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Wow Bill on the front page! For what it’s worth, he’s the only author who has written me back after I sent him a note through USPS. He’s a fascinating, charitable thinker with a mu…

Yes, they 100% do bring out unique archival records for you to review. It's one of the neat things about going to the facility! Sometimes if there's a more extensive process to ret…

My partner works for NARA, but not in this office. Outside of the large amount of departures and RIF actions taken for the agency, there's lots of challenges regarding staffing for…

There’s definitely precedent for public companies (even international ones!) colluding to artificially increase prices in a sector. Also a hilarious movie with Matt Damon. https://…

Late reply, but yes we had a pilot project with Starlink for a couple of locations which showed great results. Unfortunately we couldn’t use it in all cases because of stringent in…

Great question! One would intuit that the procurement function of a large organization (like one which operates a hydroelectric dam) would be able to see the value of some kind of …

I used to work professionally in the US doing this sort of task with computer vision. The challenging part isn’t so much the labeling/classification of a fish within an image; inst…

It seems that the plot of Stanislaw Lem’s “The Futurological Congress”, adapted into the film linked below, is fast becoming reality. The convergence between virtual reality and in…

It’s worth noting that Snowden never intentionally fled to Russia and the US revoked his passport when passing through to another destination, if I recall somewhere in South Americ…

Many other commenters have provided high-level background answering your question, but if you want to see how legalization/decriminalization is unfolding across the US, this is a d…

This is quite similar to circumstances that happened in Columbus, OH a few years ago. Same app, same law enforcement tactic: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/doj-claims-…