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We use machine learning to detect anomalies on our customers' data and alert them of potential problems. It's not fancy or cutting edge, but it provides value.

Everything is relative. Can someone say, if that pipeline didn't exist, how much more or less theoretical damage would have happened had it been shipped by truck on highway instead?

The Dakota Access line is running a few miles from my workplace here in Iowa. I'm not opposed to the pipeline, per say, but the politics behind it are crap. It's approved by our utility board, which is composed of persons selected by our Governor, who has personal financial interest in the pipeline company. What's worse, the pipeline doesn't start or end in Iowa, so it just runs through here and is a total loss for us. No new jobs created. Needless to say, the utility board approved it along with eminent domain. (Shouldn't eminent domain be illegal when the land is going to a private company and not public use? The constitution is kind of clear on that, not sure how they get around it.)

The pipeline workers here are causing lots of trouble too. They're trespassing and tearing up land well outside of their easements. They're littering. They bury the scrap pipe and trash instead of hauling it out. They tear up the roads and hold up traffic.

Honestly, it's just such a net loss for us. And this is before the inevitable leaks. It's a racket.

This is a quote from General John L. DeWitt, head of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command. He's basically the guy that convinced the president that this was a good idea. Why we put people like him in power (instead of prison), I'll never understand.

Out of the 110,000 incarcerated, 62% of were American-born citizens. Since they were all living in America, and this all happened in America, English certainly makes since.

"The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken." — General John L. DeWitt, head of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command

Insane reasoning.

Yes, it does. On the other hand, though, you can get a cheap Windows laptop for less than some college text books.

Examples?

I can't really think of anything I've paid for where at least a solid prototype didn't already exist.

I didn't know that their emails were public domain. This is very cool. It must be a treasure trove of data.

I wonder if they can really deliver these this way though. I would think their IP addresses would get black-listed for spamming almost immediately. Anybody know what stack they're using for delivering thousands of emails a day?

I tried it, but got a Firefox is not supported message. Why not? What's the missing feature?

Otherwise looks pretty cool! Nice business, it's inspiring.

I find these what-ifs a bit odd. Sure it's interesting, but if those states borders weren't where they are, surely Trump would have noticed and adjusted his strategy accordingly. It not like one thing could have been different and not affected anything else at all.

The thing I find more telling is that Clinton spent well over twice what Trump did on the election [0]. If Clinton had that much of an advantage and still lost, then I think the democrats could have run almost anyone else and had a tighter race.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/raised-summ

I run everything through TorGuard. It's low cost and is somewhat reliable. They have lots of servers in many locations.

Honestly, the most annoying part is that I see more CAPTCHAs. This is because it mixes everyone's traffic together, and some of those users are bound to be bad actors.

Well, which IRC servers/channels then?

This is only an application, not granted (yet).

I think that "method" patents don't get enough scrutiny by the public. If you read claim one, what they are preventing is: anyone identifying someone with diabetes and then putting that person on a calorie restricted diet.

It's not clear to me why the government should grant a monopoly on this technique, even from a theoretical standpoint.

This is just crazy. It like anyone could be a criminal, so let's treat everyone like one? Feels like a huge invasion of basic human rights.

Alas, I feel like the US isn't far behind. It feels like this will be the norm soon enough.

Plain text is your best bet. You can just save images along beside it. Backup often.

If you must have images inline, you could probably use Markdown to include them. Markdown will almost certainly be around in 20 years, but if it's not, writing a parser for it will be self-explanatory and won't take long.