https://forumserver.twoplustwo... ^This is the guy who alleges he got cheated. Reading this it's very clearly that something was fishy. Some who could see the hole cards and enable cheating took money from the stack of the person that was accused of cheating. Very fishy.

Most stationary bikes in the gym just estimating too, setting X is supposed to mean this much resistance, is supposed to mean this much power. That doesn't always line up thought the life of the equipment. To actually measure, you need a power meter. You can put these in pedals, or directly integrated with higher end trainers, but they're expensive (hundreds of dollars), and most people getting on a bike for light cardio don't need exact measurements. If you can't see what your power is, you can't really tell what your energy expenditure is.

I mean, they could just ban service on the type of organization sending emails, instead of email content. You could want to send out fundraiser drives for orphans, but you can't be on our platform if you're involved in an organization we don't want to do business with. This is just like Patagonia not making vests for oil companies. If your organization disagrees with another one, you're not required to do business, regardless if that business itself would be against your principles.

Vinyl is more like a typewriter, where listening to digital music is a bit more like a modern word processor. I'm not a big vinyl junkie or anything, but I know a few, and it's benefits are a lot more subtle. You're allowed to be completely unconnected, which feels like a bit of a rebellion and keeps conversation focused on offline things. You also get the physical ritual of rifling through a set of records, finding the one you want, replacing the record, etc. It's a moment that keeps you very present, and that's what people enjoy. You get some weirdos who feel like vinyl sounds better, but for most people I know, the fact that it plays music is almost just a plus.

The argument against this would simply be that this is because you (or your management) don't have (or want) the resources to make your companies engineering world class. It's not like Netflix doesn't have to build new things or fix old things. They simply hire and pay top of market for a number of world class developers that can sustain both existing and new products at a world class level. You really do get what you pay for, and each 9 in your SLA requires a LOT more work than the last.

Finding security holes takes a very different set of skills then automating API calls to the login, saving all 200 responses, and executing a few calls to get repos, clone them, and upload a ransom note. While I in no way support this guy, you have to admit that this is a pretty low effort scheme that could yield a fairly serious payday, especially for a citizen of a country like Venezuela where BTC = USD = real money where there isn't a lot of it.

While that's true for a good subset of crashes, the article specifically states "The effect is particularly strong when a plane is lightly loaded.... as Atlas Air 3591 was". So unless they had something pretty dense but light enough that it was well under normal load that they would call it "lightly loaded". And only something that dense would have a shot of throwing the center of gravity off by rapidly sliding forward (after being secured for the first long section of the flight) while the plane was flying fairly level ... It could have happened, but seems much more likely that something much more likely caused that crash.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild, also an amazing open world game, has something similar. A horse automatically follows the path, so you only have to nudge the controller at intersections and whatnot instead of having to be driving the whole time. You're also able to fast travel, but honestly, if the option is a 30 second load screen, or a 3 minute trip through some scenery, I'm taking the 3 minute trip most every time.

I think doing this is going to be opposed for the reason it's a gateway to additional reform of the american government. If you have your reps being able to work remotely, then why have a limit on the number of reps in the House? As per the original constitutional rule: "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative.". This would actually resolve a ton of problems in representation, most notably gerrymandering, as you'd basically be allowing any 30k people in an area to vote someone into office. This would mean that the representatives would actually be members of a community their representing, and have jobs other than "politician". This is obviously a non-starter, because it not only would probably significantly dent the power of the Republican party (see the popular vote counts!), but the Democratic party and leaders would lose sway because 3rd party candidates would be easily competitive. It would be a huge swing to the power structure of the US, and a net positive for the people, but a huge change to the status quo.

I checked the btc address (1LeReNiUgHNXvvR8TpgQG1b5nzqoKeUxDY), he's got nothing but a few felonies coming his away. Not a single person paid a cent!

There has been several cases where Broadband quality has been drastically improved when the local governments get fed up with the slow speeds and move to install new networks of their own. The Telcoms either jump to provide better service or the residents get better service from a local government run Telcom. It's a win-win situation: nothing like a little competition (especially in a near monopoly) to shake up the status quo and get the results we want.