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> ... they admit to having a TV and then sign a 'confession' form... I believe this "confession form" is a Demand Letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_letter These are routinely used for
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> … K3s… I’m assuming this isn’t a typo and you mean Kubes? https://kubes.guru/getting-started/
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> The EPA may not contort the plain language of [the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)]’s Section 5 to deem a forty-year-old ongoing manufacturing process a “significant new use” subject to the accelerated regulatory process provided b
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The pictures of the Windspider Crane System on their home page give a good idea of how this is intended to work: https://windspider.com/
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They were already donated to the University of Colorado Boulder https://archives.colorado.edu/repositories/2/resources/1887
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Here’s the video mp4 of the little bird sorta powering some tiny LCD screens: https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.device.2024.100318/attach...
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He should rename it to GrugScript
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> I wouldn't want to send scans of my iris to random Internet services either! You don’t. You generate some secure keys using iris data. You send the internet service a copy of your public key. They can use that to verify that you a
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It’ll also be interesting to see how these privacy regulations interact with “Proof of Humanity” (POH) schemes in the long run. For example, if POH becomes a fundamental security precaution to do financial transactions [1] would you be opti
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> VCs trading insider shares at escalating valuations isn't real value. To be fair, this is your thesis, and you are free build your portfolio around it. VC’s portfolios are built around a different thesis, and a big part of that
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> I would agree, yet I have seen it happen. You've seen insurance claims denied because someone didn't have an unverified video that allegedly showed a theft taking place, even with a police report in hand? (Seriously: How woul
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> Of course you need to provide proof of theft. Generally filing a police report will suffice, if I’m not mistaken. Could you lie? Of course, but (1) it’s generally not in your best interest because the insurer might raise your rates and
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tl;dr The western provinces of Canada are tracking a higher than usual number of peat fires that they expect will “kick start” a new round of forest fires in the spring. British Columbia: 106 peat fires (typical average ~10) Alberta: 57 (av
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When the cash flow of an income-generating investment changes, a disciplined investor will rebalance to reduce the risk to their portfolio to the desired level. For many people their job is their major investment.
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> I don’t know where to draw the line on what constitutes trauma for someone else. It’s highly subjective. Yes, and unless things have changed, this is a key component of psychiatric diagnosis: Are you able to manage your life traumas in
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> Each benchmark uses 5x10s warm-up iterations… How do I read “5x10s”? 10^5?
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For an example of the long-term effects on mission, you can study Kellogg’s (the cereal company) which has been a for-profit public company (Kellogg Company), with a trust as the majority shareholder (W.K Kellogg Foundation Trust), and send
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> It’s not healthy, but often, doesn’t result in much harm to anyone else. Let’s not forget that the readers are also willing participants in this, and their willingness to believe “half-truths” is what keeps the whole thing going. Edi
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I’m having trouble understanding your example. Yak-shaving is a chain of preconditions, e.g: - In order to do Z, I must first do Y - In order to do Y, I must first do X - In order to do X, I must first do W Etc. Clearly the way to improve t
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If you’ve set up x.local in your DNS for your dryer but your laptop uses mDNS, it’s possible that your lapatop’s mDNS will get a response from your microwave that it’s reachable at x.local. The solution (not an expert, please check this) is
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Things that use your body to reproduce are difficult to “limit” such that you guarantee “minor exposure”. Instead, you’re gambling that your immune system can mount a response quickly enough to “limit” the illness. Perhaps the benefit of ma
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> … hold [USD] for free as opposed to the fees my bank would charge and I don't get hit with conversion fees on every deposit. Note that, in the U.S. and Canada, Wise accounts aren’t traditional bank accounts but “transfer” [1] acc
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> Tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is USD 62 000 for a boarding student and USD 33 000 for a day student. The fee covers room, board, academic study, basic materials for courses, lab fees, field trips, tickets to cultural events,
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Startup founders need to lead their investors to understand that the company is not going to deliver what everyone hoped it would. Whether the points in the article will work to convince them is obviously very dependent on the investors, bu
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I think we have plenty of examples of published “noise”, probably just not on the same scale. (“Noise” is subjective of course: I don’t watch reality television but others do, for example.) For the most part, I just ignore “noise”, so I sus
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> Shouldn’t there be a universal standard to communicate clearances to the computer systems of the airplanes and other runway vehicles? “ Communicating clearances” would actually be the easy part. The hard part is making sure that there
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> … [T]he author clearly acknowledges the tradeoff between pragmatism and safety, but it's unclear why it's better to draw the line at monads rather than separation logic. Probably because programmers are already writing func
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If I understand the article correctly, even if the programmer is reasoning and coding functionally in an imperative language, the compiler can not assert that the code is safe for concurrency and parallelism. (You may find you get other ben
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The Food and Drug Administration’s web page about the recall is clearly written: (edit: actually not a recall but a requirement that the machines are not used until they’re serviced) https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/
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I’m not an expert by any means, but futures prices are basically the sum opinion of traders about how much money it’ll take to ship things in the future, and some portion of that price is the cost of dealing with that extra risk. Here’s a l
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