Aloisius

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by Aloisius 9mo ago
It was going 17 mph. That is rather slow. To put it another way. If an autonomous vehicle has a reaction time of 0.3 seconds, the stopping distance from 17 mph is about the same as a fully alert human driver (1 second reaction time) driving
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Core data is CC-BY-4.0, "recommended" data is licensed with a fee for certain commercial uses. https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/data-registr...
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> Calling ICE "gestapo" and Trump "Hitler" and are genuinely crazy things, gestapo can be pretty accurately described by 1984 as the thought police, ICE, while being an organ of a state is far from that. I'm no
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I'm confused as to why the State Department would confirm Congress was going to introduce or pass legislation. They're not exactly involved in the process.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted.[0] Apple can't decrypt it. That said, when setting up FileVault, you have the option to escrow your recovery key with Apple. If you enable that, Apple can get the recovery key. [0] https:
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> At google "more than 8% of DIMM memory modules were affected by errors per year" That's all errors including permanent hardware failure, not just transient bit flips or from cosmic rays.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> In 2020 federal memo and regulatory changes under Trump's first administration to send more water from Northern California to Central Valley agriculture via federal projects were ignored by the governor of california, and instead
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Investors? It's publicly funded.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
While definitely not a startup, the National Archives made https://clintonwhitehouse1.archives.gov/ and https://clintonwhitehouse2.archives.gov/ IPv6-only. While I don't think a couple administration&#
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> Leading zeros don't do what you think they do It's has been pretty normal for clocks with digital displays to include leading zeros for seconds, minutes, hours and/or days for about a century. Doing the same for years,
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The conceptualization of religion as a category, is actually quite a bit older. The idea that it was created recently was, well, created recently.[1] Casadio details it going back thousands of years across cultures.[2] [1] https:/&#x2
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> i would be quite offended if, some thousand years from now, the aesthetic decision is dismissed as primitive superstition. Why? I can't imagine being offended if people today , ignorant of the true motivations, dismissed it as
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
It's definitely a mile from the closest pier as the crow flies, a mile and a quarter from land. Depending on the current, actual swim distance will be closer to 1.4-2 miles since it'll drag you out of a straight line.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I'm not sure these are the best examples. Neither case would be considered patent infringement as the original inventions were too old to be protected by patents even had the British filed for patent protection in the US. Moreover, Low
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Sadly, in San Francisco, renters have been even more NIMBY than homeowners. https://www.mhankinson.com/documents/renters_preprint.pdf
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Really? You haven't seen frequent delays in the last decade? Not even for the (sadly) semi-regular pedestrian fatalities that happen once or twice a month? Those usually delay trains for over an hour. Caltrain's own reports say th
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Patents (what protects inventions) have nothing to do with copyright.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I buy soda syrup to make soda, but even that's gotten expensive. Funny thing is that I do it to reduce how much I was putting in recycling, but even with the extra state tax for bottles/cans, it actually costs me slightly more to
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The 12,000 number comes from Iran International's Editorial Board, not some random twitter user: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601130145
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
> Starlink terminals also require a clear view of the sky and they broadcast on certain frequencies That's not quite true. You can conceal the terminal using a number of materials that won't significantly interfere with the s
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
They're state-organized. It's a recurring pattern. After any major protest, the Iranian government organizes rallies to project an image that they have popular support. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601128783
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The PM wasn't democratically elected. Iran wasn't in era of peace and tranquility 75 years ago. The PM was not popular in 1953 after his promise of prosperity after seizing British oil fields not only failed to materialize, but in
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Iran's elections 75 years ago were about as democratic as North Korea's. They were just theater. Everyone was involved in rigging, candidates, the monarchy, foreign nations, etc., Mosaddegh included. And peace and tranquility? Ir
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
It's from Jack's Goldstone's Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction . Nicole Bauer did a better job paraphrasing than I can, so I'll just quote her: > [Goldstone] notes that a revolution requires lack of support fro
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I did not say it was a charity.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
We're seeing what looks to be a full blown economic collapse. People don't have money to buy food right now. I don't see what reforms they could implement that can quickly fix this as they need to radically alter trust in the
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
The IMF is essentially a credit union with 191 member countries, so they'd become a vassal to most of the world - if by vassal, one means to agree to terms that might make it possible to repay loans. Some (including quite a few neolibe
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
Iran's currency collapsed. That generally requires more than platitudes and token reform to recover from.
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
I believe it's all unverified right now. > "Unverified reports indicate that at least several hundreds, and according to some sources, more than 2,000 people may have been killed," IHR said in a statement, adding that acc
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by Aloisius 9mo ago
"Democratically elected." Elections were about as democratic in Iran as they are in North Korea. By the time the Shah dismissed the Prime Minister, Mosaddegh had dissolved parliament, was jailing his opponents, his party had turne

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