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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
IANAL, but this email might not have any force of law because the CFPB was created by COTUS by Dodd–Frank and its parent agency is the Federal Reserve. While it generally complies with OMB guidance, it doesn't necessarily form a legall
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
I would like to hope it's mostly just America having a mid-life crisis rather than Europe too. Chalmers Johnson wrote a book about the collapse of empire and a possible resolution to it that was suggested reading at the CIA on the topi
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Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts(arstechnica.com)
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roberson_case
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
This is already known. Giant SUVs are more prone to rollovers and then crushing themselves and their occupants. Mid-sized and large sedans are far safer for 2 reasons: 1. structurally, they have smaller forces to contend with over a smaller
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yep. I worked in a biomedical research department. Getting funding was always difficult, requiring 2 full-time grant writers for the government stuff and the dept chair who split their time between raising from private individuals, corporat
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yep. It's the creation of an artificial Hobson's choice: "do this, or I'm breaking up with you."
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Exactly. Volunteering to risk critical info disclosure to adversaries through convenience. Big Brother didn't invade, they were subsidized by MAANG to get a foot-hold (no pun intended) on people and their spaces as Alexa and Siri.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
A subset of passive aggressiveness or crybullying perhaps as an excuse to employ stonewalling, one of the 4 horsemen of the relationship apocalypse. It's even more corrosive when combined with a social group pattern of continually exco
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Maybe I have a wild bias, but I don't see how this is underwater quantum rocket surgery. Try and continue to engage when reasonable and respectful with mutual humility without intent of conflict. The nuclear option is to shutdown commu
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
I think Technofeudalism, as Yanis Varoufakis put it, creates inverted totalitarianism where people are controlled not directly by government with guns but with corporations with access control and moderation power over apps that form the ma
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
IANAL, but SCOTUS finally decided "every business must pay sales tax everywhere" in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., 585 U.S. ___ (2018).[0] (Where ___ has a preliminary value of 162.[1]) 0. https://supreme.justia.com&#x2
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Oh yeah, I remember the '98 Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA). It drove adoption of e-commerce because it undercut local sellers. Such were the days of the Wild West before the final nail in the coffin, South Dakota v. Wayfair.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Agreed. It makes out tech to be a static, malicious, and socially-Darwinian hivemind of freeloading scofflaws. There are nonzero people in tech who do live their and work towards values with integrity that exist on a spectrum including from
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Michael Moore found banks that gave out rifles. At small scale, demand must be incentivized, even if that means temporarily dropping the price below zero to reach sufficient scale to be self-sustaining.
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Yep. Inflation across the board through many inflationary policies is the goal because it's good for the rich who can keep their liquid and illiquid assets hedged and bad for ordinary people because it's a "tax" without
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
How to be the "hero" on the Karman Drama Triangle while actually being the "villain".
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
These are just the disclosed ones. The weaponized ones (as mentioned) found or bought kept secret by the NSA, etc. such as from Zerodium (ex-VUPEN) and similar aren't counted obviously. ;)
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
I don't get why they don't just slap an adult age (varies by jurisdiction) and sensitive content gates on it and be done with it. Some people who are of legal age want sensitive content apps and web stuff and others don't wan
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Without seeing the value delivered for the service, it seems kind of pricey at first blush unless it was paying for multiple individual analysts for N accounts to give them credible, researched expertise as a service. Maybe they were paying
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by pentel-0_5 2y ago
Vaguely-similar symptoms: Hollinwell Incident https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61551003 The key, I think, would be to gather blood, tissue, air, soil, water, and food samples to rule out simpler envi