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by hwillis 2y ago
> At 10:38 pm, SWAT entered the house and used a stun grenade to conceal their movements, but were driven back outside by gunshots (though criminalists would later establish that they were not fired upon). During the next 10.2 hours, a L
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by hwillis 2y ago
> After being chased by police for stealing clothing from a Walmart, Seacat barricaded himself in a house at 4219 South Alton Street in Greenwood Village, Colorado. By the time Seacat was finally extracted from the premises, the house ha
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by hwillis 2y ago
That's a tremendously expensive way to detect fraud. There's funding, but also the people replicating need to have at least near the expertise of the original authors, and the rate of false positives is clearly going to be high
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by hwillis 2y ago
All 3 of those countries have separate organizations employing the air traffic controllers. DFS is 100% owned by the government, NATS is formerly a public service and now half privately owned, and Nav Canada was established by the ANS act.
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by hwillis 2y ago
There is a single failsafe which barely worked when the event was above 1000'. Under 1000' TCAS is automatically shut off. The flightpaths in the area of the airport are all significantly below 1000'. There are zero prot
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by hwillis 2y ago
It is a budget problem. https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
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by hwillis 2y ago
It is a budget problem, not a hiring problem: https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
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by hwillis 2y ago
A couple years ago the transportation secretary tried to get funding to hire 2,000 more controllers. Congress said no https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/4617992-buttig...
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by hwillis 2y ago
A plane and helicopter over DC came within 500' of each other over DC barely 24 hours before the crash. They avoided collision because they were over 1000' and the TCAS was still active: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by hwillis 2y ago
This should be unsurprising- see also govcloud: https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us The US government likes its employees and contractors to have their own separate version of cloud products. For instance you would not want
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by hwillis 2y ago
Then why are they serving 93% of their customers, especially when there is low overlap between those users? 90% of the american feed was american tiktoks.
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by hwillis 2y ago
Yes. Whether or not they are "people" is irrelevant. They have the same rights to free speech. You are nitpicking.
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by hwillis 2y ago
> But from a high level there is nothing stopping congress from regulating any instance foreign trade. Incorrect- federal powers do not override constitutional rights like free speech.
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by hwillis 2y ago
It's less than 7% of their total users. The US is not that big compared to the whole world.
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by hwillis 2y ago
> There is a law that only U.S. citizens can own TV stations. The communications act did not ban already-existing networks, and it did not ban specific providers. The tiktok ban is targeted specifically against one social media that t
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by hwillis 2y ago
Limits on how you can speak are absolutely limits on speech. It's called burdening. The government must demonstrate a reason to burden a right. It is held to various levels of scrutiny depending on the ways it is burdening. I thin
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by hwillis 2y ago
Totally beside the point. Verbatim from Citizens United : > The Court has thus rejected the argument that political speech of corporations or other associations should be treated differently under the First Amendment simply because suc
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by hwillis 2y ago
1. source? 2. A core principle of the constitution is that those rights apply to noncitizens as well as citizens. They are human rights, not citizen rights. It's significantly more ridiculous for corporations to have free speech than
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by hwillis 2y ago
It's not even about them: > If, for example, a user allows TikTok access to the user’s phone contact list to connect with others on the platform, TikTok can access “any data stored in the user’s contact list,” including names, conta
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by hwillis 2y ago
> Does the US really want a (hostile?) foreign govt to have clear direct access to influence 170m americans, an entire generation - completely unfettered? As the SCOTUS said itself: “At the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle
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by hwillis 2y ago
Absolutely insane equivocation. "Negro" has always been associated with slavery and that's why it was used up until even recently by people like Malcom X. "Colored" is associated with apartheid America in the same
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by hwillis 2y ago
It should look basically accurate, except that the edges absorb momentum. You're looking downward into a pool of water and dragging the mouse is like dragging a finger through the water. Not totally the same, because the mouse is dir
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by hwillis 2y ago
> The share gross electricity generation from coal in 2022 was 70.7%, (1.7 p.p. less than in 2021). https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/poland-energ...
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by hwillis 2y ago
If you have two 1000 mAh cells connected in series, they will provide 1 amp for 1 hour. The battery is still 1000 mAh even though it is made of two cells with 2000 mAh total. You are equating amp-hours with watt-hours, which is not reasona
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by hwillis 2y ago
You misunderstand battery specs. It's a 13 string (more commonly, 13s) battery- a string is a number of cells wired in series. By convention that's a 48 volt battery, which matches with the 54 volt charger. In total that's
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by hwillis 2y ago
Sound waves. Acoustic waves travel much farther and there are transmitting stations underwater. Contrary to the other reply, ELF is not used and is impractical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine For VLF
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by hwillis 2y ago
> You presume it has to be incredibly long range? EM waves fall off exponentially inside a conductor like saltwater. A 1 kHz wave has a skin depth of 8.75 meters, vs the Virginia class' 10m width. A signal from the front to the ba
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by hwillis 2y ago
Silly. 1. Myostatin inhibitors are already in development. We're already using a drug that stops us from getting fat, why would we not use a drug that prevents atrophy? 2. This is entirely focused on what would be efficient at a glo
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by hwillis 2y ago
1: Previous conditions in fluids cannot be determined with any kind of accuracy except for really obvious cases like "did this wet ground come from a cloud?" or laminar flows ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_Kl
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by hwillis 2y ago
There's a very obvious reason sci fi armors don't look like historical armor: so they look sci fi . If you make your plasteel armor look like a medieval suit then your movie will look like laser jousting. It's why tatooine

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