I agree. We used to dislike the idea of secret police in this country, next will be secret court proceedings.

Need to nip this in the bud.

Secret court proceedings have been a thing since 9/11. People seem to have forgotten that we built a concentration camp in Cuba explicitly to detain "enemy combatants" indefinitely without trial, deprive them of their civil liberties and torture (sorry, "enhanced interrogate") them, and how eagerly the American public got behind all of it.

We had the chance to nip it in the bud over 20 years ago and we couldn't. It doesn't look like we're going to this time, either.

As far as I know, CIA black sites go back as far as the CIA. I think it's endemic to contemporary state structures- though clearly morally wrong.

But hey, these folks are evil; if that kind of extra judicial torture of random folks is the thing that has guided me away from Omelas, so be it.

On top of the FISA thing, you're already late to this party...?

The current administration believes that non-citizens have no right to due process. If there's no due process, there's no way to prove or disprove citizenship and no court proceeding at all. And SCOTUS ruled that you can ship a non-citizen just... Anywhere you want? Doesn't have to even be on the same continent as their home.

So the Gestapo - sorry, ICE - can kidnap anyone they want, put them in a camp of arbitrarily bad conditions without any form of disclosure or contact to lawyers or family, then send them to a random war-torn country with no belongings.

If you're extra unlucky, they may just send you to a death prison or work camp in a third world dictatorship.

So we are already passed the rubicon of "no court hearing at all". Today we're normalizing deploying the military against US citizens.

not just current administration…

cute how many Americans think that they were “free” until short 7-8 months ago

Secret courts already exist: it's called FISA.

If are orchestrating pipelines in airflow or Prefect you are having to write the client software around those engines, and its a lot of python.

Another anecdatum: the data engineers role at Zillow is called "Software Development Engineer, Big Data"

That's interesting with the Zillow anecdote. I wonder if the nuance in the title is actually correlated with a difference in behavior/culture/best practices/approach?

Knoll's law, I'll remember this.

Every time I see a fighter jet I can't help imagining a stream of $100 bills being sucked through the inlets and blasted out the afterburners.

[Ex Post Facto Clause, US Constitution](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11293). Oops, I thought it was so obviously going to be done away with in the courts, but in 1912 the Supreme Court ruled that it applies only to criminal punishments.

They always getcha with the fine print.

The Supreme Court’s standing doctrine is also weird. If the board of directors approves it, then would the shareholders even be able to sue?

I sense the labelling is a tell of sorts. As to the critique, I think the focus on homebuilder corporate profits leaves out important parts of the ecosystem. As example: Observing the only profitablity of Toys R Us as it collapsed would mislead you as to the very profitable exploit that KKR and Bain executed.

Its a great article though, lots of facts to ponder. Would love a view of the next layer up into financial arrangements in those Texas housing markets.

This is amazing, just amazing. I'm sure this fills important use-cases in my personal projects.

exactly. work can be fun and there is so much to learn.