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Cool. Found my way to this updates page that has a summary of volcano and seismic activity from different observatories if you click the tabs: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/vol…

No exemptions for medical life flights, local law enforcement, or even the military. You can read a more normal NOTAM posted for New Orleans likely for Mardi Gras ( https://tfr.faa…

The FBI working to recover stolen property on behalf of a private citizen who was the victim of a crime is something different. Harder to defend a reporter holding stolen property …

Google Deepmind is based in London.

Link to the video from the bottom of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_nk21389u8 The video includes side-by-side comparison between the original upscaled 480p and 720p…

Found this in the acknowledgement section of the article: https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas Edit: cool examples here https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas/blob/ma…

Collected Fictions [0] is a wonderful group of Borges stories that includes the ones mentioned in this article. There are some amazing short story collections out there if you are …

Taking this opporuntity to link to Charles Proteus Steinmetz[1]. Among the many, many things Steinmetz did, he invented the Metal Halide Lamp which was later refined for mass produ…

Can you provide a better source? I know about the waste in large nonprofits, but am also personally benefiting from grant-supported research that if it otherwise didn't happen woul…

American Tower might have info for you. "If we don’t yet work together, but you have land, towers, or a rooftop you want to sell or lease to us, we want to talk to you about a comp…

This negative comment got me thinking about why I liked the original post so much. The URL of the product itself very clearly tells us what the product is (at least, if you are in …

I don't understand at all why an enormous company like Spotify is so neglectful of the entire apple ecosystem. Part of this might be the legal friction between Spotify and Apple in…

The author has said many times that the Iranian Revolution was part of the origin story of the book. The book is set in America, so what do you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover Fascinating read, sounds like Robert Moses of the Navy

The article links to a paint company that is using the pigment, cool video of them adding it to paint. (sorry for FB video) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=405127556741940

Still missing transaction tracking. Hopefully it will come back some day. I migrated to https://wallmine.com/ when Google Finance announced it was neutering itself. However, I've n…

The photo on the card is already stored in a system somewhere, and already vulnerable to attack. The brain is just for authentication at the door.

You mean like a photo?

My gym also uses facial recognition, but does it via a person sitting behind a desk checking that my member ID matches my face. I don't think many people are uncomfortable with thi…

The ruling group includes some members of Congress and the executive branch. Current and former presidents and vice-presidents are not screened, nor are cabinet secretaries or memb…

Amazon is getting close to a $1T market cap which makes this look more like an argument for hiring non-technical managers. You didn't provide any examples of poor management by the…

In the R. Kelly case, that is true. I clicked into the linked policy and read that before reading the rest of the article. Spotify says, "That’s why we do not permit hate content o…

Taking on a hate content policy will be a big task. So much music, while being dramatic and theatrical, is open to a lot of interpretation as to whether it is truly hateful or just…

I wish this article had more on why basic income is being discontinued. Is it being ended simply for political reasons? Or did research show that basic income did not produce good …

Why do you consider choosing MySQL over Postgres a grave error? There are some cool features in Postgres. I am going to learn more about partial indexes, that looks useful! But the…