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On the other hand, sometimes cutting the cable is at least as dangerous as causing the aircraft to crash, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash T…

Current SFDC software engineer - this is just cover for a widespread engineering hiring freeze since the layoffs in January 2023. There's a ton of pressure to control costs after t…

NYT's political coverage has been extremely poor this year, with very obvious editorial control preventing negative coverage of Trump. It's not obvious to me they have a bias here,…

I had an MRI in February and specifically asked about my wedding ring, the tech said it wasn't an issue. We didn't discuss composition or any other details.

Phone numbers are initially assigned geographically but people generally take their phone number with them as they move.

Yes to the extent they're able. This article is a pretty good overview of the situation across Las Vegas that night: https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publicat...…

People would just have called it "ov" and moved on. Look around the tech ecosystem, lots of thriving projects with stupid names.

> Read the linked PDF from the CIA FFS. Its a fun theory and that has multiple articles linked from the 80s. Readers should note that while the declassification source is the CIA, …

> My understanding is that tasers are AC, thus involuntary movements will be back and forth rather than just in one direction. Tasers AC output is at low frequency but still signif…

Fred Noonan was hired as the navigator specifically for this leg of the flight because of his navigation skills, which he proved by establishing Pan Am's transpacific routes, so it…

No computer (device), but definitely a computer (person who computes) the location of the plane and destination in a formula that relies on the correct date for accurate long dista…

Because these employees are in California, Google is required to give 60 days notice of termination. Typically in big tech layoffs this is done as paid garden leave.

> Of those who reported an addiction, 38% identified an addiction to cigarettes ... alcohol (22%), marijuana (21%)

You're conflating the civil and criminal judicial systems when the reality is they're quite separate, and defamation has its own special corner of the civil realm where plaintiffs …

$10k means very different things to people of different socioeconomic statuses, but the new owner took a rinsing to keep this dog alive - german shepherd puppies from almost all br…

I think your guess here is pretty much spot on. TFA links another article explaining the $10,000 bill is a combination of $3,000 of completed tests the original owner had already p…

I work at a large SF based SaaS, there's so much money in that space the company spun up a team to build an air gapped version of our product for restricted networks. It's definite…

> Cyberpunk 2077 from that studio was perhaps one of the greatest dumpster fire releases of the current decade That may have been its critical reception but the game was wildly pro…

> I assume that means that you will be using their lawyers rather than your own (which they have in house and so are cheaper to use than the ones that bill you, the would be defend…

As an egregious google maps power user, these are the ones that bother me: 1. Offline maps don't actually download all the destinations in the mapped area 2. Google maps is bad at …

Absolutely not "all", a massive amount of management (non-commission and commissioned officer) time is spent policing the behavior of 18-22 year olds, frequently including dealing …

Can you share what jobs those people performed?

His offer was always well above fair value, which is why Twitter's board took him to court to enforce it.

> Yet simply because this user owns the obvious name, there is no real alternate sub for California-level news. Alternatively, the users aren't bothered by the moderation there and…