But yes, to preempt the inevitable response, anecode != evidence, I could have told them, but they shouldn't have taken my word for it either! Tough spot to be in. Covid-19-Catch-22

Clearly the whole field of respiratory virus transmission had been little studied until now. Sound like they just went with the traditional cold/flu guidance, which never wanted to admit aerosol transmission of anything because it sounds scary, but it turned out the traditional guidance was wrong and most cases are transmitted by aerosol.

Which i could have told them from working in open floor plan offices and getting all the cold coronaviruses twice over and maybe a flu or two despite washing my hands 6 times a day. One person comes in with a cold and over the next month everyone else in the office ends up with it, but not necessarily in the order that droplet or surface transmission would imply. I don't recall sitting near any clearly sick people coughing all over. I'd have sat somewhere else. And it still happens in cube offices just not as fast

At least they finally admitted it, better late than never , and the cold/flu guidance is very overdue dor further study and a big update. It's a tough job trying to handle a new virus because you have to say something but each one is different and nobody can claim to know for sure or always give the correct guidance for some time after. Still, trying to deny it for so long, and blaming it on lack of evidence, sure looks like lying if not then gross incompetence, specially since there is little evidence that the traditional guidance was ever correct either. They were making an educated but ultimately incorrect and misleading guess.

Sorry, should have included the relevant text, note "male inhabitants being 21 years of age and citizens" ("male" superseded by 19th Amendment, "21 years" superseded by 26th), Amendment XIV, Article 2:

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

Amendment XV, Section 1:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Nope, not only has that subsection never actually been enforced, it clearly states that it only applies to people who would otherwise be eligible to vote, but are being denied "for whatever reason". Which was originally intended to mean, recently freed slaves, knowing the southern states would try to deny them the right to vote "for whatever reason" as they did (and are still doing).

But, it was basically superseded by the Fifteenth Amendment, which forbade the southern states for doing it, so they kind of couldn't be punished again under the 14th for something they already couldn't legally do under the 15th. So they had to pretend very hard to be giving freed slaves the right to vote while not actually doing so, and Congress finally had to step in eventually and make them do it.

Today, this subsection only applies to disenfranchised felons, of which there have never been enough to trigger a change in congressional apportionment to my knowledge, in any case it doesn't apply to noncitizens at all as it says and has never been enforced.

Though it was not formally repealed, that section has been superseded by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, which is even more clear on the issue:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.

Oh and they may have physical evidence now...the tell-tale watch.. ? "Investigators believe they may know where the body is buried? Well how long does it take to get out there with a shovel? I'll chalk it up(no pun) to classic crappy Newsweek reporting and copy editing and hope they already did a long time ago.

spooky.. i looked at the clock after reading this and it was... 4:20am!

Everyone has a plan til they get punched in the mouth

As far as I can tell though iMessage is almost entirely useless if you don't have a SIM card and phone number attached to it. It's difficult even trying to explain to iPhone users that they can call me at my email address and have it ring FaceTime on my MacBook, much less getting them to actually do it regularly without forgetting and calling my phone number anyway and concluding that I'm just not answering the phone when it's because I don't also have an iPhone. No thanks to Apple which intentionally makes any kind of interoperation just opaque and difficult enough that you just go buy an iPhone (but not opaque and difficult enough to raise the ire of the Department of Justice learning from the example they made of Microsoft)

The "Patch the Game" minigame: if you want to keep playing, you'll have to patch out the crashy parts! How meta

I'll bet payment was in the form of someone else's ill gotten crypto gains, where like with Mafia money the hard part isn't getting the money, it's spending it without getting caught

No seriously, I just make two copies on separate disks of varying years makes models and types of anything I would mind being lost, and pray I don't forget where I left the second copy, or format both without copying the other... That and upload everything to Google Drive but, as a previous story mentioned, Google Drive is all great until Google arbitrarily bans you with no explanation and refuses to unban you thus throwing all your data in the virtual dumpster fire in the cloud

DKIM does not necessarily require signing any or all of the body. If the optional "l" field in the signature header is set, it specifies the number of bytes of the body that are signed, ranging from 0, where none of the body is signed, to the length of the message where all of it is signed (this is the default if the field is not specified), or anything in between, which would allow any arbitrary bytes to be appended to the body without (theoretically) breaking the signature. That said, I have not actually tried modifying the l field, and in practice there is a possibility it would increase the likelihood of the message being rejected if the receiving server believes any of that that makes it look more like it came out of an automated email system, or if its signature verification algorithm is broken and fails to take the field into account! With how insanely complicated (and breakable, intentionally or not) DKIM signing is, I would not at all be surprised if this were sometimes the case, only disappointed.

NY wasn't built for cars and buses nor was it built for pedestrians. It was built for horses. So as it turns out, you often find yourself traveling horse-distances under human-power, that is why the geography the system is built on is indeed important cause you don't want to find yourself a two-horse-buggy distance away from where you're going which can happen pretty easily!

And you would care about linear distance between stations when your destination is at the midpoint of two or three of them as it generally is :)

Sorry but it is useful info to transit riders in Manhattan who generally know to which Avenue and Street they are traveling, and would like to know without having to ask Google which station is nearest. And therefore they also generally know which 23rd St Station they want or are at because they know the Avenue, or can look at the map and find out. It's quite different from Tokyo or London where you have a clear center and spokes radiating out, it's linear. Can be confusing to tourists for sure but contrary to popular belief the locals are generally more than happy to help you. In any case the system was built for New Yorkers first and it suits them well enough.