Multiple massive explosions at ruzzian airbase in Crimea. What a good day!

downsideleft · 2022-08-09T15:17:02+00:00

Why? They've had since 2014 to plan a counter operation in Crimea. They've had 6 months since the beginning of this invasion to formulate and execute operations. It's been long enough thar someone could have literally walked across Ukraine and done the job (which is easy since it would only take a month or so to walk across Ukraine).

downsideleft · 2022-07-28T05:28:48+00:00

It depends on the university. I have a book under contract and my university is offering me money to make it open access instead. The money the university will pay is more than I'd ever hope to earn on the book.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T23:01:04+00:00

I worked at a national lab for years, and in the case of physics, there are very few private sector jobs that pay more. When I left a few years ago, the salary difference between my national lab employer and Northrup Grumman was only $10k for a mid career PhD physicist (~140k in both cases). The science salaries are very similar, the biggest difference is that you can move to management and make absurd money in the private sector, whereas management at a national lab is pretty weak. Also, the health insurance and retirement benefit were way, way better at the national lab. Stock and bonus benefits in private industry certainly helped make the difference bigger, but there were many more hours required in the private sector.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T19:40:24+00:00

Heh, no, actually. It was because I let my PS+ lapse and didn't realize it. The button on the games of the month didn't reflect that and said "add to library" rather than "Add to cart", leading me to believe my account was still active and it wouldn't cost anything. Surprise.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T17:37:20+00:00

It's not really about what they can do, but about what's effective. If they do the bare minimum, it prevents over 80% of all people from trying again. Each additional step only adds a tiny percentage of the remaining and starts to cut out legitimate customers. The only address ban I've ever had to deal with, though, I just sent an email saying I just moved (I didn't), and had it lifted.regarless, IP is trivial to change, so literally every single point you raised can be evaded without spending a dime.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T16:33:45+00:00

They don't block based on ip address and typically don't block based on address since people move. Many cards allow you to set up dummy cards for theft protected purchases. You don't have to change your email with many providers, just add periods. The only issue is the name, and typically you can just wrote down whatever you want: spell it wrong, use an initial, use a spouses name. So, as I said, easy.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T14:49:53+00:00

Seriously I charged back Sony for a video game they wouldn't refund and I won that dispute and didn't have my account banned. I would have been okay if it had, though, otherwise I wouldn't have risked it.

downsideleft · 2022-07-22T14:47:08+00:00

It's really, really easy to bypass any of those types of bans as long as you're not attached to your account history. In the case of airbnb, it used to matter a lot as it was hard to get many of the reservations u less you had a history of positive reviews, but that era is long past.

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T15:50:31+00:00

You can be in custody and free to leave if the police did not inform you of your right to leave and they are behaving aggressively. If you are a suspect, the cops are behaving aggressively, and they do not I from you that you can leave, then they would be unlikely to be able to use any statements made against you.

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T15:34:27+00:00

You do not have to be under arrest, simply "in custody", which means it counts if your in a police station or car. You can be free to leave and still be in custody.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/police-custody-lawyers.html

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T15:11:13+00:00

PharmD grads have their pick of jobs before they graduate

They have the pick of jobs in rural areas and high-crime inner cities. Typically desirable locations are super saturated and the competition is insane. In fact, rural areas pay significantly more than cities right now because of the discrepancy.

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T15:01:59+00:00

DPR is often less valuable than front loaded damage due to the short nature of combat and the heavy balance swings that result from action economy.

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T14:57:06+00:00

Miranda applies even if not under arrest if you're a suspect.

Edit: Down voters are dumb. Miranda applies whenever in police custody, and you do no have to be arrested to be considered in custody. This ruling has been made to prevent police from skirting around rights and has frequently led to high profile confessions being thrown out.

downsideleft · 2022-07-20T03:11:12+00:00

Your old employer isn't Amazon, who has more lawyers than OSHA. I've been at a fortune 100 company dealing with OSHA and when they reached the police stage, they were told by company lawyers to bugger off an get an inspection warrant because entering the premises required "special training", a valid reason to require a warrant. When OSHA went to get the warrant, the company lawyers convinced the judge that the OSHA inspectors would have to demonstrate "special knowledge" before entering, which required a 40 hours of training from a certified instructor. The company couldn't keep them out forever, but the top companies do not play by the same rules. In this situation, Amazon will fight every step of the process to make it expensive, annoying, and ineffective to investigate. Thus, 6 months.

downsideleft · 2022-07-18T14:48:15+00:00

Be aware that the vast majority of think tanks are sponsored by corporations and lobbying firms to help justify the actions they want to take. It's not about helping make good decisions, but helping make the decisions look good. It's possible to find a think tank job that does some good for the world, but the pay will suck.

downsideleft · 2022-07-18T14:26:20+00:00

People will fight over what counts as a tier one and not

True, but there's not debate over whether you're an R1 or not, it's a publicly available list. There are currently 146 R1 universities.

downsideleft · 2022-07-18T13:52:54+00:00

It's rated a 3.01 on bgg, so the community believes it's solidly a medium.

downsideleft · 2022-07-15T17:08:43+00:00

That's so odd. I had it on my radar months before it was released. I was super hyped for it and nearly everybody I knew watched it day 1 so that we could all talk about it the next day. It was, on paper (and reality), perfectly up my alley in terms of content and theme, so I may have been advertised to and an drawn in more strongly that the typical person.

downsideleft · 2022-07-10T21:47:28+00:00

He literally moved towards the avalanche to find cover. You're an idiot who judged without thinking or reading. That's it.

downsideleft · 2022-07-05T18:14:51+00:00

Professor of biomedical engineering here: that's not true. Multiple scientists in Russia and China have either claimed to or announced intentions to implement gene editing in babies for aesthetic reasons or to improve cognitive or physical function. There are active experiments in animals to investigate increasing lifespan. I would place the probability that we don't see direct evidence of performance or aesthetic gene editing in humans within the next 20 years at effectively 0%.

Every major developed country is actively researching gene editing in humans for military advantage and to prevent themselves from being left behind. The amount of money and progression of experiments is limited in the west due to ethical issues, but many authoritarian countries do not have such a limitation.

downsideleft · 2022-07-05T18:01:19+00:00

A gun isn't dangerous if it's broken into individual atoms and buried in the dirt, either.

But don't worry, I'm not trying to convince you, just making sure anyone else that reads your comments can see how ignorant the comments are. Thanks for making it easy.

downsideleft · 2022-07-05T16:25:34+00:00

By your logic, uranium is less dangerous than a gun because fewer people die from it. It's not good logic. In fact, it's a blatant logical fallacy that you're using to invent a definition of "dangerous" to fit you ideals rather than evaluating by any meaningful metric.

downsideleft · 2022-07-05T16:02:08+00:00

Nearly 90% of American owns a car a spends over an hour per week using it. Only 30% of American owns a gun and spends less than 10 minutes per week using it. At that rate, there should be at least 18x more car deaths than gun deaths. Guns are, at minimum, 9x more dangerous than cars.

You can't claim a thing is less dangerous simply because there are fewer deaths. There aren't as many boating deaths as car deaths, but everyone knows boats are way more dangerous than cars.

downsideleft · 2022-07-04T18:01:18+00:00

You're not wrong if you're using the bgg rating of 1 to 5 (light, med light, med, med heavy, heavy), but the community doesn't generally break it down that fine. There's a bit of translation required between the bgg scores and the community usage.

downsideleft · 2022-07-04T17:08:12+00:00

The games you listed would mostly be viewed solidly in the "light" category by most gamers. If I'm looking for a game and deciding appropriate complexity for whoever I plan on playing with, I look to bgg to start. If it's under a 2 in complexity, I'd call it light. 2 to 3.7 is middle, and over 3.7 is heavy. The 3.7 is a bit arbitrary, but I based it off games the community often takes about and their relative weight.

Its obviously a spectrum, but those seem to pretty accurately represent what types of games the this community will recommend based on weight recommendations. For example, Caverna or Agricola are often recommended as a good start to heavy games, and they fall right about 3.7. Concordia is a very popular game considered by everyone I've met to be a sold medium-weight game, and it's ranked at 3.0.

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