In 2020 (yes, not sooner), the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced regulations for testing for PFAS in driking water, forcing towns to start testing for PFAS. It turns out, it was there for year, and people were drinking it unknowingly. https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts/pfas-mass-water-par...

Can someone explain why a warrant under the federal Stored Communications Act is easier to obtain?

The order under the SCA is not a warrent, and doesn't have the same standard of proof.

Specifically 18 U.S. Code § 2703 means the government can request location information [1] with a court order as described by (d). The standard for the court order is "reasonable grounds to believe that the contents ... are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation".

reasonable grounds << probable cause

[1] under (c)(1)(D) as the cell location is not ljisted (c)(2)

that's interesting, but one could assume that if some member of a gang points out the leader of the gang to the police, the court would allow them to employ surveillance techniques needed to acquire evidence. Wouldn't that kind of information be sufficient to pass the Probable Cause test?

is EXCEPT part of the SQL standard?

Yes, but not for this usage. It’s a set combiner like UNION and INTERSECT. IIRC, Tutorial D has an operator like this use of EXCEPT for attributes called ALL BUT.

Not in a column specification of a SELECT query.

This is especially true for SaaS where the margins are huge and business models are designed to simplify and obfuscate the true costs of running a business.

Looking at data from the last couple of years, it appears that filling on Friday is pretty common. (see ipomonitor.com for data).

  pbpaste |sort|uniq -c|sort -k1nr
    614 Friday
    436 Monday
    339 Thursday
    326 Tuesday
    283 Wednesday
      2 Sunday

Those two on Sunday are interesting. I wonder if they are data errors and were really Monday but in another time zone.

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welfare is only needed if the labor market is allowed to create jobs that don't provide viable living wages. If given a choice, people choose well-paid work of reliance on welfare. The problems do start when full-time employment doesn't prevent a family from being poor. This happens because wages were allowed to drop to a level that doesn't support decent human conditions.

My guess that since addressing this angers people who would hope to see wages low so they can maintain their business that has grown to be dependant on cheap labor - it's much easier to talk about lump sum transfers (conditional or conditional) as those do not impact the cost of labor, unemployment or living standards.

It's interesting to see approaches that have been documented to fail in eliminating poverty in developing countries (https://chrisblattman.com/2013/06/27/why-cash-transfers-to-t...) failing in a developed country.

Most of the excitement around direct cash transfers' effectiveness in developing countries is _unconditional_ cash transfers. The incentive structure (and goals of the program) are quite different.

the processor is actually GPS (https://twitter.com/GPS_Processor)

the processor is the dubai based GPS https://twitter.com/GPS_Processor