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Equifax will no longer sell utility data ICE used to track the public(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by dangle1 5y ago|0 comments
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Pearl Harbor forced the world’s first around-the-world commercial flight(washingtonpost.com)
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Raven Walkout(docs.google.com)
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by dangle1 5y ago
That's interesting, I wonder if I have an 'uncloseable' PayPal account, since it started as an x.com account in '99 when they were giving people $20 to open one.
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by dangle1 5y ago
A commenter on Ars who doesn't work at SpinLaunch but knows someone who does made some insightful comments last month after the release of the launch video: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=148
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Data belonging to 400K Planned Parenthood patients stolen by ransomware hackers(arstechnica.com)
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by dangle1 5y ago
Thanks for posting, there are some interesting statements in this article. I can relate to the arrival of a child clarifying that a parent's behavior that was previously tolerated can no longer be tolerated for the well-being of the ch
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Why Elon Musk asked his SpaceX employees to work Thanksgiving(arstechnica.com)
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by dangle1 5y ago
I wish searching "Stay away from my house, you freak!" would work just as well to find archived versions.
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by dangle1 5y ago
Yeah, technically correct statement in headline, but yet again we have to wait for this variant to demonstrate what its impact will be throughout the world. It never fails to impress me how effective the brute force strategy viruses employ
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by dangle1 5y ago
Definitely better than nothing. In high school, I worked in our small town's library that had just converted to a minicomputer based management system. One of my jobs was to do the weekly backup (had to load up 5 tapes one by one to st
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by dangle1 5y ago
Holy cow. We have one of these handed down to us. After learning how to calibrate the springs, it runs great. Didn't realize how much wealth it created for us as well.
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by dangle1 5y ago
The good news is that the engineering team has concluded the Telescope is OK despite the clamp incident. https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1463662621438234628
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With tonight’s launch, NASA starts getting serious about planetary defense(arstechnica.com)
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by dangle1 5y ago
It's always fascinating seeing the internet catalog and consolidate knowledge, especially regarding events that occurred pre-internet. Back when these events happened, a blurb appeared on TV news and in papers, but there was no easy wa
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by dangle1 5y ago
Here's CR's description of their methods, they include caveats re: new models and changes between model years: >About Consumer Reports Annual Auto Reliability Surveys The latest Consumer Reports Annual Auto Reliability Surveys,
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by dangle1 5y ago
Right, but this article is discussing reliability. It seems like CR provide the closest thing to a scientific approach to comparing vehicle reliability via the diligence of their subscribers to participate in reliability surveys. The articl
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by dangle1 5y ago
https://archive.ph/IHtEC
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Californians Flee the Coast to Inland Cities in a Mass Pandemic-Era Exodus(wsj.com)
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Also keep in mind that you might be able to live a perfectly satisfying life without replacing even half your current income. Track your spending, not your income, since right now you are probably paying a lot of income tax that you won&#x2
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Adults nationwide eligible for boosters this weekend as CDC gives sign-off(arstechnica.com)
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Interesting, but is this peer reviewed/published? Neither Dominos nor WestRock, the conductor of the study and supplier of boxes to Dominos, say on their website.
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by dangle1 5y ago
Yeah, maybe ambivalence is a better description. I was alluding specifically to the fact that the Chinese space station is being constructed at an orbital inclination that Russia can't easily launch to: https://www.space.com
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by dangle1 5y ago
Such a sad, destructive act from a country facing the upcoming insignificance of its space program as China has shown disinterest in partnering with them in space and SpaceX has freed NASA from paying dearly for US astronauts to fly on Soyu
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by dangle1 5y ago
Worse, $39K/year is extrapolated to full-time equivalent, which the job is not. Per the article: But school bus drivers don’t work year-round, full-time hours. “We’re only guaranteed four hours of pay a day,” Steele said. There are no
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Amazon push for lower prices could be bad for shoppers everywhere(seattletimes.com)
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Reaching financial independence can ironically help slingshot one's career. It can remove hesitation about how to play different situations, and can allow one to become a "straight shooter" and sometimes get some nice opportu
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by dangle1 5y ago
Encyclopedias. I kind of forgot about those, but now I can remember relying on a hand-me-down encyclopedia set for answering childood questions without having to go downtown to the library. Late '70s, and my interest in space is met wi
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Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander contract(cnbc.com)
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Also the misfortune of a large fire on Monday that has taken out the workspace and equipment of 80 IT professionals: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/more-c... Best online comment on the

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