[tumult]

I was going to copy and paste some choice dumb quotes from this, but apparently I'm not allowed to select text or something on NYT, since they use JS to remove my selection as soon as I make it. I added nytimes.com to my HN filter. Sorry if this comment is kind of useless for actual discussion of the article, but I had thought NYT didn't put out crap like this or (once you got in, anyway) do shady stuff on their site.

edit: I guess it's one of those insert-shit-into-your-clipboard-when-you-try-to-copy-text things, except it's breaking in Chromium in Linux for me.

[fnid2]

The only way I could replicate this is through selecting some text, then clicking until the ? appears (which lets you search their site for the selected text) and then clicking somewhere else. The ? goes away and takes the selected text. But I think it's unintentional and do no believe they are intentionally trying to keep you from selecting text. I was able to keep the selection there.

[python123]

I can cut and paste just fine.