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Comment Re:Why build in Dallas (Score 2) 30

There's some responsibility of the loss of life on any government agency that allowed for habitable structures in a flood plain.

The camp was in a known flood zone. That entire area is a flood zone. They petitioned the government to remove their camp from the flood zone so they could build more buildings in the flood zone.

The commissioners in Kerr County asked Texas to get the money to upgrade and improve the early warning system for this area. Every time Texas couldn't find the money. As one commissioner said in 2016:

âoeIâ(TM)m not trying to put a dollar on a life or a flood, but the fact of the matter [is] floods do happen, and we need to be prepared for them,â then-Kerr County Commissioner Bob Reeves noted during a series of public meetings that began in 2016. And, his former colleague Tom Moser pointed out, âoeWe also have more summer camps than anybody else along the Guadalupe River.â

In addition, some of the county commissioners voted against upgrading the system.

But 2016 meeting minutes show there was also opposition to a flood warning system among some commissioners, with one saying, "the thought of our beautiful Kerr County having these damn sirens going off in the middle of [the] night, I'm going to have to start drinking again to put up with y'all."

Another commissioner voted against submitting a grant application for the warning system, saying he thought "this whole thing is a little extravagant for Kerr County."

Instead, several county officials argued that the county's informal system of "river calling" â" essentially a phone tree to warn camps of imminent flooding â" was sufficient.

Comment Bytes, bits, who cares? (Score 2) 35

transmitting data at 125,000 gigabytes per second [...] more than twice the previous world record of 50,250 Gbps

The data rate in this experiment was 1.02 petabits per second, so the first number is correct -- but almost 20 times what was given for the previous record. The previous record was actually a tad over 400 terabits per second, or 50,000 GBps if one insists on using more digits than needed.

Comment Not just social media (Score 5, Interesting) 138

My dad knew someone who was on a few medications and regularly watched the Fox tabloid. The guy seemed always upset/concerned/whatever. My dad told him to stop watching the tabloid.

A few months later the two were talking and the guy had stopped taking most of his meds (except the one or two he needed) and he felt much more relax. Less stressed.

When your goal is to "engage" people, whatever it takes is the rule. Stir the pot. Get people riled up.

Comment Re:Seems strange to allow user input (Score 4, Insightful) 92

Why allow both fuel switches to be shut off at this point?

Fire? From my perspecitve (non-technical, non-aeornautical) you should not want something like this to be locked down. You should always allow for something unexpected to occur which would necessitate moving these switches in all circumstances. Locking them down would seem to deprive the pilot/co-pilot the ability to react to a situation.

Comment Re:Why???!?? (Score 2) 152

Sorry, but a restaurant still has no business checking my social media.

They want to see if you're a dick or annoying or a whiner or anything else which might interfere with their restaurant ambiance.

Would you want someone who posts how often they get drunk at restaurants at a place which charges $500/meal?

But as the article also relates, they want to tailor your experience with them. If they see you've announced you're on a diet, they won't suggest the high fat stuff but instead something they think might be more appropriate based on your postings. Or maybe you mentioned how you would like to try XYZ, but never had the chance. Guess who will give you that chance.

For places like this, it's all about personal service and making sure your stay is comfortable.

Comment Re: Robotics? (Score 1) 106

VB.Net has explicit syntax that follows C#'s try/catch/finally: https://learn.microsoft.com/en...

They added that as the recommended replacement for Visual Basic's legacy "On Error" -- so I don't think your suggestion holds up. Having vaguely similar effects doesn't mean the two "both work out to the same thing just with a different syntax" any more than being Turing complete means different languages are fundamentally equivalent.

Comment Re:Real fact check: (Score 4, Interesting) 116

Correction: like the name of the database says, there are 380k reports of adverse events after people got vaccinated. Study is required to determine whether those were reactions or coincidences (or indirect consequences).

After I got the first two COVID-19 shots, I got a survey that asked whether I had seen a doctor for any illness since then. I truthfully answered: I had a tick bite that ended up with a rash around it, and I went to a doctor to exclude Lyme disease as a cause. When I later doing it about VAERS, I searched and found an entry that signed like mine. I don't know for sure it was about me, but I do know that tick bite and infection had nothing to do with a vaccine.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 4, Informative) 116

According to FDA and CDC data, the covid 19 vaccine killed over 4800 people

No, it didn't. Not even close. As of 2023, there were 9 confirmed deaths related to the vaccine itself, and those were only related to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

That fake number you pulled out of your ass was debunked years ago.

After careful review of the reports, there is no enough evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to those fatalities [16]. Clinical information such as death certificates, autopsy, and medical records establish no causal link to the COVID-19 vaccines according to the CDC. The death of a person following vaccination does not necessarily mean, the vaccine caused health problems and could be coincidental. Research done by the Paul Ehrlich Institute (the body in charge of vaccines in Germany) stated that patients died of their underlying diseases in a coincidental time with vaccination. This came after 10 COVID-19 vaccination deaths were recorded in the country [17]. Early studies conducted by the Norwegian Medicine Agency on reports of 33 deaths in a nursing home following vaccination of residentsâ(TM) revealed death occurred close to these terminally ill patients at the time of vaccination [17]. It does not imply a causal relation to the vaccine [17].

and had 380k adverse reactions,

Once again, stating things which are not true. The VAERS database lists any reaction of any kind after taking medicine, REGARDLESS if there is any casual link. If I take Advil then get a rash three days later, did Advil cause it or it is poison ivy?

Pointing to a conspiracy site does not help your cause.

Comment Re:Effort to thin the ranks of legal immigrants :o (Score 2) 230

The wording is very careful. It's talking about people who were not authorized to immigrate to the US, but used programs that made it very easy to get forbearance of removal and work authorization.

For example,this page describes one such group: Hondurans who moved to the US before 1999, and have not left the US since 6 January 1999. They immigrated illegally but can work and avoid being deported because they have "temporary protected status". This is one of the programs that the Trump administration is ending, causing the status changes discussed in TFA.

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