Diesel555

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by Diesel555 5y ago
I also ride Montague Bikes. I'll give my use case. I need a normal, full size bike for most of my riding. However, sometimes I need to put my bike and a few others into the trunk of a car - the Montague folds small enough to make this
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Drones could solve one of the US Air Force’s biggest training challenges(breakingdefense.com)
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by Diesel555 5y ago
I just discovered ctrl+[ can be used instead of escape. So now I remapped caps lock to ctrl and avoid both ctrl and escape. I didn't realize escape used to be where tab is today.
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> Emacs users often get the credits for inventing this hack. And that hack is about realizing how stupid they caps lock key really is. Well, maybe not stupid, but unless you write SQL all day long, you’re not using it enough for it to de
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> Sometimes I think this sounds conspiratorial, and surely isn't happening. People often read these types of articles and think "this can't be right." Without researching the topic they cannot fathom a government woul
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> Make no mistake, no US citizen outside of the political class benefits from this or other atrocities. The exact same goes for the surveillance programs. And yet it is worth noting that the US government released this information under
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by Diesel555 5y ago
For the first quote DIA stated > ...it may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of non-optical satellites Just conjecture?
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Do you think these findings from the Defense Intelligence Agency are overstating capability? > Directed Energy Weapons. China likely is pursuing laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage sat- ellites and their sensors and possibly alr
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Facebook releases ads advocating for more privacy regulations
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Teen that tracked Elon Musk's jet now tracks Russian Oligarch Jets(twitter.com)
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Web Developers Form Advocacy Group to Allow Other Browser Engines on iOS(macrumors.com)
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by Diesel555 5y ago
One of the major assumptions of market economics is a competitive environment. Here is a study on the policy of non-competes from the Office of Economic Policy in the US treasury. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files&
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Congressional Research Service: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: NATO Response(crsreports.congress.gov)
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Congressional Research Service: Ukraine: Overview of U.S. and Allied Responses(crsreports.congress.gov)
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by Diesel555 5y ago
If anyone cares how this is impacting aviation rather than the likely more appropriate debate of if this should impact aviation... It stops an airplane from landing in a 93 foot range of weather, if the clouds are between 107 feet and 200 f
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by Diesel555 5y ago
E) AIRSPACE CLSD WI AREA: 451511N0372130E-451531N0372401E-451354N0372556E-451233N0372838E- 451004N0372607E-451448N0371959E-451511N0372130E. F) SFC G) 600M AMSL Look for these. This says that the airspace is closed from surface to 60k MSL (
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Justice Department ends Trump-era China Initiative following bias concerns(cnn.com)
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by Diesel555 5y ago
> Uh, why are the people you know more valid than the people I know? I never made such a claim. I explained some subset of the population that is different than yours. I never made an assumption about the population as a whole, which “al
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How autonomous wingmen will help fighter pilots in the next war(defensenews.com)
5 points by Diesel555 5y ago|1 comments
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Availability Bias. You are assuming "almost all users" mirrors the users you know. The engine is all that matters to me. Certain sites work differently on different engines. The only reason I leave Safari is for a different engine
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by Diesel555 5y ago
There are many books published on the topic that layout the evidence. A discussion here cannot begin to explain the depth of the problem, the reasons why our foreign policy has failed, and the evidence that exists. A superficial discussion
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by Diesel555 5y ago
To answer your question on evidence, when I'm looking for information on politically charged questions I often reference the Congressional Research Service whose purpose it is to take complex issues and boil them down to something dige
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by Diesel555 5y ago
"Be Curious, Not Judgmental" - Ted Lasso, and (not?) Walt Whitman. To ask why "Does SpaceX not review the data / warnings before launch?" instead of asking "why did Space-X choose to launch when there was a war
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by Diesel555 5y ago
You are right. I just read the bill. I believe 230 needs to be amended and that the damage it provides is real. But, the EARN IT act does not fix that. I do think it's important for people to understand why 230 is bad. But again, this
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by Diesel555 5y ago
I agree. My final recommendation was to treat them with the same responsibilities as media companies which still have a lot of protection, but not as many protections as social media companies.
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Edit: See thread below, the EARN IT act does not in any way reclassify the designation of social media companies under section 230 or solve the issues mentioned in this post with 230. The change to 230 just provides exceptions for CSAM. How
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Section 230 is from 1996. For reference myspace launched in 2003. It has been modified since, but not in a way relative to this discussion. Section 230 classifies providers such as Facebook and Twitter as "interactive computer services
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Sale of 'Silent AirTags' on eBay and Etsy Raises Privacy Concerns(macrumors.com)
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by Diesel555 5y ago
Clearly that seller is getting some benefit for selling the product through Amazon, probably close to 20-40% of the value of their product if they didn't. They aren't just using Amazon because it's fun. It provides them some
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by Diesel555 5y ago
I think the OP was simply discussing the officer's time and he may be right. The article doesn't state who initially reported and pursued the charges. But your comment shows the issue I was trying to highlight. You missed the poin

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