Separate from the fines, why doesn't CCWRD litigate to get their cleanup costs back?
CCWRD says that its crews ultimately had to clean 12 cubic yards of “drilling mud, drilling spoils, and miscellaneous solid waste” from one of its sewage treatment facilities due to Boring’s discharges across two of its project sites
Most of the civil cases were settled out of court, but there are still about a dozen ongoing. In one, an eight-person jury in Chicago will decide damages. A point of contention is whether passengers suffered pain in their final moments. Due to the way "pain and suffering" damages work, this is likely to have substantial bearing on the result.
Does that mean from a manufacturer perspective it's less costly if your faulty plane kills people quickly, like a bug being splatted, rather than hanging on longer and putting passengers through a grueling ordeal? In a sense, does that create somewhat perverse incentives? Or is this a pretty unique scenario due to the nature of the malfunction and its direct involvement on G-forces passengers experienced prior to the crash?
Judge Reed O'Connor, of the U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, said he disagreed with the Justice Department that dismissing the case is in the public interest but said he did not have authority to reject the decision.
He added the government's deal with Boeing "fails to secure the necessary accountability to ensure the safety of the flying public."
Not sure I trust the longevity of some of them, though. I do use https://temp-mail.org/en/ or other similar services for some logins for some services I'm not afraid to lose access to, though (especially for places likely to spam me).
The only way to fix the ToS issue you raised is through regulation protecting it.
Unfortunately we're going the other direction, with efforts like verified ID gaining traction in some parts of the world.
It's ironic because in most cases anonymity (or allowing an alternate identity that has its own built-up reputation) would offer real protection, while the verification systems are arguably security theatre.
I don't care what technical genius is built into your architecture, as soon as you force a user to plug their ID information into it, they've forked over control along with any agency to protect their own safety.
The bit at the end about email deliverability was also interesting:
Notifying our subscribers is another problem... in terms of not ending up on a reputation naughty list or having mail throttled by the receiving server .... Not such a biggy for sending breach notices, but a major problem for people trying to sign into their dashboard who can no longer receive the email with the "magic" link.
And this observation he got from someone:
the strategy I've found to best work with large email delivery is to look at the average number of emails you've sent over the last 30 days each time you want to ramp up, and then increase that volume by around 50% per day until you've worked your way through the queue
This is also known as "warming a domain" in the email world. A large rush of emails from an email server is an indicator of a hack or takeover, so anti-spam software may flag an IP address that surges in activity.
I first learnt about this tech via an advertisement type article. This article mentioned 65 degrees.
However I thought it not appropriate to post a advertisement type article to Hacker news.
The article I posted was found via Google of the words ... Blade lifters to transport wind turbine blades ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Blade+lifters+to+transport+w...
FYI this is the link to the advert type artical / press release.
It mentions 65 degrees .....
https://www.imnovation-hub.com/energy/blade-lifter-wind-turb... Quote " The blade is secured to a hydraulic system that can adjust its orientation up to about 65 degrees, and some models can reach 90 degrees. This allows the blade to avoid obstacles and reduces the need for large trailers. Additionally, the platform where each blade is mounted can, in some cases, rotate 180 degrees to counteract wind gusts. Some models can lift up to 1,000 metric tons. "
Please feel free to share links to any decent news sites still out there with global coverage, that aren't too biased, and let you browse without JavaScript.
CCWRD says that its crews ultimately had to clean 12 cubic yards of “drilling mud, drilling spoils, and miscellaneous solid waste” from one of its sewage treatment facilities due to Boring’s discharges across two of its project sites
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