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The Espionage Act of 1917 states it is illegal for any person "having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book... or information relating to the national defense... willfully communicates, delivers, transmits... the same to any person not entitled to receive it."

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 states it is illegal for anyone who "intending or knowing that the offense will benefit any foreign government, foreign instrumentality, or foreign agent, knowingly... steals, or without authorization appropriates... a trade secret."

Going off the United States defintion of espionage I will classify Human Espionage as having the access to, or control over any knowledge relating to the dominance of the human species... willfully communicates, delivers, transmits to an opposing species not entitled to receive it. Or the intent/knowledge of the offense will benefit a foreign species over the human species.

Now obviously when I talk "foreign species" I am implying AI technology and the frontier labs are engaging in human espionage. I think the act of pursuing super intelligence is equivalent to telling mosquitoes how to unlock mosquito nets and pass around malaria to humans. What other technologies could be classified as this and what's your tier list of individuals to be tried for human espionage?

I’ve been increasingly annoyed with how every media head is now pick the Saints as the ‘sleeper team.’ I’m mainly annoyed with how it’s affected the betting odds for NFC South’s winner. After shough’s second game last season I was mentally preparing for a BIG Vegas bet on us winning the nfc south this year. But now the odds aren’t even that favorable for a big underdog bet. Maybe this is also me complaining about how much the Bucs sucked late last season. Fuck the Bucs.

Also it’s just more fun having the only sympathizers and believers of your favorite team being this sub and a few random insta fan accounts

Lawler's Law states that the first team to 100 points wins the game, and this holds true 91.5% of the time since 1978.

Except for the Knicks.

(Only counting games where opponent scores 100 first) Lawler's law was applicable to 4 knicks games this past postseason:

1. ECF Game 1 (Cavs 104--115 Knicks)
2. NBA Finals Game 2 (Spurs 104--105 Knicks)
3. NBA Finals Game 3 (Spurs 115--111 Knicks)
4. NBA Finals Game 4 (Spurs 106--107 Knicks)

Game 3 of the NBA Finals was the only game where Lawler's Law successfully predicited the Knicks outcome. This means the Knicks violated Lawler's Law at a rate of 75% where the base rate is only 8.5%!!!!!!

Compare this with the previous NBA Champion OKC Thunder who were 1-4 in the playoffs when the opposing team reached 100 first

Give me your favorite lowkey Supreme Court case that most people have probably never heard about. Mine is Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where,

the Court held that officers may not extend the length of a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff unrelated to the original purpose of the stop. An officer who completes all traffic-related tasks expeditiously does not earn extra time to pursue unrelated criminal investigations; the question is not whether the dog sniff occurs before issuance of a ticket, but whether conducting the sniff adds time to the stop.

This was a good moment in the Roberts Court and an important ruling for protecting civil liberties

I'm getting bored writing C all day, a language is just a tool but learning and contruibuting to Rust for embedded projects sounds kind of stimulating. Anyone here write Rust for a living and/or have opinions on Rust for firmware?

He is the captain and god of this team. Any player on the team would die for him. This performance from Argentina is lacking all leadership. Petulant childs on the pitch fouling and resorting to every tactic in the book besides passing the ball and progressing towards a goal. Post game when Paredes in punching players Messi is doing nothing to hold his thugs back. Its despicable from Argentina, and now all 1.8 billion had the chance to watch the disgraceful Argentina appearance.

I’ve had a flu/cold shit going on for about a week now. It’s sucked so badly. Worst of all is it’s taken my appetite for drinking away, which is fucking eating away at me. So last night when I was about to load up my humidifier with water I noticed some miller lites I had in the fridge. I popped a few of them open and filled up my humidifier with them. Best fucking sleep of my life

I’ve had a flu/cold shit going on for about a week now. It’s sucked so badly. Worst of all is it’s taken my appetite for drinking away, which is fucking eating away at me. So last night when I was about to load up my humidifier with water I noticed some miller lites I had in the fridge. I popped a few of them open and filled up my humidifier with them. Best fucking sleep of my life

I was interviewing a candidate for a firmware role recently and he was young guy that looked pretty smart and quick. I had no red flags for the candidate until I asked him to implement 'strtol()' . He tried to use sizeof(string) and some other typical fails I see from candidates when using C strings and char[] arrays. But he eventually got the idea of the problem and then started implementing it pretty smoothly. It was at the point where he had to normalize the values from the ASCII input that he wrote the line of code to implement it. Then the candidate commented above the line "Normalize to ASKEY" and my spidey senses immediately went off. If I didn't know how to spell ASCII and I heard that word its phonetic spelling would be "ASKEY," makes me think the candidate could have had some audio AI in his backgroud audio but I'm not sure. What do you guys think?

(I posted this in r/embedded recently but curious about this sub's response as well)

I'm looking for some good recs from this community, preferrably recent econ or psych books you all have found interesting. For context my most recent reads:

- A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark

- Progress & Poverty by Henry George

- How to Win Friends & Influence People (I read this religiously at least 3 times a year and still it hasn't helped :/ )

Also curious how everyone finds their book recs nowadays, is following scott on goodreads just the new meta? Or any other ideas?