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The article does a good job of explaining why the list is small - and in my opinion quite useful in that regard. Agree that it would be interesting to know what perceived costs/benefits of various options considered were. I suspect accidents of history, before the need for a list like this was recognized, play a large part.
Your statement about your sample code is incorrect - just confirmed it for myself (cpython 3.8.3 is what was handy). Just add those print statements to the example in the article (before/after labels make analysis easier) and also add a set of threads that just do 'x = 0'.
So, if I'm reading this right, Quad9 is just a recursive dns resolver here. Why are they being enjoined rather than whoever runs the authoritative server?
"Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.”"
This. Documents will get out. Why hide them and feed the conspiracy theorists?