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Comment Re:Naturally (Score 1) 214

False. In the court filings by Parler for the TRO, they stated they were working with AWS to use Amazon's AI to help with content moderation. That was planned before the protests/riots. This is pure antitrust to remove competition. Read the actual court filings, not the corporate spin. I'm not a Parler user, either, but this is not a good precedent.

Comment Re:Context, please (Score 1) 603

It's unlikely that no one knew these cops were being heavy handed and that was an opportunity to stop them before someone died. It usually turns out that there were complaints about them before, people badly injured by them.

I can confirm there were warning signs for these cops. https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/...

Comment Re:Only a few meters down.... (Score 1) 54

"I have tracked turtles through some storms in the past and never saw any sort of movement that suggested they were trying to get away from the storm (or that the storms shifted their paths). The turtles I tracked were larger juveniles -- at that size they can dive 100s of meters deep."

Why did this bring up images of the sea turtles from Finding Nemo? Oh, man. Hey, no hurling on the shell, dude, ok? Just waxed it.

Comment Re:CS != Coding (Score 2) 630

I concur. I am in my second year of obtaining my CS/Math degree w/ teaching cert. I get the same question, student: oooh, you can write programs. me: Nope, I don't like to program student: wait, then why are you getting a CS degree me: because I want to be more rounded around the science of computers and, and CIS or tech school is for coders student: you don't know what you are talking about. I get it at least once a week at the university (in the Engineering/Comp Sci building no less) I want to teach CS on a high school level, since jobs are scarce, and I cannot do it without a degree. This is more of a backup to working for DoD as my university has a NSA grant and certification. I learn pentesting and anything else I see that is relevant to Comp Security in my spare time (usually over the summer)

Comment Re:Time (Score 5, Insightful) 709

We kind of frown upon the slave labor that the Chinese and Irish (and others) that were used to build the railroad. If I remember my history correctly, the US government gave the train Barons the land and I think subsidizing them. There was very little population (aside from American Indians) out west. It will probably take 20 years to settle Eminent Domain cases and another 10 to build the rail lines. I worked on a survey crew to build an outer loop around a mid sized city. The first survey was done in 1984, I worked it in 1998 and they didn't start building until 2003. We did have a few fun run-ins with angry landowners and their shotguns.

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