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by avs733 5y ago
disclosure: I am not a licensed professional engineer (PE), but I do research that intersects frequently and extensively with the boundary negotiation between engineering training, licensure, the profession, and calling oneself an engineer
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by avs733 5y ago
Human beings are actually FASCINATING examples of PID controllers...especially as we learn. I'm soon to become a dad for the first time and so my partner and I have become much more conscious and aware of babies around us and watching
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by avs733 5y ago
Check out the Op’s submission history. It is ALL articles like this.
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by avs733 5y ago
NPC is a meme. Your link to urbandictionary is particularly interesting if you look at the contributors history... NPC left is a term specifically to fuzz anti-progressive animus through 'memeing' language. This type of coded la
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by avs733 5y ago
thank you. and to take this analysis a step further, claims of borders are also not static or a-political. (c.f. Kashmir). Wikipedia keeps a list of these [0]. On the other side of Asia, China makes a larger claim of maritime territory than
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by avs733 5y ago
> cast out by the NPC left In case anyone is unfamiliar with 'NPC left' (non player character) it is a right wing slur for people they disagree with. [0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us&
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by avs733 5y ago
watching these conversations, I see this as the most fundamental comment as to what is going on.
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by avs733 5y ago
I'll re-iterate how important this comment is, sorry dang, when I see the responses to this comment, some comments of mine, and other 'this is a suspicious pattern' comments. There is nothing insulating HN from being a home f
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by avs733 5y ago
it's like we all forget that this unverified report could just as plausibly be an act of propaganda as (if) China buried these people getting sick. Government sources shouldn't be trusted without documentary evidence because they
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by avs733 5y ago
pushing a view point isn't accountability. it is the opposite of accountability. you say face before scientific truth but the people pushing this theory are not focused on scientific truth anymore than you think China is.
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by avs733 5y ago
yeah that seems to be the thing. a report that is highly circumstantial but implies a certain inference from a foreign intelligence agency that says it 'needs further investigation' provided to a historically right wing publicatio
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by avs733 5y ago
I'll likely get flack for this but it's white people. Out of touch white people specifically.
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by avs733 5y ago
the problem is that it is not in jest. It is accurate and reviews both how weak societal oversight of police is and how important it is. Officers are under scrutiny. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes (not often enough
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by avs733 5y ago
"get it right next time" they BELIEVED they were getting it right this time.
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by avs733 5y ago
this seems like the perfect use of the corporate death penalty...this is an attitude and philosophy problem that cannot be solved with tools of behavior modification. It is also one of the least believable statements ever made by a corporat
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by avs733 5y ago
> In practice, separating the subjective/objective elements is harder than it seems at first glance (and often impossible). Because, and this is where law just messes with my brain, the field deals as much in the NORMATIVE as it doe
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Colonial pipeline shutdown decision was made because billing system was offline(cnn.com)
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by avs733 5y ago
from the tweet "NYPD say no access"
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by avs733 5y ago
Because individuals don’t have the ability to author the tax code like corporations do.
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by avs733 5y ago
Toyota (for example) doesn't get the chips directly, this is about visibility/planning/management of your vendor's vendor's vendor's. Those chips (Tier 3+) become boards (Tier 2) become center consoles (Tier 1)
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by avs733 5y ago
I'd be lying if I claimed I knew...but I would be willing to bet that cost-benefit analysis was made a long time ago before these concerns became so timely.
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by avs733 5y ago
I like those people. The problem being sometimes you need logs or data off tools. I’m far from an IT wizard so I don’t know what other solutions exist but the flash drives to get stuff off tools was the easiest
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by avs733 5y ago
And to add it’s perfectly possible that the pipeline networks were air gapped (Ed: which don’t believe them) but you still need to shut down. I could imagine a situation where information another network (e.g. orders or incoming flows from
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by avs733 5y ago
Flash drives. I used to work in fabs and every couple of years some tool or other would get a virus, sometimes it spread through the network.
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by avs733 5y ago
I agree but with a caveat, it's largely a result of BAD just-in-time manufacturing. Zero inventory production systems (ZIPS) are what people often mean when they talk about JIT, they are different. Toyota, one of the originators and le
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by avs733 5y ago
It is slightly more complicated than that unfortuantely...although the current nomenclature is more cargo cult than meaningful. I could produce a physically smaller transistor, with a smaller gate, source, and drain. However, depending on t
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by avs733 5y ago
yeah but if we take a summary with a bias its easier to validate our opinions.
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by avs733 5y ago
I didn't say that and it is intriguing that people took it that way.
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by avs733 6y ago
It’s coded language.
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by avs733 6y ago
And also the building itself and the increased concrete ground cover massively contributes to flooding

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