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Interesting. Two key quotes: > It is unclear if the Intercept ruling will embolden other publications to consider DMCA litigation; few publications have followed in their footsteps…

Enron energy traders called power plants and asked them to shut down during high load times. They encouraged the plant personnel to fabricate the reason for shut down. This created…

If you are using qubes, you are likely using kicksecure. Whonix (used by many qubes users) is based on kicksecure.

I have heard this argument before, and it made sense to me until I became a patient. First of all, if the 3rd party (insurance company) was so incentivized to guard against fraud, …

The espionage act famously does not allow for whistleblowing as a defense. Tulsi Gabbard [1], Rashida Tlaib [2], Ron Wyden and Ro Khanna [3] (and perhaps others) have tried to intr…

Great videos. First video, about 22:50: "and we had a new challenge, OK? For the last three or four years our, our distribution has run sold out. So anytime we go and get a sale an…

There has been some reporting about commercial morgage backed securities (CMBS): https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street...

I am glad you are still here, yet sorry to hear of that experience. Thanks for sharing. >Couldn’t figure out how to fight them at the time, since most of my reasoning was gone. Ver…

This story sounds all too familiar to me. I have been denied coverage and subsequently saddled with debt. I know others who have experienced similar. I wonder how widespread this i…

Your suggestion of staying home if sick is one I agree with. Unfortunately I cannot make others do this. In fact, where I live in the USA I come across people who are visibly/audib…

Thanks for the arcgis link. It is interesting to compare to the Sentinel 1A data from the study[0]. For example there is one existing (ground based) measurement East of Mont Belvie…

In my own working experience and speaking with others, this is the part of "quiet quitting" that is too often missed. This is 100% about the question "does extra professional effor…

Is your brother still in the industry? If so, what are his thoughts about the current working conditions and the possible strike beginning Friday?

> What is the second person supposed to do - get out and push? Despite the relatively low rolling resistance, even a single rail car is too heavy for a human to push. I am not a ra…

This is a great point. A lot of ideas pushed by managers (like one person train crews) have been of the "sounds good on paper" variety. Adding and adding to the length of trains. R…

Thank you for this. Especially your first two paragraphs I agree 100% and I think those points are closely related to the Wikipedia article. Along these lines I could add that in S…

Your thoughts are interesting, but I am having trouble seeing how this relates to the Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia article is about police murdering a number of Indigenous Cana…

To add to others' comments about timber harvest: Logging operations in burned areas can greatly accelerate erosion. Dead trees have ecological value as habitat and food (woodpecker…

I agree that a living tree is not much of an offset. Trees are short term (and small) carbon stores when compared to fossil fuels. However I do not think that burying a tree solves…

From my understanding, the SEC does not share award recipients' identities. That said, every time I see news of an award I wonder if it's gone to an insider or short seller. The in…

As a former wildland fire fighter, I can assure you that temperature (and wind and relative humidity) have a HUGE effect on fire behavior. Furthermore temperature and relative humi…

This is a fair question but the answer can get complex. Honestly the design/manufacturing of this aircraft joint is way above my expertise and pay grade. I would hope that Boeing h…

There are numerous reports on debris (metal shavings, tools, and even a whole ladder) being discovered in aircraft by customers after delivery. This requires not only that assembly…

0.005 inch is indeed quite small, and a demanding tolerance indeed for carbon fiber composite construction. I trust that Boeing design engineers would have know full well that this…

From that wikipedia link: "Colonel General Varfolomey Korobushin, former Deputy Chief of Staff of Strategic Rocket Forces, in 1992 said that the Russians had a system, to be activa…