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The cost of the request is often based on how many man hours it will take to fulfill. Different agencies have different rates / different capabilities for performing the document search itself. Some agencies may also reflexively deny requests, which would require a lawyer to sue them to get resolution if you believe the denial doesn't legitimately meet legal exception requirements.
The title of the job opening says computational chemistry, but the details indicate they're looking for someone with credentials in one of a few different computation / simulation specialized fields. If I had to guess, it seems possible they think those types of simulation design skills may be useful for simulating user social behavior somehow?
I think a huge aspect of that is simply that very few games have their budgets disclosed.
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From here, I looked up pictures of anchors who worked in that time period, and I see Eric Slocum (now deceased) and Margo Myers who did evening news together in that time frame, and look quite similar to the people in the video.
EDIT: someone else identified Keith Eldridge, who definitely looks like a match for the video.
Don't know about their definition for this article, but the US Constitution doesn't define credentials required to exercise freedom of the press. Everyone in America gets that right. Literally anyone can be a journalist by acting as one, even if they don't have an audience.
This wasn't all in one place. Also, the general strike was one day, but the protests after that day have continued.
My state uses this method already.
Apple Inc vs Pepper. It was filed very early in iOS's life, got thrown out in 2013 after years of wrangling (by this same judge?), I didn't realize this part, but it went all the way up to SCOTUS in 2019 after getting thrown out, where they said the district court was wrong to dismiss the case, and it looks like it is actually still technically ongoing since that Supreme Court ruling, but I have no idea what the status is because I can't find reporting on it past the SCOTUS ruling. So yeah, there appears to be an open question of whether Epic could have filed suit without the theatrics.
There hasn't been a hearing on an injunction yet, that happens later this month. The hearing that HAS happened was on a temporary restraining order, which was to keep Apple from doing anything UNTIL AFTER the injunction hearing.
The difference is important, the temporary restraining order's effects are only limited to that August-September time window, and the hearing itself had limited argument, and very little preparation time (Epic presumably thinking Apple wouldn't be so aggressive, and would want to drag things out, which they do, but they're also probably hoping to force a settlement as soon as possible). Part of Epic's legal team's arguments was that there is binding legal precedent that "self inflicted harm" was not disqualifying of any of their claims in an anti-trust suit due to the standing hurdle (of note: a similar anti-trust suit filed by an Apple user was thrown out without a trial on grounds that the customer was not able to sufficiently demonstrate Apple's practices harmed them; standing is a very big hurdle), but Epic's lawyers messed up and forgot to file that case brief in the documents they submitted before the restraining order hearing, so the judge made no determination then. They indicated it would be included in the injunction hearing filings. Basically, everything the judge has determined so far could change at the end of the month.
Believe it or not, you can put illegal things in contracts, and lawsuits are there to work that situation out, which is why Epic has gone this route.
On that "try different treatment modalities" note, for talk therapy (which is very often not handled by a psychiatrist, but by a psychologist), don't be afraid to find someone else if you feel your therapist isn't helping. Having been in and out of therapy for half my life, I've had therapists I really related to, and ones who actively made me feel worse. That being said, it can take a few sessions to figure out whether you're going to get along with your therapist. I recognize that many people might simply not have other options, and it can take months to find a replacement, but trust me when I say that sunk cost fallacy thinking of "oh, it took me 2 months to get my first appointment, and now I need to find someone else who I'll also have to wait 2 more months to see" is a trap.
So I agree iOS walled garden is an issue, but the 30% thing isn't the sole problem there, and really all digital game platforms with the exception of the Epic Games Store uses that same rate. The big difference on PC for developers (besides the literal technical differences between Windows and MacOS) is that you can choose to not use a store at all (self host on your own website), or to be on a bunch of different stores at once.
As far as I'm aware, it isn't, but it could have been part of the filings for the temporary restraining order. The number is from this coverage of the hearing by a tech/legal reporter. https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1298031302357082112?s=...
The Android suit has different claims in it than the iOS suit. One of the issues with Android is the allegation that Google killed deals Epic was trying to make with Android hardware manufacturers (by voicing objections to the manufacturers, who rely on Google) to get the Epic Store app preinstalled on some Android devices.
In court, Apple claimed that iOS payments are 12% of total Fortnite revenue, just for reference. It's not a death blow, but it's definitely impactful.
In the court hearings, Epic explained how they implemented their payment processor change addition without catching Apple's notice. The app simply asks the Epic servers for a list of payment processors available to display to users, and at review time it was only the Apple one. A week after the update, they added another entry to the DB, and now there's a second option, without modifying app code.
I've been a PC game pass subscriber since they started it up and haven't been disappointed. I honestly think it's one of the best values in gaming right now. Not every game on game pass is something you're going to love, but they have big depth and variety and a commitment to NEW releases, no waiting years for big titles like PS+ (to be clear, I own a PS4 and a PC, no actual Xbox).
It's more complicated than that. They blend traditional food crops with trees, shrubs, etc, often alongside some kind of transition cycle where they'll change what is growing where over time. Sort of a blend of sustainable logging with farming.
Yeah, I lost my phone for the first time last year, and was very very glad for this default, because I was able to remove 2FA on my now lost phone from my computer that remained logged into google services, and log into google on the replacement phone, and reset 2FA to that new device.
The hedge fund placed exec who has been running Gizmodo into the ground for the last year. Part of a larger trend of user-hostile design changes that have caused quite a lot of controversy as they attempt to extract as much value in the short term as they can. Last time they implemented this exact change it only lasted a few days before the writers at most of the Gizmodo sites more or less openly revolted. It resulted in the shut down of the left leaning news site though. I'm wondering whether we'll see a repeat, or if they'll shrug and give up.
And that's a fully valid criticism of a certain style of mainstream news that I completely agree with, and that is also being discussed in some circles, and even by some journalists, although it hasn't hit mainstream media level consideration openly. All falls into the massive and fraught discussion around how news gets paid for.
Feels like you either missed the point of some of those specific recent examples, or you're oversimplifying them.
With the show, Cops (Live PD as well), the overriding concern was that the film crew and the process had turned law enforcement work into voyeuristic spectacle, literally profiting off the pain of others (some may believe those people deserve that pain, but that's a separate issue), and possibly even influenced the officers being filmed to engage in their duties differently than they might have otherwise.
Left out, also, is that 30 Rock's "censored" episodes featured blackface, which at this point, the issues with the practice have been covered exhaustively, and large corporations are only now deciding to care as they see public opinion shift, but it wasn't a great idea when they produced those episodes at the time, either.
Major this. Also plug for CGP Grey's "politics in the animal kingdom" video series that explains exactly why we have that 'lesser of two evils' problem, and how exactly RCV and Alternative vote systems resolve that problem, in a very simple, understandable way.
Even worse, the employee who was asked to pick him out of a line up hadn't even witnessed the crime in the first place.
It wasn't just that the employee picked the man out of 6 pack; the employee they interviewed wasn't even a witness to the crime in the first place.
I think you might be overestimating the thought processes behind this, and underestimating the lack of thought among many people who buy their clothing. They're known as "Fratagonia" at colleges and universities nationwide because of their popularity as status symbol clothing with certain groups. I'll leave which groups for you to guess.
Anyways, Patagonia is a pretty small company despite their nationwide reputation, and they've always put values first and hoped/assumed things would work out, their founder has written about this himself. If your business model isn't a cost cutting / race to the bottom one, then a lot of traditional logic about how businesses are run can end up never implemented in the first place.
I'm in Richmond, Virginia, and according to people monitoring the unencrypted fire department radios on twitter (one of them a fairly reputable community organizer, but rate the source as you will), this exact situation supposedly happened on Saturday night. Fire department got called to a shoe store fire, they faced some impediment reaching the fire, police showed up and dropped tear gas all over the area, and the fire department ended up back on the scanner requesting an ambulance for the commander on site for tear gas exposure, and additional PPE from another department to help the other fire fighters cope. The building ended up being marked a complete loss, although I'm unclear of the nitty gritty details like timelines, source of the fire, etc.
EDIT: I will also note that this, among other events, was used to justify calling for a curfew in town, and today, the mayor and police chief have condemned their own police officers for deploying tear gas on peaceful protests prior to the start of the curfews last night, and then putting forward a false justification (admitted by the police chief to have been a false justification, to be clear) for doing so.
Came here for this. I've had so many struggles with big enterprise data where engineers who design the schema think empty strings and nulls should have meaningful distinctions, but the humans involved in creating that data (who are not engineers) somehow break those assumptions, so when the data migrated elsewhere, inevitably it gets collapsed back down to null and empty string being identical.
I'm also under the impression that the evidence for Juul being meaningfully safer than cigarettes doesn't really exist. It's more a lack of evidence in either direction (whether Juul and similar vape products are more or less harmful than cigarettes) because research is still ongoing.
They're saying it's too expensive to do outside of Bozeman. The sentence that begins that paragraph clarifies it.
"But it may not work everywhere."