cavanasm

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by cavanasm 3y ago
The cost of the request is often based on how many man hours it will take to fulfill. Different agencies have different rates / different capabilities for performing the document search itself. Some agencies may also reflexively deny r
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by cavanasm 4y ago
The title of the job opening says computational chemistry, but the details indicate they're looking for someone with credentials in one of a few different computation / simulation specialized fields. If I had to guess, it seems po
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by cavanasm 4y ago
I think a huge aspect of that is simply that very few games have their budgets disclosed.
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by cavanasm 5y ago
https://weatherchannel.fandom.com/wiki/KOMO-TV#Previous_Pers... From here, I looked up pictures of anchors who worked in that time period, and I see Eric Slocum (now deceased) and Margo Myers who did evening news toget
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Don't know about their definition for this article, but the US Constitution doesn't define credentials required to exercise freedom of the press. Everyone in America gets that right. Literally anyone can be a journalist by acting
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by cavanasm 6y ago
This wasn't all in one place. Also, the general strike was one day, but the protests after that day have continued.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
My state uses this method already.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Apple Inc vs Pepper. It was filed very early in iOS's life, got thrown out in 2013 after years of wrangling (by this same judge?), I didn't realize this part, but it went all the way up to SCOTUS in 2019 after getting thrown out,
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by cavanasm 6y ago
There hasn't been a hearing on an injunction yet, that happens later this month. The hearing that HAS happened was on a temporary restraining order, which was to keep Apple from doing anything UNTIL AFTER the injunction hearing. The di
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Believe it or not, you can put illegal things in contracts, and lawsuits are there to work that situation out, which is why Epic has gone this route.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
On that "try different treatment modalities" note, for talk therapy (which is very often not handled by a psychiatrist, but by a psychologist), don't be afraid to find someone else if you feel your therapist isn't helpin
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by cavanasm 6y ago
So I agree iOS walled garden is an issue, but the 30% thing isn't the sole problem there, and really all digital game platforms with the exception of the Epic Games Store uses that same rate. The big difference on PC for developers (be
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by cavanasm 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, it isn't, but it could have been part of the filings for the temporary restraining order. The number is from this coverage of the hearing by a tech/legal reporter. https://twitter.com/sara
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by cavanasm 6y ago
The Android suit has different claims in it than the iOS suit. One of the issues with Android is the allegation that Google killed deals Epic was trying to make with Android hardware manufacturers (by voicing objections to the manufacturers
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by cavanasm 6y ago
In court, Apple claimed that iOS payments are 12% of total Fortnite revenue, just for reference. It's not a death blow, but it's definitely impactful.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
In the court hearings, Epic explained how they implemented their payment processor change addition without catching Apple's notice. The app simply asks the Epic servers for a list of payment processors available to display to users, an
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by cavanasm 6y ago
I've been a PC game pass subscriber since they started it up and haven't been disappointed. I honestly think it's one of the best values in gaming right now. Not every game on game pass is something you're going to love,
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by cavanasm 6y ago
It's more complicated than that. They blend traditional food crops with trees, shrubs, etc, often alongside some kind of transition cycle where they'll change what is growing where over time. Sort of a blend of sustainable logging
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Yeah, I lost my phone for the first time last year, and was very very glad for this default, because I was able to remove 2FA on my now lost phone from my computer that remained logged into google services, and log into google on the replac
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by cavanasm 6y ago
The hedge fund placed exec who has been running Gizmodo into the ground for the last year. Part of a larger trend of user-hostile design changes that have caused quite a lot of controversy as they attempt to extract as much value in the sho
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by cavanasm 6y ago
And that's a fully valid criticism of a certain style of mainstream news that I completely agree with, and that is also being discussed in some circles, and even by some journalists, although it hasn't hit mainstream media level c
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Feels like you either missed the point of some of those specific recent examples, or you're oversimplifying them. With the show, Cops (Live PD as well), the overriding concern was that the film crew and the process had turned law enfor
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Major this. Also plug for CGP Grey's "politics in the animal kingdom" video series that explains exactly why we have that 'lesser of two evils' problem, and how exactly RCV and Alternative vote systems resolve that
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by cavanasm 6y ago
Even worse, the employee who was asked to pick him out of a line up hadn't even witnessed the crime in the first place.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
It wasn't just that the employee picked the man out of 6 pack; the employee they interviewed wasn't even a witness to the crime in the first place.
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by cavanasm 6y ago
I think you might be overestimating the thought processes behind this, and underestimating the lack of thought among many people who buy their clothing. They're known as "Fratagonia" at colleges and universities nationwide be
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by cavanasm 6y ago
I'm in Richmond, Virginia, and according to people monitoring the unencrypted fire department radios on twitter (one of them a fairly reputable community organizer, but rate the source as you will), this exact situation supposedly happ
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by cavanasm 7y ago
Came here for this. I've had so many struggles with big enterprise data where engineers who design the schema think empty strings and nulls should have meaningful distinctions, but the humans involved in creating that data (who are not
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by cavanasm 7y ago
I'm also under the impression that the evidence for Juul being meaningfully safer than cigarettes doesn't really exist. It's more a lack of evidence in either direction (whether Juul and similar vape products are more or less
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by cavanasm 7y ago
They're saying it's too expensive to do outside of Bozeman. The sentence that begins that paragraph clarifies it. "But it may not work everywhere."

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