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by avidiax 3y ago
Google has a union (AWU). It is currently protesting in support of Gaza.
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by avidiax 3y ago
It is a risk free option. The Chinese income isn't real. You can't meaningfully garnish the wages of a part time casino dealer. They have no other assets to cover the potential shortfall.
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by avidiax 3y ago
They can get clean money from the start if they structure things right. Have other mules or partners purchase crappy properties at a low price. "Flip" the properties, having another mule purchase at a greatly increased price and s
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by avidiax 3y ago
The article doesn't seem to suggest that the mortgage holders are actually straw purchasers, but the facts seem to suggest this is at least sometimes true. How can a hairdresser service several mortgages without "income" from
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by avidiax 3y ago
> I think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid. This is a "heads, I win", "tails, you lose" type of scam. The mortgage holders are all judgement proof. They have no income or asset
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by avidiax 3y ago
The productivity targets are always increasing, but real productivity obviously can't. That creates a pressure to meet the goals through fraud. Stakhanovite is the most benign fraud (pooling productivity). There was a Microsoft enginee
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by avidiax 3y ago
I had never heard of Deming, thanks. I think, unfortunately, the pendulum in American corporate politics is swinging away from Deming, at the moment. Growth through making good and reliable products is getting difficult to sustain, which le
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by avidiax 3y ago
VPN + public torrents. Private trackers have benefits but also annoyances, like impossible to maintain ratios and minimum seeding times. Direct download (DDL) + a download manager or debride service. Usenet is actually still a thing and is
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by avidiax 3y ago
Watch enough movies and you'll know that certain things don't test well with audiences. Is a young girl in peril? Don't worry, nothing will happen to her, the audiences won't like it. Have we been focused on one guy for
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by avidiax 3y ago
This is not the same problem. We don't have the distance to the source, only the difference in arrival times.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Accurate engineering estimates don't have good product/market fit. You can't get management sign-off on a project that you accurately state will take 4 years, so you will instead just have to maintain and extend the old solut
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by avidiax 3y ago
I have a small AA-powered "atomic" clock (radio controlled clock) that I got in college (~20 years ago). I moved from the US to Europe, and kept several large kitchen appliances by buying a really solid transformer (AcuPwr). I kep
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by avidiax 3y ago
You forgot the risk of a lahar. Supposedly the lahar from a major earthquake could wipe out Sea-tac airport and all the communities south of Seattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar
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by avidiax 3y ago
It positions your lower jaw so that your airway is more open.
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by avidiax 3y ago
> allocate a bonus pool for the entire company, from which AWS expenses are taken out of Also a perverse incentive. If we use ec2.small, the customer's query will take 3x longer but be half the price. Let's turn off the nightl
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by avidiax 3y ago
It's true that this method can't say event X was or was not due to condition Y. But it is fair to say that a pattern of such events that matches (or doesn't) the probabilities given by condition Y is evidence that Y is (or is
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by avidiax 3y ago
What's the theory? Nobody is spending a year to crack your passwords or use a leaked password, so either they are strong enough to resist online or offline attacks, or they aren't. If they aren't strong enough, then you would
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by avidiax 3y ago
There are purely mechanical methods to make rekeying easy. https://www.kwikset.com/smartkey-security Combine that with a protected keyway and you can have the tenant rekey themself.
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by avidiax 3y ago
It's incomplete, let's say. You would probably still need to get these people into treatment, and prevent them from selling the drugs onwards, and prevent new people from getting on drugs. The invisible hand of the market could be
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Even today, BYD’s Dolphin hatchback starts at $33,000 in Britain, according to Reuters, or nearly 30% below the starting price of the VW’s rival ID.3 hatchback. > Mexico has a free trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada. In Novemb
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by avidiax 3y ago
Those complications would be easily controllable using the TTL.
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by avidiax 3y ago
This seems like the eventual subject of a business case study in how dysfunctional corporate cultures can lay somewhat dormant in a company, and then infect the other parties in a merger.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Roads and intersections have a similar DOS attack. Just "break down" in/on them.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Half the responses are people with culture shock internal to the United States.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Why don't any of these congresspeople start a hedge fund? Seems like it would do very very well.
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by avidiax 3y ago
Max character counts and disallowed characters are a really strong sign that the site is transmitting or storing the password in plain text. It takes essentially no effort to base64 encode a text field of arbitrary length and contents. If y
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by avidiax 3y ago
> Privacy is at the top of the list of concerns. Many consumers want to avoid a Big Brother scenario where the central bank would be able to digitally track their spending with CBDCs. > To assuage concern, the ECB said it would not ha
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by avidiax 3y ago
You are correct. Some models couldn't get the software update, so now they are getting a more secure ignition cylinder. https://www.cars.com/articles/kia-introduces-free-anti-theft...
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by avidiax 3y ago
Now offer a randomly selected 10% of the passengers a $10,000 bonus if they exit in the first half of passengers, and another 10% a $500 bonus if they can get any piece of their luggage off with them. Tell the FA's that the captain wil
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by avidiax 3y ago
Yes. Even the older cars have a software patch to tie engine start to the keyless entry.

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