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vermontdevil··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
They also did not take $ from Operation Speed Warp so I think they waited till now to keep this apolitical.
vermontdevil··on Whole Foods grocery chain bans Canadian employees from wearing poppies
Whole Foods need to learn that the American version of "flair" on uniforms is not the same as wearing a poppy in Canada or UK etc.
vermontdevil··on Jack Ma fell to earth and took Ant's mega IPO with him
Learned something about the pawn shop industry in China. Had no idea.
vermontdevil··on The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it
You should watch this video (and several others) of this professor, David Ruzic from Uni of Illinois

This video he talks about the economics of nuclear plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

This video, he talks about modular micro-nuclear reactor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ

His videos are great. Worth your time.

vermontdevil··on Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk
Or southeast Georgia. They do burns every year. Because they do farm for southern pine so they have an interest in keeping fires under control.
vermontdevil··on Auschwitz memorial director offers to share Nigerian boy's blasphemy jail term
Blasphemy laws suck
vermontdevil··on Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas
Wouldn’t surprise me Southwest will start looking at other options. Herb is gone and new management.
vermontdevil··on Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
No that’s Swarm Technologies.

https://qz.com/1226962/an-unauthorized-satellite-launch-in-i...

vermontdevil··on Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
NPR is fantastic when it comes to accessibility by providing transcripts. I linked the page thinking the transcript will come later as they usually do. But turns out it was a wrong link. See elsewhere for the correct link.
vermontdevil··on Facial Recognition Leads To False Arrest Of Black Man In Detroit
From ACLU article:

Third, Robert’s arrest demonstrates why claims that face recognition isn’t dangerous are far-removed from reality. Law enforcement has claimed that face recognition technology is only used as an investigative lead and not as the sole basis for arrest. But once the technology falsely identified Robert, there was no real investigation.

I fear this is going to be the norm among police investigations.

vermontdevil··on Perchlorate, used in rocket fuels, may be more hazardous than previously thought
See Flint as an example.

They know this stuff is bad but they are confident their wealthy town or county will not allow it to impact the drinking water supply. It'll be "someone else most likely poorer areas" problem.

vermontdevil··on Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
Imagine this started when Musk wanted to send seeds to Mars.
vermontdevil··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
Crew Dragon has a toilet.
vermontdevil··on The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018)
Great pics. Thanks for sharing.
vermontdevil··on “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
They will after the COVID crisis eases.
vermontdevil··on “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
And now what? Will Amazon improve their business process to avoid future situations like this?

(of course not)

vermontdevil··on NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
We just launched three astronauts last week. They have quarantine process they've been using for years even before COVID-19 came up.
vermontdevil··on Some Churches Are Still Packing in Crowds
The three mega churches near me (Central Indiana) have gone virtual. Thankfully.
vermontdevil··on Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All
You can read here

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-joe-rogan/1439-mich...

vermontdevil··on Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All
Not dead but Lamar Alexander reported McConnell plans to take it up after recess (March 23).
vermontdevil··on Google tracking a bike ride past a burglarized home made the rider a suspect
* I’m definitely sorry that happened to her, and I’m glad police were trying to solve it,” McCoy said. “But it just seems like a really broad net for them to cast. What’s the cost-benefit? How many innocent people do we have to harass?”*

I understand he doesn’t have the resources to fight the constitutionality of the whole process. This quote is why ACLU, EFF, and others need to work together to take it up further. Stop the police from continuing the habit of just sweeping people’s data and worry about the details later.

vermontdevil··on Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars
Tesla?
vermontdevil··on Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya
This is a good point. Goes both ways.
vermontdevil··on Revoking certain certificates on March 4
3,500? wow. What are you managing if I may ask?
vermontdevil··on Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya
The persistent view that IT is a cost-center is why this happens.
vermontdevil··on Over 150k botanical illustrations enter public domain
And you’ll get sued for using the public domain pics on your website instead Of paying Getty
vermontdevil··on SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
I read they plan one of the next few starlink launches to be a fifth reflight booster.
vermontdevil··on SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
Yes. No core has done 5 launches yet.
vermontdevil··on SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch
Starlink launches are heavy and I wonder pushing the envelope reduces the margin of error. The last successful barge landing with Starlink crushed the leg core as it came in hot and heavy.

I’m sure these tough landings will help SpaceX.

vermontdevil··on “We already store data. In a database. It works well”
Another crypto post here:

Wikipedia has grown to the point where it's really so important that the database is going to need to be WORM compliant so records can't be changed and editors can be encouraged to be more responsible. This would make inserting false info more expensive & increase trust.

Jimmy replied:

It is really important that records can be changed. Removing that feature would be bad.

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