Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
TSA agents are federal employees and federal law prohibits carrying-on ammunition on planes. It is not Boston specific other than that's where OP got caught. You can still check it if you want. I assume the reason is to reduce the chances of accidental discharge causing risk to the plane and/or the prevent one part of a weapon that could be used for hijacking. Even if laws allowed you to take bullets into airports, I have no doubt that the airlines (private business people choose to patronize) would prohibit you from carrying ammunition onto their planes and they'd have every right to do so.
despite the separation of duties, at first glance, it would appear worthwhile to me for the customs agencies to buy access to the CT scanners or just the output from the security agencies so they could easily detect the cash
maybe there are laws regarding privacy or just bureaucratic challenges that prevent this though
Of course, this information is going to be interesting to the police. So if they are the proceeds of crime, it will probably help get you caught.
It's not really any different from banks reporting every deposit of $10K or over. The government wants to track all large transfers of money both in bank accounts and across borders, so that it can identify money flows that are not being reported to the IRS and/or are the proceeds of criminal activity.
for sure, I was thinking from the narrower government perspective rather than the larger "is this the right thing to do" view and appreciate the reminder to keep things in context
I think he's trying to match tech companies' signals to investors (layoffs, AI investment) but he did them in the wrong order and the timing for this is having the opposite effect it did for meta et al in terms of PR
there's probably also real, good, cost savings going on from it which should help but isn't geting the news bump he wants
Required reading of books I couldn't relate to played a big role in me stopping reading for fun but I don't place that blame on my teachers for it. I doubt they had the freedom to choose which books we were assigned or whether we were assigned books at all.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i imagine it's not the best option for permanent fixtures compared to barriers. if it works well in a semicircle or hemispherical shape for viewers along at different angles than it might be cheaper. mass producing it also may make it easier and cheaper than painting something one-off to match a static background. agree completely on the value for anything temporary.
really cool ! I remember when these were first demoed and wouldn't have guessed they'd be available at what seems like a reasonable price to me, even without having a need for one. Would like to see an image of what the person standing behind it can see through it. Is it opaque, transparent, or distorted in the other direction ?
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