The plugin is definitely at fault; code - especially privileged code - should never use unvalidated external input to determine paths. A proportion of blame however has to lie with the systemd-networkd interface: the vulnerability derives from accepting string-valued updates off of D-Bus representing a set of enumerated values, but where the values and their string representation are completely undocumented.

The only way to validate these values is to copy/paste table data found in the bowels of the systemd source tree. Some parts of systemd are very well documented; others are woefully not, and present an interface that is irredeemably fragile.

Are you sure? I mean, if there is going to be any good reason at all, this might be it. But we should all, in every country, be very wary about granting the power to unilaterally remove citizenship after it is granted.

What if the attribution of fraud or error is itself a fraud or error? If the state finds it expedient to remove citizenship from someone, should we always trust that an accusation of fraud is sound?

Countries, generally, already have legal systems in place that applies to both residents and citizens. Adding an extra-judicial, governmental power to deprive someone of their citizenship, and with it, potentially their job, any freedom of movement within the country, access to their family or assets, etc. is simply dangerous.

Static typing might make me want to be a Python developer.

There's nothing fair about elite sports.

That elite sportspeople train hard and make sacrifices, there is no doubt. But they also require: opportunity, training, good genes, good nutrition, and a measure of good luck. We're already selecting for people with wider shoulders, or larger lungs, etc. etc.

Using steroids may not be fair, but is it fair to have genetics that naturally promote muscle growth? Is it fair that Joe had the time and financial support to support his high school athletics development, but Bruce had to help in the restaurant every night, and barely had time to do his homework?

What, exactly, do you want to measure or reward in elite sport?

asafoetida.

As I'm sure you know, the modern CPU and memory architecture is far removed from the constant-cost memory read assumption that underlies a lot of algorithmic analysis. Sure, it applies asymptotically, but many applications do not live in an asymptotic world, and the coefficients matter.

Binary search on a sorted sequence that fits in cache can be way faster than tree traversal over a structure that doesn't.

It's not clear from the description in the README: is the interpolated binary search distinct from a regula falsi root finiding variant?

Well, no, it isn't my fucking job. Start with Wikipedia.

You'll see in the article mention of climate-driven migrations already underway in Central America and the Middle East. It's not the major focus, so it might have been easy to miss.

Hundreds of millions of people will not just sit and wait to die of famine or heat stroke. There will be an accommodation, or there will be war. Is this what we want?

If we're not going to fix the climate, the only other option to avoid catastrophe is to invest hugely in infrastructure: energy production, high density agriculture, whole new cities. This is not going to be simply waved away by a magical invisible hand.

No, no they were not.

How can we still be having this 'debate', for God's sake? Where are you getting this deceitfully wrong information?

I just saw a Youtube pre-roll ad saying Trump is subservient to China, and went easy on them during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, which is it?

Which way is the wind blowing?

Two points:

• Per capita gives you a proxy for infection risk.
• Total cases, bearing in mind considerations of the extent of testing, gives you a proxy for the degree in which containment measures have been effective, at least until saturation effects come in to consideration.

It is not reasonable to make well-mixedness assumptions about the infected population when it comes to evaluating the response of interventions while the case count is a low proportion of the population.

Until the 5.2e12 dollars per year of global fossil fuel subsidies are curtailed, everything else the population does is little more than noise.

Blaming consumers for global warming is nothing more than a misdirection.

If the burning of fossil fuels were costed so as to include the externalities, then the cost of producing kerosene from atmospheric CO2 and electrical power would be cheaper than the cost of burning fossil-derived fuel.

Electrical power can technically supply the fuel used by aeroplanes; it is uneconomic only because externalities are not accounted for. The cost of burning a CO2-emitting fuel should be made equivalent to the cost of pulling that CO2 back out of the atmosphere.