supernova87a

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by supernova87a 3y ago
Ah, thanks that explains it -- (follow the link also for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts )
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I wonder how this works technically? and to what extent it taxes the bandwidth of the system / backhaul / towers / channels? Is it: Cell tower: "Every phone currently connected to this tower -- display this message now
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by supernova87a 3y ago
https://www.theonion.com/congress-forgets-how-to-pass-a-law-...
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by supernova87a 3y ago
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-354#:~:text=In%20general... .
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by supernova87a 3y ago
The stupid thing is that (I understand) the USPS is prohibited by law from offering such services. Go figure.
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by supernova87a 3y ago
They should expand this service to make the USPS some profit, and offer to banks, credit cards, real estate, city/state governments, etc. to combat the rising (maybe perceived, but certainly lots of real) problems with proving someone&
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Just like countries and banks that have no effective restraint or external supervision, the amount of devaluation of points that airlines have been tempted to do in recent years (and have done) is incredible. The only thing keeping most p
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by supernova87a 3y ago
> Stein then asked me what other boundedness theorems I knew. I couldn't think of any concrete ones off hand, but I mumbled about a convolution operator being bounded if its Fourier transform was bounded and had some smoothness co
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by supernova87a 3y ago
On the practice of returning 30% of a gift back to the sender as yet another polite reciprocal gift -- Having been to Japan now and having seen the amount of gift wrapping and boxes and packaging of little food items and treats, I wonder if
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I wonder if Apple have the ability to unlock storage that they secretly left on the chip and just had disabled in order to sell lower tier models? And more flexibly repurpose them to higher storage if that's selling better? I'm
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Did the creator of the flight plan software engage in adversarial testing to see if they could break the system with badly formed flight plans? Or was / is the typical practice to mostly just see if the system meets just the "wel
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I remember in the early 90s other kids and I somehow knew that if you used a payphone and dialed 550-(last 4 digits of the payphone), it would call itself back and ring. Or there was some ANI (?) number where you would call and it would t
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I have a side question. Is there just an entire industry of anonymous low cost labor countries that YouTubers outsource their video compilation to, where the service is to gather 300 random clips that vaguely relate to the text being spoke
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Isn't this an unavoidable curse of all maturing democratic/capitalistic countries and economies? As the society matures, and people's incomes and standard of living rises, and the apparatus for doing such projects grows, it
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I find this story to be more highlighting / reminding of the phenomenon of clawback, and how do you slow people from consuming more and more. As soon as you achieve some gain in energy efficiency of anything, people find new ways to us
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by supernova87a 3y ago
To me it reads of the kind of Rachel Carson types of environmental damages that were getting much more attention at that time. (Acid rain, pollutants, runoff, etc) If they had anticipated CO2 (and yes, I agree it was known by some well be
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I think this law/provision was passed at a time before there was a clear notion of CO2 from burning fossil fuels being connected to climate change, and they were thinking about more traditional pollutants/harms like logging and dr
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by supernova87a 3y ago
This is the important question. The constitution is very vague on this, how would it be enforced? You might as well invoke the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and ask the courts to rule on this. I am n
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I am very interested to see how this may play out and whether it gets upheld (note this is just a district judge writing a single ruling). Or whether the remedy is either toothless, or unenforceable. Because the major barrier I see is, wit
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I think a big problem, especially with companies, is that as soon as any cost of some input touches a new price level, that price now starts to get baked into the planning. Even if it was only for a very short blip, and even if the actua
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Do you remember when we used to have to pay for the next OS version upgrade, and for a program that would put your screen to sleep? Which, after you bought it, would be on floppy disks?
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Can I ask how you come across these links to such original court document material? I am always wanting to find the source of news reporting of such things, but reporters seemingly can never just quote the original document that contains
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Why would you deactivate the brakes, rather than just tell the pilots "don't use the brakes unless it's absolutely necessary, and use thrust reversers instead"?
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by supernova87a 3y ago
The Chromebooks no longer get updates, but how long can they keep on working usably? The article doesn't convey enough detail about this difference, or the story is making it sound like the laptops will die on that day.
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by supernova87a 3y ago
One lesson I learned the hard way (somewhat related to last minute panic at the airport) is: don't try to update/change something in your online check in process that has working, before a critical check-in time, because it can al
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Yesterday's liberals are today's conservatives.
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by supernova87a 3y ago
Here is a separate argument I wish to pick with city governments + planners, especially if you are claiming to be liberal, pro-living-wage, etc. all these kinds of things (and by no means is this a new criticism, I acknowledge) More than ju
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I haven't learned all the details of the service yet, but I hope this helps eliminate the ridiculous check-based / Zelle fraud that seems to be growing (or at least, seems to be highlighted in news and discussion as growing). The
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by supernova87a 3y ago
How is it supposed to work, if the UK laws were implemented? Only phones activated in the UK or with UK set as the activating country have to follow the rule? Only if there's a SIM card? What about iPods or MacBooks? What if you
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by supernova87a 3y ago
I guess sometimes, the stupid, unpredictable, irrational, doesn't make economic sense choice is the thing that history remembers.

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