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> we're not banning these books or anything like that

she says as she literally bans books from being checked out, indefinitely.

That was the prosecutor.

You're right that you can't inject into orbit with this. But unlike a balloon it seems to me that this does allow you to cheat the rocket equation, because you exit the atmosphere with not insignificant velocity in a somewhat useful direction, never having had to carry the fuel to do so.

False and misleading headline.

The judge explicitly stated on the live stream that he did not "buy" either side's arguments that zooming was or was not a manipulation. He stated that an objection was lodged and that he needed a sworn statement in evidence, from someone other than the lawyers who were admittedly both guessing, that there was no distortion of the image. Based on the livestream he never prohibited the prosecution from doing their pinching and zooming.

Moreover if it were really as "obvious" as the prosecution claimed it was, then I can see no reason why they did not produce such a statement. Or, alternatively, why they dug their heels in so hard and insisted that they be allowed to show the evidence on an iPad, despite 100% of the substantial audiovisual evidence so far in the trial having been shown on courtroom screens. Defense lawyer was completely wrong about upscaling (possibly getting confused with gpu AI upscaling?), but I can find no fault at all with him smelling a rat.

Source: the livestream, https://youtu.be/mNnfHUtwFBg. Sorry, I know primary sources are scary in today's soundbite world.

Because mostly the answers don't matter and the only thing that does matter is the fact finder's opinion of the parties.

> From an "unknown risk" perspective, you'd also have to consider that COVID itself could have yet-unknown long-term risks.

That would not factor into a correct analysis: the unknown risks of covid are the same whether or not you get vaccinated (or any other treatment) because by definition the vaccine has not been shown to mitigate the unknown risks.

Spoiler alert: the mechanism of action of pfizermectin is the same as ivermectin, even though they're different drugs. How did Pfizer think of using this non-obvious mechanism of action?

For an individual, the antiviral is better because it means they don't need to take the vaccine with any possible risks, however small, up front. Yes once an individual become symptomatic with covid-19, they're forced to be exposed to one of the risks, but at that point the antiviral is the only choice. In short, it allows an individual to delay taking the unknown risk until there's an actual known downside to not taking it; i.e. unmitigated covid symptoms. Most people will never be exposed to that downside anyways.

We just need a few more booster shots! And the anti-vaxxers need to get vaccinated!

> Side effects from vaccines almost always occur within a few weeks of getting them, if they occur at all.

According to what? Studies where control groups were eliminated after a few weeks?

Note that sftp != ftps. sftp is scp. Rsync is better if you can get it, but I'm pretty sure that whenever I transfer stuff using WinSCP and File Explorer (Android) it's using sftp.

That's bullshit and you must know it. If, say, Donald Trump were to use the software to save puppies, the steering committee would find a reason that this is actually worse than Hitler.

Please stop disrupting the narrative!

> really transformational cultural moments

Prediction: an astonishingly large portion of animal utterances will have to do with reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that humans pour into the atmosphere. You heard it here first.

IANA controls http codes only insofar as no one has told them to knock it off yet. There's no major interop risk from conflicting (200, 400, 500) codes in the way there is for other namespaces because the semantics are essentially contained only in the first digit.

Oof, what an ignorant article.

Just to take the most egregious example,

> To iterate over something using the natural features of the language (object references, array indexing), it would need to be an array managed by that same language implementation.

I seriously doubt that's true even in cython, and I know it's not true in rust. In rust, you could either just use raw pointers (but this doesn't meet the spirit of the demand) or you can assert to the compiler that this code isn't being mutably accessed by other code (an assumption even of the C code, or else it is incorrect) and get a slice. At that point there is no difference between that slice and one "managed by the language", whatever the heck that's supposed to mean.

Suppose the raw results from the trial are that ivermectin is effective. What do you yourself expect to hear in such a circumstance? From the study, from the media, etc?

> people with no immunity

So immunocompromised people? The rest of us have immunity.

What do you feel the difference is between "directly issuing system calls" and "some inline assembly"?

> vaccine effectiveness

does not mean "effectiveness at preventing the spread of the virus", it means "effectiveness at preventing severe illness and death".