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by quarterdime 2y ago
Interesting. Two key quotes: > It is unclear if the Intercept ruling will embolden other publications to consider DMCA litigation; few publications have followed in their footsteps so far. As time goes on, there is concern that new suits
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by quarterdime 2y ago
Enron energy traders called power plants and asked them to shut down during high load times. They encouraged the plant personnel to fabricate the reason for shut down. This created an electricity shortage, which forced rolling blackouts. En
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by quarterdime 3y ago
If you are using qubes, you are likely using kicksecure. Whonix (used by many qubes users) is based on kicksecure.
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by quarterdime 3y ago
I have heard this argument before, and it made sense to me until I became a patient. First of all, if the 3rd party (insurance company) was so incentivized to guard against fraud, why would they repeatedly lose documents that had been submi
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by quarterdime 3y ago
The espionage act famously does not allow for whistleblowing as a defense. Tulsi Gabbard [1], Rashida Tlaib [2], Ron Wyden and Ro Khanna [3] (and perhaps others) have tried to introduce legislation to change this. For example, Reality Winne
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by quarterdime 3y ago
Great videos. First video, about 22:50: "and we had a new challenge, OK? For the last three or four years our, our distribution has run sold out. So anytime we go and get a sale and we go and create inventory, we know it's going t
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by quarterdime 4y ago
There has been some reporting about commercial morgage backed securities (CMBS): https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street...
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by quarterdime 4y ago
I am glad you are still here, yet sorry to hear of that experience. Thanks for sharing. >Couldn’t figure out how to fight them at the time, since most of my reasoning was gone. Very similar to my experience too. Very few people are best
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by quarterdime 4y ago
This story sounds all too familiar to me. I have been denied coverage and subsequently saddled with debt. I know others who have experienced similar. I wonder how widespread this is. Reading about insurance company's internal process i
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by quarterdime 4y ago
Your suggestion of staying home if sick is one I agree with. Unfortunately I cannot make others do this. In fact, where I live in the USA I come across people who are visibly/audibly ill in my daily life: air travel, public transport,
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by quarterdime 4y ago
Thanks for the arcgis link. It is interesting to compare to the Sentinel 1A data from the study[0]. For example there is one existing (ground based) measurement East of Mont Belvieu (P050), but most of the displacement in the satellite data
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by quarterdime 4y ago
In my own working experience and speaking with others, this is the part of "quiet quitting" that is too often missed. This is 100% about the question "does extra professional effort on my part, to the point of sacrifices in m
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by quarterdime 4y ago
Is your brother still in the industry? If so, what are his thoughts about the current working conditions and the possible strike beginning Friday?
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by quarterdime 4y ago
> What is the second person supposed to do - get out and push? Despite the relatively low rolling resistance, even a single rail car is too heavy for a human to push. I am not a railroad worker so I may have this wrong. But there are a n
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by quarterdime 4y ago
This is a great point. A lot of ideas pushed by managers (like one person train crews) have been of the "sounds good on paper" variety. Adding and adding to the length of trains. Replacing (human) wheel inspectors with automation.
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by quarterdime 4y ago
Thank you for this. Especially your first two paragraphs I agree 100% and I think those points are closely related to the Wikipedia article. Along these lines I could add that in Saskatoon, despite at least three men being murdered by po
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by quarterdime 4y ago
Your thoughts are interesting, but I am having trouble seeing how this relates to the Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia article is about police murdering a number of Indigenous Canadians. I am not sure what the connection is to a "virus
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by quarterdime 4y ago
To add to others' comments about timber harvest: Logging operations in burned areas can greatly accelerate erosion. Dead trees have ecological value as habitat and food (woodpeckers are a textbook example). Dead trees have ecological v
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by quarterdime 4y ago
I agree that a living tree is not much of an offset. Trees are short term (and small) carbon stores when compared to fossil fuels. However I do not think that burying a tree solves the problem. Unless we find a way to prevent fungus from br
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by quarterdime 4y ago
From my understanding, the SEC does not share award recipients' identities. That said, every time I see news of an award I wonder if it's gone to an insider or short seller. The insiders are sort of obvious. But the short sellers.
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by quarterdime 4y ago
As a former wildland fire fighter, I can assure you that temperature (and wind and relative humidity) have a HUGE effect on fire behavior. Furthermore temperature and relative humidity (not so much wind) have a huge impact on ignition. My t
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by quarterdime 4y ago
This is a fair question but the answer can get complex. Honestly the design/manufacturing of this aircraft joint is way above my expertise and pay grade. I would hope that Boeing has some extremely specialized and talented people worki
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by quarterdime 4y ago
There are numerous reports on debris (metal shavings, tools, and even a whole ladder) being discovered in aircraft by customers after delivery. This requires not only that assembly signed off on the aircraft, but that the issues are not dis
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by quarterdime 4y ago
0.005 inch is indeed quite small, and a demanding tolerance indeed for carbon fiber composite construction. I trust that Boeing design engineers would have know full well that this tight tolerance would cost a lot of money, and would theref
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by quarterdime 4y ago
From that wikipedia link: "Colonel General Varfolomey Korobushin, former Deputy Chief of Staff of Strategic Rocket Forces, in 1992 said that the Russians had a system, to be activated only during a crisis..." Activated only during
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by quarterdime 5y ago
About the 40 acres, I forgot to link the article where the 40 acre claim is made: https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-working-to-fight-wi... Although I agree that better detection may have some value, I have not seen a
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by quarterdime 5y ago
You have some good points and questions here. I spent 3 summers as a wildland fire fighter and have seen lightening strikes/small fires up to massive 100k acre affairs. I will speak from that experience, but keep in mind it was over a
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by quarterdime 5y ago
It seems to me like they are solving the problem of detecting tiny fires in sections of 40 acres each [1]. Yosemite is about 700k acres. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-working-to-fight-wi...
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by quarterdime 5y ago
I could have worded that better. The people I know who have worked at amazon have described miserable conditions, but great pay. They stayed (for a while) because the money was so good. So what would happen to amazon if the money stopped be
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by quarterdime 5y ago
Is it possible that a large portion of amazon's employees are only staying for the money? If I understand correctly, a large portion of the compensation is tied to the stock price (RSUs). What happens to miserable employees' stay&

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