dazilcher

Prefatory clause, justifies the following operative clause. Does not restrict the latter, but explains why it is needed.

It assumes the situation in the Gulf is finalized, calling the current situation "checkmate".

To be fair, the article does not assume that: it analyzes potential next moves and concludes that a certain outcome is inevitable.

To harp on the chess metaphor, most games are conceded when the result becomes obvious, before reaching literal checkmate.

Whether the analysis is accurate is a separate conversation.

work computer

I'm not aware that the WHO ever claimed simultaneously contradictory things.

Whether they did or not is almost irrelevant: information doesn't reach humans instantaneously, it takes time to propagate through channels with varying latency, it gets amplified/muted depending on media bias, people generally have things going on in life other than staying glued to new sources, etc.

If you take a cross sample you're guaranteed to observe contradictory "parallel" information even if the source is serially consistent.

Is anyone on the right asking for stricter gun control laws as result? That should answer your gotcha question.

How do you suggest we should treat foreign illegal labor?

What's the point of reading something while drinking my coffee quietly?

When I'm drinking my coffee I focus on enjoying the palate, when I'm reading I am laser-focused on processing and retaining information.

Multitasking prevents me from attaining the full benefits of these exquisite activities. If need a mindless task while I'm sipping my morning brew I can always count primes backwards or stare at the other hipster in the coffee shop.

GMail is the most popular email provider by a wide margin. Denying service to the largest cohort of email users is indeed surprising, ridiculous, and self-defeating.

You conveniently ignored the illegal part.

a $2-4k blow over the next year as supply chains react

Can you explain the magical supply chain adjustment that will lower prices after a year?

Interesting, how do you figure they establish citizenship status in those circumstances?

He was mistakenly given write access by the treasury department employees in charge of managing DOGE permissions. He resigned a day later, likely before he even realized he had write access. In that short window, he accessed the system "exclusively under the supervision of Bureau database administrators", and the initial treasury department investigation did not find any misuse of said write permissions.

I don't see how this can be blamed on DOGE. If anything it shows that DOGE employees are closely monitored, and their access is minimized and audited.

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/court-documents-shed-new-ligh...

The contract, with a company called D&G Support Services, was to provide “program and technical support services” for the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at ICE.

... the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially listed a total value of $8 billion. But on Jan. 22 this year, that figure was updated to $8 million.

DOGE involvement aside, that right there is not exactly the exculpatory evidence NY Times thinks it is.

Unless you know more about that incident than the op, it sounds like they didn't refuse to fill anything but instead chose to skip and optional section.

But who's "us", and who is "them"? Could it be a matter of perspective? Would it surprise you to discover that you're someone else's "them"?

And which user would you put in charge of decrypting the drive?

I vote for Bob from QA, he's always around.

The DoJ does not have unlimited resources, nor does it have unlimited time - see imminent regime and policy change.

Priority matters, and picking Google as the first high profile target is bizarre.

He did not say that [1]. I can't decide whether people keep misrepresenting his statements intentionally, or there's some psychological process in play that prevents them from parsing his speech. He is a terrible communicator after all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9fbbQ-aTo&t=96s

That's quite the hyperbole - I'm pretty sure internet access is a secondary concern at best, when deciding to join the Navy.

Sailors are giving up a lot more in terms of personal life, fixating on internet access as a dealbreaker is such an odd take.

Dictatorship is awesome while it happens to align with your dubious priorities.

You should try to think ahead though

So he's a hypocrite. Like most people are. Doesn't change the fact that in this case he happens to be fighting a good fight.

Most frequent output does not imply correctness, LLMs often are confidently wrong.

They can't even perform basic arithmetic (which is not surprising since they operate at the syntactic level, oblivious to any semantic rules), yet people seem to think offloading more complex tasks with strict correctness requirements is a good idea. Boggles the mind tbh.

Brazil's Supreme Court is not "a government elected by the people".

the traditional way to get people to work those jobs is to offer more money or other compensation.

And that will raise the cost of all services and goods, including the cost of having someone's basic needs met. Then we're back to square one, now what?

Surely homelessness also predates Tesla, what is the actual point you are trying to make?

"agents in Arizona stood down as straw purchasers illegally bought 2,000 guns at shops" is most definitely not the same as "US government sells guns to cartels".

Do you have any evidence for the latter?

Aka virtual desktop [1]. Your field of view is not unlimited, I'll take key-based switching over wobbling my head any day.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

Nothing says "a great place to work" like politically-motivated rejection.

They would be dodging a bullet.

Why assume everyone is dehydrated? Here's another ol' saying: in the middle of the desert, toilet water tastes like Fiji.

If you're going to embrace goto, why not go all the way and use multiple exit labels such that you can jump to appropriate point in the cleanup sequence and avoid those conditionals?