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by raincom 3y ago
Often, victims killed at one spot are dumped hundreds of miles away. So, it is important to know what soils are found on the body. Many cases are helped by such discoveries. For example, https://forensicsdigest.com/the-enriq
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by raincom 3y ago
Yes, they can do that. However, they have to be very, very careful, because of this: '[U]niversities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today. ...“[W]hat cannot be done direct
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by raincom 3y ago
Elite schools want to protect the quota of ALDC (athletes, legacies, dean's interest list--kids of potential mega donors--, children of faculty). Also, they want to appear diverse, by having favored minorities. They don't really c
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by raincom 3y ago
Equality of opportunity at the n-th step totally depends on Equality of outcome at the n-1 th step. It id better to focus on earlier steps where it doesn’t appear to be a zero-sun game.
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by raincom 3y ago
Even though adcoms try to keep the same regime through other proxies, but they have to be very careful: 'But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other me
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by raincom 3y ago
Adcoms (admission committees) have learned their hard lessons. Williams R. Fitzsimmons and Rakesh Khurana of Harvard might have told everyone to not put everything in writing, just as CEOs tell underlings to not put in writing in order to n
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by raincom 3y ago
Harvard used "personality score" to sort out applicants. Now, they got rid of "personality score", SAT/ACT/LSAT/MCAT, etc., scores. They can tell their feeder schools even four years earlier, how to prepar
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by raincom 3y ago
Here [1] is the federal indictment against Khanna brothers of DG metals, who even had Android/iOS app for PGM metals, and that app name was DG catalytic. [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-a
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by raincom 3y ago
Good to see Airbnb revenue collapse: bad hosts, last minute switch, hidden charges, late charges for damages, scams, etc.
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by raincom 3y ago
As long foreign countries swap their real assets (oil, grains, metals, manufactured goods, etc) with printed US dollars (nominal assets), they can increase (print) public debt (more dollars). That's why it is important for the US to ha
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by raincom 3y ago
What if Redhat doesn't commit patches to Centos steam on time, but backports their internal RHEL branches? What if Oracle doesn't backport on time? In that case, Almalinux has to fix their own branch with their patches, thereby di
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by raincom 3y ago
Few days ago, 'US doctors are rationing lifesaving cancer drugs amid dire shortage': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447371
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by raincom 3y ago
By 'hooking up to a computer', one tampers odometers in the first place. That's how leased cars' odometers are tampered by some lessees.
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by raincom 3y ago
What kind of hardware do you use to install OPNsense? Please don't suggest to buy some old Dell optiplex from ebay. Hardware that can beat any commercial vendor, is better.
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by raincom 3y ago
You must be paying support for 1000 machines, say $1M in total. Redhat wants at least $20M for 10^5 machines. Maybe, they don't want you as a customer.
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by raincom 3y ago
I would like to see what Chinese intelligence say about Signal and WhatsApp. What applications they recommend to use? Better use the apps Chinese intelligence recommend for their employees in the West and vice versa. Use NSA's recommen
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by raincom 3y ago
One of the FAANGs has/had exclusive deal with Oracle for Oracle Enterprise Linux, as Oracle charges a way less than Redhat does. Redhat/IBM figured out how many large enterprises use Oracle Linux; now they want to go after those e
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by raincom 3y ago
Backports are important for long term support. Say, you have some-pkg-1.2.5-83.el9.x86_64, CentOS Stream will have some-pkg-2.10.32-3.el9.x86_64 (with extra features, enhancments, security fixes), while customers want just CVEs to be back p
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by raincom 3y ago
All customers of Redhat should start daily sync of all source RPMs. That way, Redhat can't find out who is sharing source RPMs with Alma and Rocky. Right now, customers just sync binary RPMs.
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by raincom 3y ago
"Many members of the general public assume that the cameras are property of the locality in which they are used and that the funds received go back into the community. The truth is that less than 20 percent goes to the municipality whi
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by raincom 3y ago
One lesson: don't commit fraud, as detection is easy these days thanks to software, internet, etc. This is especially true, if you are in an enviable position. If you are at the bottom of the totem pole, no one cares about your degree,
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by raincom 3y ago
Privatize everything: surveillance, background checks, social credits, health scores, beauty scores, financial scores, work scores, etc. That's the best way to appear democratic, while blaming other autocratic, authoritarian regimes fo
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by raincom 3y ago
In democracy, just create fights between groups on issues of no-substance, and have two political parties. You get a system, which appears to be democratic, but controlled by the elite (uber wealthy, CEO-class, elite schools, think tanks, e
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by raincom 3y ago
Good to know that avoided kubernetes. Instead, they went with MRSK(Manage Remote Server Kontainers). Another source of huge headaches is removed.
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by raincom 3y ago
"In general, the root causes of drug shortages are well-established. Most shortages involve low-cost, off-patent generic drugs, which have profit margins that are razor-thin to non-existent. This is driven by middlemen who have, in rec
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by raincom 3y ago
There are ways to protect your home from such liens. Enter medicaid asset protection trusts.
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by raincom 3y ago
When Oracle started offering support for the oracle db on RHEL, whenever there are performance issues and other issues, Oracle used to blame RHEL. So oracle DBAs are trained to go back Redhat for issues. Usually, these support issues bounce
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by raincom 3y ago
If a mandatory reporter files a SAR, they are forbidden to share that info with customers. This doesn’t apply so much with payment processors. Stripe and others just don’t want to share their heuristics, because carders can thwart these heu
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by raincom 3y ago
There is a fight against cash; here, the govt forces private actors (banks, car dealerships, jewelry stores, casinos, etc) to report to the govt, any cash entering/exiting the system > $10K. Govt hates any untraceable monetary inst
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by raincom 3y ago
Dog sniff is legally sanctioned to get around the fourth amendment. In these cases, the govt violates due process, excessive fines, etc. Recently SCOTUS agreed to take the case Culley v. Marshall to examine these: https://www.nc

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