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The whole story as presented in the article and comments here is a bit misleading. None of these buildings were "abandoned", at least not in any practical sense. The buildings docu…

I suppose it depends on how you define "downfall", but Motorola stock this year is at an all-time high, even higher than its peak during late 90s during the run up to the dot-com b…

DirectShow (the API for video capture and other things in Windows) has long had the concept of a filter which can be plugged into the video pipeline[0]. I'm not certain if that's t…

They appear to be using Pfizer in at least some locations in Illinois, FWIW.

I've played with Jami several times because it sounds good on paper but it just flat out failed to work a lot of the time. Messages sent but never received, no indication of why or…

Two sentences after the part you quoted it says a belt was around his neck. Later on it mentions that he hung himself from the doorknob.

There's been plenty of healthcare workers splashed all over the news taking it already. More importantly, we're a long long way away from the general public even getting to decide …

New York's plan: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-unveils-draft... Phase 1 says "Healthcare workers in patient care settings " Tennessee's: https://www.tn.gov/content…

> Why should residents who are young and very low risk be a high priority? Maybe they shouldn't be top priority, but if they're dealing directly with covid patients they sure as he…

> It is ridiculous there aren't much more clear/specific guidelines, and in some cases enforceable policies/regulations, from the federal government. It's like nobody's driving the…

> I can name 3 other local hospital systems in my city that have vaccinated administrative & C-suite/VP level staff I don't understand why society is putting up with this. Right no…

The FDA announced early this morning that they were definitively going to authorize it[1], but they didn't actually issue the authorization at that point, with people telling the p…

> that works out to a 500 Mb/s link per building, which seems pretty modest for a institution We're talking 500 Mb/s of upload 24/7 though, which can't be used for anything else (i…

> That's an interesting point, but I'm not sure this specific case matters? Are there things a person speaking to a police officer has any expectation that the officer may not rela…

Now calculate how big of a data pipe you need to AWS to upload 400 terabytes of video each day and how much does that cost?

> If you're concerned about writing potentially sensitive video to non-volatile storage, that can be solved via technical means. Just encrypt the video with an ephemeral key kept i…

> It's cultural to the institution of policing. It's not just culture, it's the police unions as well. Any new tech (like auto-recording when the weapon is drawn) generally has to …

Cameras now are starting to include technology where the camera is automatically activated as soon as the officer draws their weapon.

> Why not buffer 5 hours by default? Because then you end up with recordings of things that you shouldn't have, like the officer using the restroom or a victim who has asked not to…

"This guy" was recently named to Biden's Coronavirus Task Force, FYI. The average age of COVID19 deaths is in the 80s. It will be interesting to see how he applies his views on old…

I keep wondering what unintended consequences our nearly-unprecedented efforts on non-pharmaceutical interventions ("lockdown", social distancing, masks, etc.) might end up having …

Believe it or not, I have no interest in living in the bay area - even if the costs were the same. I personally would like somewhere that didn't get quite so cold in the winter but…

Software developers simply do not get offered pay anything close to SV wages pretty much anywhere else in the US (maybe NYC? not sure on that one) - as far as I can tell. It's not …

My point is there is no such thing as a "$500K engineer" anywhere but SV (and maybe Seattle), and thus no such market exists elsewhere. Honestly even writing "$500K engineer" sound…

> you should be paid according to the value you create for the company, and nothing else But, you need to subtract your pay from the value you create. If you create $1MM value but …