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However, it's moving to electric, with the first electric locomotive undergoing testing now, and the first electric fleet arriving this spring, with fully electric service expected to begin in two years.
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Contra the point of this thread, Google actually prevents me from getting basically any spam calls. With the combination of Google Fi and Pixel, I receive very few spam calls. Almost all of them are automatically screened, the phone never r
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There is a widely-known Internet rule of thumb that 1% of users add content, and 99% lurk. There have been several studies that seek to validate that, several of which are outlined in the Wiki summary: [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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> it's well known bankruptcies stay on your credit report for 10 years. But it's less well-known that Chapter 13 bankruptcies stay on your credit report for 7 years, which had already passed. Chapter 13 represents about one-thi
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One of the very best features of Android Messages is that you no longer get spam texts. The combination of Pixel and Google Fi means you never get spam calls, or spam texts.
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Very little is due to Apple's shift away from Intel chips on Mac, but an enormous amount is due to Apple's shift to TSMC-manufactured Apple Silicon on iPhone. iPhone is largely what created the sustained, predictable volumes for h
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Taiwan does not have any treaties with the United States, because the United States does not recognize Taiwan as a country, or have normal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, ever since the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. The US _did_ have a mu
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United Nations Resolution 377 [1] "Reaffirming the importance of the exercise by the Security Council of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and the duty of the permanent members to
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Also worth noting that the Earth receives about 43 tons of new mass every day, mostly from meteorites. Coincidentally, this works out to 15,695 tons of new mass every year.
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> it's also much less reliable. The software, or the service? Because IRC is not typically associated with tremendous reliab...* * User has quit due to excess flood
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Covid was already in Europe by December 27th, 2019. The pathogen was first noticed in China on December 29th, 2019, with a few dozen patients hospitalized in Wuhan presenting with pneumonia, during peak flu season. China notified the WHO of
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I'm not sure I understand how to contrast the two things. They are entirely unrelated.
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When you consider the century-long global effort burning 2-3 billion gallons of oil every day to raise CO2 from 320ppm to 420ppm, you get a sense of the scale involved.
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I'm not sure Amazon is a great example of a company that focused on short-term results to the detriment of long-term results. Amazon famously spent a couple decades re-investing every penny of cash flow into future products and service
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Almost certainly not. Spotify would never agree to such terms. Joe Rogan is not quite an employee of Spotify, but he does now have an exclusive agreement, and can't publish anywhere else, and so his show and any other show he might lik
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This request is different than that. Delta is requesting that airlines be allowed to refer people to a national no-fly list that would ban the individuals from all air travel on all carriers. In your example, it would be like causing a ruck
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I think there are two arguments here: legality, and actual safety. I would argue that the slow rolling stop is perfectly safe in all cases, but the law exists as it is only to reduce ambiguity for enforcement. It's not a calculated ris
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> This is the company that decided to have its cars not stop at stop signs. Normal rules don't apply to Tesla. It's a driving profile which must be turned on that implements behavior extremely common among the driving public. M
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In hindsight, it should have been structured like Germany's Kurzarbeit ("short-time working") program. Impacted businesses simply furlough employees they don't have work for. Employers continue to pay furloughed employee
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It's far too simplistic to say UBI would go to homeowners. In a supply-constrained environment, it's true that a higher capacity to pay would lead to higher prices, but that's not some general truth. If it were, you could say
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Why? If the fastener works, what is the issue? This is the exact sort of thinking that compounds into large delays. In this case, Tesla obviously ran into an unexpected problem, and did not have a part to fasten this piece. They used variou
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Perhaps I misunderstood. The airlines are already legally required to make their websites accessible in the United States, including to screen readers, by virtue of the Air Carrier Access Act. They already all comply with this. Unrelated to
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That's a fairly bizarre and Byzantine approach to legalizing screen scraping. If we want to make screen scraping affirmatively legal, we can simply do that. We don't need to anthropomorphize HTML/JSON parsing as equivalent to
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Given the massive and disproportionate police response in DC to the protests over the summer, I find it extremely puzzling how you could conclude anyone would see that very large response as a green light for a protest, let alone storming t
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Has America considered doubling the number of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and all other medical support, building and bootstrapping many more medical schools, and graduating an enormous cadre of recruits from a seven year program, all at a
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> Please post your source that said the Union gave up. There's no way to misinterpret this outcome at all; they clearly won. How about the fact that everything you just listed was in the previously-rejected contract that weeks ago t
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GP's point was broader than log4j. It's that we're all building our own spaghetti using a collection of libraries and frameworks all built with their own spaghetti. By the time software gets to the SaaS end user, it's gi
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Most condominiums built today using concrete-rebar construction will be torn down in the same timeframe. Concrete rebar has a lifetime of about 100 years, even when properly maintained. But nobody buying a condo today looks at what the resa
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Collides with Hearst Consolidated Publications. Algorithm reduces entropy quite a bit, not very strong
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There's was an option to accept $50 in lieu of credit monitoring last time.

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