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by Laaw 11y ago
I realize I'm going to sound absolutely bonkers, but I definitely read an article in Wired about devices which used very large amounts of electricity to hover feet in the air. They were triangularly shaped, built in garages, used alum
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by Laaw 11y ago
We know basically nothing about the ones who don't get caught.
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by Laaw 11y ago
It's a crime in the state of Virginia to refuse a sobriety test when pulled over, due to implied consent. http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/18.2-268.2/ I realize it says "under arrest", but I thin
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by Laaw 11y ago
What kind of data do you want to see that something isn't causing something else? That's a pretty insane thing to ask for, if you know about falsifiability. Usually this works by me saying "there's no known link betwe
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by Laaw 11y ago
2015 was a strong el nino, I dunno if it's gonna tell us much about global warming... It's actually alarming to me that this post is being given any traction on here, when I know everyone here is smarter than to attribute one ye
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by Laaw 11y ago
Exactly, I don't think anyone's looking for much beyond a, "Whoa, that was a blunder on our part, let's make this right" from Tesla. Relatively easy fix from a PR perspective, but based on this account of their int
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by Laaw 11y ago
This is an actual sales channel. It's an offering for the company, there should be (better) infrastructure around it. All that being said, Elon Musk shouldn't have been given the car by this staff when he asked for a car to tes
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by Laaw 11y ago
Thanks for the apology. I especially liked where you minimized your own fault and tried to blame your behavior on me.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I asked a question because I was unsure, and you behaved like a prime ass. You will continue to get responses like mine as long as you try to push a viewpoint as hard as you've been trying to here.
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by Laaw 11y ago
What are you trying to prove, that it wasn't profitable? That the government's bank account was not a higher value higher after the bailout than it was before the bailout? Because that's a fact, and not an opinion. You seem
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by Laaw 11y ago
That's a fair point, I hope I'm wrong.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Why is this kind of comment (a la "no duh, scientists!") always highly praised on the Internet and in general, even from otherwise intelligent, thinking folks?? Since when have we been okay with "no duh" being our sour
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by Laaw 11y ago
No one said or implied any of what you're saying. Did we or did we not get more money back from the banks than we gave? That was the question, and the answer was we did. No one's making value judgements about that, it's jus
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by Laaw 11y ago
I mean, we gave them loans, not free money, right? The American people profited in a literal sense on the bailout.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Do you think you'd be able to detect every possible bias?
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by Laaw 11y ago
Likely?? No, this is paranoid. Sorry, but this isn't happening everywhere.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I'm getting the sense we both understand each other, even if we disagree, which is really all I can hope for on the Internet, in the limited space and time we're given to talk about issues on HN (the "reply" button disap
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by Laaw 11y ago
But that's my point; maybe prison reform isn't actually all that hard, and only appears that way from an insider's perspective. I'm refuting the article's pessimism by explaining the concept that innovative ideas of
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by Laaw 11y ago
What if the worst possible scenario happens, you mean? That's pessimistic thinking, and not supported by experience. Definitely possible, though, so let's not even bother.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Sure, but that's true as with anything else in the world. I don't think "Don't bother" is a message that this article should be conveying to the folks who might be inclined to try. If this article were more about w
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by Laaw 11y ago
Those paragraphs seem to me to basically say, "Don't bother if you're not going to spend the rest of your life/a very long time here", which I think is effectively saying "don't bother at all" to most
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by Laaw 11y ago
I didn't get that out of this article. I agree with what you've written, but I got an implication of "don't bother" from the article, which I think is wrong.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I find this thought process (the one in the article) to not be very accepting of "failure". So what if the Ugandan kid comes over and thinks he can change the way the US thinks of guns? It's not like he's going to have
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by Laaw 11y ago
This article is pessimistic at best, and downright wrong at worst. Why can't a 22 yr. old college graduate from Uganda be the one to finally break the logjam in the US about gun control? Maybe different perspectives will find solution
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by Laaw 11y ago
I don't have much to say about it, other than the specific belief that I don't think this comment will ever be directly connected to me by the NSA or anyone else, almost regardless of its content. A lot of the concern over the los
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by Laaw 11y ago
I think I fit into this category. I had an incident with my employer (fairly) recently that forced me to return to anonymity, but I'm not using a throwaway account, and I do generally believe the work the NSA is currently doing is mor
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by Laaw 11y ago
It's a placeholder, and talking about it is distracting from the point (the "point" being maybe we can have both privacy and safety, and that the dichotomy is false). There is undeniably some activity that we can both agre
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by Laaw 11y ago
The stock market isn't why there's so much VC money, it's because VC has better returns than elsewhere, and the stock market tanking only furthers that, doesn't it?
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by Laaw 11y ago
I'm not ready to give up my privacy because it'll make me safer. You shouldn't be, either, but what you're saying now points exclusively there.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Please in the future consider the concept of rhetorical license. It's not literally zero Evil, it's actually "less evil" and "less privacy", vs. "more evil" and "more privacy". This isn&#

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