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811.
by secabeen 7y ago
Yes, but as a general rule, universal social welfare programs (medicare, social security, etc.) are much more robust and not subject to cost-cutting than means-tested ones (medicaid, welfare, food stamps, etc.)
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by secabeen 7y ago
Wouldn't this just leverage the existing sales tax system? Now that local sales taxes are collected nationwide, it would be much harder to avoid.
813.
by secabeen 7y ago
Which universities are you talking about? State schools are not flush by any stretch. Yes, tuition money is up, but funds from state legislatures are down significantly. Some state universities get less than 10% of their revenues from th
814.
by secabeen 7y ago
It also doesn't include the payroll and financial assistants to the department receiving $30 million in grant funding to hire researchers. The salaries of those staff come out of the $30mil in grant money, but in the aggregate data, i
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by secabeen 7y ago
A big driver of the bureaucratic growth is the growth in federal funding, and the significant documentation requirements that the federal government puts on recipients of Grant Funding. (This is things like effort reporting, overhead alloc
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by secabeen 7y ago
Vehicle owner should probably also sue the used car dealer for not delivering the car as described, with a valid license for software features described on the Mulroney sticker.
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by secabeen 7y ago
They legitimately wanted more security than that, with two-factor and other similar systems to prevent hostile actors inserting bad data.
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by secabeen 7y ago
If you are doing it on disk images for VMs or virtual desktops, yes.
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yeah, I think Sun/Oracle recognized that there was a subset of their user base that would greatly benefit from BPR and all the associated features that come from it, but that it wasn't their core customers, so it wasn't inclu
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by secabeen 7y ago
In the commercial space, sure. In the residential space, it would be a pretty small market. A door lock is there to slow down an attacker, or to force them to make a destructive entry via a window. Going much beyond long screws to preven
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by secabeen 7y ago
Here's a pretty straightforward, factual article about the spread of coronavirus: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/health/chicago-coronaviru... It clearly describes the spread of the disease in th
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by secabeen 7y ago
They brought back the classic model for 2019, it's called the TC5: https://speedqueen.com/products/home-products/top-load-washe...
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yep, the postdocs are unionized: https://uaw5810.org
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by secabeen 7y ago
Hans is eligible for parole this month.
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yes. Those cron jobs are installed by default by all major vendors that supply/support ZFS.
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by secabeen 7y ago
It does, but it's not 100% clear if administrative employees of universities count as educational. Sure, if you are teaching a class with it, go for it; but running a VM in it for the university accounting office is not as clear.
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by secabeen 7y ago
> They require ridiculous access to personal information like location [2]. I know I'm late on this, but both Android and iOS require location permission to get any access to WiFi scans or AP MAC address data. Sonos software scans
828.
by secabeen 7y ago
> Are you sure? I'm not. Do I think it's likely that they are? No. > How can we as citizens verify it? The same way we verify that Google isn't producing broad-scale AI systems looking for specific subsets of people a
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by secabeen 7y ago
> Although they claim to let customers deny police requests for footage, their terms of service allow them to hand video over to police if they deem the request "reasonable". Defining what is a "reasonable government reque
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by secabeen 7y ago
A bit of the fast side is an understatement. They were at full takeoff power the entire time they were fighting the trim. They never reduced engine power, which would have reduced the forces on the stabilizer. An easy thing to miss certa
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by secabeen 7y ago
Because they want to stream audio from streaming services, which have APIs that change regularly, and require some level of DRM and subscription management. If you just want to stream audio from a local server, buy a squeezebox device. (T
832.
by secabeen 7y ago
Insteon is the closest thing to a successor to X10, and it still supports a lot of the old protocol. You can certainly setup an insteon system for basic stuff (Scenes, etc) without an Internet-connected hub at all.
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by secabeen 7y ago
You can get 100W over Cat5 with 802.3bt, but I can't tell if there are any special requirements for that cabling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#Standard_i...
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yep, there exist databases of the geolocation of nearly every Wifi AP in the world. If you have the MAC address of nearby APs, you can lookup where you are trivially. https://www.skyhook.com/
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yep, there exist databases of the geolocation of nearly every Wifi AP in the world. If you have the MAC address of nearby APs, you can lookup where you are trivially. https://www.skyhook.com/
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by secabeen 7y ago
The idea of paying minimum wage to a child care provider also seems wrong too. Your child is spending more time with this person each week than they are with you. I'd think you'd want to pay more than minimum wage, to get qualit
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by secabeen 7y ago
The summary here has it all laid out: >They find that supply factors such as wages in the education sector and state appropriations to higher education both play important roles in explaining changes in college tuition inflation. In cont
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by secabeen 7y ago
The Ed department has great data on this too: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_334.30.a... Expenditures in real per-student dollars are up, but at nothing like 7% a year. Tuition is u
840.
by secabeen 7y ago
Hub or in-wheel motors have significant engineering challenges from the increase unsprung weight inside the wheels.

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