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  1. with the full intention of maintaining all records.

    Wow, some people are naive. Or just blinded by ideology.

    It's not "all records", it's "the records Kushner chooses to maintain". And those records are in a format which is not searchable (screenshots).

  2. and is most likely open to blackmail.

    "most likely"? Just look at the recent 99 year lease taken out on the building that was likely to bankrupt the Kushner family business.

  3. Re:A corporation cutting corners... on Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, I'm dubious that those features can be actually useful.

    The same plane in the Lion Air crash malfunctioned in the same way the day before, but because the had a pilot who was deadheading on board, who actually knew what to do, the plane did not crash.

    There was plenty of time to save the plane had the pilots known what to do.

  4. We still operate on an innocent until proven guilty mindset.

    Who is this "we"?

    Innocent until proven guilty applies in only one circumstance: when dealing with criminal charges. Otherwise: not applicable.

    Facebook had a responsibility to investigate. Wilful blindness should not be a defence.

  5. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also a maintenance problem.

    The AoA sensor failed the day before, but apparently was not fixed between the flights.

    Like many tragic events, it takes a sequence of bad things to happen in the run up to the final event.

  6. The penultimate flight crew on the same Lion Air jet also experienced the same problem,

    Can we add improper maintenance to the list of causes. Surely, the prior flight crew would have written this up and it should have been investigated before the plane took off again.

    I wonder how many crews reported the same issue on this plane.

  7. Re:well, it's worth suing. on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the police cared about justice, they would not use the Reid technique for interrogations.

    The Reid technique is very effective at getting confessions. Unfortunately, it produces a shockingly high rate of false confessions.

    There are other techniques used in other countries where the objective is not to get a confessions, but instead to get to the truth.

  8. Re:Irresponsibility as usual on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you really think that these "privately run" prisons give perks and bonuses to LEOs who arrest people?

    Since there is at least one case of bribing judges to send kids to privately run detention centers,, it's not a stretch to think that a private prison operator might bribe LEOs.

  9. Re:Read the report. on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hot showers take very little energy. My gas bill in the summer months is tiny. You want someone to take an action that is almost purely symbolic.

    I respect people who take actions and spend their money to make much bigger impacts on greenhouse gasses. You can probably reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than taking cold showers by eliminating beef from your diet.

    My wife and I both drive electric vehicles and we installed solar panels on our house. Our CO2 emissions are probably half what they were three years ago. I put my money into reducing CO2 emissions. But you only care about someone taking cold showers?

  10. When will it end?

    I hope that it will end in 2021, when the Presidency, Senate and House are all run by Democrats.

    Trump's budget is going to bring out the very group of people who vote in higher numbers and have them vote against Republicans: retirees, whose Medicare Trump is trying to gut.

  11. Re:I don't understand on Ajit Pai's Rosy Broadband Deployment Claim May Be Based On Gigantic Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How it is even possible for FCC to fail basic sanity checking of deployment data.

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

  12. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Those numbers are insanity.
    3 phase systems deliver power in 3 phases that are 120 degrees apart. You can't get 90 or 270 degree phase alignments out of that.

    I just love it when ignorant people "correct" me.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    On another forum, I had someone argue vehemently with me that US houses do not have 2-phase supplies (which is implied by your post). According the poster on the other forum, US houses have a single phase supply. Even Wikipedia goes along with this nonsense.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    A split-phase or single-phase three-wire system is a type of single-phase electric power distribution.

    The problem is that, historically, there was a 2-phase system that had 2 phases that were 90/270 degrees apart, so people in the industry believe that "2-phase" must only mean that old system.

    Yes, the two "legs" are not really "+" and "-". I assumed that people were smart enough to understand that. Apparently I was wrong about how smart people are.

  14. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Let me suggest that you look up the meaning of the word "rate", which I was quite careful to use.

    Perhaps "peak rate" would have been more informative.

  15. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I assumed that people were smart enough to realize when I wrote "+" and "-", they were not to be taken literally. Obviously I was wrong. We all know it's A/C.

    Also, many people will tell you that US houses do NOT have 2-phase, instead it's "split-phase". Personally, I think the term 2-phase is appropriate, but, in the USA 2-phase was used in the past for a system where the two phases were 90/270 degrees apart.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    So, no, I wasn't wrong, unlike the GGP. You are just being pointlessly pedantic.

  16. Re:V2 was no slouch either. on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Lithium batteries prefer to be charged at a more sedate rate. I can only imagine just how bad the V3 would fuck them up!

    It all depends on the state of charge. Tesla ramps down charge rates to protect the batteries as the SoC gets higher. Also, you should not be charging to 100% every day, which is another factor for battery life.

    For most Model 3 owners, Supercharging is all about road trips. Most charging is done overnight, at home at much lower rates (7-12kW).

  17. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 4, Informative

    the 220 you have in your house is normally 3 phase 110 which means only 110v drop between any pair of connections making it slightly safer.

    Wrong.

    US houses are fed with +110V, -110V and neutral. The + and - are 180 degrees out of phase (the term normally used is "split phase"). There is 220V between the two sides.

    Electric ovens, dryers, EV chargers, etc. all use 220V.

    Arguably it is slightly safer than other 220V systems because there is only 110V between a live wire and ground. However, most of the world uses 220/240V single phase systems in houses and no one seems to think it is too dangerous.

  18. The latest chargers installed in Europe are 350kW, with 500kW rollout beginning.

    Bullshit on the 500kW chargers being rolled out.

    Chademo claim to support 400kW, CCS specs go up to 350kW.

    But more importantly, a Model 3 charging at 250kW will add range faster than any other car you can buy today. Even when the Taycan is actually being delivered, the 350kW charge rate will add range slightly slower than a Model 3 at 250kW.

  19. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it refers to the rate of power delivery compared to the rate of power draw a vehicle woul duse to go 1000Mph.

    I assume you are joking.

    To clarify, 1000 mph means that the battery in the car will charge such that the rate of adding range is 1000 miles (of added range) per hour (assuming you then drive at some normal speed).

    there's a reason why our houses have 110 volts

    My house in the USA has 240 volts (nominally 220V, but actually 240 - 245V).

  20. Again, you assume that hiring decisions are purely rational.

    Your example shows not rational behaviour, but lack of ethics.

  21. You assume that hiring and promotion decisions are decided completely rationally.

    LOL.

  22. Re:Definition of Universe. on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are going to discuss linguistics relating to what is the Internet, then you should capitalize it properly ("Internet").

  23. Re:Why would I buy this? on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, 112mph is arbitrary. If 80mph is the legal limit, it should be locked to that.

    And if there is no speed limit, like parts of the German Autobahn system?

    I wonder if Volvo plans to make this limit GPS-aware, otherwise sales in German will drop to near zero.

  24. Re:3 months on Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0
  25. Re:Can't see UK public buying this, unless... on Can the BBC and ITV Challenge Netflix? (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    With the entire content of BritBox already paid for by the UK public via the licence fee (BBC) and advertising (ITV),

    I assume that Bribox in the UK will focus on programs that were originally shown under a limited license -- the BBC doesn't have a current license to stream the programs through the BBC iPlayer and would have to pay more to make them available.