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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Everyone participated in everything. Getting food was basically 90% of everyone's day. When berries were in season, which might only be a week or two, everyone picked berries. When the salmon migrated, everyone worked the river. And th
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Not guilty sets no legal precedent. For that, he needs to be found giulty at trial (no plea bargains) appeal that conviction, and then have an appelate court declare that a mistake was made. I would not wish such a process on anyone.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
The western obssession with wrist watches popularized the mujahedin insult: "You have the watches, we have the time."
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There are two realities at the moment: the everyday culture that really hasn't changed all that much, and a federal dog-and-pony circus act that roams around the country doing crazy stuff. The vast majority of people have no interacti
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Navy reactors are physically tiny. A rod in a reactor the size of a garbage can means much more than a rod in a reactor the size of a studio apartment.
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Well, we don't know exactly why the reactor was manually shut down. Did the person actually know that the control rods had dropped? Or was it reported by sensors? I suspect the procedure us to initiate shutdown in response to any repo
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Exactly. The financial filings don't matter. Even the people that read them immediately dismiss them.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
They do, but the accounting rules change based on context. They will file an S1 today outlining how they are rolling in profits then, come tax time, suddenly they are hemorrhaging money. Flesh-and-blood investors have lost all trust in fina
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
African American-tie dinner. Spin City 1996.
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Imposing one's will upon other people is the primary driver of modern politics. Live and let live is gone.
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In the context of "anti-woke" ideology. Many people currently in power believe that if we do not talk about race, by literally not using the words, that longstanding societal issues will simply disappear. Same too with many scient
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So... should cops require a warrant before reading a plate with thier eyeballs? There are lots of vids of people claiming that, generally low information sovcits. But it makes for great window smashes.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Using bluetooth signals to monitor traffic speeds/flow has been a thing for over a decade, and remains far cheaper than cameras. https://www.smatstraffic.com/blog/bluetooth-and-radar-traffi... "They detect Bl
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Lol. They have survived many mass extinctions. The horseshoe crabs will be aeound long after we are all dead. Once we stop actively killing them, they will recover.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Ya, there are way more options. A few helos can refuel in-air, but more common is refueling from ships (landing or hovering) and oil rigs. Then there are a whole bunch of helicopters on navy ships that will rescue people if asked. There are
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
And how fast is this drone ship? I bet slower than the helicopter. And how do you get people onboard? A drone with a robotic arm? Will it be like the claw game, but with wounded people being clawed up?
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Lol. GrapheneOS. I like it but it does have the worst autocorrect ever, so bad i have disabled it.
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
A few years ago I was part of a national-level rescue chain, the chain that starts with a phonecall and snakes it way up through different first responders. The group I worked with were at pretty much the far end of the chain. I am all for
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Well, for those who want to ban gas stovetops in new biulding, it is a binary world. The reality is that home cooking is a rounding error in terms of energy usage.
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There is a time and place for fossil fuels. I see too many people scream for electrification in new biuldings yet do not hesitate to operate a backyard grill, or eat out at restaurants (electrifying a commercial kitchen is a massive ask).
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
One thing doctor, and to a lesser extent lawyers, have to do is project confidence when they may in fact not have much. A doctor/lawyer regularly has to quickly become an expert on a subject, or seem like one, often overnight but some
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
And those disconnects would be that effective gatekeeper. Maybe overkill, but "air gapping" is a often a reasonable mitigation.
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Cybersec is not intelligence. The people suiciding in the article seem to be from intelligence rather than cyber. The fields are often conflated but they are different communities. One feeds data to the other. Clearances are under more scru
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Well, I did say airline pilot. An AirForce pilot is still a military officer and can find work inside or outside the military as a team leader. A modern airline pilot is an infamously hyper-specialized job where all they do is operate the
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
>> In my experience, at least one agent I use struggles to produce minimalist designs, and it's very frustrating Which ones don't? I used to play Wing Commander II. It was 30mb. Today, the software to adjust the colored ligh
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
Not really. A properly designed network should take account for such things as unknown/irreparable flaws. An irreparable backdoor in a device can be mitigated with a gatekeeper, something akin to a firewall that will not allow a threa
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This isn't Russian assassins. They kill specific notable people, not functionaries. Nor is this about not being able to talk about work. Working in these fields becomes your life. You talk about it all day. They don't want to talk
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by sandworm101 2mo ago
But once you get past econ101, you are taught how markets react to percieved bubbles, how those with near monopolies would rather pocket a windfall now than risk investing in future expansions.
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Beavers are big in canadiana but only Oregon put one on its flag, albeit on the back.
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HN moment. A not-small number of commenters here are those lawyers.

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