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Practically speaking, since the jury is composed of multiple individuals, they're set up to express their "findings" via a strictly parameterized form where they check boxes or giv…

Juries are the "finders of fact". That's the phrase often used anyway.

Everything Everywhere All at Once was the last time I sat in a theater where, for the first half at least, I thought I was watching an instant classic. But that movie just dragged …

Playing devil's advocate: why assume Iraq would (attempt to) store VX in the same way? It actually has a thin ring of plausibility around it in the same the way you sometimes hear …

"Circumstantial" evidence is often stronger than "direct" evidence. e.g. DNA is almost always "circumstantial", yet more modernly maligned eye witness evidence is "direct".

I just tried it and at least the autocomplete in IPython appears to ignore __all__ when suggesting possible imports. I haven't tried any other tools' autocompletes. If module A has…

__all__ is only relevant for * imports. And please, just don't use * imports. It really doesn't save you much time at the cost of implicit untraceable behavior. If you don't worry …

Before I studied math, I always slightly resented imaginary numbers as being "math wankery" and just defined because mathematicians had a compulsion to generalize and define new no…

There's nothing I want more than a Watermelon Oreo right now...

I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this. At least as recently as last y…

They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me …

I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this. Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looke…

AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines…

Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.

Not sure you meant to imply otherwise, but just to clarify: Bly intentionally got herself committed for an undercover assignment.

From a great coffee table book, "100 Facts About Pandas", by David O'Doherty and Claudia O'Doherty (no relation). https://www.amazon.com/Facts-About-Pandas-David-ODoherty/dp/... On…

Don't forget about Keith B. Alexander, the director of the NSA at that time. He testified to congress that this program helped foil 54 terror plots. Weeks later, he conceded that i…

> There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch. This is an excellent metaphor using beautiful language. Did …

Isn't this article missing the point of the internet? It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes. But build…

Billions? Ridiculous. There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you u…

I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete. The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ tes…

The Astros hid behind the guise that they were outstanding at picking up "tipping" from opposing pitchers. i.e. The smallest difference in a pitcher's delivery, imperceptible to yo…

To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your …

I don't know specifically about secp256r1, but in general, I think there were already a lot of suspicions and most people were wary of any ECC curves NIST or NSA had chosen by 2008…

> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that wo…