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by HillRat 2y ago
This is the same police union that’s argued that releasing the names of police formally accused of misconduct is a privacy violation, their concern for privacy does not extend further than the ranks of their union and certainly not to the b
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by HillRat 2y ago
Also that a lot of (specifically Navy) sourcing problems come from DOD being the only buyer of obsolete products, such as 8-bit microcontrollers used in fire control systems designed in the 1970s.
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by HillRat 2y ago
While it's impossible to know without having actual access to the work, something that's sadly lacking, I've got to say that I'm looking a bit askance at a School of Architecture dissertation that conducts a psychologica
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by HillRat 2y ago
For most expats Dubai is fine as long as you understand exactly where the lines are drawn and are willing to live within them (it's orders of magnitude more relaxed than KSA; far more restrictive than, say, Singapore; and a world away
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by HillRat 2y ago
The underlying thesis of the article is that high salaries in the Gulf will outweigh the downsides of working in low-rule-of-law authoritarian states with onerously rigid managerial and social structures, which ... might work out for some f
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by HillRat 2y ago
You’re not considering the stagehands and artists who have to live under Live Nation’s vertical monopoly. I was chatting with a former tour guy the other day, someone who’s been a tech for major touring bands since the ‘80s, and he mentione
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by HillRat 2y ago
Yeah, I suspect. As the article notes, it might be related to quantum simulation limits (e.g., QISKIT can't IIRC simulate more than 32 qubits), or taken from the literature on using Grover's alg to attack S-AES, but it feels prett
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by HillRat 2y ago
The IRS is a perennial budgeting football for Congress, even though it's one of the few agencies for whom increasing their budget creates positive net revenue for the federal government; its enforcement arm is down 30% in staffing sinc
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by HillRat 2y ago
This is not necessarily true in matters involving injunctive relief, depending on the wording of the contract, whether arbitration itself may be arbitrated, and whether the judge considers arbitration appropriate for the relief prayed for.
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by HillRat 2y ago
What's really remarkable is that so much of the last decade or so of research has been grounded in work done in the 1970s and 1980s, when computational boundaries were narrow enough that the work was often largely speculative or signif
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by HillRat 2y ago
If the answer is that each outcome of such model should be double checked by a human while going through all that paperwork then what's the point of having that automation in the first place? That is the underlying issue here. The li
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by HillRat 2y ago
Without commenting on the specific standards and regulations, the parade of horribles that could go wrong with a powered wheelchair is pretty extensive, when realizing that when a wheelchair goes wrong the user cannot move away from it . C
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by HillRat 2y ago
Specifically, a vintage 2016, unrevokable consumer signing key that was inadvertently allowed to sign identity tokens for enterprise substrates , which is a whole security house of cards.
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by HillRat 2y ago
It's an interesting contrast, because Ah-Sen is an experimental formalist, and his questions progress from that point of view, whereas Powell is (hilariously) ... not. (As this feels like a Q&A-by-email with all the questions submi
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by HillRat 2y ago
As far as competitive intelligence goes, this is pretty small stakes. In the industrial space it's pretty standard for major companies to create shell companies that buy up competitors' equipment and do full clean-room teardowns t
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by HillRat 2y ago
Grant's world tour coincided with the first stirrings of American imperialism abroad, and it's interesting to compare the two: during his travels Grant developed a deep antipathy to European colonialism, was convinced that America
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by HillRat 3y ago
He also got removed for creating systemic, existential risk for the company by handing out $10k line limit credit cards to anyone who wanted one, resulting in a 50% chargeback rate. There are so many reasons for them to have gotten rid of h
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by HillRat 3y ago
That was basically the thesis of Kennan's "Long Telegram" ( https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kenna... ).
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by HillRat 3y ago
There's a lot of unseen plumbing there, though, mostly underground tanks to handle storing graywater (cities have fairly stringent rules about discharge rate, so you have to store and slowly release a lot of water over time), plus (i
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by HillRat 3y ago
Likewise, a classic, compelling nonfiction history of the transformation of European peasantry into rural citizenry is Weber's "Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914" (Stanford University Press
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by HillRat 3y ago
CRE risks are disproportionately concentrated in smaller bank holding companies, who saw CRE as safer debt prior to the pandemic, and who are more exposed to a small number of high-value deals gone bad. (Leverage was already rising in that
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by HillRat 3y ago
That's one thing -- if you took a contract signed ten years ago that granted "training" rights and tried to use that for "AI training," a judge would likely find that customary business usage has changed in that tim
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by HillRat 3y ago
I'm not sure that I'd bet on this being found unconscionable, especially since it's a grant to Spotify, not a restriction on the customer, which is where most of the existing case law (AFAIK) rests. The argument, from Spo
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by HillRat 3y ago
If you've ever been involved in ToS drafting, you're used to customers panicking over clauses that you and your attorneys crafted to deal with pretty standard business requirements, such as granting adaptation rights so you can cr
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by HillRat 3y ago
I mean, sure, if the attorney is operating below the usual standards of care -- it's exceptionally uncommon in the corporate world, but not unheard of. In the case of AI assistance, you run into situations where a company offering AI l
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by HillRat 3y ago
There are no limits on a nonprofit's ability to raise and maintain cash reserves; there are limits on how and to whom funds can be disbursed and (to a lesser extent) the kinds of activities that can be used to generate funds. But a n
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by HillRat 3y ago
Possibly worth noting for folks that BoringCrypto is necessary if you're having to deal with FIPS certification (which hopefully you don't). There's the usual FFI penalty to using it, so Go-native code is preferred for most u
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by HillRat 3y ago
One medium to long-term strategy for most of Europe I've seen discussed is to move charging to the streetside and connect it in as a residential utility play with consumer ties -- in other words, chargers that could be used in "re
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by HillRat 3y ago
That was definitely the thinking behind the Buc-ee's/Tesla partnership; Buc-ee's makes a huge amount of backcourt revenue including QSR sales, so it's a very natural extension for them. I posited to our retail fuels clie
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by HillRat 3y ago
BGS is a combination of relatively random acquisitions, such as Aviall (aircraft parts and consumables wholesale) and Jeppesen (charts and training materials). Some military contracts in there, but mostly commercial.

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