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by mandevil 3y ago
On the receiver side, yeah. On the satellite side, I had vague memories they were weird when I wrote that. From some quick googling I think they are doing a trick with clock synchronization from ground stations to avoid needing an atomic cl
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by mandevil 3y ago
Define exactly what you mean by "a swarm of satellites"? Each satellite in a GPS style constellation (and I haven't looked into the details, but I believe that all of the major GPS competitors use the same technique- Galileo,
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by mandevil 3y ago
In July 1989 the EPA issued the Asbestos Ban and Phase-Out Rule, which would have been a total ban on asbestos. The incredibly conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1991 that ban was invalid in Corrosion Proof Fittings v. Envir
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by mandevil 3y ago
My only issue with that is, it's behavior over the past 15 years seems to have a lot of interest rate risk built into. The thing about gold is historically it has been a store of value that is independent of interest rate risk, and I&#
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by mandevil 3y ago
The Space Shuttle was weird and unusual in that it was the only spacecraft ever capable of bringing significant payload back down to Earth. It cost a whole lot of payload up mass to get that capability (every flight had to carry the reentry
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by mandevil 3y ago
It is possible, but a) it is expensive as hell to get enough engineers whom you can prove in court have no exposure to the original software (most SWE's would get some exposure just naturally in college nowadays, leave alone at any sor
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by mandevil 3y ago
Maybe? I thought it was the same system of microphones just mounted on a vehicle, maybe it was different. Anyway, they found it unhelpful. "Wouldn't even notice our own gun shots" and stuff like that.
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by mandevil 3y ago
Shotspotter is trash. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/chicago-watchdog-harshly... https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1512138327205589004 (criminal defense attorney) https:&#x2
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by mandevil 3y ago
In September 1999 a series of bombs tore apart four apartment buildings in three Russian cities, and the recently appointed (a month earlier) Prime Minister, a bright young former deputy mayor of St Petersburg named Vladimir Putin, whom no
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by mandevil 3y ago
So the basic problem is that basic building design is a major stumbling block here. (I learned this from listening to the Odd Lots podcast cited below when it came out, so this is all from memory.) Modern offices are designed to be big open
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by mandevil 3y ago
Because the 18 year old who really misses his girlfriend needs to have his phone on him? The operator's wife back at Bragg (excuse me, Fort Liberty now) wants to know that he's safe, to use the example from the original article ab
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by mandevil 3y ago
When we had to go into SCIFs, generally phones went into lockers. At some locations, phones stayed in cars. But that doesn't make it any harder to figure out. But this isn't the first time people are encountering this problem. Str
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by mandevil 3y ago
Right. I was responding to the comment that "it must be driving Sam insane though to think he could have made it all fine if he had hung on a few more months." But the problem is, even if he had made this gamble pay off, by his ve
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by mandevil 3y ago
Eh, he had made exactly these sorts of bets before and he won those. Because it is gambling, eventually you lose a bet or two. While experienced gamblers learn to manage risk- mostly by diversifying and betting small chunks of your pot on d
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by mandevil 3y ago
A big part of why investors are being made whole is also that what they are owed froze into dollars at the moment of bankruptcy. If you had 1 BTC in FTX at the point of bankruptcy, and that was worth 20,000 on that day, you do not get 1 BTC
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by mandevil 3y ago
It's about 230 miles from West Lafayette Ind to Columbus Oh where Intel is building their new 20B fab. I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.
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by mandevil 3y ago
Public figures have to prove "actual malice" (a technical legal term- don't use the casual conversation definition for those words) in order to get libel, which is a much higher bar than us regular schmoe's have to clear
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by mandevil 3y ago
North Korea test flew the Hwangson-15 ICBM for the first time in January 2017, which has demonstrated the capability to put a few hundred kilograms essentially anywhere in the lower 48 United States. So the only possible question about Nort
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by mandevil 3y ago
With the obvious caveat that if there ever actually is a shooting war with China on one side and the US on the other then the whole world is in serious trouble and there are no good options: I am not sure that having superior technology is
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by mandevil 3y ago
Part of this is that Costco, unlike most retail outlets, treats their employees well and tries really hard to keep them around. For example, notice that the Costco nametags always have an "Employee since" on them, and in most of t
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by mandevil 3y ago
Things are far better than they were before the government intervention. The consolidation had started happening before the ACA was passed (e.g. Bill Frist and Rick Scott both became rich enough to be senators thanks to hospital consolida
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by mandevil 3y ago
In the US malpractice insurance is mostly orthogonal to the costs of health care. I hate having to write the check every year (my wife- a pharmacist- needs this insurance just like doctors do, though it doesn't cost as much because sui
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by mandevil 3y ago
James Mickens gave a lecture at a conference (I think it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc but I don't have time to actually listen through it) about how there are two different threat models
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by mandevil 3y ago
In the original, none of those are cited as his personal observation- all of them are based on (with links to) publicly available news reports on the company, published by reputable news organizations like Business Insider, who presumably h
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by mandevil 3y ago
Two things here. One is that the marginal cost of software(1) drives this pattern of winners and losers. The first user of any software costs an enormous amount of money to actually write the software and deliver it to customers. The 100th
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by mandevil 3y ago
As he presents himself in the book, at least, he was basically a dilettante, one of many who got sent to the GC&CS at Bletchley (the people who get described in Kahn 1991 or Winterbotham or Calvorcessi in their explanations of who worke
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by mandevil 3y ago
Leo Marks' memoirs, _Betweek Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945_ about his time as chief cryptographer of SOE, frequently discusses two major ideas of his that he pushed regularly: Worked Out Keys (WOKs) and Letter One
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by mandevil 3y ago
When you say you work as an engineer, are you a professor of engineering or doing engineering stuff for the university as a staff employee? If you are staff how does that differ from any other non-big-tech company? Is there something (besid
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by mandevil 3y ago
Not the same at all. The Postal Inspectors are law enforcement, not attorneys. They don't do prosecutions at all, the court stuff is handled by the regular Federal Attorney's who work for the Attorney General. The Postal Inspector
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by mandevil 3y ago
PIS are investigators, police. They are not prosecutors, they bring the information they collect to a US Attorney- who works for the Attorney General in the Department of Justice, not the Post Office- who actually conducts the court cases.

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