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“Security. How should a bank handle customers wearing masks coming into a branch? It may be difficult to distinguish between a customer and a bank robber.”[1] - since when do bank robbers wear surgical masks??

Source: Matt Levine @ Bloomberg[2]

[1]https://www.fdic.gov/coronavirus/faq-fi.pdf
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-20/senators-picked-a-good-time-to-sell-stocks

Started the article thinking there’s nothing wrong with GitHub’s repo page. Ended it by concluding that there’s actually little right. I don’t think the design is perfect (I would bring the README higher up), but there’s some great ideas here! https://tonsky.me/blog/github-redesign/

Who would’ve guessed, turns out studying category theory is hard - especially in the context of quantum computing…

“Parker called on the tech firms to “use the brilliant technologists you’ve got” to answer a question: “Can you provide end-to-end encryption but on an exceptional basis – exceptional basis – where there is a legal warrant and a compelling case to do it, provide access to stop the most serious forms of harm happening?”” Translation: please use your brilliant engineers to draw a triangle using only parallel and perpendicular lines https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/25/mi5-chief-asks-tech-firms-for-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-messages

What an absurd statement the QI Elves recently tweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1222859993394962432?s=20. Appears the original source was https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555, which says
“Our investigation indicates that humans in high-income countries have changed physiologically over the last 200 birth years with a mean body temperature 1.6% lower than in the pre-industrial era.” - a percentage calculated relative to the freezing point of water… Steve Mold has a great piece on the absurdity of relativistic temperature statements: https://youtu.be/C91gKuxutTU