Got caught up in this and had my flights home cancelled. Looks like they’ve also cancelled 60% of tomorrow’s flights already as well, based on FlightAware’s cancellation tracker.
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Best wishes to those affected, I’m sure there’s a lot of talent that won’t have trouble finding something new.
> Mark Mazza, 56, is the latest of about half a dozen Jan. 6 defendants charged with bringing a gun to the Capitol. In this case, Mazza allegedly carried a Taurus revolver known as “The Judge,” which is capable of firing shotgun shells — two of which were in the chamber, along with three hollow-point bullets. A Capitol Police sergeant obtained the weapon after allegedly fending off an assault from Mazza.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/22/man-charged-loaded-...
The one that sticks out to me is:
> Interfering with or impairing the intended operation of Facebook
This seems very broad. I am sure Facebook has some legal standing for the takedown based on their terms of use and the extension's data collection. I wonder how far you can stretch "impairing the intended operation of Facebook", though.
> NPR acquired an early draft of a letter distributed by the drug company to groups supportive of the bankruptcy deal.
> The letter is framed as a direct appeal to DOJ officials and purports to be written by those injured by the company and members of the Sackler family.
> "We collectively speak for the overwhelming majority of the state and local governments, organizations, and individuals harmed by Purdue and the Sacklers," the letter states.
> There is no mention in the document of the company's role launching the effort or crafting the message.
Not shocking that the group largely responsible for the opioid crisis would lie like this, but still disgusting. I'm hoping the DOJ appeals.
> Our commitment to lift up kids who have lived through the most unimaginable abuse and victimizations will be stronger.
Ah, yes, everyone that is vocally concerned about this is either misinformed or irrationally “screeching.” We, of course, are righteous defenders of children. Tighten those blinders, Team Apple!
Given that they are for mobile builds, there might be some macOS nodes in there for iOS builds. These might be in-house machines they maintain -- or, if they use a cloud provider, there might be costs to just killing and spinning up nodes. For example, for EC2 Mac instances:
> EC2 Mac instances are available for purchase as Dedicated Hosts through On Demand and Savings Plans pricing models. Billing for EC2 Mac instances is per second with a 24-hour minimum allocation period to comply with the Apple macOS Software License Agreement.
My favorite in recent history was a developer (who had never made any contributions to the repo, nor even filed the original issue) saying something to the effect of "if this issue is not resolved shortly, we will move our company to use a different software." Talk about threatening the maintainers with a good time.
Why does the GP feel they can convey their criticisms to other parties as callously as they please, but reject that anyone should respond to them negatively?
> If one were to replicate the experiment from scratch, the total individual cost would end up being around $3500, the major costs being $1600 for DNA synthesis and $1200 for the kits to measure coronavirus spike protein antibodies.
Ah yes, fighting the good fight by spending several thousand dollars of disposable income on your hobby, to show people that the government-subsidized vaccine is class violence. :)
Did they tell you this outright?
Do you have a source for this?