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by Brybry 2y ago
The writing was on the wall for Republican party policy when it sold its morals for votes with Nixon/Goldwater's Southern Strategy by courting the racist Southern Democrats after the Civil Rights Act/Voting Rights Act passed.
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by Brybry 2y ago
Flea markets don't commingle inventory between vendors/stalls. Amazon in many cases does.
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by Brybry 2y ago
The Russian government did ban Telegram while also still using it (and then unbanned it). [1] Politics is complicated. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-telegram-ban-idUSK...
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by Brybry 2y ago
Wouldn't that be weird given that it's part of common core? > By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. [1] https://www.thecorestandards.org/Math/Content/3/OA&
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by Brybry 2y ago
Yep, Microsoft does a good job with Windows Defender (antivirus) updates. It's the other Windows Updates that they botch frequently enough to make people wary of patching immediately.
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by Brybry 2y ago
It's frequent enough that people pay money for AskWoody[1] to tell them when it's safe to patch or what patches to skip. [1] https://www.askwoody.com/ms-defcon-system/
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by Brybry 2y ago
But is there a need for quick global releases? Is it realistic that there's a threat actor that will be attacking every computer on the whole planet at once? I can understand that it's most practical to update everyone when push
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by Brybry 2y ago
And it looks like the 6th Circuit did grant a temporary stay on Net Neutrality. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-court-temporarily-puts-net-191...
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by Brybry 2y ago
It'd be interesting to see Krebs follow up to comment if changes at the FCC since 2019 have been effective or not. There's the privacy and data protection task force[1] doing things like amended rules to combat sim swap fraud[2] (
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by Brybry 2y ago
Aren't there cases where shim libraries/LD_PRELOAD won't work, like statically linked binaries? So if this works there it might be useful in, for example, analyzing encrypted video traffic for some video games.
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by Brybry 2y ago
The crazier thing is that the 1992 amendment (the 27th) was proposed by Congress in 1789 but was still "live" to be ratified by the States in the 1980s/1990s. [1] If wikipedia is correct then Congress hasn't passed an am
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by Brybry 2y ago
Some have died from doing underwater breath holding training [1] but I don't know how many minutes they aim for or how regular that is. [1] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015&
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by Brybry 2y ago
What I was replying to said: > ARM holdings annoys me. I wish they hadn't stopped doing fab. ~~I thought ARM was always fabless?~~ Edit: I guess I'm somewhat mistaken after reading up on VLSI Technology.
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by Brybry 2y ago
Did you confuse ARM Holdings with AMD/GlobalFoundries?
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by Brybry 2y ago
I think it's fair to say that the conservative justices have not been consistent with their professed ideologies. For a recent example, in SNYDER v. UNITED STATES the dissent appears to say, to me, that the majority opinion was neither
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by Brybry 2y ago
The US has no national ID and for historical ideological reasons the pushes for a national ID fail. That's why social security numbers are abused as a form of national ID number. The closest thing we have is the "Real ID" sta
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by Brybry 2y ago
Peak demand in the US is in the summer, specifically July/August, due to air conditioning. [1] Most of the cold climate areas in the US use non-electric heating like gas furnaces (and the non-cold climate areas don't really need a
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by Brybry 2y ago
> up to 20,000,000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking [economic entity], up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher I think the "whichever is higher" wording does ma
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by Brybry 2y ago
Yep, plenty of fines work this way. It's how GDPR works: percent of turnover (revenue) or a floor, whichever is higher [1]. And worst case scenario define revenue in the fine's terms in a way that it disallows accounting tricks. [
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by Brybry 2y ago
While I personally believe it should be opt-in, Google does have multiple ways to opt out of snippets while still being indexed. [1] [1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet...
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by Brybry 2y ago
Yep, millennial teenagers in my area were all over LiveJournal/Myspace/Xanga in the early aughts. And if one considers messengers like ICQ/AIM (or even IRC) as a form of social media then teenagers were commonly (in my area)
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by Brybry 2y ago
> Then, good luck running some badly coded scripts to get the results reported in the article. I think even this part is unlikely? My dad was a statistician involved in research and he didn't provide copies of his SAS programs/
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by Brybry 2y ago
So you're saying that your test showed that above 2.5um the masks you tested did do something? So the masks were helpful (because respiratory droplets range from <1um to >100um). [1][2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by Brybry 2y ago
The hobbyists are still on wunderground, I still use it to regularly check some in my neighborhood. The only "bad" thing Weather Underground did was they ended their free API for non-contributors. [1] I believe personal weather st
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by Brybry 2y ago
My experience is that there's a high probability they won't have space for it, or the will to refurbish it, and it will be sold in a garage sale or even thrown away on the curb.
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by Brybry 2y ago
I think the Commerce Clause is a pretty sound basis for most FDA regulation. It just gets weird with the overbroad supreme court decisions that are like: "well, stuff that only happens in a single state but that might be used for int
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by Brybry 2y ago
If you think they're lying and don't trust their methodology: there are other polls that show a similar trend in sentiment [1][2] I couldn't find any polls that showed the opposite. [1] https://www.wsj.com/art
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by Brybry 2y ago
Patriots have intercepted the hypersonic missiles (Kinzhal) before [1][2]. The S-400 is not as invincible as was touted -- there's plenty of evidence of successful drone and missile strikes against Russia by Ukraine. And Ukraine is sti
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by Brybry 2y ago
I don't agree that it's pure greed but hosting costs for the Wikimedia Foundation in the FY2022-2023 were $3.1 million. [1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... [2] htt
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by Brybry 2y ago
GP had 20,912 customers out yesterday and ~8,796 out right now according to web archive of poweroutage.us [1][2] Any decently large power provider will always have some outages. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/2024050

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