LordKano

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by LordKano 9y ago
I understand your argument but I disagree. According to the Merriam-Webster, this arguably fits two of the three definitions of "robot". I guess you could say that measuring soil moisture and adding water isn't "complica
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by LordKano 9y ago
This! Precisely this! There is no benefit to me to go with a debit transaction and the risk of significant liability if there is a data breach. So, I don't do debit transactions.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I have been thinking about making a homebrew Phototron using an arduino, grow lights, temp+moisture sensors and a water reservoir. The addition of the camera makes me think that a Pi might be a better solution.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I don't use my PIN either, for a different reason. I force them to process it as a credit card because I get the consumer protections of the CC processing agreements. If I use my PIN, it's more like an ATM transaction. LK
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by LordKano 9y ago
My son is 5 and I let him play Sonic on an emulator. He was hooked almost immediately.
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by LordKano 9y ago
If N.W.A could be trademarked, I don't understand how anyone thought it was right to deny The Slants.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I'd suspect it's because he wants to eat it and that's a lot harder to do while it's still alive.
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by LordKano 9y ago
Indians also have surprisingly high rates of cardiovascular disease for a people with such low levels of obesity.
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by LordKano 9y ago
Overall, I agree with you. Mass incarceration is largely about money. Also, prisoners count towards the population of where the prison is located at census time. It allows mostly white, rural locations to increase their minority representat
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by LordKano 9y ago
By no means am I excusing the excesses of my government or its western allies, though I would like to point out that we won't execute someone for blasphemy like some of those other nations. I say we put out the big fire first.
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by LordKano 9y ago
OK. My experience was at Lock Haven University but I was thinking that it would be cool if by random happenstance, I was reading a story about an event I had attended.
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by LordKano 9y ago
The "Justice System" isn't really about justice. There was witness tampering by the police and jury misconduct. Either of those should have been enough to generate a new trial on procedural grounds. I do not know if you'
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by LordKano 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what college did your sister attend? When I was a freshman, they brought in a hypnotist and I volunteered. I went through the motions and when he asked us to visualize ourselves in a situation, I went with it and played al
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by LordKano 9y ago
Attorneys who represent states often make perverse and reprehensible arguments to mitigate the state's liability. I don't way to go too far afield but I would recommend the Paradise Lost documentaries. In the third one, the lawyer
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by LordKano 9y ago
This was pretty much the question that I entered to pose.
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by LordKano 9y ago
This is fantastic. I can only imagine the kind of courage it would have taken to volunteer for this 60 years ago.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I can't think of any good, practical way to do it. Theoretically, running the software on a server in Sealand or something like that would put the physical hardware beyond the reach of a subpoena but then, they could lock you up for co
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by LordKano 9y ago
If that's the case, why the reference to open highways?
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by LordKano 9y ago
My first thought was that it can be subpoenaed. For example: if, unbeknownst to you, two of your friends were involved in some kind of criminal conspiracy and you had spoken/met with both of them near the time it was known that they ha
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by LordKano 9y ago
Your uncle sounds like an interesting man. I wish I could have known him.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I'd like to see more of this covered in beginning legal CS and IS education.
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by LordKano 9y ago
Teenage me would have loved this. Middle age me is still interested.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I don't think I would have ever noticed this but now, I think I will always notice it.
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by LordKano 9y ago
The first time I'd ever heard of BART was when one of it's officers killed Oscar Grant. I couldn't see myself ever wanting to take that mode of transportation.
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by LordKano 9y ago
Ask for that in your next salary negotiation.
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by LordKano 9y ago
I had never considered this and something else about it makes perfect sense to me. It also explains the "white flight" of the time. What we now call the "inner city" was allowed to remain black and brown with the expecta
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by LordKano 9y ago
Unless you are driving quite a long distance and/or on the open highway, car travel is not as much faster than foot travel as some people seem to believe. I'm going to have to disagree on this one. I can drive to my local Wal-Ma
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by LordKano 9y ago
Maybe relieving employers of the need to provide all full time employees with fringe benefits (ie. medical insurance)? Even before it was legally mandated, market forces made it virtually impossible to not offer it for full-time skilled l
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by LordKano 9y ago
In the back of my mind, I have been terrified by the prospect of a rogue AI since I saw the Terminator in 1984.
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by LordKano 9y ago
CAFE standards were responsible for much if not most of the increase in SUV driving we saw from the mid 90s onward.

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