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by secabeen 6y ago
It's also often quite distributed, which many small IT groups of 1-5 staff members that may or may not coordinate with each other or with the central IT group(s).
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by secabeen 6y ago
They outsourced some IT staff. Reports are that this attack hit the epidemiology department, which lists a 10-person IT staff: https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/our-team I don't think we can assume that the IT outsourcing d
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by secabeen 6y ago
The problem with a state with no power is that it has no ability to prevent organizations from externalizing all of the costs of their profits. A simple place to see this is in environmental regulations. I can give plenty of examples, but
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by secabeen 6y ago
>Today that would be an invitation to have your children seized by child protective services. This is a common refrain, but I've never seen more than one-or-two anecdotal accounts of this happening. Do you have citations or article
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by secabeen 6y ago
Yep. This is a key factor. To discover new devices, Sonos uses a wireless scan. That requires location permission, because knowing the MAC of a nearby AP can be easily turned into location. (Yes, in theory Sonos could do device discovery
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by secabeen 6y ago
That is true, but it all depends on how much the rest of your system uses. If you just have a mid-tier CPU and SSD, you may find that the rest of your system only uses 200W, and you can fit a 3080 on a 600W power supply. There are multipl
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by secabeen 6y ago
Yeah, I love my 4000, I bought 3 of them a few months back, when I started being concerned they would go EOL. Right now they're hard to find again, hopefully they'll do another production run.
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by secabeen 6y ago
This citation is solely focused on income taxes, which make up only have of the revenue. Payroll taxes are 36% of the revenue, and are only incurred on the first ~$120k of income. I think this number would be more enlightening if it inclu
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by secabeen 6y ago
Only if you are running the Samba DC functionality, which is non-default. Also, you would have needed to specifically disable the protection that was added by Samba in 2018.
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by secabeen 6y ago
I celebrated the Billenium with my brother (two days before 9/11, actually). He's dead now, and we didn't have a lot of shared interests, so it'll always be a nice memory for me.
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by secabeen 6y ago
> The only thing I'm not clear on: even knowing exactly what you're doing... how likely is it that you could pull this off in real-time? Did the player have to do this 10 times? 100? 1,000? Speedrunners usually list their numbe
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by secabeen 6y ago
> Before, it used to be that you'd present side A and side B, without taking any stance. I feel that this era was a historical anomaly, brought on by the limited distribution of national TV networks, and the trust Americans had in i
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by secabeen 6y ago
> You're completely ignoring the other valuable aspects of being in a cloud: you're close to huge amounts of high throughput storage (blob and DB), and can increase/decrease the size of your fleet trivially. These are crit
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by secabeen 6y ago
The issue there is that the custom-made shotgun should be considered a gift to the Olympic organization as an organization, not to the official personally. The official could even display the shotgun in their office. Then, when they left
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by secabeen 6y ago
And to be clear, to to common refrain "well, if cops were going to be held responsible for their actions, they wouldn't put their lives at risk, they've be extra conservative!", my answer to you is: "fine, we don&#x
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by secabeen 6y ago
In my experience with research computing, if you are able to keep a computer doing active work more than 60% of the time, it will be cheaper to purchase and run that computer yourself than renting it from AWS. That's the case even wit
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by secabeen 6y ago
> Not in faculty salaries, but often in faculty headcount. Lots of colleges and universities have added a lot of faculty while keeping student headcount constant. Do you have a citation for that? The message in the industry is that coll
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by secabeen 6y ago
> (Cal State is kind of halfway in between, still much more state-funded than the UCs, but not anywhere near the per-student levels of 1990, which is why in-state tuition there is creeping towards $10k.) This is an interesting observatio
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by secabeen 6y ago
34% is a decent number, but that includes both Community Colleges, Cal State Schools and UC, all of which have opened additional locations in the last 45 years, as more and more jobs in the state require a college education. If you want to
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by secabeen 6y ago
Yes, this is a great summary, and exactly what is going on. Interestingly, it hasn't seemed to have much change on the spending side. Colleges are charging more to the median student, but are using a lot of it to subsidize less well-o
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by secabeen 6y ago
Ooh, can every employee with kids get a "parental benefit"? That seems like a good policy.
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by secabeen 6y ago
> do things like require bathrooms to be wheelchair accessible, even if there's an accessible bathroom two doors down, at a business which would be happy to extend its use to any wheelchair-using customers This is not a scalable sol
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by secabeen 6y ago
The easiest solution is just to be stable at a level of supplementation for a few weeks (even zero), then get a test. They're like $40 for the blood test, and then you can tell if you're in the normal range, high or low.
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by secabeen 6y ago
For the basics like this, you can just buy the test online from any of the test vendors like Ulta, LTAPI, etc.
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by secabeen 6y ago
That is true for some apps, but not others. Lightroom is not available monthly at all.
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by secabeen 6y ago
Looks like it depends on the state: https://www.rcfp.org/open-government-sections/i-election-rec... Most common is allowing the inspection of the list of absentee requestors, like in North Carolina: The chief election
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by secabeen 6y ago
Also, room and board are normally considered auxiliary enterprises, and self-funding. If they have profits, they contribute those to the university, but they are not budgeted with the general campus funds.
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by secabeen 6y ago
Heritage Foundation has a list. It has about 2000 instances over the last 20 years: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud Not a lot.
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by secabeen 6y ago
It's actually even more than that. The list of people who have voted is available for public inspection on election day itself. In close races, campaigns will send people out to review the list(s), note which of their likely voters h
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by secabeen 6y ago
Nest cameras are a completely different system than Echo, all Nest camera devices stream full motion video and audio back to Google 24x7. That's why you buy them.

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