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by Breza 5y ago
Gmail rules are powerful and underutilized. I have a bunch of them set up to handle different tasks that used to be manual.
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by Breza 5y ago
The internet was designed to survive any single point of failure. Over the past 20 years, we've seen the internet become massively reliant on a handful of big players. Now when there's an outage, we see thousands of websites go do
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by Breza 5y ago
I take it a step further. I try to write out the content of a meeting in an email so we're all on the same page and can skip the information sharing part. My meetings with my team tend to be very short.
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by Breza 5y ago
And as much as I'll criticize the way we run farm subsidy programs, I have to say I'm glad that my food isn't stuck on a ship off the coast of California right now.
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by Breza 5y ago
This is an interesting Post article on that very topic. I used one of my monthly free shares, so you'll be able to read the job even if you don't subscribe. https://wapo.st/30nLgUm
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by Breza 5y ago
Seconded. My company offers this and it's a great resource.
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by Breza 5y ago
This is how I get FOIA responses. Agencies just remove the pieces they don't want me to see, sometimes with a code to tell me why it was excised. I use the redaction feature built into Acrobat.
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by Breza 5y ago
For future reference, I suggest contacting the bank in a situation like this. They're likely to refund a duplicate charge filed a few seconds after an initial charge.
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by Breza 5y ago
Here in Washington DC, the regulators are serious about cracking down on that kind of thing. They even have a squad car with lights and everything.
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by Breza 5y ago
The Post had a cover story a few years ago on people moving to cheaper cities in the region. I still love living in the District, even though it's not cheap.
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by Breza 5y ago
1946: Water I'm currently reading Inside USA and it's amazing how many of the issues the author describes remain current. Western water management is a big one, along with structural racism in the south.
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by Breza 5y ago
Plus there's a huge amount of power that comes with being part of the United States. Imagine having to renegotiate every treaty from scratch.
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by Breza 5y ago
When the students working at concession stand at a football game are paid while the players aren't, it's not a fair system. So many students get paid for what they do in conjunction with their studies. If a third string swimmer te
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by Breza 5y ago
If there's a useful gray area, then the law should change to legalize it.
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by Breza 5y ago
Even those people ought to get vaccinated. Vaccination is the best way to stop the spread of disease. We don't rely on natural immunity to fight measles, and we shouldn't do it for COVID-19.
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by Breza 5y ago
Agreed, though it was a bit easier to follow since it's shorter. The ending could be interpreted as a prequel to TBP.
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by Breza 5y ago
My understanding is that Tether has bought a bunch of bonds and other financial instruments. If they need to raise cash, they would sell those instruments for whatever price they could get. That could lower the prices, which could have nega
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by Breza 5y ago
The fights over the Bank of the United States and the Federal Reserve have been public and well documented. Congress has as much oversight as it wants to grant itself. That's very different from Tether.
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by Breza 5y ago
This is a good point. Dropping a million bucks on an ad campaign wouldn't get them this much publicity.
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by Breza 5y ago
Exactly. Did an oil company exec tell you that their sales are down before the earnings are released? That's insider trading. Did you hire a helicopter with a thermal camera to see how full their storage tanks are? That's perfectl
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by Breza 5y ago
After reading Bad Blood, I can't help but wonder if CVS spotted the scam and stayed away.
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by Breza 5y ago
All of this comes with a big "Work in progress" caveat. Still, this type of technology has been theorized for decades so it's nice to see Airbus making progress. Let's see if they can get it to the point of commercializa
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by Breza 5y ago
Plus it can be deployed on an as-needed basis. Large concert in a rural area? Hurricane destroy your city's infrastructure? Toss up a few planes and get the service you need for a week or month until the situation is resolves. (At leas
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by Breza 5y ago
Proving the concept is huge, since this is an idea that's at least as old as satellites. Once they have the proof of concept, I see three additional hurdles: 1. Safety. Prove you can keep these things in the air for months at a time wi
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by Breza 5y ago
That's a definite problem for ISP duties. Law enforcement is used to "sorry no air support tonight, it's windy."
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by Breza 5y ago
I envision more unarmed uses. I live in Washington DC, where the aesthetics don't matter as much as the operational capability. We're so used to helos flying around that spotting them has become a game: https://twitter.
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Cherry picking examples, UAS will always be best for a construction manager looking at the progress of a highrise, and there's no way an atmospheric vehicle would host a world class space telescope. But things like monitoring deforesta
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I think it would complement, not replace. There are missions that nicely fit the capabilities of UAS, there are missions that nicely fit the capability of satellites, and there are in-between missions that could benefit from long-duration a
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You're basically describing the JLENS program, though the lighter-than-air craft was tethered, not free-flying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLENS
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And this is more than a theoretical risk... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/23/...

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