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811.
by alwa 2y ago
I noticed that a hotel I stayed at reworded their door signs to say “cleaning not required,” which seemed to me a sensible way to reframe expectations. Legal obligations aside, how would a provider of public accommodation figure out who to
812.
by alwa 2y ago
In this case, then, you feel that the right policy would be to deny them accommodation outright rather than accommodating them on the condition that you’ll glance in the room once a day?
813.
by alwa 2y ago
In general, though, doesn’t more (and more reliable) information permit more accurate conclusions? Wouldn’t this type of data reduce the risk of innocents being caught up, compared to asking cops or neighbors to hazard their best guess at w
814.
by alwa 2y ago
I vaguely recall them imposing an anti-steering kind of provision, though, didn’t they? Where you can do what you want on your own channels, but you can’t tip off the iOS user to that fact at the point of sale in the app? I vaguely remember
815.
by alwa 2y ago
I was under the impression that it’s 12 months at a time, you just reapply the next year. Which isn’t to take away from the precariousness of a program that could change on the manufacturer’s whim. That said, in the US, 12 months also buys
816.
by alwa 2y ago
Aren’t these particular rules specific to lithium-ion battery chemistry in the first place?
817.
by alwa 2y ago
Because rural or urban, once people have access to enough energy to rise out of grinding poverty, they tend not to want to return to a precarious, labor-intensive subsistence lifestyle. Especially when their individual share of the resultin
818.
by alwa 2y ago
Those quantities are astonishing, no doubt. Does “capacity” here mean “nameplate capacity,” in the sense of the maximum that the installation can produce under peak input conditions? So for solar, the actual energy flowing into the grid wou
819.
by alwa 2y ago
Indeed. It sucks, but developing the quasi-vaccine thing and proving it works seems pretty cool, regardless of what comes next. Sure beats chasing pills for boners and hair loss. Now things look good for this drug (after decades of false
820.
by alwa 2y ago
I wonder if it’s useful to consider the $40,000 price tag as the price that’s only practically relevant on an actuarial kind of level, as “0.35% of our pool of insureds who will be very expensive to us whether treated or untreated” rather t
821.
by alwa 2y ago
I was astonished when I witnessed an acquaintance cycle his dishwasher. He would throw the clean ones out of the dishwasher onto the stone counter, getting air and a loud crashing sound out of each plate and glass, before doing it again int
822.
by alwa 2y ago
It sounds like that process involves at least one signature that would have to be forged, and a backend process at least manual enough to result in some physical mail arriving at the voter’s address afterward. Then, when the voter arrives a
823.
by alwa 2y ago
I get the appeal (and the 60 years of accumulated technical skeletons, and the business and legal necessity) of keeping all of the airline’s segments coded as the same carrier and notionally able to connect to one another. I do wonder, thou
824.
by alwa 2y ago
I agree: I live on and off in a city of many, many millions. Maybe it’s just the idiosyncrasy of how I choose to live and shop, but I personally know most of the people with whom I transact regularly in the same way you describe. Including
825.
by alwa 2y ago
I take your point that I’ve never really been asked to think about inflationary economies encouraging hoarding things, especially things whose scarcity stems from natural limits rather than economic will. But at the risk of showing my naive
826.
by alwa 2y ago
I don’t know, but I suspect people may be reacting negatively because, as they say, hindsight is 20/20. The bet didn’t work out, but that doesn’t mean it was a self-evidently stupid thing to try from the perspective of 2020/2021.
827.
by alwa 2y ago
Wait, they gate a safe and functional system behind a $10K upcharge, and ship a killy one if you don’t pony up? (edit: looks like $99/month now instead of a flat charge?)
828.
by alwa 2y ago
Speaking as a layman but an interested one: 1) the progress really has seemed underwhelming [0], to the point that some minor uncertainties still seem to linger about the specific mechanisms of infection. I’ve heard more about greening than
829.
by alwa 2y ago
Interestingly enough this is also true of a fair number of staple food stocks, especially other legumes. Lima beans contain linamarin, lentils and chickpeas contain lectins, as do pretty much all the other beans you’ve heard of in their unc
830.
by alwa 2y ago
If I remember correctly the labor protections sounded commensurate, at least in form, with American standards: counseling (for whatever it’s worth), attempting to restrict hiring to people over age 18 (although the journalists did interview
831.
by alwa 2y ago
Absolutely, but they also represent more than just commercial cooperation.
832.
by alwa 2y ago
For context, OpenAI recently caught flak from the less substantial organs of the American press for outsourcing RLHF/safety/content moderation tasks to a small SF firm called Sama (surely coincidental, eh @sama?). Sama hired worke
833.
by alwa 2y ago
E.g. https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-cuba-spy-sigint/
834.
by alwa 2y ago
JackC mentioned in the parent comment that they work for a civic tech lab, and their profile suggests they’re affiliated with a high-profile academic institution. It’s not my place to link directly, but a quick Google suggests they do some
835.
by alwa 2y ago
Is it possible that you’re talking about a different incident? In the incident at hand, didn’t enterprises in question choose the EDR vendor, not Microsoft? Is the implication that Microsoft should be compelled to develop its own EDR produc
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by alwa 2y ago
To your last point, I’ve always understood their sentiment to be along the lines of: - differentially rewarding those customers willing to put in higher levels of effort - inflating attendees’ sense of the purchase’s value, since they’ve su
837.
by alwa 2y ago
If you incentivize ignorance, then that’s what you get more of. If all I have to do to avoid responsibility is to cover my eyes and plug my ears after I chuck the figurative grenade into the operation, then then expect me to develop an ent
838.
by alwa 2y ago
I’m skeptical of the claim that short-term rental clampdown is the main factor influencing NYC’s $300-a-night average hotel room rate these days. It seems likely also to have to do with the decision [0] to convert 20% of the city’s stock o
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by alwa 2y ago
Related: Lakshmi Raman’s address at the AWS keynote. Starts around 12:40. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4IdZFmFMIs
840.
by alwa 2y ago
Turned out to be fraudulent. Didn’t provide a meaningful education, lied about placement numbers, lied about their financial incentives aligning with the students'—the list went on. The CFPB, a federal regulatory body, came down on the

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