This is definitely true, but there is a useful distinction between the usual evolutionary competition between species in an ecosystem and the very sharp situation of an ecologically novel species being introduced into that ecosystem and out-competing the incumbents, and 'invasive species' is the best term we currently have for this second case.
It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law)
If you're going to post quite sensationalist speculation please at least provide some attempt at a source or rationale. It doesn't really pass the sniff test that any goverment would bother with this banal subterfuge when they are more than capable of putting secret payloads into orbit, and have done so many times[1].
There was Zuma, the classified satellite that officially failed to separate from the payload adapter and burned up in the atmosphere but was widely speculated to be a successful test of stealth satellite technology, with the satellite successfully reaching orbit and going dark. A lot of talk about us knowing very little, but everyone loved to show off this graphic from a stealth satellite patent [1]. Of course if the NRO does a good job and the technology works we will never know that it does.
I don't think there's some huge point beyond exploring an interesting question, and raising it in a forum where it's possible some people with more specific domain knowledge might offer some insight.
I remember reading in one of John McPhee's geology books (collected as [1], and one of the best things I've ever read) about a particular way that diamonds can form; it had a name (like a diamond jet or a diamond burst or something) but the basic idea is mesmerizing: super-heated water containing dissolved carbon would find some fissure in the surrounding rock and explosively expand into it, and in the process it would cool rapidly and diamonds would crystallize out of the solution. I'm stuck with the visual of a seam of diamonds popping into existence in an instant, which is not what we normally think of as a geological timescale.
In reality, how many people are regularly using github search without having a github account? Can this change really be expected to bring in a meaningful number of users?
Trying to think this through, my own best guess for what is going on is that there is some amount of traffic coming from bots/scripts and github would like to have all queries associated with an account so that they can block accounts? I'm not sure if this makes sense, but I think it's a reasonable possibility.
I’ve smoked weed before bed most nights for at least a decade, and if I happen to skip a night I… still sleep fine, unless I’ve had no exercise that day.
What if you skip two weeks? For me skipping one night was always easy, but after a few days that's when I ran into trouble. After one or two weeks it gets better.
Hinting might be a red herring here: these font formats are unsafe almost by design, since they consistently rely on a pattern of reading a value out of a chunk of memory and then treating that value as a pointer offset where additional values are read.
The proposed WASM shaping implementation would be a replacement for traditional OpenType layout[1] which is already turing complete[2]), and in this sense using WASM is significantly safer than the alternative. Your comment suggests that "execution of arbitrary WASM code" is something that we should be scared of, but the entire point of WASM is that it allows for safe/isolated compilation of arbitrary code.
I did not suggest "execution of arbitrary WASM code" is something that we should be scared of - I stated the facts, and you inferred something I did not write.
> The proposed WASM shaping implementation would be a replacement for traditional OpenType layout
It's not a proposal AFAIK, it's already implemented today in the harfbuzz codebase.
I also do not think it is a 'replacement' for the traditional system, I doubt anyone will disable the ability to render the entire ecosystem of fonts out there which have not been updated to use WASM - so it seems likely it's just another point of complexity added to font rendering in general.
I… don’t really follow this take? I agree that Lee Valley occupies a position at the top of the market, but I don’t think it’s about luxury, at all. My father was a cabinet maker, my mother a school teacher. They built their own home in the countryside, grew much of their own food, and could not have been less interested in “luxury” in any familiar sense of the word; but the shop and house is full of stuff from Lee Valley, because it is consistently high quality, and they don’t like buying stuff that gets thrown away.
I think your comment maybe conflates quality with luxury?
"Lee Valley" sounded vaguely familiar, so I plugged it into my email. Turns out I purchased 2 hanging wine glass racks [0] from them in 2020 for $6.20 apiece (to go above my kitchen sink on either side). We're talking generic "wire" 2-up wine glass racks I got to maximize space in my very ordinary rental apartment. I spent 5-10 minutes researching and identified Lee Valley as the best vendor for this very specific need, when I didn't trust the selection at the large Ace Hardware a mile away. Not remotely luxury, in my scenario ("Ikea for hardware"). But reflecting good SEO, clear photos and product specs, and low-friction checkout! Shipping was $7.95 by the way.
Lee Valley Tools has really excellent products and their stores are like museums, but you may have have bought into their brand too much. Their stuff isvery high quality, and very high quality is what a luxury good is. It's like flying first class and then treating it as necessary because it's an absurd affront to your humanity to tolerate how poorly everyone is treated. "First class isn't extravagent, it's basic dignity!" goes the reasoning. Personally, I could never afford cheap things either, but often one must.
Some companies have figured out that they can just sell cheap symbols that impress the sort of people who are impressed by that sort of thing, and they use a similar formula where the essential activity is getting attention or going to nighclubs and parties, but yes, your parents collected slightly more rarefied luxury products.
'insidious authoritarianism' is a curious way of describing two not-unreasonable proposals that are presumably aimed at making american democracy more representative and accessible...
> The old and conservative make too powerful a voting block, and it perpetuates every corporate, oligarchic, xenophobic greed cycle one could point to as a rot in our system. I don't think old people are bad because they're just taking government money and have big fancy houses, but largely they do vote the same way and that way they are voting is causing problems.
You must have missed the part where they referred to human beings who they disagree with as "a rot in our system". The fact that you're apparently blind to such toxic rhetoric isn't surprising--it is increasingly common among progressives.
I believe you may have misread. They weren’t calling any specific group of humans a rot in our system. They said they believe a specific and overly powerful voting bloc perpetuates every corporate, oligarchic, xenophobic greed cycle one could point to as a rot in our system.
It’s not the voting humans who are labeled as the rot, it’s the cycles that result from the exercise of that bloc’s outsized voting power—as said in the second part of your quoted excerpt: “… that way they are voting is causing problems.”
I’m not suggesting the original wording was great and non-toxic, but I don’t think the poster said what you interpreted them as saying.
