alistairSH

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by alistairSH 2mo ago
From what I can tell, many/most of my “telemarketing” calls are really scams. And the rest are political calls, which are exempt. This the most annoying, come election time, I get 5-6 texts or calls per day asking for money or votes.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Visit Loudoun County VA and get back to me. Virginia mostly used by-right zoning, which treated data centers like just another office block. The result is linked below. Those cranes in the back of photo 2 are building yet another data cen
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
That's true, but doesn't really negate the principle... the set of layers is just different. If you're heading to that high elevation where it's mostly cold, you probably don't need to bring shorts on the off chanc
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Yes, tobacco companies knew the health risks at least back tot he 70s, if not the 50s or 60s. And in the late 70s, they launched Operation Berkshire as a bulwark against negative press and government regulation. They have literally been fou
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
They're literally argue the opposite in the paper... when taxes are lowered, executives demand higher compensation, at the expense of their employees.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
You'd think so but not even a decade ago Kansas tried it again and it failed and the GOP continues to cut taxes for the wealthy and people keep electing them. Most of the nation (and world) never took any economics. This stuff is all m
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Yeah, if you don't need to track laps at all, that works. But if I'm doing an interval set on the road in January, it's a terrible UX.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. I can't use it running in the colder seasons - a sweaty sleeve triggers the lap count (tap the screen - no ability to reassign to a button). It's on
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Clearly the NOTAMs aren't doing the job, as this isn't the only instance of issues. It's just the only instance of a crash with fatalities.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
You're not wrong, but that doesn't necessarily mean Uncle Sam should be dicking around with GPS jammers as a normal thing (at least not without acknowledging that doing so changes the risk profile of aviation to some extent).
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
In reality, juries often hold evidence like this in high regard, based on how it's positioned on CSI:Some-City television.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Are you willing to trust 12 random schmoes to make that call correctly? Especially in the face of an overzealous prosecutor?
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Like Susan Collins, I shall furrow my brow to indicate my unease with the situation. Kidding, sort of, if brownshirts and other government-sanctioned thugs show up in November, I'm really not sure what I'll do. They're alread
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
When who breaks more laws?
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
How close does a DNA "match" have to be to get somebody tossed in jail? Do they actually require 100%, or is a "match" something less? What's the false-positive rate? Would a non-twin sibling's DNA "match
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
It'll be a marginal effect, but fake clicks impacts the ad buyer, which then impacts their financials and pricing. The only winner here is the scammers running the fake affiliate sites on which these sticks are "clicking". O
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Point is the median person earns about the same as the mean disposable income. So the mean disposable income isn’t telling us too much about the quality of life, or financial state, of a typical American. From what I’m seeing, it’s just ref
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Yeah, OECD is saying the mean disposable income is the US is almost the same as median household income. Either some of the numbers are wrong, or your (OECD’s) use of mean is misleading… the mean of Bezos’ and my disposable incomes is a ver
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Citation? Median earnings is less than that. And median household income is only marginally more. the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the median annual earnings for all workers (people aged 15 and over with earnings) was $51,370; and mo
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
That is the HN title?
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
Carjackings ramped up in 2021 through 2024. They appear to be headed back down the "low and steady" of the early 00s. Looking at the numbers, DC isn't alone in this trend - Chicago was pretty bad as well.
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
Sort of feels like he should have wiped it right away, not after they seized it (by giving them the “wipe me” passcode). No idea if that’s how the law works, just my gut reaction.
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
The -300s in use by Aer Lingus are a bit newer than that (but the 200s they use for west coast routes are in fact ~20 years old), but not by much. IAG has orders for 21 A330Neos, which, I believe, retain the 2-4-2 layout in economy.
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
That flight was an odd bird from the outset. It didn't have the range to make NY in a single go, so it stopped in Shannon Ireland to refuel, where passengers deplaned, went through US Preclearance, and rebounded. IIRC, the US->UK
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
We flew from IAD to DUB on Aer Lingus a month ago. Outbound was an A321neo LR/XLR and it was not bad at all. Legroom was fine (for me at 5'7"), big overhead bins should be required these days, and the entertainment setup was
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
And now I’m going to have nightmares about a super-smart, but just as annoying, Clippy.
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
And on the flip side, I live in Fairfax County, VA and there are data centers EVERYWHERE. Especially if I cross into Ashburn (home of AOL and stuff) - literally mixed in with large townhome developments. And the current plan - building a d
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
Might depend on the target reader of the doc... if it's another engineer consuming APIs or libraries, yeah, they can just use Copilot or other to answer in real-time, no published doc needed. But if it's a customer? They might not
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
We absolutely have the same problem here in the US. There have been a few (small number) of cases that hit the national or regional news where teens were sharing nudes of classmates, etc. I'm questioning the parent post's content
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by alistairSH 3mo ago
Do you have a citation for that? Sounds plausible, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it stated that way in any of the related media reports on CSAM efforts.

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