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I'd go further and say don't even read the OP - which is just a summation of the original reporting from the book, and go to the book instead. The story is remarkable and it's hard to put the book down
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fighter jets are the more extreme and established example, it also applies to most modern airliners which have software systems in place to prevent human controls from exceeding the aircraft flight envelope fuel efficiency in these modern a
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> Why isn't that enough to disable MCAS From what I understand it did but it would reengage again. It's the reason why the Lion Air flight lasted longer in the air than Ethiopian, because the pilots in that case kept hitting th
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First Ethiopia lawsuit was filed today in Chicago MH370 was a multi-national class-action lawsuit filed in SC that was only dismissed because the circumstances of the disappearance were not clear and nothing to do with it being multi-nation
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most modern fighter jets would drop out of the sky like a rock without software they'll eventually get this right - they just need to step back and recognise that the MAX is a completely new type of aircraft and stop taking shortcuts o
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over a decade on this site i've watched comments from people being cynical about the value of Google, Facebook[0], Amazon, Uber and many others At what point of seeing this same story over and over again and realising that funding grow
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heaps of public companies turn out to be frauds, there is an entire industry out there of people spotting fraudulent stocks and shorting them (see Muddy Waters, Citron research et al) Sino-Forest has probably been the largest and most wel
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banning transgender people from the military doesn't seem like a nitpick
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There is a way to know since segwit was activated using a user activated soft fork despite not having a majority of miner support Node control has worked in both theory and practice
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Bellingcat does this and more - they also teach a course on it they triangulated the location of the ISIS execution videos using nothing more than shadows and geographical mounds in the desert https://www.bellingcat.com/tag&
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> Yet another example of how our culture considers drug offenses to be deplorable Armstrong went just beyond drug offenses - he destroyed careers of people around him who wouldn't play along and attempted to call him out. Betsy and
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> Holmes and Balwani didn't just lie and cover up bad results, but actively crucified any of their employees who dared question what they were doing This is what they have in common with Lance Armstrong - they didn't just stop
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> highly over-engineered Redux is a couple hundred lines of code. A good way to learn the pattern it to reimplement it yourself - which you could probably do in ~100LOC if you ignore the helper functions
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It is - he's on a press tour for his book Mastermind which I just started and is good so far https://www.amazon.com/Mastermind-Drugs-Empire-Murder-Betray... There is also a competing book that just came out called Hunt
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> I wish more companies with resources such as Google would take a stand and fight. I believe it has less to do with being well resourced and more to do with keeping internal politics and corporate secrets out of public court records
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These incidents also somewhat echo the earlier 737 rudder issues, which also had multiple total airframe losses with 100%+ fatalities and multiple incidents before it was fully resolved a decade later https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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What you're somewhat observing is the split between Boeing and Airbus fans - if you only wade into airliner discussions periodically you might miss that there are two very entrenched and passionate groups of supporters who take the bra
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who wrote The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell a seminal biography of the now-convicted cardinal[0] Also one of Australia's best journalists [0] https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/david-marr/2013/09
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books are more than just files and contain a lot of additional data. how do you filter by publisher and then sort books by publish date in mc? I'm sure there's a "dropbox is just rsync" type answer, but this is for regul
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McFarland raised money from investors using forged documents, that's Madoff level fraud
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apparently his lawyers didn't even know he was posting it does come across as quickly written and rather genuine
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the docket mentions that - it's 260M sessions/visits p.a but only ~10% are from the USA with most traffic from emerging markets, so not really monetizable[0] pay-per-download malware, otoh, can pay $5+ a hit even in those markets
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full decision and docket https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/virgini... my biggest question from this case is if and how defendant is earning enough income from the websites to hire lawyers -
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my biggest takeaway from the entire affair is just how horrible the Japanese justice system is In addition to that absurd holding time: defence lawyer doesn't see the case until close to trial, almost impossible to get bail, the absurd
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> somehow are stupid enough to leave comments in Acrylic compilation artifacts and strings in malware - very common method of researching attribution and most tools pull them as IoCs even if you write tools to strip or null them out all
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I paid $400+ a year for personal accounts since GSuite went premium. I just switched over to another provider because I reached a tipping point of not being able to tolerate GSuite support - it is horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible. Too
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we didn't move back since we use lerna with yarn workspaces. few more reasons are offline package cache and pnp edit: also just read the v2 roadmap that is on the top of HN now - lots of great new features coming up which only reinforc
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this really does need a pitch comparison vs nvm. when I first saw yarn I switched almost instantly from npm because the pitch and improvement were clear
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ETOPS and jet streams Flying Joburg to Sydney once we went pretty far south and skimmed Antartica, could see ice outside the windows you can see it in this video: https://youtu.be/i_a4WGxu62c?t=669 It depends on jet streams
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Tor supports pluggable transports, one of the most popular of which is meek - which makes your traffic look like Google or Azure CDN traffic over HTTPS[0] Also Tor circuits are also just TLS[1] [0] https://trac.torproject.org&#x2

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