My last free credit monitoring subscription just ran out, which means I havent been a party to a service that’s been hacked for I think 7 years but at least 5 years. I’m going to miss my free equifax credit monitoring emails.
Anyone got a recent hack that gave away free equifax I could pretend to be involved with ?
So about 1/3 of a swimming pool or 5 rail cars worth
Not so bad really and safer than rail cars.
150,000 barrels a day gets sent by rail car.
Pipelines are certainly the better option. I’d say catching this one and shutting it down was a success story.
Too bad Biden killed keystone XL
60 square miles of devastated aquifer. Estimates for initial cleaning and restoring would be $1 billion USD. That’s just the emergency response.
The costs of 30 years of pumping and treating and disposing groundwater minimum are not known. 100+ years of groundwater monitoring. The land will never be able to be restored to its initial condition.
EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. Unfortunately, sourcing specific federal data or risk assessments reflecting this magnitude has become difficult, as crucial information underpinning these kinds of impact and cost projections appears to have been purged from public EPA websites over the last few months. I guess you’ll just have to deal with this when you hide information.
>EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water.
That doesn't answer my question. How did you get the "$1 billion USD" figure? It's unclear how you go from "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" to "Estimates for initial cleaning and restoring would be $1 billion USD".
Moreover, if that's "up to" amount, then surely it only applies to the worst case, like if you dumped the oil directly into a river/ocean? The picture in the article shows there's no source of water nearby. That's not to say that it can't affect groundwater or whatever, but blindly applying "one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water" makes no sense.
> EPA’s guidance used to state that one gallon of petroleum can contaminate up to one million gallons of water.
This is a worst case scenario. It basically assumes all of the oil goes directly into a water supply - so at that point you're just calculating the dilution of benzene.
Often Linux is great, until
You update some esoteric dependency that breaks a bunch of stuff, and fixing it is just a little past your experience level …
That's the best part of the immutable versions, containers by default so weird dependency interactions are minimized, system is stable and has a good rollbacks in case something does go wrong, and updates are more or less invisible
Takes some getting used to, but has really been a smooth experience
To all Chinese sellers: you need to eat the cost of the tariffs on your side. Ask your local government comrade official to subsidize your product more.
Xi said that American suppliers couldn’t even ask for discounts, so that’s the end that. China has been looking at dumping these smaller industries for a while, they don’t innovate much, and there are better things to invest the capital and workers on.
Precisely why China needs to be a whole lot less important to the world.
Freedom and personal liberty actually are ideologies. They don’t encompass every ideology that doesn’t make sense at all.
I’d say CCP and many other governments like Russia and Ukraine are FAR more corrupt than the US. Your argument really doesn’t make sense.
> Freedom and personal liberty actually are ideologies.
Feyerabend in particular would likely differ, and say instead that freedom and liberty are what emerge when mature adults democratically order their societies, irrespective (or in spite) of any ideologies used to bind them
Paul Feyerabend, a philosopher of science, argued that true freedom and liberty arise when individuals actively and democratically shape their societies, free from the dominance of any single ideology, including science. He contended that science, often regarded as the ultimate path to knowledge, is merely one of many traditions and should not hold a privileged position in society. Feyerabend advocated for a “democratic relativism,” emphasizing equal rights for all traditions and proposing a separation between the state and any specific ideology, akin to the separation of church and state. He believed that this approach would allow individuals to live according to their own values and beliefs, fostering a more inclusive and liberated society.
> He believed that this approach would allow individuals to live according to their own values and beliefs
What if someone's values and beliefs are that certain other values and beliefs should not be allowed? Like what if a group believes that gay people shouldn't exist openly in society, or that certain racial groups should be genocided or stripped of their rights?
I think this is a fundamental issue of tolerance of beliefs - how do you tolerate intolerant beliefs without sliding into intolerance yourself?
> He contended that science, often regarded as the ultimate path to knowledge, is merely one of many traditions and should not hold a privileged position in society.
He's plain wrong about that part. Science isn't another tradition, it's a way of putting the world to the test to figure out how things work. It's absurd and dangerous to maintain Feyerabend's view in the midst of a pandemic or climate change, for example, which we've seen with the alternate facts and conspiracy theories.
I'm not convinced these glosses pin him down. He's worth reading, even if you only want to test your mastery of your own position on questions like this.
I'd love to know the reference for that. I've read a couple of Feyerabend's books, but it was years ago, and I gave them away, but would not mind taking another look.
Some bits and pieces from part 2.1 ("Two questions")
> [i]n a free society there is room for many strange beliefs, doctrines, institutions.
> There is nothing in science or in any other ideology that makes them inherently liberating. Ideologies can deteriorate and become dogmatic religions. They start deteriorating when they become successful... their triumph is their downfall.
> A democracy is an assembly of mature people and not a collection of sheep guided by a small clique of know-it-alls.
> The reasons were explained by Mill in his immortal essay On Liberty. It is not possible to improve upon his arguments.
Dude the US is insanely corrupt, it's just that a lot of the corruption is called "lobbying" and "consulting." Sometimes also certain forms of "legal counsel." It's whitewashed and normalized.
I think Trump hosting million dollar dinners deserves to be called out more than the concept of consulting, which I’m sure is used for both good and nefarious purposes.
If you’re referring to actual instances of former politicians being paid exorbitant consulting fees by corporations that they helped regulate, though, I’d be interested in better understanding what’s going on there too.
If you're in the business of selling to the government, you might find that it's impossible to make anything happen unless you hire "the right consultants." (Usually small firms that have hired ex-regulators or insiders.) That's what I meant. Not that generic firms like McKinsey are angels, though!
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