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by pp19dd 7y ago
Realizing what the extent of DOJ's intelligence capabilities is a bit eerie. They were able to name individual Chinese military operatives. Yet telegraphing that capability is a message all by itself.
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It's just not that clear-cut. Last time around, they apparently culled the wrong animal population. Scientists still dispute to this day whether the action effected anything resembling change. The book "Spillover" (highly re
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In no way can this explain any of the complexity of life, but, I found the DNA walk graphs very fascinating to look at anyway. You assign a direction to each letter (a=up, c=down, g=left, t=right) and plot pixels in a sequence. For example
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For the nostalgic, SEGA version emulation: https://archive.org/details/sg_Another_World_1992_Delphine_V...
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Without going into geopolitics or minimizing any deserved outrage over it and response to it, there's a reasonable case of thinking this in terms of consequences of concentrating power. Specifically, consider thinking of this in terms
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Their operating premise was to assume that Germany would suffer successive defeats. They theorized specifically about what might happen to Hitler as the war unfolded and Germany shrank, to prepare counter-propaganda efforts. The list is a
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You're right. What I found fascinating is how these guys theorized their way into the ballpark of what happened. They proposed eight possible future outcomes as the war unfolded and to their credit listed this one as the most likely o
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by pp19dd 7y ago
Page 155 of that Hitler psychological analysis performed by the OSS in 1943: > "8. Hitler might commit suicide. This is the most plausible outcome. Not only has he frequently threatened to commit suicide, but from what we know of h
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by pp19dd 7y ago
"Discomfort." That's not inaccurate, but it minimizes the impact of this scandal. It's not as if this was just a couple of bad apples who got caught. The reality is more ethically questionable. Follow-up by the Atlanti
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And not a mention of the Bloomberg Terminal spying scandal using privileged information. NY Post broke the story in 2013: https://nypost.com/2013/05/10/goldman-outs-bloomberg-snoops/ "a Bloomberg re
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In the future we won't need a head, because we'll have matter teleportation.
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Don't think it was necessarily a plot hole, albeit after the fact. Plenty of sci fi authors have taken similar approaches throughout the years. The idea is that in a spiral galaxy the natural tendency would be to stick with the orien
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They got Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode and Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin on it so at least they captured both America and the centuries-long ripple of enmity between various Eastern European Slavs and the Anatolians.
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by pp19dd 7y ago
Damned interesting made an interactive where you can listen to it and see the encoded graphics: http://voyager.damninteresting.com/ Some of the music selection they added to the golden record is actually really ... good. I
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by pp19dd 7y ago
Here are "high frequency" sonar images of the Japanese WWII aircraft carrier Akagi, sunk in the Battle of Midway. They were supposedly taken by an AUV. Low-resolution sonar: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto&#x2F
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An important takeaway from the book I got was that distilled checklists didn't work alone. It took some flexibility within the environment using the checklist to allow for its full potency, such as nurses being allowed to second-guess
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Better motor control. Timing: assuming rigidity of linear position is crappy, allow more time for it to bounce back. Speed: ramp-up speed in one direction may be different from the opposite direction. Position: accuracy of RC servos is almo
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Because confusing state of version management in 2019: https://twitter.com/noneprivacy/status/1168955093934399493 > If you used sudo because you installed the package "system wide", try with "pip
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This is great. Rando request, update % completed in title, for running it in background tabs?
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https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/matthew_keys_reuters_ind...
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To be fair, social advertising accidents do happen all the time, everywhere. But USAGM (VOA/RFERL/etc) broadcasting to America is still barred today as it was then. That cited law was a modernization to Smith-Mundt recognizing th
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by pp19dd 7y ago
Think the size of this incident prompted immediate reporting, so I'd trust it to be fairly accurate in scope, but typically statistical sourcing is done by UNAMA (cited in article) and I'd consider them authoritative and accurate.
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Behaviorally, it's a dead practice. As individuals, we used to look at all content ingested by readers (programs or Google Reader/feedly) and ourselves cherry-pick the articles, posts we wanted to see. Like an old newsgroup reade
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by pp19dd 7y ago
Bit of an oversimplification, but I think it was a human error assisted by bad design. An engineer set the "state estimator" to manual mode at 12:40 pm, then at 1:30 pm went to lunch forgetting to put it back on auto. Half an hou
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Say what you will about the quality of the news reporting itself, I'll respect that as a fair criticism, but it's not propaganda. Unlike any other news agencies that I know of, VOA has an actual U.S. law in place that legally sepa
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For any interested gubmit workers, a lot of red tape has been cut here. You deal with the IRS' contracting officer directly to start, since they already went through the competitive bid process.
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Knew a person who worked there at the time and they said the problem no one could solve was optimizing logistics because they couldn't cherry pick their customers. One order could be halfway across town from the next, and they had to
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And the upcoming pinebook pro: comes with a hardware privacy switch for camera, microphones and bluetooth/wifi. For those who aren't familiar with pinebooks, they're $99 arm-based linux laptops.
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You can't copyright facts. As journalists, we scrape things to collect information used toward transformative analysis. Not straight-up mirroring. Facts, as stated by an entity. So we've never run into a legal issue doing this
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Hmm. "Although the emission of toxic gases can be a larger threat than the heat, the knowledge of such emissions is limited." from a study titled "Toxic fluoride gas emissions from lithium-ion battery fires" https:&#x2

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