Daniel_Newby

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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
No right is being violated. It is a breach of duty: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". Even ignoring the first amendment, there is no enabling clause that grants the general power to
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
[citation desired] I'd love to know who dislikes "oriental". And do they like or dislike "occidental"?
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That law is plainly unconstitutional. Besides which, anyone who trusts the privacy or authenticity of email is a fucking retard.
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> ... maybe it's time to make the admission system be based on standardized tests ... Certain genetic groups have lower test scores for biological reasons. Admissions officers are given wide latitude for the purpose of admiting toke
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Should the JCE API remove the call that allows one to ask for a modeless algorithm? I cannot imagine any cryptographically valid app that just picks a mode at random and tries to wing it.
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Such people exist?!
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You have it utterly backwards. In my experience, clearance holders have a far more bleak outlook on government than you. If you think people will elect madmen and witch hunters no matter what, which seems to be the case, you might as well m
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> Is it like The Cube, where no one really knew what each piece was for? Not possible. You cannot unwittingly buy a house in Cupertino, fill it with 48 V batteries and wave division multiplexing transceivers, and trench the back yard. Th
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Everybody who cared knew that the world's governments tap every fiber they can lay their hands on. It has been discussed on HN with great regularity for years before these NSA non-revelations. Physical attacks were and are a certaint
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> You can't blame Google for not anticipating a hostile break-in by the government. "The" government? The lines were also being tapped by organized crime, China, France, etc. Google severely failed at data protection.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
You could add step (5) recognize that you have a hot split and amend step #2 to copy all of the hot frames to the new segment. Their point is that if you have done something wrong if you have to dynamically turn on profiling to keep the sta
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
There is a lot of Linear A text known, and some of it has been decoded. It also shares symbols and even a few words with Linear B. Many books and papers have been written about it. That makes it a reasonable candidate for Unicode inclusion.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
The user agent is useful for debugging. If users of a certain browser never submit a form, the site owner needs to know. Anyway, feature testing and benchmarking can be used to create a user agent fingerprint. Hiding the user agent header j
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
America is big. The population is very spread out. It is normal for an American city to have 1/20th the population density of Copenhagen. Commuter rail would just dump you in a sprawling suburn with no economically viable public transp
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Self-driving vehicles work today and are legal in several states. Elementary pieces of self-driving tech are selling in production cars. I take it as a foregone conclusion that everything will be self-driving in 50 years—probably much soo
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
In most towns, bus economics only allows for one hour routes and a transfer for most trips. That means two hours in motion average for a round trip, and up to two more hours waiting if your business does not line up with scheduled stops. Th
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Most long term homeless Americans are severely mentally ill. That makes them eligible for Supplemental Security Income ($950/month), Section 8 (subsidized housing), Medicaid (free health care), and a variety of local grants and subsidi
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
I am not an expert. This page[1] says " If the dry bulb temperature is higher than 35°C (95°F), the hot air passing over the skin can actually make the worker hotter. When the temperature is more than 35°C and the air is dry, evaporati
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
It's considerably more complicated than body temperature and sweating. The body has ways of generating heat. If they do not turn off fast enough when the A/C fails, you get hot. It is entirely possible that this device could help
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Impulsivity predicts much of criminality. The research says that "Have you ever gone to jail?" is a fairly sensitive test for ADHD. Low IQ also predicts criminality, but impulsivity also predicts dramatically lower IQ, so the arro
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Gangland is a lot like a school for 12 year olds. A group of insecure, unconfident people are brought together as a matter of policy. They are rewarded for doing things together as a matter of policy (drug money, media adulation). Attempts
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Sort of. Mass market radios are designed for low cost and low power consumption, and the engineering cost is amortized over tens of millions of devices. For that market segment it makes sense to make a perfectly customized radio. There&#x27
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Really? You see no connection between poor impulse control/low intelligence and pointless violence? The research in fact shows the former to be the only significant predictor of the latter. (Parent socioeconomic status, culture, and ed
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> Culture and life (what you eat, how you exercise, how you live) weights more than genetics, ... To what extent you have been outsmarted by robots is determined mostly by genetics. But if slum-dwellers were given basic income and a nega
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The other responses are good. There will also probably be databases of landmarks like buildings and light poles that can be used to make a centimeter-accurate visual positioning system.
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The lower economic class will use the self-driving self-cleaning taxis. The middle class will have their own cars and use high-efficiency parking. It will be no hardship to use a short, tight slot six blocks away. The upper class will have
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> Enforcing a 4 day work-week would be a good start. The labor surplus is caused by decreased scarcity. Prosperity has decoupled from labor. This is not a problem! Even if it was, creating an artificial shortage of labor would not be a s
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Much of a car's weight is safety cages and crumple zones. Leaving out all that superfluous metal will save lots of money.
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Yeah, right, like an advertising company would develop a self-driving car.
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We have working self-driving cars today, and they need no special infrastructure. Detecting painted lane markings and other vehicles are the easy parts of the data processing system. Furthermore, special infrastructure is unacceptably vulne

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