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Propylene glycol is a food additive. It is also used in "safe" anti freeze. It is not the same as Ethylene glycol which is common automotive anti freeze and very toxic.

"Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein jailed for paying underage prostitutes"

That's a sample headline from the first page of search results from the date range 2008-2013.

It wouldn't have taken a "deep dive" a simple Google search would have uncovered it. This was in the international news media, especially in the US and the UK.

Quality of community colleges vary greatly and these days you're just as likely to find one that's almost as predatory as a for profit college. They promise kids a great future and sign them up for as many student loans as they can. Then they feed them a canned curriculum from one of the major textbook publishers (with expensive digital content). Everyone passes just for asking. It's quickly becoming a racket thanks to "performance" based funding, but hey, they make lots of graduates now.

It's suspected/shown to cause cancer in women's reproductive tracts as well.

Naegleria Fowleri were found in public water systems in Louisiana last year. I don't know of anyone dying because of it though.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/brain-eating-amoeba-found-...

>After watching a Defcon talk about the idea that transponders self-indicate their position without signature

Older style (I forget the proper name) transponders don't indicate their position, only ID and altitude. Newer ADS-B transponders include GPS position.

It's an interesting point though. Assuming for a moment that a bunch of drone operators equipped their drones with ADS-B transponders, I speculate that there could be a chance of overwhelming an airport approach radar's ability to track targets. Could potentially overwhelm the electronics, or the operators.

If they flew through rain it might wash the blood away.

Approach speed is anywhere between landing speed and cruising speed. They don't slow to 170mph before descending or entering a landing approach, for example.

The electronics for your typical GA transponder are primitive by modern standards and can be very small, but it would probably need to be paired with a radar reflector or else it would either remain undetected or appear as noise.

Doesn't sound dissimilar from a news anchor made of meat.

I don't have any specific advice here but I can share that I one worked with a physics professor who is quadrupelegic and he is one of the fastest most productive programmers I have ever seen. He worked in C and C±+ mostly, and typed with a stick which he held in his mouth. Don't underestimate peoples' adaptability.

It's not circuitry, it's the phosphors used to convert the light from blue to a mix of colors resulting in some form of white.

Didn't the King get a bunch of federal subsidies to build out his infrastructure or something like that? Does that ring a bell?

This pertains to the people who plunked down a thousand bucks to get in line for one. This is an interesting tidbit, but also a non-story.

Pitch that at YC this Summer!

Yeah, not with the sovereign immunity to prosecution that the gov't has.

> it's the criminals who have caused millions of dollars of damage.

Yes, that's true. But as the poster above already said some things are simply not safe to do. If I wanted to warehouse explosives, I wouldn't be allowed to do it near a populated area, I'd have to put my warehouse far away from populates areas. But absent that prohibition, let's say I found a cheap space in town, and so I loaded it up with tons of explosive material. Then a homeless fellow breaks in one night and manages to start a fire, burns the place. He survives, but the explosives were set off and half the town blew up. You'd think it's okay if I shrugged my shoulders and pointed at the homeless fellow?

Credit reporting bureaus have free reign to screw up here because there's no oversight like the BATFE and no reasonable way for them to be sued into oblivion when they screw up so badly as Equifax has clearly done here.

>Credit bureaux facilitate comprehensible risk management,

How anyone can trust Equifax to do anything anymore is beyond me. There is still no corrective force here to cause these companies to become competent with data security. This is a farce.

So the lesson is apply for ESTA as late as possible?

Trump capitalized on a rare opportunity, a huge number of bland establishment candidates who divided support from the moderates. Trump embraced and galvanized the RWNJ faction who were (often rightly) disenfranchised by the moderates, meanwhile the moderates could never sort out which milquetoast candidate to back. That won him the nomination.

Then Clinton, a terrible candidate who may have been the only person who could have lost to Trump made a bunch of errors allowing Trump's campaign to flip those rust-belt states. The DNC owns some of the blame here for their long term strategy in those states (or lack of). The RNC also are reaping the fruits of having spent years whipping up the loonies in their party.

It's hard for Swedes to get a visa to visit the US? When did that happen?

>I can't believe anyone on the US Visa offices actually doing their research on the person.

Suspect Palantir, or some other contractor having some shitty software to score applicants based on social media + web searches + magic sauce.

Holy hell do you remember SCO v. everyone?

I assume this is the bit of video you're referring to?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM

I don't think the idea is that you must always explain all of the things in eli5 fashion.

>Is the idea that you're in international water so you can do what you want?

Pretty much as I understand it, but I don't think they're under the illusion that they don't have to maintain some sort of relationship with land-based nations.

>What stops a navy coming and confiscating your equipment then?

Nothing? Some form of diplomacy?

>They stop drug smugglers and pirates in international waters all the time. And you'll be static!

They never stop them all. I don't think I will be static. I'll be on the beach.

It's running out of oil reserves that are easy to get at. There will always be more oil, but some portion of it will always cost more to extract than it is worth.

You'd have to be producing something valuable, but then again, that's one of the economic models behind seasteading is production of high value goods which are forbidden to produce on land. ie: drugs, dangerous materials, etc.

If the platform weighs 100,000 ton and scrap iron is between $50 and $100/ton, then the rig's scrap value can't be more than $10,000,000, but it can be a lot less. Maybe it costs you a couple million dollars just to have it towed back, then maybe a couple million in labor and tools to cut it up, and a million in hazardous waste (asbestos) disposal, and so on. TBH, I don't know how much all of this really costs, but I can see where dismantling a rig could potentially cost quite a bit more than its scrap value, and thus the thing can have a negative value. In that case it might be quite attractive if the owner of the thing can transfer that responsibility to someone else. They might even pay you to take it.

These are production platforms, not drilling platforms. A production platform like the one mentioned in the article gathers oil and gas from dozens of wells connected by a system of piping laid on the sea floor. As such, they'd have no way to plug a well. Operators use mobile rigs to do a "P&A" (Plug and Abandon). There's no way that the permitting authority would allow the well operator to abandon any wellhead without plugging it, no matter who they'd sold the production platform to.

Sounds more like he was moving them with names like Pirate Joe's, and Irate Joe's at one point.