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> it's not clear until the very end whether the character is going through increasing levels of paranoia, or dealing with an adversary

Er, which one do you think it resolved as? Your phrasing suggests you went from doubt to believing the narrator is reliable and sane. I was and am convinced in his reliability; yet, he fell for a painfully obvious ploy by the adversary, which is not terribly consistent with superintelligence. Nevertheless I understand the story to be, in-universe, reliable, but from outside, intentionally following narrative tropes consistent with mental illness. Other tropes include "there's something in the jab", "CIA is after me", "I have become the renfield of a hidden adversary".

So there's a lot of evidence for the opposite interpretation, that the protagonist is simply ill the whole time. This interpretation has the distinct advantage that falling for the attack was truly a flaw on the part of the protagonist (qua confabulator, I suppose) rather than the narrative or the author. In fact I can't really say why I don't adopt this as my preferred interpretation; perhaps a bias for my original interpretation, or skill on Chiang's part in convincing the reader of the less plausible explanation through, what, sheer sympathy?

It looks like there are no provisions for double or treble damages. Look no farther for the reason airlines deny automatically.

> The folks objecting to this don't make much sense to me. The injunction forbids the gov't from doing the things that the plaintiff complains about. If the gov't isn't currently misbehaving, then the injunction is a No-Op: the government's claimed current state of doing nothing wrong will just continue as is (putatively) already is.

The argument being pushed is "The government didn't do those things and it's a good thing that it did." Makes perfect sense to me, in the correct context about the ideology of those pushing it.

> but are frugal

That is a potentially grave mistake to make. They are in no way frugal (the very concept of being frugal with an unlimited faucet of "other people's money" is truly ridiculous). If they forbear to go to trial and/or appeal adverse rulings, it is only because they strongly prefer never to suffer adverse precedent. They would rather lose the same case a thousand times, than have precedent which restores the rights of ten thousand all at once, let alone 300 million. In a way it's quite the opposite of frugality.

Indeed, PV targets will now be able to record themselves physically assaulting PV agents!

The government will never comply with this order.

Also, periodic reminder that articles which don't link (or even quote) primary sources are propaganda, not journalism. Here's an article which does link and quote: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/04/july-4-injunction-bars-.... Most notably, the order does not, as TFA claims, include a blanket ban on communication with specific carveouts. Only specific kinds of communication are banned, and the carveouts are on top of that.

Analogous sui generis weaknesses in human cognition are the far greater threat.

Preventing such stripping as a website operator would be trivial. Just sign the combined URL and tracking parameters and refuse to serve the unauthenticated version. This is very well understood technology with a barely novel application.

(Please cite this comment as prior art!)

Primary sources are anathema to mainstream media. It's not just political articles, it's the whole damn profession. If you can watch ten seconds of him bowling you don't need to spend ten minutes on the article.

It's telling that not a single reply to your comment actually engages with the question about poor smart white kids. The answer is simple: poor white kids are the outgroup, and "mainstream" American society would like them to kindly go away. They aren't wanted. Society has no use for them.

Currently this page reads:

> According to the FAA, air traffic was impacted due to a fire at Potomac Consolidated Terminal RADAR Approach Control (TRACON).

> Earlier reports claimed a fire at Potomac Consolidated Terminal RADAR Approach Control (TRACON) impacted air traffic, but an FAA representative told FOX 5 there was no fire.

Well?

I recommend reading sifive's errata, at least the ones it's possible to get ahold of. They are consistently wild, for multiple CPU IP generations. Some paraphrases that come to mind: "mmu doesn't work; workaround: don't use it" and "exception cause register not sign-extended; workaround: don't cause page faults on addresses in that half of memory".

What's the eviction rule from the ghost cache, though? Does it share an eviction queue with the Traditional cache?

There's a quote that goes something like "the last piece of software ever written for a novel OS is the UNIX compatibility layer". kernel32.dll is essentially that, except it isn't even UNIX compatible!

I trust you already obtained the proper licenses from your local authorities before designing and implementing a new programming language? And those licenses are on file with the major security vendors?

Algebraic effects use delimited continuations (and this appears to match toss/return). Call/cc captures an undelimited continuation. Totally different.

The link has pretty convincing evidence of astroturfing.

What I don't understand is why take the sub private instead of deleting the post? That's crazy. Were they concerned deleting a post would create more backlash than taking the sub private? Basically the same calculus as a tyrant declaring martial law and expecting the backlash from that to be less than from allowing protests?

Your failure to distinguish memory errors from logic errors does not mean that rust didn't succeed at eliminating the former.

It's long past time to start throwing dangerous right-wing conspiracy theorists like this in jail, until they agree to stop spreading this nonsense.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/416.

I'm having trouble finding how to correlate XKCD numbers with dates, but I think this might be over a decade old.

ETA: In fact I'm sure it is, because Time (1190) is a decade old this year. Relevant XKCDs: https://xkcd.com/1624/, https://xkcd.com/891/, https://xkcd.com/1686/, etc.

Can you recommend any resources on how to avoid paradoxes? From what little I know, very innocent seeming combinations of features/axioms result in proofs of false. That seems to be a very important resource for developing a language, because you can't wait until the end to discover that you shouldn't have had type-in-type or so on.

The good news is that everything else the US government suppressed really was outrageous lies that are only supported by racists, like the mRNA vaccines being completely ineffective and often fatal.

It would have been better to run the headline, "WD advises customers of maximum 3 yr lifespan of NAS drives".

E.g. PITM attack on password reset endpoints.

And yes, if I had a bitwarden vault I wanted to crack I'd absolutely be using the web account login page. The latter is more likely to yield to have some vulnerability than the at-rest encryption, which when exploited would yield the password; or it could scare the target into falling into my PITM attack, or otherwise act irrationally.

> We've invented feudalism all over again

So what you're saying is that soft power exists?

Tell me, what is the name of the political system you're going to tell me about that eliminates soft power? I just want to see if I've heard this one before, first.

I would not recommend ever changing credentials while under attack, unless they are known to be weak (but the time to change them is before the attack, in that case). The process of changing them opens up several vectors of attack. Additionally, if the attacker already obtained the encrypted payload, it would only be harmful to give them the same data encrypted under a new key.

While I understand the sentiment, like all attempts at outsmarting stupid people, it is misplaced. If they're not copying your fake private key they're just copying someone else's.

This seems an overly complicated way to reach this conclusion. Should lunar microbes have existed, it's unlikely they would have preferentially targeted humans, or land animals, or macroscopic animals, or animals, or eukaryotes, etc. "Quarantine" was broken at the moment the hatch was opened, if not before.

Interactive proof languages already work that way, to a greater or lesser extent.

But, for general-purpose languages, this revictimizes the docker addicts.

This one does the rounds on HN periodically: "You can't tell people anything" http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an....