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by browsingonly 21d ago
A friend of mine was involved with AVLIS and Pu-AVLIS. There were/are significant counterproliferation concerns with them. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the lack of major commercialization, but I wouldn't find
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by browsingonly 2mo ago
> actual understanding of the pros and cons of union membership Many of us have worked in $MEGACORPS with substantial union representation among the employees, have seen what it does and how it works in practice, and as a result want not
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
> open competitive programs based on project quality This will never, ever happen. There will always be bonus points available, even if they're awarded to "conservative"-leaning feel-good attributes like veteran-owned spon
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
Your consent is given when you choose to pay for a ticket and attend an event there. For publicly-funded venues, you may have a point. But if Bimbo's or the Warfield in San Francisco wants to ban someone and it's not for a reason
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
> AI in its current form has limited usefulness for most people. That's not what I'm seeing. My mom always wanted Google to just answer questions, and now ChatGPT can. She uses it enough in her daily life that she bought a subs
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
I find it bizarre you imagine a world where immoral or amoral persons are somehow not at fault for their own behavior. When some turd goes into a Walgreen's on Market St. in SF and fills a bag with goods to resell, they aren't doi
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
That's laughably false propaganda. Maybe one person one time stole something for jail health care, but the hundreds of thousands of other shoplifters do it for other reasons, ranging from being unable or unwilling to control their chil
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
Not when cops are wearing them. Cops with these that have the day's BOLO and warrant hotlist loaded on them will be the new hot ALPR.
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by browsingonly 3mo ago
Donald Trump.
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by browsingonly 4mo ago
That wasn't a leak, it was a breach (perpetrated by Chinese state security).
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by browsingonly 4mo ago
Passing a mandatory class != believing in its message and acting on it. Unfortunately, rather important courses like engineering ethics have become lumped in with mandatory DEI objectives and similar 'grievance studies' requiremen
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by browsingonly 4mo ago
SSNs have been used as student IDs by particularly stupid educational institutions. The 'nice' thing about getting SSNs from students is the likelihood they'll live for a long time after the breach and thus be subject to iden
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by browsingonly 5mo ago
> Navy's reputation has been squandered in the last year I don't understand how anything that has occurred in the last year would make a Somali pirate think it's less likely they would be killed if they chose to resist an
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by browsingonly 5mo ago
Until the cost of local production (union labor, environmental regulations, etc.) meets the increasing costs of imports during said shortfall. Then we'll just make it here. The shortfall goes away but the price would admittedly be high
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by browsingonly 5mo ago
The Big Three have many non-credit-report products, and no they will not share them with the reports' subjects (you and I).
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by browsingonly 6mo ago
That was the point of Horizon Worlds. They were trying a (very expensive) social play for VR. The problem is that the intersection/suitability of VR and social media is rather low, while as a counterexample the intersection of mobile a
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by browsingonly 6mo ago
I work on products that feature live monitoring capabilities. There's no connection to the monitoring side's microphone (or camera) — why would there be? I'm not sure why there would be for their products. Whatever the cause,
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by browsingonly 6mo ago
Repossessing cars isn't societally harmful, quite the opposite in fact.
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by browsingonly 6mo ago
https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs
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by browsingonly 7mo ago
Some are installed by private entities. Home Depot installs Flock cameras in their parking lots. I assume their primary use case is combating organized retail theft rings, as companies like Target spend a great deal on this problem (to incl
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by browsingonly 7mo ago
Billionaires For Bush did it first, and better.
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
Here, among other vendors: https://southbendreplicas.com/
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
That's not true. They have millions of digitized 4473s. They are banned by law from creating a searchable registry of gun owners but they digitize paperwork on a daily basis. https://medium.com/statute-circuit/the-
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
I lived it when I lived in West Oakland. Tagging, violence, hell a neighbor was shot in the face in front of her family over a gang beef. I'm still exposed to it now working with people reentering society after being incarcerated. You
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
Not all harm is physical.
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
I don't know anyone in tech who enjoyed watching gangs mark their territory with tags in their neighborhood.
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
Maybe just more mature.
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
I think Estonia would be mad to think France will risk Paris to save Tallinn from being occupied.
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by browsingonly 8mo ago
Use the transmission lines to link up with an RF node to hand off. Friendly territory might just be some place without good Russian internal security coverage (perhaps deeper in Russia rather than towards the front lines if the node uses sa