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He has an entire chemical lab to himself and only puts out a video every few months. Add to that his own salary and all the other overhead of running a channel, and you quickly realize that the per-video cost is already very high regardless
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Congress did not anticipate the type of algorithmic curation that the modern internet is built on. At the time, if you were to hire someone to create a daily list of suggested reading, that list would not be subject to 230 protections. Howe
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None of the covid vaccines are gene therapies. The mRNA utilizes your cell's machinery to produce proteins. Gene therapy alter's your cells DNA. Having said that, the vaccine in the article is an attenuated virus vaccine, which is
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The motivation can come up discovery though. If there is something nefarious, you would expect the defense to bring it up during pre-trial motions (which are public, just not presented to the jury). The defense also has wide lattitude to br
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Not at my work. Around here sales engineers just say "this is a proof of concept, X will be different in the final version". Then, after they close the deal, they give us their half implemented feature they developed that none of
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Most high level applications do not deal with any of the low level details. They open a channel by specifying a hostname and a port number, and are given a reliable bidirectional byte stream from the network layer. As far as most applicatio
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> Universities will not confirm or deny if a particular party got a degree, citing privacy laws. For a nominal fee, universities will send a copy of your transcript to anyone you ask them to. Every job I have had since graduating has as
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> Do most people really need to learn college level writing No, but only because college level writing is really bad (or, at least, the gen-ed writing courses are. I've had plenty other courses that didn't have writing in the c
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Sure it can. If every rock climbing company in the country decides that climbing ropes are too expensive and instead decide to by rope from the local hardware store, and that rope has a warning reading "not for use when life or valuabl
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> there shouldn’t be much question about the license as it’s a work for hire. Work for hire is about employees. Entropic is not an employee of DEFCON, it is a company with a contractual agreement to provide something in exchange for mone
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> You’d feel different if it were you getting stiffed payment! What? Getting stiffed payments is probably the leading cause of "vendors with a contract dispute". Go to your lawyer (you do have a laywer, right?) and have them ni
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What higher budget estimates? According to the (admittadly biased) article, Entropic ate all of the cost overruns: > Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built
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Intelligent Platform Management Interface Most severs have a management microcontroller in them that is capable of administoring the main system, typically including (but not limited to) full keyboard video and mouse access. Typically this
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Publicly traded companies are still allowed to lie. It only becomes securities fraud if they lie to investors.
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This is not a small economy trying to go its own way. This is 5 countries representing about a quarter of global GDB. Staying in a western controlled financial system is also a risk. Look at what happened to Russia after their invasion of U
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NaN is a sentinel value, just as much as 2,147,483,647 is The only difference is that NaN is implemented in hardware. However, taking advantage of that requires using the hardware arithmetic that recognizes NaN, which restricts you to floa
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Understanding the low level details helps, but another benefit of having engineering experience is being able to empathize with the original engineers.
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It is possible to use Secure Boot as part of a fully verified bootchain. The firmware verified the bootloader. The bootloader verifies the kernel (and kernel arguments, and ramdisk...), the kernel verified all executables. Userspace program
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There is no meaningful difference between removing money from the money supply and returning it to the Treasury.
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C predates x86, and was written with the specific intent of being independent of the particular CPU architecture being compiled for. At any point, the C standard could have introduced a standard POPCNT function that compilers could easily c
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It is not necessarily crowdstrike's responsibility, but it should be someone's. If I go to Home Depot to buy rope for belaying at my rock climbing center and someone falls, breaks the rope and dies, then I am on the hook for man
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... And? Most languages make C interop simple.
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The constitutionality of most federal laws from the last 80 years will be brought into question. Essentially, the constitution grants the federal government a limited set of powers. Anything outside of that scope cannot be regulated at the
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The linked opinion makes a point of explaining how this case differs frim Wickard v Filburn. For as crazy as the 5th circut and Supreme Court are, I don't see either of them being crazy enough to take on Wickard v Filburn.
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Corporate DEI can be split into 3 broad buckets: 1) Recruitment 2) Retention 3) Sponsorship Retention improvements are generally a net positive for industry wide diversity. If someone leaves your company for harrasment reasons, they are mor
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> they are probably in a better position to do DEI at scale. Slight tangent, but most large tech companies DEI programs were never really great at doing DEI at scale. They were mostly funnelling the existing pool of diverse candidates in
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$10k is peanuts for starting a small business in many industries. It does not even buy you a truck. You don't need VC or a megacorp; this is well within the range of standard business loans.
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It turns out that a lot of the complexity of modern programming languages come from the language designers trying to make misaked harder. If you want to simplyfing by synthesising decades of accumulated knowledge into a coherent language, o
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If there are no y less than x, then any statement about all y less than x is vacuously true.
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I think it more "a person capable of empathising with the users". Knowing the internals of how the baseball industry operates isn't relevent here. The relevent experience is being familiar with how the viewers interact with b

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