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by GhostVII 6y ago
Based on the metrics I have seen, police are not indiscriminately killing any particular race - deaths from police are not too far off of the crime rates by race. Police killings is a problem, but does not seem to be a problem targeted at a
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by GhostVII 6y ago
“Thank you for the question. Respectfully, we’re not going to be reconsidering this,” he said on the videoconference call. “Picking and choosing customers is not the approach that we take to these types of questions when it comes to influe
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Based on the data, deaths are relatively distributed across the population. 25% of people killed by police are black. They make up 12% of the population, so based on this it seems like they are twice as likely as normal to be killed by the
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it's a case of several bad departments/cities/states. The response from the San Francisco PD (for example) was very different from Seattle. Policing is very different from state to state, and police cultures are very
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Most of those military vehicles are actually extremely cheap, they are given to the police by the military when the military no longer needs them. I think this was partially as a response to the north Hollywood shooting, where two bank robb
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by GhostVII 6y ago
No one said that police brutality is OK, just that it can be partially explained by the fact that police in the US are more likely to be killed than in other countries.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
> I've never seen an example of riots breaking out in a city before police instigate violence with rubber bullets and tear gas. Minneapolis was burning before the police responded, not after.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
By that same logic protesting is also an application of lethal force, since you are crowded in with thosands of other people.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think it is fair to say that the laws in the US are objectively better than in China. The US does not put hundreds of thousands of people in camps because of their religion, or heavily censor the internet, or kill hundreds or thousands of
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by GhostVII 6y ago
That's not really a fair comparison. Of course PC gaming will be far faster in many cases, there is no price or size ceiling.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't use twitter often, but looking over the UI I don't see any ability to flag tweets - am I missing this or does it not exist in any visible place? Pretty much every other social media (Reddit, Youtube, Facebook) seems to hav
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I wonder how much benefit you would get from targeting specific microphone/speaker setups for noise cancelling rather than treating everything the same. I would imagine that the noise cancellation requirements are far different for som
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't really get the hype/fear surrounding drone warfare, at least not when it comes to combat. It sounds super scary to have these drones that can outperform pilots, until you realize that guided missiles are already able to de
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't think a cloud of drones would be much more effective than the missiles we already have. Unless they are completely undetectable, they would be far easier to avoid than a missile.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It looks like the rejection email was from Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). So Amazon isn't refusing to sell the book, just refusing to publish it, from my understanding. That seems like a much less significant issue if that is t
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Important to note that having a medal was just one of several options. Other options included working at a large tech company, or having a STEM degree from one of 15 universities in the US/top 5 in the UK. It is an "or", not
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think the only effect of that would be to prevent landlords from giving free months of rent - better to lose a tenant than permanently have lower rents which may not be sustainable.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Can they encrypt the calls at all if they allow people to call in? They would be the ones receiving the phone call, so they would need to be able to decrypt the zoom call in order to send it over the phone. I guess they could encrypt calls
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by GhostVII 6y ago
People were previously claiming on Hacker News that Slice was registering websites on behalf of pizza shops, and then claiming the business as theirs on Google Maps [0]. Is this false? One user claimed that the businesses were not aware of
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by GhostVII 6y ago
You can bring in new safety features without having full self-driving. I think the safest option is to have human drivers, with the car always monitoring to avoid any serious accidents. People will still be attentive, since they are in full
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Political beliefs are not a protected class in the US.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Facebook is not required to preserve free speech on their platform, I don't think there are many people who would argue that they are required to do so. That doesn't mean they shouldn't given how widespread Facebook is.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I would find that hard to believe given how severely autism impacts some people. Things like being non-verbal, or extremely sensitive to noise, don't seem to be things you can just learn as a child to avoid. And if the only difference
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Calling it 'Barbaric' to reduce the already absurd salaries of Facebook employees to slightly less absurd levels seems hyperbolic to say the least. No one is forcing you to work there, and if you are at Facebook you almost certain
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Hiding the tweet instead of removing it seems like a good compromise to me, but I think this sets a pretty difficult precedent for Twitter. Once you start hiding tweets like this, you are implying that any high profile tweets you don't
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by GhostVII 6y ago
For me, the UX is terrible on mobile. On my device it breaks the auto-hide behavior of the chrome address bar - normally when you scroll down the address bar hides, but with AMP only the thin AMP bar hides when scrolling down. On some websi
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by GhostVII 6y ago
There are definitely benefits to the 24 hour news cycle, like the Ahmaud Arbery case you mentioned, but I don't think it is clear that those benefits are worth the cost to society as whole. For every case where the outrage is justified
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Yea that's fair
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I think the reason why this seems more likely to be malice is because the CEO's initial reaction to the backlash was not to listen to and understand the feedback, but to repeatedly try and justify their actions. To go from commenting a
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think that is totally reasonable - for me the benefits of WFH don't outweigh the cost but for a significant percentage of developers I'm sure they do. I think where you get problems is cases where a company only has a minority o

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