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Almost certainly a Hatch Act violation.


You could convict the minions who made the page, but the President and VP are exempt from the Hatch Act's employee restrictions. Seems backwards.


> You could convict the minions who made the page,

Well, either (1) you aren't a US attorney, so you couldn't, or (2) you are a US attorney, and, under this administration, you would be fired for even drafting the charges, after which, see (1).


At best you could make them admit guilt when they accept a pardon


I totally thought about Tetrisphere on N64:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMN7GzZ3ic&list=PLE0926B068...


> Dr. Greg Neyman, a resident a year ahead of me in residency, had done a study on the use of ventilators in a mass casualty situation. What he came up with was that if you have two people who are roughly the same size and tidal volume, you can just double the tidal volume and stick them on Y tubing on one ventilator.

This technique was later applied during the COVID-19 pandemic, when ventilators were in high demand and short supply.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-risky-hack-could-double...


That part immediately made me think of a particular scene from Silicon Valley.


yeah - I recognized that too. Seems like such an obvious thing in hindsight but real genius.


I would’ve chosen “Key-wii”.


On the flip side, this trend is great for home invaders


Possibly this:

https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/macwade-v-kelly-challenging-n...

> This case involves the NYPD's practice of stopping and searching subway goers without just cause. On July 21, 2005, the NYPD announced that it would begin a new program of searching the belongings of those seeking to enter the subway system. Since the program was implemented, the NYPD has searched tens of thousands of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing. On Aug. 4, 2005, the NYCLU filed a complaint in the District Court on behalf of five individuals. The complaint alleges that the NYPD program violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments...

> On Dec. 7, 2005, the District Court ruled in favor of the defendants and refused the plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction. The decision stated that the random subway search program was not “impermissibly intrusive” and was constitutional. The NYCLU appealed to the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. On Aug. 11, 2006, the Second Circuit upheld the District Court decision, stating that the program constitutes the “special need” exception to the Fourth Amendment.


I think that legal argument is that they’re protecting a transportation system and it’s users against violent attacks.


> Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.

How much does this cost to maintain? A stopwatch? They’re axing a STOPWATCH?!

This is embarrassing.


Taking a guess, based on experiences with using Google Assistant extensively:

What do you do if you have statistics saying that, say, a feature is used by a small fraction of users, and 40% of the activations of the feature were in fact not what the user wants, and instead were misunderstandings of requests for something else?

Ambiguity is a massive problem.


Be better and misunderstand less often?


Human syntax sometimes has inherent ambiguities.


So ask for clarification. State your interpretation and give an opportunity for the speaker to confirm or clarify. This isn't some new intractible issue, this has always been a fundamental aspect of communication in a natural language.


And yet humans figure it out sometimes


require more specific instructions to access less popular feature? I will never understand companies breaking their own products.


This is similar to Rich Hickey’s talk on “Hammock Driven Development”:

https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

Spend your conscious time loading your brain with data. Spend your unconscious time randomly making connections… until “Eureka!”


https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-...

> Researchers in South Korea have found that children between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults, according to new research published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases



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