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It never ceases to amaze me what information is online. There's a Wikipedia article on the history of US postal rates [0], which lists several increases in the last few years alone.

It apparently has one small mistake though, because it says the postal regulatory commission (PRC) sets rates, while the PRC website says they only set rate limits and the USPS sets their own rates [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...

[1] https://prc.gov/who-sets-postal-rates

The tariff thing is a bit misleading if you're not familiar with the industry. Kia/Hyundai produce some of the "most domestic" vehicles on the market. Hyundai EVs were beating all American brands (incl. Tesla) by domestic content when the tariffs came into effect. Those lines are very well positioned to accommodate them.

The article is talking about a certain specialty model that's only produced in Korea, probably because it's low volume.

I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that JPEG decoding was memory bound or what the performance delta would be even if it isn't overall. The number of instructions isn't usually good performance indicator on its own.

We can only understand the coarsest information available in the soil. Any particular cubic centimeter has thousands of completely undocumented bacterial taxa, miles of fungal threads, organic residues left behind by higher lifeforms, etc. Each bit of soil is essentially unique.

Moreover, just being in the general vicinity is enough for us to leave behind contamination, since humans (and all other animals) constantly shed detectable eDNA into the environment. And even if they wanted to deal with this complexity, the budget for an entire project's archaeological testing is often less than my coworkers' monthly token budgets. You might get less than a dozen radioisotope, TL, or dendro tests for the entire thing, let alone anything more expensive.

Conservationists and archivists (sometimes) use gloves on cleaned samples, but not archaeologists. An archaeologist wearing gloves is almost certainly just cold.

There's no real reason to immediately protect the find from light handling when it's discovered. It's a dirty object that's still coated in whatever was floating around the environment for those thousands of years. The rock will be fine and probably handled multiple times before it gets back to an archive.

I think the only times I've worn gloves in the field were for a very rusty metal dagger and some especially sensitive human remains.

And if the creditor bank happens to be in Russia, Iran, the DRPK, or any number of other hostile financial systems, the debtor bank will likely find things practically impossible to unwind regardless.

Sometimes they get lucky though and the government passes a law allowing them to seize equivalent assets a few decades down the road.

I get where you're coming from, but I find it pretty difficult to sympathize with privacy issues faced by the innocent employees of an agency that routinely violates my privacy rights to get the same info.

This vehicle was part of a manufacturer-owned highway fleet. That means it received proactive maintenance by trained personnel on a regular schedule, with full access to engineers for diagnosis and OEM replacement parts, and ran on good roads in the mild California climate. It's practically pampered compared to oilfield haulers, especially the ones that live long enough to be auctioned off. They're not comparable.

As an aside, some of the vehicles I've worked on serve in oilfields and I'd be horrified to discover 1% of them were catching fire annually.

That's what the H-2a program is. Many employers have avoided using it because it gives labor actual rights, requires an above-minimum wage, and includes free housing. All of those provisions are currently being gutted though.

It would be wild to make the argument that decompilation isn't transformative. A classic test is whether the derivative work serves a different purpose than the original. Google thumbnails for example. That seems pretty obviously true for decompilation, since it's the first step in quite a lot of modding, porting, and preservation uses that the original binary doesn't serve.

USAID was a soft power tool of the US to further foreign policy goals with international development programs. How do you accomplish that without sending money abroad?

Scheduled sailings were common in the Roman world, and some medieval European economies. It helped keep ship sizes small when merchants could anticipate the fixed schedule.

I'm sure the 5T multinational corporation is glad you're defending it against the small-time content creators bullying it, but you might notice that the people behind this teardown do in fact sell products they've designed. So do other popular creators in the teardown category like jerryrigeverything.

They can't do teardowns of their own products though. Anything interesting they'd find in a teardown should have been caught at the design stage, and they're hardly unbiased about their own products. At most they can do design decision videos, which many do. For opinionated testing they'll send their products to another creator instead.

You absolutely can use Google imagery. Here's the pricing page [0]. I also don't see how other imagery providers wouldn't be similarly effected, unless the issue is specifically with Google publicly distributing this imagery for free.

    There are also much more relevant green space vector datasets that you should be using before using aerial imagery and object classification for any of the tasks you mentioned. 

It's quite common to use aerial imagery in archaeological remote sensing.

[0] https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/prici...

Academics and governments are buying imagery from the same sources Google is. I've actually just straight up used Google maps for high latitude archaeology when a grant for imagery fell through.

I don't have any evidence, but I suspect the number of criminals that rely on aerial imagery to plan heists is negligible. On the other hand, I think most people would deeply regret if universities couldn't monitor foliage for land use/climate studies, archaeologists had to traipse through their land digging holes to do surveys, and local governments couldn't provide a whole range of basic services that depend on commercial imagery services.

This is an awful ruling.

You might note that the active denial system is 95 GHz, not 4.5 GHz.

Higher frequencies need smaller holes to attenuate as effectively. You'd likely be better off with aluminum foil than the door.

Sure, not going to disagree that processes affect outcomes. As someone who lives with standards-following-practices every day though, I always have to caution people that following the process is often a vastly different thing than improving the outcome. For example, (most) certified compilers are great from a process perspective, and awful if your goal is less buggy software.

My opinion is that all the process in the world won't help if the people doing it don't care about the outcomes.

26262 is a process standard (a voluntary one at that), not a software standard. It barely even talks about software outside a couple specialized sections. You can also think of the CA program as a process standard that comes with active enforcement.

I've enjoyed embedding declarative syntax inside imperative languages, like LINQ and prolog as a dsl. The imperative code can express temporality much easier, and the declarative code allows you to throw that away when you don't want it.

Why would you need a fast insecure key at all though? Just use a real key. Key generation for an ECC curve should be lightning fast.

Sure, but it feels like you're doing something helpful. It's like self-help books, or new years resolutions. The emotional fulfillment of feeling like you've done something is vastly more popular and marketable than doing the actual work.

The market is more complicated than that, unfortunately. Some properties can sustain high ratings on their other strengths (e.g. location, decor, view, heritage) regardless of the host rules and the clientele that's interested in them. There's also a problem with the rental market getting very thin for some locations and property types (e.g. 3+ bedrooms), so ratings effectively stop mattering.

As a personal example, I once stayed at a place that charged a $150 cleaning fee, but also required dishes + taking the trash out and down the street, which wasn't known until we opened the door. And of course there was a threat that failure to do so would incur a fee. Also a bit of ceiling plaster fell on my wife during the night. Still had a fantastic rating because it was a castle and I'd stay there again if someone else paid.

Let he that has never created potential vulns cast the first stone.

The East Bay Park district is the largest regional park system in the US, so I'm not sure it's entirely fair to call them "lazy". There's an ongoing fight over whether they should prioritize improving/maintaining/restoring what they already have or acquiring new land.

You could choose to detect small keys, but my understanding is that implementations entirely eliminate the issue by only searching factors with leading bits set (i.e. large numbers).

Definitely not. Their CPS requires that these keys be generated by an HSM and no HSM would ever generate these, so there's little reason to believe they're following any of their other controls.

The US also has laws imposing restrictions on institutions outside their borders/jurisdiction. FATCA for example.

The one hashing scheme should be technically better.

That said, I suspect you could avoid the coprime partitions and the issues they cause with semi-correlated permutations over block partitions and avoid hash collisions in the process.