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mixdup

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    Comment #49212421

    maybe, but ghost listings have to be posted at some point, and who knows how long the companies want to let them go (and sometimes they expire and someone needs to refresh them) th…

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    Comment #49211813

    It's tough to trust job openings. It is a fact that some number of job postings are ghost jobs that don't exist. Either they're scams from impersonators or the companies are trying…

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    Comment #49197678

    I know of one example where this was a problem, it didn't destroy the local water supply but water usage was absolutely a problem. A family friend is a sales engineer for an indust…

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    Comment #49195306

    >The water thing is, I think, baloney Just like everything else, it depends! There are designs that don't really use that much water, but there are also ways to build these things …

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    Comment #49192442

    >But data centers by themselves intrinsically seem like very good neighbors, much better than warehouses and strip malls. It totally depends on the developer. Ask someone in Memphi…

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    Comment #49192426

    >Given that after the advent of virtualization we had a glut of datacenter space Virtualization isn't new, it's a technology from the 2000s. I think we are well beyond absorbing an…

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    Comment #49192416

    VA independent cities aren't that, though. They're what they say on the tin: Cities without a county, they're not a nominal county and city both existing on paper but governed as o…

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    Comment #49192398

    You can advocate for changes to a system while living and existing within the system. In fact, that's probably required to actually make any changes. No one is going to listen to s…

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    Comment #49191980

    I don't know what DC Blox was going to put in this particular datacenter, but they are a "traditional" colocation datacenter company. Maybe this one would've been superdense GPUs w…

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    Comment #49191959

    >this isn't a city or a county Yes it is, it's both of those things. Consolidated city/county governments are not a weird oddity that no one knows how to handle, they're not super …

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    Comment #49185347

    They don't need probable cause to search his vehicle if he had a warrant. They can search his car because they are arresting him and towing the vehicle

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    Comment #49176097

    I know that, does my grandmother? In the heat of the moment, will she remember that I told her 2 years ago when they call her?

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    Comment #49175617

    There is a similar issue with the IRS. If you call the IRS they use a text-to-speech system to generate the voice for their call tree IVR. The problem is, it's a commercially avail…

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    Comment #49150986

    Yeah, this guy picked a weird thing to take a stand on. Apple corporate policy is not enforceable by state courts. IMEI to serial mapping is not a protected data class in any way i…

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    Comment #49067318

    Is there a somewhat easy way to sign up for this service as an American these days? I tried a year or two ago and it was not verboten but it was also not easy

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    Comment #49031064

    How do these plug in panels prevent backfeeding in the case of a complete outage? IE: if lines are down and linemen go to work on lines with trees on them etc how can they be assur…

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    Comment #49011010

    a big problem with passkeys is that there is a lot of flexibility in how it is rolled out with a given site or app. Some sites ask your browser for a passkey as soon as you hit the…

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    Comment #48990826

    I mean this thing is "Part of the Qbix platform" and there is an offer to sell services related to the "Qbix platform"

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    Comment #48990763

    >Kind of wild that states can just sue and have success in blocking a merger. Any of 50 states can potentially have a veto on something like this? On what grounds? This isn't a per…

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    Comment #48922052

    The next time SpaceX wants to sell some bonds they will take a bath. Even if this isn't immediately screwing Elon or SpaceX, it indicates a much higher interest rate next time they…

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    Comment #48922036

    If the equity market says something that must make it true. Markets have never gotten valuations wrong

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    Comment #48922021

    This is effectively an increase in interest rates for SpaceX. That's how it affects them

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    Comment #48921275

    Probably had his laptop with him and they simply traced the gdid to a specific IP address that they determined belonged to the hotel

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    Comment #48896565

    There is a difference between this situation, a targeted install in a problem situation, and hundreds of thousands of these cameras at every intersection in the country Also, Flock…