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by nmeagent 4y ago
According to the article, Fog Reveal accounts are typically only offered to law enforcement organizations. The company apparently realizes the sensitivity of these data and doesn't just make it available to any random paying customer.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32685046
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by nmeagent 4y ago
For some perspective, 800 million acres is about 1.25 million square miles, or approximately 1/3 of the land area of the forty eight contiguous states. 900 million acres is approximately the amount of agricultural land in the US. If
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by nmeagent 4y ago
"Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun..."
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Not everyone has that screen in their pocket.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
At this point any personalized ads I see are effectively ads for a competing product (possibly the always competitive nothing product). I'm personally already pissed off by Internet surveillance capitalism; if tone deaf ad firms wan
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by nmeagent 4y ago
One person making such a principled choice may encourage another, who may encourage another, and so on. If enough of us make principled choices we don't necessarily have to live like this.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Advocating violence is not necessarily a crime. For example, in the US that violence must be imminent and likely (see Brandenburg v. Ohio).
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by nmeagent 4y ago
I took it as over-heating/cooling during peak electric production time (daylight probably) when power is more available in order to reduce usage during off-peak times. I think it would require compulsion or a large amount of voluntary
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Everything's fine as long as it's voluntary. And by voluntary I mean both not compulsory (mandated by some level of government) as well as not normalized to such a degree that virtually every electric provider independently offer
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by nmeagent 4y ago
"storing energy in millions of smart thermostat homes by overheating/cooling them during peak hours to reduce demand at other hours" Who's going to go along with this? I suspect millions in the US alone would flip their
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Storage is measured in units of energy, i.e. something akin to Joules. Watts (and thus kW) are a measure of power, i.e. energy rate: 1 W is 1 Joule per second. kWh is a measure of energy (a kW for an hour) and is directly convertible to J
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by nmeagent 4y ago
The state of the country right now is such that encounters with the police are potentially volatile and can escalate in bizarre and ridiculous ways. IMO it's not worth the risk for something like this and she's much better off go
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Well at least some people in the world are still allowed to grow up with some measure of independence intact. This sounds a lot like my environment growing up in suburban Indianapolis in the 80s and early 90s (though probably with a lot le
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Note that most engineers in the US are not licensed (IIRC about ~20% are), are not liable for things like this, and do not carry such insurance.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
The school where I earned my CS masters required those with non-CS undergrad degrees (like myself with a BS in a hard engineering field) to take 12 semester credits of additional coursework to make up for this fact. I'd say those thre
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Keep in mind that we do not have to cooperate with whatever invasive schemes you wish to inflict on us.
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by nmeagent 4y ago
It would be nice to be able to force a reverse chronological order as a baseline but on top of that be able to filter by a user-selected threshold value of whatever measure they used to order with the other method. That way you could filte
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by nmeagent 4y ago
Strangely enough, you can actually block the corporate accounts associated with sponsored tweets. I used to do this consistently on general principle before ultimately canceling my account. After awhile, the ads I did see (from as-of-yet
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by nmeagent 4y ago
One problem with Twitter lists is that they are public by default. When I started using Twitter again last year, I pretty much partitioned everyone I followed into many such lists and discovered over time that though you can make them priv
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by nmeagent 4y ago
LOL, just assign that beast of a type to a name and roll with it: Thing = List[Tuple[Tuple[str, int, str], Tuple[int, float, float]]] def foo(t: Thing) -> Thing: ...
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by nmeagent 5y ago
Yes. At this point I will pay a potentially very large premium solely to give the proverbial middle finger to surveillance capitalism.
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by nmeagent 5y ago
You only pay 4.4% of your salary if hired after 2014 (I only pay 0.8%). If you retire with 20+ years of service at 62 or later, you get 1.1% per year of your high-three salary. That amount is adjusted by cost-of-living increases as well,
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by nmeagent 5y ago
15 years of service gives you 26 days of leave (normal paid time off) plus 13 additional days of sick leave. If you retire at 62, you get 1.1% per year of your high-three salary for the annuity. This is in addition to whatever contribution
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by nmeagent 5y ago
You do not require a masters for a GS-12. Many entry-level engineering positions (hard or soft) have a target grade of GS-12, so if you do your job at all you'll be there in a few years. If you're even slightly serious you'