Talanes

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by Talanes 3y ago
>because the defunded police don't respond to them Police have been ignoring small property crime as a waste of their time for far longer than anyone has called for defunding them. I couldn't get small town police to do anythin
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by Talanes 3y ago
You're taking the key crux of the argument, whether ShotSpotter works, as just a given. Just straight up begging the question.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Depends on who's doing it. For career criminals, sure the stolen car and gun are probably easy. If it's anybody else, say some bored high school kids, then the speaker is probably a much easier option.
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by Talanes 3y ago
You're literally ignoring every argument in favor of your "detector." Who's not acting in good faith here again?
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by Talanes 3y ago
I honestly believe the primary driver of organizational dysfunction is management's tendency to find justifications for things rather than actually understanding what they're doing and if it's necessary.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Tens of thousands of people make a living from debating what authors should expect their readers to already know?
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by Talanes 3y ago
Different readers bring different expectations, that's no basis to make any sort of serious argument around.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Personally the reason I chose a remote-based option over a cast was A: that price difference didn't manifest when I was shopping, and B: I don't want to have to deal with making sure everyone in the household has the login credent
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by Talanes 3y ago
My Roku is the device I use to do this? I'm aware that I could buy something from Google, Apple, or Amazon to do the same thing, but that's just trading one shitty provider for another.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Do an image search for "Roku screensaver" and see if that looks familiar to you. It's not really the sort of product that gets brought up directly by name a lot, but I've seen that screensaver in plenty of homes and a su
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by Talanes 3y ago
False advertising is a crime too, and obviously you don't think people take that seriously, so why should this crime be any different?
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by Talanes 3y ago
It's also going to lock out people who are well over 16 and just can't get past the verification. Like my dad: a 52 year old man who uses social media profusely, but straight up does not own a device with a working camera on it. T
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by Talanes 3y ago
If this had been implemented during my youth, I might have actually gone out and joined my peers in underage drinking.
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by Talanes 3y ago
I'm curious, do you personally make any decisions? It seems like the logical conclusion to this kind of thinking is to just not ever consider or decide upon anything.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Plus it was cool to be around for a time when the hack to get boot access was as simple as popping the battery pack open and penciling in one line on the PCB.
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by Talanes 3y ago
I grew up in rural California in the one town in the county that was incorporated; the kind of place where every cop in town shows up if anything happens at all. I biked and rollerbladed to school alongside literal highways and never was ap
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by Talanes 3y ago
I had a similar thing with whether Giant Pandas were actual bears or not when I was a kid. The genetic tests that determined they were definitely bears happened five years before I was born, but I still got taught the "We used to think
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by Talanes 3y ago
A lot of smaller podcasts don't have much web presence outside of their RSS feed, and often have pretty generic titles to boot.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Selection bias for what? It was an anecdote, there's no attempt to infer data about a larger population.
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by Talanes 3y ago
>The way to do this in my opinion would be to go over mental disorder demographics and see if any profession is underrepresented in actual cases compared to the prevalence of the job in the overall population. I don't think that wou
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by Talanes 3y ago
It's not that the narrative concept is innately cyberpunk, just that the aesthetics are an exact match for modern Cyberpunk. My go-to method for setting the wallpaper on a new device is just to image search "cyberpunk wallpaper&qu
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by Talanes 3y ago
Tautologically impossible for something to be an absolute bare minimum if it wasn't common in the industry for decades.
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by Talanes 3y ago
“When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you’re really not that price sensitive at that point in time" - John Riccitiello Amazing that he could so corr
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by Talanes 3y ago
In relation to the PCB, so if they're horizontally mounted onto the motherboard, you end up with vertical slots on the back of a standard tower.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Did the university send him to prison, or are you collapsing multiple different connotations of "guilty" into one?
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by Talanes 3y ago
"Car accident, I'm okay" is shorter and less vague.
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by Talanes 3y ago
Even one of the parents in the story didn't find the communication method helpful.
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by Talanes 3y ago
I think the point was that the people producing content for their own personal website are a small, self-selecting group, with social media catching most of the rest of the online populace.
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by Talanes 3y ago
I haven't read Dhalgren, but "It's not as difficult as Ulysses" isn't saying much.
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by Talanes 3y ago
The first page of search results for "Very truly yours" includes a forum thread asking why lawyers sign letters that way, so apparently it's just a standard form.

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