identity of the state and its ruler. (This is the origin of the offense of “lèse majesté” against monarchs still on the statute books in some states today.)
> If Kushner’s actions should come to attract the stigma of treachery, it would be in the old Roman Republican sense of maiestas, when public values and their expression in state institutions still meant something. Thus, in the Roman Republic, maiestas was about punishing individuals for hijacking their state positions for their personal gain. It could be used, for example, to prosecute official maladministration, like corruption by provincial officials or military officers. An apt modern equivalent would be soliciting personal investments by selling political access or expedited visas to rich Chinese people, which Kushner’s family business has already independently been accused of.
Go TUI libraries evaluated:
https://appliedgo.net/tui/
Breakfast: carrots, spinach, peanut butter toast, coffee
Lunch: nuts
Dinner: steak sub
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