If anyone was planning to try reading the article to figure out wtf is going on: don’t. The headline is the entire article.

Some brownfield off Palisade Avenue in Union City.

Advertising makes up only 0.9% of MTA revenues ($173M out of $20.8B in 2024 [pdf]). Every single subway train and subway station plastered in ads, every bus and bus stop, and now also video screens and apparently beer ads, a constant assault on the visual senses where there is not even a place to rest your eyes without terminating on an ad, and it doesn’t even make up 1 cent on the dollar for expenses. Something to be aware of.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s possible for the concept to click until at least learning how to calculate Fourier transforms by hand. Before then all I could say when hearing about orthogonality was “Uh-huh, sure”, but you never really believe it. Only when you have calculated something like “what is the frequency of the delta function?” and seen the answer with your own eyes, not through someone’s interpretation, do you start believing it.

Even the house under a rock got satellite TV.

I didn’t mean it’s like a conspiracy. Military accidents is just something that happens almost every week. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(2000–2009)

Good luck then! Actually curious to see how it will work out.

Almost all taxes are collected from the paycheck before you even get your hands on it. The filing is mostly for the tax return on the overpayment. They’ve already thought of it. How you gonna stop paying?

this many stories

You get whatever the media is focused on. Hundreds of F16s have been lost to non-combat accidents throughout history, yet somehow we have no memory of them.

The helicopter route at the time of the collision allowed the Black Hawk to fly as close as 75 feet below planes descending to land on runway 33 at Reagan National Airport, according to the NTSB. With allowable errors in the helicopter’s altimeters and other equipment as well as Army rules expecting aviators to hold their altitude within 100 feet, it could end up being much closer.

“How much tolerance should we have for aviation safety whenever civilian lives are at risk?” asked Todd Inman, NTSB board member. “How much is that tolerance,” he continued. “I think it should be zero.”

Sounds like the tolerances weren’t big enough! Odd interaction putting those two paragraphs next to each other. NTSB demanding zero margin for safety…

End of Eternity (1955) by Isaac Asimov (and its reimagining in Palimpsest (2009) by Charles Stross) involve a time-traveling secret organization that has its headquarters hidden away in time/outside of time. They don’t so much drain resources though as manipulate history to ensure a safe course.

Btw, if someone wants to check the channel name to decide whether to open it in a private window, and you don’t have embeds blocked in some way, by the time you see the screenshot it’s already too late and Google knows you were interested in it.

The very wiki article quoted says average to mean mean (made explicit later). OP showerthought was calculating life expectancy in a way different than commonly understood. The first nitpick was correct.

1 life-year saved per 900 vaccine doses administered

To flip the ratio, you getting the vaccine extends your life by 1/3 of a day. This might even be a wash if you had to take a day off work or wait on line for several hours. More effective if you’re elderly, but then also you got fewer life-years to save. Hmm.

The numbers in the meme are off. One sperm is 750MB, or about 1 CD, so full human is 2 CDs. Or a couple 1.4MB floppies if you only store the diff from the reference genome.

fraud

Sabotage. Property made unusable. Passengers were literally stranded in the middle of a journey.

It’s worse. They are saying that the EU copyright law, as written, only allows decompiling/reverse engineering to “fix bugs”. A bug fix would involve a software patch of some sorts. But the security researchers did not have time to write a patch yet, what they did is tell the customer “Yep, it’s fucked. Your vendor put in a killswitch to make the trains brick themselves.” So that does tell them where the problem is, but it is not a bona fide bug fix from the Bugfix region of France, and therefore illegal.

he started firing, [Police Commissioner] Tisch said, killing a police officer working a corporate security detail

“He was doing the job that we asked him to do. He put himself in harm’s way. He made the ultimate sacrifice,” Tisch said.

Off-duty police officers working as private security are not doing the job we the public asked them to do! During the time they are getting paid, they are protecting corporate interests, not the public in general. Frankly, “corporate security detail” is a corrupt impersonation of a police officer - they wear their official police uniform, they act under the color of law, but they are not serving the police or the public. Fucking Cyberdyne Systems/Omni Corporation privatized police cyberpunk shit. Irks me how this police “impersonator” is getting full honors from the police commissioner, and photos in the AP of police and medical staff standing at attention in respect of the ambulance carrying the body, and meanwhile the other security guard killed who did not daylight as police during their off-the-clock hours doesn’t even get a name mentioned.

shot a guard at a security desk

Only their gang members matter to them.

Newag [train maker] claims that the Dragon Sector [whitehat hacker] team endangered passengers’ safety by modifying the software without proper experience. But Newag then turns right around and claims that Dragon Sector did not modify the software at all. They point out that EU law only allows reverse engineering of software in order to fix bugs. And if Dragon Sector did not actually modify the software, it cannot have fixed any bugs, in which case their reverse-engineering must be illegal.

I ended up doing a recheck. On the plus side, the verification found several instances of bitrot from the old failing SSD. Fortunately, all the 99%-complete torrents quickly re-downloaded themselves. The whole internet is my backup!