pratheekrebala

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by pratheekrebala 3y ago
The workers also contributed to that 92% increase in profit.
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U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal(nytimes.com)
2 points by pratheekrebala 3y ago|0 comments
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by pratheekrebala 4y ago
Balloons are treated differently under the Chicago convention. There’s a little bit more leeway for balloons when it comes to overflights on sovereign territory.
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by pratheekrebala 4y ago
Which programs are you referring to?
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by pratheekrebala 5y ago
Yes! In our newsroom (which isn't perfect by any means) - I have been testing using Qubes for really sensitive/untrusted documents. We also open un-trusted documents (from e.g. FOIA responses) on a machine live-booting from a CD.
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by pratheekrebala 5y ago
I see your point, however, having worked in newsrooms - it really is about their beat and their threat-model. My organization covers a wide range of beats and folks covering national security or other sensitive topics have an entirely diffe
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by pratheekrebala 6y ago
Paper: https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabf4315?utm_so...
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Swarms of robotic fish synchronize their swimming, for the first time [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pratheekrebala 6y ago|1 comments
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Kubernetes on the U-2(acc.af.mil)
2 points by pratheekrebala 6y ago|0 comments
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by pratheekrebala 6y ago
Do you have any thoughts on how the October bulletin might affect folks on cap-exempt visas? (non-profits, academia etc)
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by pratheekrebala 7y ago
One of the more extreme cases we found: A woman was detained at Philadelphia International Airport on her return from Punta Cana. After a few hours (~7hrs) of questioning she is pressured to sign a consent form, denied a consultation with a
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by pratheekrebala 7y ago
The searches that even a U.S. Citizen could be subject to (without a warrant) are extremely broad[1]. > Legal precedents grant federal officers at ports of entry the power, without warrants, to require people to strip for a “visual insp
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by pratheekrebala 7y ago
FWIW - ALEC does make all their model bills available online: https://www.alec.org/model-policy/ But they are hardly the only player, we were interested in not only identifying how far these known model bills are going
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by pratheekrebala 7y ago
Hi everyone! I'm a news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. I worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions. This project was basically an all-pairs text similarity problem. We were able to identify a lot of copycat l
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by pratheekrebala 8y ago
FOIA officers will still find a way to send me scanned PDFs of spreadsheets.
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Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem(journalistsresource.org)
81 points by pratheekrebala 8y ago|81 comments
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by pratheekrebala 8y ago
Right, I was just pointing out that OPs case is in the minority of tax filers and that making this option available would benefit a lot of tax-filers and wouldn't prevent OP from filing their taxes as they normally would.
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Climate change is exacerbating the Lyme disease epidemic in Maine(publicintegrity.org)
2 points by pratheekrebala 8y ago|0 comments
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by pratheekrebala 8y ago
I don't think this would prevent you from using a CPA or Itemizing your return. However, this system could be very beneficial for the 68.5% of the population that doesn't itemize[1]. [1] https://taxfoundation.org/w
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Department of Defense Announces Successful Micro-Drone Demonstration(defense.gov)
3 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|0 comments
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Wireless Brain-Spine Connection Overcomes Paralysis in Monkey(nytimes.com)
3 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|0 comments
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by pratheekrebala 10y ago
Michael Ossmann gave a great talk at DEFCON on RF Retro-reflectors. Provides a good technical overview of the approach they used here. Starts at 3:32 -- https://youtu.be/mAai6dRAtFo?t=212
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Security Analysis of Estonia's Internet Voting System(youtube.com)
4 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|0 comments
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A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can’t Do It All Yet(nytimes.com)
2 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|0 comments
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Update on Maintaining and Running the Pokémon GO Service(pokemongo.nianticlabs.com)
63 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|48 comments
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Hawking: We need to rethink our attitude towards wealth(theguardian.com)
89 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|85 comments
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by pratheekrebala 10y ago
The document vindicates a lot of the analysis that Kennan makes in his article. However, we do have to acknowledge the outlook that drove the party line. Among the recipients of this telegram were Stalin and Molotov (then Minister of Foreig
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by pratheekrebala 10y ago
If you enjoyed this, please do read Nikolai Novikov's (then Soviet Ambassador to the US) analysis of US Foreign Policy in a similar fashion, but from the perspective of the USSR. The Novikov Telegram (1946) is considered the soviet equ
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“IP over Avian Carriers”(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pratheekrebala 10y ago|0 comments
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by pratheekrebala 10y ago
Yeah -- you are correct. TSA later reported that the actual cost of the randomizer was around $47k. The total figure I had mentioned earlier was part of a larger contract with IBM. I saw the generic "IGF::CT::IGF MOBILE APPLICATION DEV

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