Or for a more elaborate version, get a large cardboard tube, cover one end with tracing paper and the other end with tinfoil, and poke a hole in the tinfoil. If the tinfoil is secured with an elastic band and under tension it should be possible to poke a really clean pinhole.

I don't think I've ever seen Neil Armstrong confused with Chairman Mao before...

By default, yes, but some compilers have flags to produce deterministic builds precisely for this kind of checksum validation to be useful.

In general, when country A extradites individual P to country B, B can't add new charges against P without the consent of A. (I note that the US-UK extradition treaty may be an exception: I haven't read it, but I do know that it has a reputation for being very one-sided).

I'll grant civil suits, but I think you're wrong about state courts, or at least it's nuanced. The recent case where SCOTUS held that Trump should not be excluded from the Colorado ballot due to the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution followed the path from state court to state supreme court to SCOTUS.

They obviously see the Brazilian diaspora as their core audience.

Do you need good lawyers when you own the Supreme Court?

Does anyone fully understand modern machines? I would expect that some people understand parts completely and other parts well enough for practical purposes, but most people who aren't chip designers have a mental model which is several generations of chip design out of date.

Calculating e is pretty boring: the Taylor series converges extremely fast. You can calculate e by hand to 100dp on a single sheet of paper and have space left over. sqrt 2 is also pretty boring: Newton-Raphson. The choice of pi is pretty arbitrary, but it has a wealth of interesting approaches to calculate it.

It's not about distinguishability. The Mona Lisa in the Prado is easily distinguished from the one in the Louvre, but some people still care about whether Leonardo printed it.

A fence topped with barbed wire and four soldiers with automatic rifles is AIUI what secured the NATO microwave tower near where I grew up. Of course, that was before everyone and his dog had aerial drones.

The jump from "web-based" to "on servers you don't control" is a non sequitur. It's perfectly possible for a large organisation to host its own software on its own servers.

The link in the summary with anchor text MorphoSource takes you to the repository. But the combination of "over 13,000 museum specimens" and "free to anyone" does seem to be an overclaim. There are 6399 objects marked as "open download", and 10659 marked as "restricted download".

... the Global South thinks the West is full of shit and completely hypocritical ...

Absolutely. But that's orthogonal to the question of whether China's trying to dominate it. The Belt and Road Initiative potentially gives China ownership of the modern infrastructure that it's helping to build and that the partner nations will depend on. It's at least plausible that the strategic thinking behind the initiative isn't purely about facilitating trade but also about setting up a good grip on the other nations' economies in the future.

Not sure why you mention a signature specifically.

GPP obviously mentions a signature specifically because the judge of first instance mentioned signatures specifically in the ruling, and that's what the appeal is about. The interesting question is why the judge mentioned signatures specifically, because they don't appear to be mentioned specifically in the statute referenced by counsel.