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End to end authenticated calls is the ideal state, but I don't think we're fully there yet.
Far too much of my own money has been squandered on living in the now, and tools like this help give me the tools to grasp what it really means to tweak the balance of spending and saving when viewed over the long run.
Frontier is labeled as a fiber provider for my address on the New York State PSC Broadband map and I made sure to provide some feedback to them about that claim.
Would love to have even just a single alternative option besides satellite internet. I'm only 10 miles outside of the downtown area.
With enough evidence, operators are compelled to provide data and are given an opportunity to correct their action. If they refuse, FCC will eventually issue an order to all other providers to not accept calls from the bad actor.
As long as they managed to attach the identity header to the sip invite correctly, and are not considered to be a shady actor - downstream providers such as carriers probably have no reason to label it as spam. Spam labeling is typically done via analytics, outsourced to third parties like First Orion.
Attest levels are not in themselves proper tools for spam detection. The real meat of stir shaken is the origid in the identity JWT claim which is an opaque identifier that can be traced back to a particular user/customer/network equipment.
STIR/SHAKEN being sold as the one and only solution for spam calls was a mistake as it is only one iteration in the right direction. You have a handful of RFCs and ATIS specs that the FCC told operators to implement in a phased approach, and ultimately some gaps were uncovered in practice that reduced its effectiveness.
Company was just small enough to not have accurate data elsewhere but large enough to have a handful of h1b postings up.
Getting the work done properly was important to me. After the replacement, the random occasional 2-3 second power outages went away and it looks great.
My point was mostly to concur with parent that often you do incur unexpected work when updating legacy electrical, and that adds a bit of cost. To a homeowner, a box swap seems simple but can wind up costing thousands more than you expect.
The work we originally thought was needed was just a new meter box. Turned out we needed a new wire run from the meter all the way to our water line, a new pipe for the underground wiring, two additional grounding wires.
The utility said it wasnt their problem as the meter itself is their property but the housing, the way it attaches to the house, and the connection to the transformer was our responsibility to pay for.
Nearly $2000 to get a simple meter box replacement. Edit: Because this work was to be done in tandem with the siding replacement to avoid expensive rework, we didn't have much of an option in shopping around as most electricians did not want to deal with coordination with the utility around disconnect and inspection.
More plows in my opinion would definitely have helped as long as they were dispersing treated road salt. During snow storms, traffic on our interstates do not grind to a halt because there is a constant rotation of plows for every lane doing the best that they can to keep the priority routes clear.
But to be fair, you may have a good point. Vehicle emissions and tire wear generates particulates consider to be ultrafine (0.1 max nanometer), which is even difficult for HEPA filters to deal with.
Having the foam crew do a blower door test for free if we go with them, so I guess I'll see. I live in climate zone 5a (cool, humid) so historically natural ventilation was used via induced pressure differentials generated by mechanical means (dryer, furnace, bathroom and kitchen vents). When we get new furnace and water heater that pull combustion air from outside, we're left with mostly manual means for generating negative pressure that drives infiltration. (But also wind, and pressure differentials caused by temperatures in winter)
In our case, we're definitely considering either an HRV or ERV to supply fresh outdoor air that we control (input and output CFM, MERV #). Our indoor air quality is poor enough to the point where we live with the tangible symptoms (Rhinitis), not just numbers on a sensor.
For those with interest in these topics, I suggest skimming a copy of one of the ASHRAE fundamentals handbooks[1]. It reads as a textbook but has incredible depth into the physical sciences that relate to building science, heating, cooling, and ventilation.
[1] https://archive.org/details/ashraehandbook2017hvacfundamenta...
I could add the door cut back in, install return transfer grill, or look into adding a secondary heat recovery ventilator that acts independently of the primary HVAC system.
During my time I had to routinely apply for student loans every year to cover housing, food, and other living expenses and it made sense because unless I was doing an internship the next semester - I wouldn't be able to make any payments until I was done with school and had a full time job.
Was able to consolidate and refinance all my private loans to a variable 4.5% back in late 2019 and since then has gone to 2.48% which is now less than my mortgage interest rate. Leveraging student loans for financial flexibility opened the doors for me to live a great life during some super chaotic but fun years.
No regrets at all and am grateful for the opportunity to rebound from a lousy HS freshmen year and still do well for myself.
From my limited understanding of this position, it sounds like the goal is a dismantling of police and courts which form the backbone of a civil rule of law society.
I think Globalization went a bit too far and left too many American cities in the dust while catapulting strategic competitors into a powerful position. The idea that millions of workers who lost their jobs could just immediately retool and find work higher up the value chain was a disaster. Many argue that Globalization has been a success for lifting millions out of poverty, but to me that just says we ruined some peoples livelihood for the benefit of other countries who seek to simply replace the need for us instead of trade with us.
Upstate suffers from high taxes and regulations introduced by the Governor with NYC in mind. Combine that with long winters and urban decay and we see that many bright young professionals born here end up fleeing once their parents retire.
I personally am planning on moving to Raleigh, NC in a few years. I only rent an apartment now so I'm mostly insulated from the astronomical property and school taxes, but I feel the state as a whole does not have my best interests in mind.
The best part of S3 + Route53 is your costs are basically constant. $.50 a month for the hosted zone and then you pay pennies on the dollar for GBs of data transfer. In theory your bill could balloon if you had a hefty static website or some big files left public in your buckets and someone constantly downloaded it.