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10 years ago
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on: The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2
Not really. In a future of self-driving cars most people won't even own their own car so most of these cars will be shared - essentially automated taxis. So after the car drops you off it will go to its next call or park somewhere until someone calls it.
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11 years ago
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on: U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances
A police sniper with a magnified scope isn't there to provide "crowd control" in the sense that you're describing, i.e., getting up close and personal with a crowd. They'd be providing overwatch from a distance.
That said, using binoculars would convey a much less threatening impression than observing through a weapon-mounted scope. On the other hand, we don't know exactly what the tactical situation was when that sniper was aiming at the crowd. Unless you do, you're not in a position to say whether he should have been aiming at people or not.
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11 years ago
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on: U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances
Wow, lots of absolute statements there.
"Real" soldiers do sometimes use weapon-mounted optics for observation and target ID. They don't always end up shooting the people they're looking at.
Your statement about cops simply reveals your ignorance about law enforcement.
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11 years ago
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on: Prosecutors Are Reading Emails From Inmates to Lawyers
Think of it this way: you're in jail and you're talking to your lawyer about what he thinks the prosecutor's strategy will be, and how he's going to defend you against it. That has nothing to do with evidence admissibility but could still be damaging to your case if the prosecutor finds out about it.
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11 years ago
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on: Unethical Life Hacks
And it's not like store security isn't going to be watching you. There's a good chance they'll detain you as soon as you try to walk out the door.
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11 years ago
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on: To Get a Home in San Francisco, First Get a $200,000-a-Year Job
That's absolutely right, and in the few articles I've seen that break out Manhattan, it's still significantly more expensive than SF. Of course, that's old news, right? And being old news, "Manhattan is the most expensive place to live" doesn't fit into the current tech boom, linkbait narrative that all the blogs and news outlets are exploting.
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12 years ago
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on: The Black Car Company That People Love to Hate
Uber has higher-quality cars and you get to rate the drivers so they tend to be a little more polite and professional. Not that taxis can't have high-quality cars and drivers but it's more of a crap shoot.
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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
I'm a big user of Workflowy and I felt the same about Gingko at first. The keyboard shortcuts help a lot though because I can get my thoughts down on paper much more quickly.
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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
The shortcuts help a lot. Thanks! Now I'm starting to get the hang of it.
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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
Thanks.
Also, just now I was seeing other people's cards showing up in my tree. When I switched trees, it corrected itself.
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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
Interesting idea. Can you make it so that when I click in the card it automatically goes into edit mode? Having to click an "edit" button really slows things down.
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13 years ago
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on: FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
For proof that there's a transparency problem, I'd want to look at hundreds of FOIA requests across 10-20 categories, content of news conferences and press conferences, level of press access to government officials, responsiveness to press inquiries, responsiveness to Congressional inquiries, and I could probably think of a few more things if I put more time into it. Then I'd want to compare that to data from previous administrations.
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13 years ago
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on: FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
You have three instances...that meets your hurdle for statistical significance?
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13 years ago
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on: FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
Just saying that a single example doesn't prove a pattern.
Yeah it's a little weird, but out of the context of other FOIA requests it doesn't make much of a point.
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13 years ago
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on: FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
I believe the issue is what happens to all the other data that's not related to the intent of the surveillance. For example, if you're talking to your spouse about a health issue, your sex life, etc. If that's not the target of the surveillance, the government shouldn't be retaining it.
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13 years ago
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on: FOIA release: Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
I'm not sure that the handling of a single document, especially one that happens to be about intelligence gathering procedures, should be THE standard by which we judge transparency.
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13 years ago
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on: Rand Paul filibustering over drones
It's a complete and utter fallacy to say that the government doesn't have the authority to kill people without due process. The police and Federal law enforcement do it all the time. It's called justifiable homicide.
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13 years ago
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on: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
Newsflash: magazines aren't restricted items because they're useless without guns. Which are made of metal.
Newsflash #2: we've had plastic magazines for years already.
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13 years ago
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on: NY Congressman Introducing Ban On 3D-Printed High Capacity Gun Magazines
Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?
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13 years ago
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on: The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
It's not an issue of handguns vs. drones, or rifles vs. tanks. It's an issue of ~20 million households holding 300 million guns. In the (admittedly unlikely) event that someone has tyrannical aspirations, those numbers present a real obstacle.
