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by s_q_b 11y ago
The lead is in the mains, and with most of the apartments in any decent neighborhood approaching 1 million for a two bedroom, it's not like you can purchase a building and replace the plumbing. The problem is a government that injected
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Washington state, or Washington D.C.? Because D.C.'s water is actually so bad it can be dangerous. You can't even believe the water quality reports because the Federal agencies distort them wildly. There was a massive scandal that
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The interesting thing to me was the the two supercritical experiments that led to imminent death were both with the same core, dubbed by the research team the "demon core." Daghlian was experimenting with the plutonium core to det
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Yeah, that's likely, but it's also a terrible sign of mismanagement. I once worked at a big company that had literally one guy that understood the single sign on system.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Absolutely. But the goal needs to be reform. We have some idea of how to approach it (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mandatory real time drug and alcohol monitoring, psychotropics such as antipsychotics, employable skillsets, stable housing,
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I'm beginning to think we should entirely abolish the punishment motivation in the criminal justice system. It negatively affects recidivism rates, creates a huge societal cost, and really serves no purpose other than vengeance for the
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Most likely that or short-term disability, neither of which are shameful (not that you implied that they are.) The real problem is that a competent manager would have transferred the work to another dev.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The studies in this area are very clear. The most efficient way to help the poor is direct cash grants. However anathema to our national ethic, this is what works, and form must follow functionality.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The app that I want for my phone is phone.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The Sikorsky S-97 is the perfect emblem of what I mean by the myth of technological progress. The Super Tucano A-29B: •Has a greater range, at 800nm vs. 320nm, much more for the Tucano with one pilot and the extra fuel tank, with an even
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by s_q_b 11y ago
God, I can't wait until you find out about Operation Gladio... Conspiracy theories are comforting, in a way, because they project the belief that somebody is in control. The truth is far more terrifying: no one is in control.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
We're definitely on the same page. [W]e probably can't be made safer and eventually this will become obvious to the general population as well... Exactly. How can you stop a few individuals from shooting up public spaces, especi
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by s_q_b 11y ago
No, that's the insane view.
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The cynical view is that these people are simply using the attacks as a way to push through legislation that they wanted to push through regardless. I agree. However, I believe the reason for this is more legislative laziness than anythin
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Ironically, after the request from JSOC and the Marine Corps for a modified Super Tucano (A-29B) was nixed, the United States' main procurement facility for this plan is still building them... for the Afghan airforce . Sure, the Super
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia :) Colloquial translation for those of you playing along at home: The burden of proof lies with he who affirms not he who denies, since by the nature of things, he who denies cannot produce any proof
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Why else would you need to change the name?
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by s_q_b 11y ago
To add to the anec-data, conversely, I was refused antibiotics for years in the United States as a child, and it was only after switching physicians and careful monitoring that they realized my sinuses were severely infected. I've been
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Not yet. But it's definitely preferable to have the software architecture figured out before we have commercial quantum computers in need of it. See Krysta Svore at Microsoft Research's QuArC for a good presentation on the topic.
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Quipper: A Scalable High Level Functional Language for Quantum Computing(mathstat.dal.ca)
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Meet USN Rear Admiral Grace Hopper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Inventor of the compiler, early advocate of machine-independent computer languages, creator of COBOL, originator of the verb debugging .
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The F-35 JSF has problems, and I'll be the first to be critical, but it is not a "heap of junk." It's a tremendously capable fifth-generation air superiority fighter that can also serve in CAS, bomber, and ELINT roles.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Once authority figures make a decision, they fear backing down from it, because they (unfortunately often correctly) believe that doubling down will force the far less well-funded citizen to fold, usually in exchange for a less severe &quot
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Thus, with great fanfare, did they begin their own obsolescence...
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by s_q_b 11y ago
This really speaks to your ignorance regarding public interest law. Because cases that have little impact beyond pure Constitutional law often have little profit upside, law clinics are one of the mechanisms by which such cases reach the ap
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by s_q_b 11y ago
A lot of the ticky-tacky McMansion cul-de-sac developments constructed from about 2000 to the end of the last housing boom in the United States don't have sidewalks. However, in my experience, the streets become de facto multiple use p
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Yeah, it really depends on your use case. Hypothesis is better for unit testing and development. It's a developer's tool. Sulley is better for finding bugs that could lead to vulnerabilities. It's really an infosec tool.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Well, you sort of hit the nail on the head, but with a few more advanced techniques to amp the process up. Essentially, a fuzzer is a vulnerability finding tool that automates the process of injecting randomized values into input fields, an
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Cool! I'll admit I haven't had time to give this more than a gloss yet, but the architecture is interesting. I've always wanted to implement a fuzzer. My current fuzzer of choice is Sulley: https://github.com/

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