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NYC even dumps their old subway cars to create coral reefs:

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-subway-cars-turning...

Though he also eliminated a lot of value for shareholders of World Book, Encyclopaedia Britannica, etc

My car (from VW Group) came with Active Lane Keep. It detects when you're drifting out of your lane and steers you back into it. Sounds great in theory.

Except that in the US, if you're cruising in the right lane then every time there's an exit it will actively steer you towards the concrete median between the lane and the exit. I don't understand how this feature was signed off on. The risks outweigh the benefits, in my opinion.

Bonds only give you certainty to the extent that inflation remains certain.

Stocks generally rise with inflation, whereas bonds continue paying out the same nominal amount, which buys you less over time.

As a retiree I'm 50/45/5 in stocks/bonds/cash, having opted for a conservative portfolio. The stocks are the only reason I haven't lost buying power. But the bonds have performed so poorly that I've barely kept up with inflation despite the amazing bull run in stocks.

As someone who is currently going through the diagnostic process for MCAS with a specialist:

A negative Tryptase blood test doesn't mean you don't have it, it could just be that you're not having an active flare-up at the time. So they also prescribe high doses of H1 and H2 blockers and then you report whether symptoms have improved across 2 or more organ systems after a few weeks.

90% of EDS sufferers have the Hypermobile variant, for which there is no genetic test. At least thats what I was told by an EDS specialist a few years ago.

I requested my personal data from Lexus to see what they had on me.

Not only did they store sensitive data about me, it also included personal data about 2 random Toyota owners who were incorrectly linked to my email address. I could see their full names, phone numbers, home addresses, details about their cars and every interaction they'd had with their dealers. It is a goldmine for a bad actor.

And this is despite me not signing up for "Connected Services", because Toyota/Lexus's privacy notice says they too may sell your location and driving behavior to third parties including insurance companies if you enable features like Emergency SOS.

they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them

"The AI works in mysterious ways"

I've implemented PCI-DSS and have 12 years of level 1 audits behind me. I actually find their rules to be sane, pretty good security practice. Internally, we made many of the controls standard across the board even for out-of-scope systems because they were sensible and we'd already built the tooling for it. If you implement it well, once you're compliant it is easy to stay compliant.

And yes, there is plenty of incentive to keep things out of PCI scope. I'd say that is PCI working as intended. Why would you want a larger attack surface that touches your credit card data?

I've had SOC2 auditors choose a random commit from our GitHub history, then ask to see the associated Jira ticket, logs from the build and deployment, etc. Hard to reliably pass an audit if you don't know which changes they'll drill down into.

They also asked for proof of system-enforced processes (e.g. GitHub branch protection rules and the setting for enforcing peer review for each change) which were basically proof of consistency.

I won't defend Biden's weak border, but I don't see any signs that he was specifically letting in people based on their political leaning while excluding others, nor were they given a fast track to citizenship.

My insurance agent told me that insurers in the US generally don't cover floods at all, because its expected that your compensation will come from the government.

Not just race, but political orientation. Not all white South Africans qualify for refugee status - only Afrikaners. A group who are generally conservative and likely to vote Republican once they've been fast-tracked to citizenship. (English-speaking, urban white people tend to vote more liberal there.)

What if built a containment dome and then filled it with cold water?

Even if the board votes in favor, wouldn't it be tax evasion to fund a for-profit corporation using a 503(c)(3) - which is tax deductible for donors?

a million people on mars definitely won't be achieved this century, as the place is fucking awful

Mars could make for an interesting prison, though. Like the Australia of two centuries ago. If nobody volunteers to live there I wouldn't put it past Musk to meet his target that way.

What if the help they need is just to talk to someone without fear of consequences?

If they dispatch you to an institution you could lose your job just when you need money to pay for the bills you'll be sent.

With some careers, like being a pilot, you'd never be be to find another job.

You'd lose your ability to take out life insurance (even if it was a short temporary depression that you got over, like a side effect of a medication, the life insurance companies won't care.)

Or the institution's records could be hacked and you'll live in fear of your friends and family finding out.. which could cause rebound suicidal ideation...

There is no way I would ever call these hotlines unless it were 100% anonymous.

I live in the US and while most of us know about the more serious crimes that often get prosecuted, there is a long tail of crimes that no single person could memorize. Over 60,000 pages of federal laws alone.

Its one of the few places you can be fairly sure you're chatting to people, not bots, who have no agenda to sell you anything.

Of course if it ever becomes popular, that will quickly change. But for now it is like early IRC.

I'm just expecting a reduction in volume, vibration, and unpleasant resonance.

In any of these categories you can already find some machines are quieter than others despite comparable air flows. So its definitely possible to reduce noise through clever engineering and precision manufacturing.

I love Noctua, and just wish they'd branch out from PCs and build more types of fans. Our lives are filled with so much irritating noise from noisy fans. Air conditioners, kitchen extractors, hair dryers, box fans, air purifiers, vacuum cleaners, leaf blowers, car climate control & radiator fans, just to name a few. I'd happily pay a premium for quieter things.

Perhaps there are others in your neighborhood in the same position, who would only get into it if there were other nodes. So be the first, get your friends into it, and maybe more nodes will follow. It's only $30 or so for a device.

They have a decent range (15 miles or more) so depending on how rural you are, you might be able to create a line of repeaters back to a major population center.

Its optional but it helps to see where nodes are on a map, and would be useful in (for example) a search & rescue operation.

Coffee can do strange things to animals. There's a study where NASA gave various drugs to spiders to see how it affected their webs[0]. Coffee had a stranger effect on the web than marijuana.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210327150247/https://arachnidl...

I'm an immigrant to the US who still has a bank account in my home country.

After I told that bank I'd moved abroad, they required me to fill out paperwork for FATCA and give them my US SSN.

I also have to self-report all foreign accounts and their balances to the IRS. The penalties for not doing so are severe.

I'd love if it could tell when a plane is ascending or descending and then add the last known rate of change to the simulation. Then you could watch a plane land.

You still have to pay the interest from somewhere. And presumably you'd need to put the coins into some kind of escrow so that the lender can get their money back even if you conveniently forget your private key.

Legal or not, there are real safety reasons not to put a small child up front. I bet your car's user manual says not to put kids up front. The safety systems are designed with minimum height & weight assumptions. The front seat belts aren't designed for a car seat. But most importantly, airbags explode with serious force that can break bones in a kids face. If they're in a rear facing car seat it can strike the seat (which will be close to the dashboard) with enough force to snap their spine.

I'm not even sure which of many questions to ask first..

- Are you a furry?

- Do you tend to wander off and forget who you are?

- Who would think to scan a human for a chip?

- Is this a common thing to do and I just don't know it?

- Did you put the chip there or did someone else?

- Or was it some kind of freak accident?

When I watch a film, I know it is fiction and special effects. But most of the fake AI-generated videos are being passed off as real on social media. It is exhausting (and increasingly difficult) to analyze every video on my feed to try figure out if its real.