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https://explainxkcd.com/2913

Now thinking about it in terms of mathematical logic, the DoJ and Supreme Court‘s interpretations is wrong:

It’s actually a law of logic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws) that says that:

not (A and B and C)

is equal to

(not A) or (not B) or (not C)

—

In this case:

The defendant is eligible for relief if he does not (A and B and C)

Which is the same as

The defendant is a eligible for relief if he does (not A) or (not B) or (not C)

—

Which is not what the DoJ is saying. The DoJ is saying that

not (A and B and C)

is equal to

(not A) and (not B) and (not C)

Right! I feel like I’m going crazy because I don’t see how can you interpret it the other way!

lower courts were sharply divided on the vital question of whether “and” bundles the conditions—as in, you don’t have (A), don’t have (B), and don’t have (C)—which would mean a defendant who lacked any one of these conditions would be eligible for relief. The alternative reading, advocated by the Justice Department, holds that “and” really means “or”—that a defendant who met even one of the conditions would not be eligible for relief

The reporter seems to be getting this totally wrong. It’s like he is saying the exact opposite of what I understand. From my point of view:

If a defendant would be elegible for relief if he lacked any one of the conditions, that is actually interpreting that AND means OR.

If a defendant would be eligible for relief if he lacked all of the conditions, that is interpreting that AND means AND.

https://explainxkcd.com/2912

https://explainxkcd.com/2911

Right! I want the elevated rails so bad!

https://explainxkcd.com/2910

https://explainxkcd.com/2909

https://explainxkcd.com/2908

https://explainxkcd.com/2907

Right! I wonder how did the probe send an entire memory dump back without them realizing. Was it programmed to do that when a system failed or something?

an engineer with the agency’s Deep Space Network, which operates the radio antennas that communicate with both Voyagers and other spacecraft traveling to the Moon and beyond, was able to decode the new signal and found that it contains a readout of the entire FDS memory