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by ytpete 2y ago
Considering the word "Mexico" comes from the indigenous people of the region while "America" was a name brought by European colonists... I'm not sure you can really say both of those share the same air of imperial p
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by ytpete 2y ago
There have been people entering the profession for (purported) money and not love of the craft for at least as long as the 20 years I've been in it. So long as there are also people who still genuinely enjoy it and take pride in doin
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by ytpete 2y ago
Besides already being the original indigenous name for the mountain, "Denali" was also the name already in use by many locals and outdoor enthusiasts elsewhere. It was already the name officially used by the Alaska state governmen
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Pet microchip company Save This Life shuts down, pet owners urged to re-register(cbsnews.com)
9 points by ytpete 2y ago|4 comments
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by ytpete 2y ago
It sounds like potentially any pets registered through this service are no longer able to be reunited with their owners unless the chip serial number is manually re -registered with a different company, such as Free Pet Chip Registry or 24
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by ytpete 2y ago
Main discussion (240 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476828
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by ytpete 2y ago
Interesting... so Musk may be angling to get a federal law passed that would force all states to accept autonomous vehicles with less testing or data sharing than say, California currently requires.
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by ytpete 2y ago
Saw one driving around SF recently too. Not the SUVs they've been testing here for years – but the full custom-built cube-shaped passenger taxi.
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by ytpete 2y ago
I wouldn't say it requires that though. That is one way to attract solid engineers, but you can also do it with better pay, better benefits, better work-life balance, or sometimes even by just having a really compelling mission or pr
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by ytpete 2y ago
I believe since 2002 all electronic voting machines must produce a paper receipt like that, due to the Help America Vote Act. I don't think most states hand-check every single ballot, but I'd be shocked if there are any that don
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by ytpete 2y ago
Every polling place and every vote-counting center is open to observers from both parties, by law. Your idea that one party is shut out of this system has no basis in reality.
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by ytpete 2y ago
Almost every state lets you vote in person instead if you prefer. And if you do, any mail-in ballots that were sent out under your name are null and void. So if you don't trust it, just vote in person and problem solved.
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by ytpete 2y ago
The Help America Vote Act passed in 2002, adding important mandates such as a hand-recountable paper trail for every electronic voting machine. Concerns predating that mandate were a very different beast than the unfounded claims one party
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by ytpete 2y ago
No it's not. Your signature would have to match the one on file. Further, if the person the ballot rightfully belonged to actually wants to vote, they'll either request a new one or vote in person - either one of which would inval
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by ytpete 2y ago
I believe the idea is that random audits check whether the barcode matches the human-readable part, and in the extremely unlikely even problems are found they simply hand-recount _all_ the ballots ignoring the barcode.
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by ytpete 2y ago
Even that sounds potentially dangerous to me now, since it effectively means that some extra-long "correct horse battery stapler"-style passwords could be left effectively unsalted. I mean yeah, 78 chars is an awfully long passwor
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by ytpete 2y ago
The law covers both, although you wouldn't know it from the Twitter threads linked here. Here's how the San Jose Mercury News described the law: > prohibits school districts from implementing policies requiring teachers to disc
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by ytpete 2y ago
Does the paper say they don't have stable cycling beyond a few hundred cycles? Or just that they only tested up to a few hundred cycles, and it was stable all through the range they had time to test so far? Big difference between tho
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by ytpete 2y ago
Is there a source for that? I thought since they're not public yet they wouldn't release much info about revenue or profits.
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by ytpete 2y ago
I was assuming it was more of a text to speech error or typo in the records and it was supposed to say her first name there. Accidentally inserting super casual/offensive slang into a more formal conversation doesn't feel like a m
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by ytpete 2y ago
There's been plenty of judicial oversight – courts could always overturn any regulations or actions by an agency that the court decided were not based on a "reasonable" interpretation of the law passed by Congress.
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by ytpete 2y ago
It wasn't really "without check" though, was it? Courts could still rule that an agency exceeded its authority, it's just that Chevron meant the courts had to give deference to the agency's interpretation if Congre
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by ytpete 2y ago
Other discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084667
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by ytpete 3y ago
Has anyone studied yet how well this kind of analysis holds up to simply asking GPT to rephrase your words? The whole thing goes out the window if that kind of attack works nowadays.
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by ytpete 3y ago
The headline here is generic, but the real TLDR of this article is that a security researcher was able to inject code into thousands of compilation environments by creating a real library that matches the name of a library that is commonl
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by ytpete 3y ago
There's also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836513 (107 points, 26 comments)
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by ytpete 3y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952 (164 points, 59 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836513 (107 points, 26 comments)
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by ytpete 3y ago
The man man was arrested in Salt Lake City after he snuck on board using a photo taken of another passenger's phone screen while the passenger wasn't looking. He then hid in the lavatory until boarding was complete, but was unable
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Man boarded Delta flight using photo taken of another passenger's boarding pass(nytimes.com)
3 points by ytpete 3y ago|2 comments
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Lawsuit proceeds over Amazon revoking "purchased" digital movie content(twitter.com)
15 points by ytpete 3y ago|8 comments

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