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corncob15

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    Comment #34984558

    > This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and exploiting a vulnerable third-party media software package, which enabled remote code execution capabil…

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    Comment #34784937

    It's unfortunate - I was going to send this around because it's an excellent thing to think about, but then there's that bit that comes out of nowhere and if I send that to someone…

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    Comment #34444589

    I can vote with an out-of-state driver's license in Pennsylvania, it just means that I have to provide a signature to them instead of it getting auto-populated from my driver's lic…

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    Comment #33533104

    Obsidian stores all your files as Markdown as well, and has plugins to automatically back up your vault using Git on a set interval. I'm pretty sure across my various cloud sync an…

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    Comment #32802527

    AWS claims to be on track to power 100% of their datacenters with renewables by 2025[1]. GCP is carbon neutral right now (probably with renewable power credits or carbon credits) a…

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    Comment #32489172

    A lot of these comments could read very differently depending on the age and living situation of the commenter. I'm a college student who likes to travel and usually doesn't have a…

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    Comment #32228518

    Reminds me of the perennial reports from the American Society of Civil Engineers talking about how the US's infrastructure is degraded and everyone had better hire a lot of civil e…

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    Comment #32155798

    Not a marine biologist, but this seems like it would explain their entire findings. Yachts tend to hang out more around the tropics and less around murky waters in, say, the North …

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    Comment #32151217

    Higher turbidity == cloudier water. The turbidity is inversely proportional to disk depth. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbidity

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    Comment #32132487

    Small-parcel courier services (read: USPS, UPS, FedEx) are far, far more expensive than the freight shipping that moves most things around. It costs about $1/kg to ship things all …

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    Comment #32056328

    This is true, but also doesn't conflict in any way with the 20% first-generation statistic. After all, the corollary of "20% first-generation" is that the vast majority of Harvard …

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    Comment #32056055

    Most colleges actually do track this metric - generally it's reported as "first-generation students." (Generally defined as parents without a four-year degree, not parents with zer…