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by alacombe 6y ago
Zoom meetings carry HD video, generally both upstream and downstream. You hardly need 1080p 30pfs at a high bitrate to aim through crosshairs. You can totally split the feed to a low-resolution wide field of view (FOV) feed, then crop your
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by alacombe 6y ago
Terrorists want to cause terror and are unlikely to carry "surgical" assassination.
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by alacombe 6y ago
That would only cover the delivery method, no the payload, but this is very much of a covert way to assassinate someone. Killing people is easy, the biggest shortcoming is that terrorist are trying to be as visible as possible. This is the
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by alacombe 6y ago
Effective blast radius means you need to be close to the target to ensure enough damage to terminate it. The twitter feed mention a motorcade, so the target was likely protected.
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by alacombe 6y ago
On a purely technical level, it's nothing very difficult, a video feed and a bunch of I/O to control the truck (either with linear actuator for steering / braking, throttle control is trivial to do electronically). Same for t
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by alacombe 6y ago
You're forgetting a aspect: the Constitutional clause has been superseded by the 14th Amendment. So in this case, an originalist would rule based on the Amendment, not the just Constitution's original text. And this display a cruc
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I have controversial views This is nowhere controversial. Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...
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by alacombe 6y ago
I knew the gulags were in fact holiday camps !
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The public seems to be relying more and more on science for guidance as our media and politicians keep failing us. They used to rely on religion, for better or worse. Dogma is the only true constant, trading one God for the other, firs
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Everybody has the potential to be 'somebody', but we all need help getting there. That's utter garbage. You fail to define the mesure to be "somebody" as well as the acceptable amount of "help" to inv
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's actually perfect, as you can game the system for non-immediate items.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Same here... 2012 - 1 2013 - 7 2014 - 109 (mostly free ebook) 2015 - 18 2016 - 76 (more disposable income + moved to a house) 2017 - 116 2018 - 214 2019 - 243 2020 - 212
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by alacombe 6y ago
The problem is that the whole architecture is broken. The only reason these devices are "smart" is because they are connected to the brain on the cloud. Even if the device included some smart features, which often ends up cost p
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by alacombe 6y ago
Even if every of the 163,000 Microsoft employee got a company sponsored phone, that's still pretty much 2 orders of magnitude below the Lumia 520 sales figure alone.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Google's erratic roadmap, less than stellar enterprise support, and shady privacy practices from their ad tech side just drive me away Tell that to Windows phone owners...
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by alacombe 6y ago
> they ration by need, not the ability to pay I guess my gf will have to attempt suicide to get help then... maybe if she succeed, she won't be a burden on the system !
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by alacombe 6y ago
ARM is a joint-venture between Apple and Acorn, each had 43% of the capital back in 1996. Apple has a lifetime architecture license, they couldn't care less about who own ARM...
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by alacombe 6y ago
BC vs Quebec.
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by alacombe 6y ago
The NDP has controlled BC for 10 years prior to 2017, between 1991 and 2001.
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's an irrelevant point as I'd still be covered by private insurance companies while transitioning Visa.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Interior BC Canuck here. The system is miserable. My gf has mental health issue, short of actually attempting suicide, there is pretty much no way to get access to any psychiatrist [I guess she wouldn't be a burden on the system if she
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by alacombe 6y ago
They decimate bird populations.
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by alacombe 6y ago
On an individual level for sure, multiply this by a state / country population, and you get non-negligible impact.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> What is wrong with the concept of a heat pump? Something overlooked is that heat pump will leak refrigerant. It's not really not a matter of "if" but "when", physical systems fail. Refrigerants are pretty nasty
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by alacombe 6y ago
Neither are solar or wind farms.
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's no particular feat, you can heat a forge to 1200C with enough insulation and just 600W. Also, this is just considering a limited referential, ie. the one impacting the most your wallet. If you consider a bigger referential, your
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by alacombe 6y ago
> a heat pump is often 3x as efficient at heating a house vs electric baseboards. Not if you consider the whole "indoor + outdoor" referential, in that case you will always get below 100% efficiency.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> as most fossil fuel and nuclear power can't be easily or efficiently ramped down either. Ramping it down is irrelevant, you can always use the extra to process aluminium at cheaper rates, pump water back in reservoir, etc. The ram
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by alacombe 6y ago
A twitter post is pretty irrelevant for performance review. We don't have any number (is it 1s vs 2s ?), especially given that this "project" is pretty small (about 150kloc).
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by alacombe 6y ago
How are you planning to balance privacy, citizenship / real name usage requirement and obvious law enforcement requirements ?

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