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On May 20, 2013, Snowden flew to Hong Kong after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii...
Perhaps this older revision[2] may be more relevant for the time; wasn't successful in discovering a complete revision history of the form.
Leaving it to the lawyer types to diff and discuss.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
[2] https://www.secnav.navy.mil/dusnp/Forms/sf312.pdf
EDIT: As it were, item 5 is still there.
They'll have to pry the QWERTY keypad and headphone jack[1] from my cold, dead hands...or stop Android security updates.
[1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2/
[1] https://blackberrymobile.com/us/product/blackberry-key2/
I'm genuinely dumbfounded by the concept of cardinal directions in space.
On a relatively short test course in the hands of legendary racer Keiichi Tsuchiya, the ND[1] was 1.431 seconds slower than the Abarth[2] in best lap time comparison...seems about right when linearly scaling over VIR's length, and given the Abarth's better factory torque and suspension tune.
Otherwise, in general agreement.
> But it is the third site, which seems to have transitioned from a logging camp to a thriving village, that fascinates [the archaeology professor] the most.
Must be a real privilege for your grandfather to share that bit of vivid history with you. My grandfather would have been a young adult during WW2, and the small island that both he and I grew up on has a deep history with the Japanese which had a direct impact on its indigenous population; he supposedly spoke fluent Japanese as a consequence, along with Korean (by birth), the indigenous language (married a local), and eventually English (after American occupation). Unfortunately, he was unable to speak coherently by the time I was in my late teens and old enough to be interested, so the only history lessons I've gotten of the time were second hand, passed down from the stories he told my father.
RANK CAR (MODEL YEAR) TIME
136 Mazda MX-5 Cup Car (2016) 3:06.4
209 Fiat 124 Spyder Abarth (2017) 3:16.9
211 Tesla Model S P85D (2015) 3:17.4
227 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club (2016) 3:20.8
241 Mazda MX-5 (2006) 3:29.3
A bit unfair to compare the performance of a ND cup car to the P85D even if it does have a sealed 155 HP factory motor. But given the Fiata bested the Tesla by half a second, I'm confident a ND with modest ~$600 suspension upgrade on OE Potenza S001 rubber at VIR would meet the challenge...or maybe even a stock 2019 ND2.What's strange is all this Model S thermal issue talk, yet the driver posted his fastest lap in the 13th. How can this be explained?
Then there's this remark from the article:
> Clearly, [the Leaf driver] was keeping an eye on the temperatures and adjusting driving accordingly to finish the race before power loss occurred.
...and this[3] depicting the Leaf gauge cluster with 42% remaining at the end of the race. Was the Leaf driver even really trying? His right arm occasionally chilling on the door sill and casual commentary throughout the race was kind of funny.
[1] https://youtu.be/N-9tBPObpHk?t=1800
See the USB 2.0 Cables and Connectors Class Document[1], in particular, 4.10.7 Test Group '6'.
Why speculate when the USB-IF has made their standards both free and readily accessible?
Is this practice generally considered normative in the Muslim community?
For 5 years, I lived within walking distance of the largest mosque in my city and it never once struck me that this was a thing.
I think I may have had one too many drinks tonight. Did I miss something?
Respectfully, that's a proverbial crock of trite bullshit perpetuated to game the naive/inexperienced.
If the next level above me couldn't spend at least 45 minutes thinking about the general problem I've been trying to solve in the past week, then that person:
a.) is stretched way too thin (which should be pretty obvious); or
b.) seriously needs to GTFO for the sake of the rest of the team.
P.S. As a de facto (not even official) technical lead on a US$3mil+ project that I've been assigned to, I spend at least 45 minutes a week sitting on a toilet bowl thinking of ways to improve the performance of my team while literally taking a shit. What's your project manager's excuse?
Not my industry, but I wonder if building code requirements for contracted facilities construction has anything to do with this. Would be interesting to hear perspective of civil engineers on this, in particular, those involved with standing up fulfillment centers.
For example, a few observations from the 2017 Florida Building Code[1]:
Minimum 1 lavatory per 100 and 1 drinking fountain per 1,000 in occupancies classified for storage (per Table 2902.1). Natural inquiry that arises in my mind is what the specified occupancy of the fulfillment center in question is.
In occupancies other than malls, lavatories normally located not more than 1 story above/below the target space, path of travel not to exceed 500 feet (per 2902.3.2). However, there's a possible exception for factory and industrial occupancies which allow this requirement to be waived with approval. I wonder if Amazon has pursued this exemption when contracting the construction of their fulfillment centers.
[1] https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/FBC2017/chapter-29-plumbin...
Nope[1].
[1] https://marketplace.fedramp.gov/#/product/aws-govcloud/versu...
From the cow's mouth, here's the original JEDI Cloud solicitation[1]--which includes the latest amended SOO[2] and Oracle's pre-award protest[3]--and the actual court order[4].
Doesn't seem like anyone is really talking about it either, but it's worth noting that this isn't some gratuitous "here's $10B, we're locking ourselves in for the next decade, go buck wild" ordeal. This ID/IQ contract has a 2-year base with 3-, 3-, and 2-year options for the remaining years, and a maximum $10B cap iff the government exercises all options.
Here's to hoping the government doesn't royally screw themselves over by dropping the ball on CDRLs A007 and A014.
[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=386...
[2] https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=845d0652768ef4a4749231d39a...
[3] https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=6cd8017d52d2b832855c41fb74...
[4] https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2018cv...
By this, what were you referring to?
Curious...from the philosophical intent supporting the normative language[1] (my emphasis added):
However, a valid host name can never have the dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since at least the highest-level component label will be alphabetic.
> The FBI said its system is 86 percent accurate at finding the right person if a search is able to generate a list of 50 possible matches, according to the GAO. But the FBI has not tested its system’s accuracy under conditions that are closer to normal, such as when a facial search returns only a few possible matches.
What the GAO study[1] actually said:
> However, we found that the tests were limited because they did not include all possible candidate list sizes and did not specify how often incorrect matches were returned. ... The FBI’s detection rate requirement for face recognition searches at the time stated that when the person exists in the database, NGI-IPS shall return a match of this person at least 85 percent of the time. However, we found that the FBI only tested this requirement with a candidate list of 50 potential matches. In these tests, 86 percent of the time, a match to a person in the database was correctly returned. The FBI had not assessed accuracy when users requested a list of 2 to 49 matches.
According to FBI, a smaller list would likely lower the accuracy of the searches as the smaller list may not contain the likely match that would be present in the larger list.
In other words, their acceptance test procedure was gamed from the beginning.
You may have missed the opportunity to experience this distinction first hand, but I can assure you with the utmost confidence, the meta does indeed change.
Although the general sentiment is agreeable, there's nothing relaxed about maintaining a $400k home. I like to think of it as a different class of stress that's decoupled from work that pays the bills.