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This is all virtue signaling. If they really cared about stopping discrimination then they could change it from being a civil issue to a criminal issue. Right now if someone is discriminated against they still have the same old two choices; either they ignore it or they sue. Suing anyone much less a company with deep pockets costs a ton of money and in order to win there has to be a "smoking gun" or a mountain of evidence to prove there was discrimination. And the problem with collecting that evidence is that such discrimination usually happens in person and without any written evidence to show for it at a later date.

Video evidence of personal interactions is very hard to collect in Washington state because it is a "two party consent state"[1]. And people's personal behavior changes when they know they are being recorded[2][3].

I think a better solution to this is to get US Federal "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" updated[4] to include caste based discrimination as that will bring this issue to national attention and hopefully enable other people that are not being directly affected by this discrimination to be cognizant of it. Once enough people become aware of the problem then it will start changing the US culturally and societal accepted behaviors which is the only real way to stop this type of discrimination. Of course while dreaming of a better and brighter future I might as well add the removal of all cliques to the list as they are another form of discrimination.

[1] https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/washington/washington-recor.... [2](2014) https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-being-filmed-changes-employee-be... [3](2019) https://www.bodycamera.co.uk/blogs/news/what-is-the-observer... [4](2021) https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/06/title-vii-and-caste-dis...

Direct link to the published study: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/19/3903

I basically have done the same thing on both occasions except the first one I have oddly done multiple times. One of the occasions still felt like I wasted all of my time and effort too because it was for a custom HPC environment(I was performing a major OS upgrade that also involved getting a lot programs to work on a 64 bit OS when they were originally written for a 16 or 32 bit OS) that was trashed within two months after the environment was fully up and running. The client not only bought new hardware(after repetitively telling me they wouldn't have a budget to do that for a couple of years) but also pulled a 180 on the decision that certain Opensource tools could be used within the environment after a code review and approval process was completed.

Did you try to recover the corrupted windows partition table first using either Testdisk by CGSecurity or Hiren's BootCD? If it was on a UNIX or Linux file system that sort of thing can be recovered a lot easier thanks to alternate superblocks and the ability to basically copy the partition sectors from another disk that is the same size with the same partitioning thanks to the dd command.

That would just encourage more drivers to do what Ross Chastain did and probably make the race more about which driver can within the physical abuse of hitting the barrier.

2020 article about this dam removal project makes it sound more like a financial burden removal rather than restoring salmon habitat. The environmental impact is just the emotional baggage being used to get the voters to foot the bill for the project.

https://apnews.com/article/dams-fish-salmon-oregon-environme...

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must approve the deal. If accepted, it would allow PacifiCorp and Berkshire Hathaway to walk away from aging dams that are more of an albatross than a profit-generator, while addressing regulators’ concerns."

Coconut oil varies a lot in its smoke point; unrefined its similar to butter but refined can get up past 400 F / 204 C(similar to canola oil).

I do like cooking with it despite the low heat limitation because it's good for things you can cook at lower temps like eggs and if you get good high quality oil then it will be near tasteless. Which means you can actually taste the egg instead of whatever oil / lard you fried them with.

The old adage is to buy low and sell high.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Currencies/Yen-surg...

California recently started a Universal Basic Income Program (UBI) but, it is too early to tell if it will actually help reduce homelessness or instead cause a concentration of the US homeless population to migrate to California.

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/guaranteed-basic-incom...

This article is from July[2022] and it has a more global review of UBI type programs that have been tried in the past or are currently in progress(Kenya for example).

https://www.moneycrashers.com/pros-and-cons-universal-basic-...

"Generally, a state's exclusive economic zone is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, extending seaward to a distance of no more than 200 nmi (370 km) out from its coastal baseline."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

"China has by far the largest distant water fleet in the world with at least 3,000 vessels, some of which have been spotted off the coasts of Africa and as far as Ecuador. This has raised concerns of overfishing at a time when global fish stocks are plummeting. “It’s their strategy of establishing themselves as a big fishing power,” said Matti Kohonen, executive director of the FTC. “Then they end up breaking a lot of fishing laws by doing that."

https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2022/10/26/Chinese-fi...

The issue with a lot of places globally that Chinese owned fishing fleets(of highly questionable legal status) go is that they will decimate the area like a plague of locus and then just like locus they will move on once there is no longer any viable marine wildlife to catch(or even kelp / sea grass to collect). And the local governments either don't have the resources required to patrol their coastal exclusive economic zone or they intentionally don't want to antagonize China by stopping their illegal fishing fleets either because of political corruption or due to other more serious reasons.

Technically the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) can enforce Maritime law but I am not aware of them doing anything about illegal fishing fleets.

I feel like its almost obligatory to mention this xkcd "comic" when discussing password complexity.

https://xkcd.com/936/

D1lakiss is on this list from 11 months ago[Jan,2022] and it probably ranked higher because of minimum password length and complexity requirements that are actually enforced.

https://gist.github.com/AlbertVeli/6d05a98f71e4e7f9034bef81d...

Number one password still in use with a total count of 4,929,113 is simply "password".

https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/

Which is why there are Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Account Management (PAM) solutions that help protect against a users own laziness.

This is from 2021 but it does show how heavily China has invested into Africa to support their Naval and Maritime shipping.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9554253/How-China-b...

There has been some speculation that China is effectively trying to take control over Africa and has been rather successful at doing so on some fronts.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18417/china-taking-over-a...

This reminded me of a burial trend I heard about in Florida to help build artificial reefs. Burial at sea is legal in the US(with restrictions) but the Mediterranean has a ton of ecological restrictions and a quick google search doesn't reveal if burial at sea is legal within those protected waters.

https://www.cremation.com/cremation-memorialization/eternal-...

Yes, because rainbow table attacks are still surprisingly effective. Although what is even more surprising is finding password still stored in plain text somewhere.

It's important to always remember to salt your hash or you will get attacked by rainbows.

Cracking passwords based on their hash has been a known attack for a long time, here is a web page from 2007 that talks about rainbow table attacks.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/rainbow-hash-cracking/

There are many states where Bottle Rockets are still legal; they are generally states that are not considered a Nanny state or do not have high risk of fires. Some states like Texas banned them because too many houses had wooden shingled roofs decades ago that tended to catch fire because of a bottle rocket landing on them. And laws are much harder to get rid of once they have been enacted so despite very few homes actually still having a wooden shingled roof the ban on bottle rockets still stands.

https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/

A lot of places(From the state level down to individual city level) use the annual Consumer Product Safety Commission report on Firework injuries to determine what needs to be banned for so called "public safety" reasons. Which is why you have places that have even banned Sparklers.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-...

DEI policies are not necessarily also anti-racism policies. The devil is in the details as they say.

This is taken from CNBC interview with Lybra Clemons(Chief Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer at Twilio Inc.)

"This success, as well as Clemons’ acclaim for the company, is owed to Twilio’s commitment to becoming “anti-racist.” According to Clemons, part of the difference between DE&I and anti-racism is self-awareness.

“Right before I joined, Twilio said, we’re on this journey to become anti-racist. And I think we were all like, what does that even mean,” she tells CNBC Make It.

“I think a lot of people thought it was just a more elevated term for diversity, equity inclusion. But as we’ve started to go through the process, we’re learning that anti-racism is different. DE&I are still very foundational and fundamental to work, but anti-racism is an active term where you are personally responsible. This is about self-awareness and taking full accountability of who you are. We are actively promoting equity and racial justice through consistent, deliberate decisions that we make.”"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/11/the-difference-between-dei-a...

Same page archived

https://archive.ph/u92e4#selection-737.0-745.506

The prototype "hyperloop" tunnel in California is now becoming a parking lot. https://news.yahoo.com/musks-california-hyperloop-prototype-...

In Texas, anytime you move and update your mailing address it generally takes 7 to 10 business days for the information to fully propagate. So the timing could make it so that you are unable to vote if you miss early voting(in the same county) before you move or are not able to reach your voting location on the day off the election.

https://comptroller.texas.gov/help/manage-account/update-add...

Anytime you update your postal address with the US Postal service, they make sure you have the option to also update your voter registration at the same time. Updating your voter registration is just a checkbox away when you are using the website.

https://USPS.com/move

>I can only imagine how hard it is to vote here for someone who moves around a lot or has to rely on public transportation. It makes me wonder how much of the abysmal 27% voter turnout range for ages 18-29 [0], which is still one of the highest turnouts in 3 decades, is due to voting accessibility issues versus plain apathy.

The die in the wool cynic in me would say plain apathy was the most like culprit for low turnout in that age group. Although public transportation in most of the US is an abysmally bad joke. There are some large cities that have decent public transportation but for the most part I feel like if you don't own a vehicle in the US then your are treated as a 3rd class citizen. Even in some cities with public transportation it can be difficult to get even get a job if you don't have your own vehicle(It's a painful catch 22 that a lot of people struggle with).

The US allows charities to help people that need it. A quick google came up with this website.

https://impactful.ninja/best-charities-for-voting-rights-in-...

Although I would strongly suggest you investigate any charity to see if they are spending the money donated to them for their stated goals. And double check their tax form 990 to see how much of that money is actually spent on “charitable work".

Charities in the US also have the added benefit of donations being tax deductible(to an extent) and a fairly direct way to make sure money your taxable income is being spent on something you care about.

If you deal with any sort of government background investigation for getting a job then the chances are high that you will need to send the documents via fax.

My experience has been it's sadly the exception that allows you to digitally upload the required files. Although my experience has only been with Australian, UK and US based companies.

That NPR article is from 2012 and as far I can tell they referenced a survey from 2006.

"A SURVEY OF AMERICANS ’ POSSESSION OF DOCUMENTARY PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP AND PHOTO IDENTIFICATION" https://www.brennancenter.org/media/6697/download

In 2012 the same group said the number was only 500k. Also they mention "Legal precedent requires these states to provide free photo ID to eligible voters who do not have one." in the newer article.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/chal...

So in 6 years it went from over 3 million to half a million people without some form of ID that is valid for voting. Looking at it from a larger picture, that's approximately 0.217% of the entire US voting age population a decade ago that didn't have some form of legal ID that was valid for voting. That is a smaller percentage of people than were incarcerated in the entire US in 2012. What I am not able to determine is how people of that half million actually wanted to vote but were not able to for some reason? That missing number is the one I would care about putting the time and effort into making sure they had the opportunity to vote.

You can look at the yearly voter turnout in the US to easily see that a significant portion of the US simply didn't vote. And the freedom to choose to not vote is something I strongly support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...

The requirements for Identification to vote even in the states that currently have Voter ID are surprisingly lax for the most part.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state

Most states also have some kind of hardship waivers to help people get a basic government Identification since it's kind of hard to do a lot of things without some form of ID. Some states even have a specific "Election Identification Certificate" process that can only be used for the purpose of voter identification and it's free to get.

Hardship Waivers for IDs in Pennsylvania[2015] http://sharedprosperityphila.org/documents/Revised-ID-Waiver...

As far as the time investment required to get an ID to vote; if a person isn't willing to spend some time to make sure they can legally vote, do you think they will spend the time to make an informed vote? It's a pipe dream but I would prefer that everyone who votes does so while making an informed decision about who/what they are voting for.

I also support voter ID just because it makes it a little bit harder for foreign agents(A US state vs State example: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/16/politics/beto-orourke-con...) to interfere with what should be an internal affair. Although with political action committees (PAC) being a thing and with how hard it is to know where the funds are coming from, it's basically a free pass to have unknown monetary funds being funneled to politicians with questionable moral integrity.

If you don't mind dealing with leap-smeared time then time.google.com is certainly better than the AWS or Amazon NTP server pools just based on the fact that Google's NTP server pool provide Stratum 1.

Accurate time is critical for ensuring Data accuracy and most apps utilize the system time. There are also a lot of Database functions that require accurate time. If you want to do DB clustering then a good reference time is required and Oracle even went so far as to make a service called "Cluster Time Synchronization Service (CTSS)" that specifically validates the system time configuration. Although why they still only support ntp and not chrony is something I would love to know.

What is Data Accuracy, Why it Matters and How Companies Can Ensure They Have Accurate Data.[2020] https://dataladder.com/what-is-data-accuracy/

It looks to be targeted at large organizations that have very strict ITIL based change control and they have to go through a CAB level approval process for every single change. I've worked in one of those environments before and yeah, the CAB would question the need to have two different configurations to effectively handle the same job.

The concept of ITIL is one of those "good on paper" type things but at some places they think its only a starting point and it's like death by meeting.

Here is a bit of a comparison with these three NTP servers in a /etc/chrony.conf

  pool time.aws.com iburst
  pool 1.amazon.pool.ntp.org iburst
  pool time.nist.gov iburst

  # chronyc sourcestats 
  Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
  ==============================================================================
  ec2-54-86-189-11.compute>   4   3     7  -1128.596  60538.254    -17ms  9310us
  ec2-18-212-174-188.compu>   4   3     7  -3475.306  40696.289    -32ms  7334us
  ec2-54-224-100-122.compu>   4   3     7  -2748.130  71563.352    -26ms    11ms
  ec2-3-80-167-198.compute>   4   3     7   +827.953  78440.828  +1398us    12ms
  38.229.57.9                 4   4     7   +744.719  67529.711   +117us  9384us
  time.cloudflare.com         4   3     7   +957.450  44361.117  +3899us  6424us
  3dhomejoe.com               4   3     9   -958.576  43000.809    -14ms  7052us
  shed.galexander.org         4   4     7  -4034.244  62138.637    -36ms    10ms
  time-a-b.nist.gov           4   4     7  +1475.911  50544.457  +9056us  5773us

  # chronyc sources
  MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
  ===============================================================================
  ^- ec2-54-86-189-11.compute>     4   6    17    19  -5776us[-5776us] +/-   76ms
  ^- ec2-18-212-174-188.compu>     4   6    17    20    -22ms[  -22ms] +/-   57ms
  ^- ec2-54-224-100-122.compu>     4   6    17    21  -1057us[-1057us] +/-   77ms
  ^- ec2-3-80-167-198.compute>     4   6    17    21  +2093us[+2093us] +/-   57ms
  ^- 38.229.57.9                   2   6    17    21   -769us[ -769us] +/-  185ms
  ^\* time.cloudflare.com           3   6    17    22  -2043us[+3354us] +/-   34ms
  ^+ 3dhomejoe.com                 2   6    33    19    -23ms[  -23ms] +/-  102ms
  ^- shed.galexander.org           3   6    17    20    -32ms[  -32ms] +/-  114ms
  ^- time-a-b.nist.gov             1   6    17    21    +10ms[  +10ms] +/-   55ms

And for comparison

  pool pool.ntp.org iburst
  pool time.nist.gov iburst

  # chronyc sourcestats 
  Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
  ==============================================================================
  time.cloudflare.com         4   3     6  +1363.306  27212.342  +8424us  3911us
  time100.stupi.se            4   4     8  -1051.634  11864.409    -12ms  2419us
  ntp2.flashdance.cx          4   3     7   +183.591  78497.898  -1031us  9048us
  time.cloudflare.com         4   4     7   +566.874  56659.176  +1998us  8584us
  time-e-b.nist.gov           4   3     6     -5.327   7264.481   +710us   988us

  # chronyc sources
  MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
  ===============================================================================
  ^+ time.cloudflare.com           3   6    17    11  -1590us[-2743us] +/-   66ms
  ^- time100.stupi.se              1   6    17    10  -5597us[-5597us] +/-  116ms
  ^\* ntp2.flashdance.cx            2   6    17    10    -31ms[  -32ms] +/-  168ms
  ^- time.cloudflare.com           3   6    17    10    -17ms[  -17ms] +/-   98ms
  ^+ time-e-b.nist.gov             1   6    17    11   +504us[ -649us] +/-   56ms

I'll stick with a config that queries Stratum 1 time server vs only Stratum 4 servers.

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