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by bmelton 9y ago
Worth noting that while firearms are fairly durable goods, they do have a lot of wear when they're used regularly. Trigger pins can wiggle loose. Butt stocks can crack. Springs lose their springiness. Barrels wear down with normal us
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by bmelton 9y ago
The bullpup format has been around since the early 1950s, and that particular form factor has been pretty normal since the 70s. I don't disagree with your point that arms manufacturers are still producing new models, but that isn'
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by bmelton 9y ago
I mean, there was a human in the car too, and the human's statement was that the first sign that there might be a collision was after the collision occurred.
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by bmelton 9y ago
It appears that's pretty close to what happened here. http://fortune.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-car-crash/
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by bmelton 9y ago
I haven't any insight to whether or not the car did or didn't attempt to brake, but it's necessary to respond to the "superhuman reaction speed" remark as, even if the reaction speed is superhuman, that doesn&#x27
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by bmelton 9y ago
e=mv2, whether or not the driver is a superhuman robot or a human. This means that there's a fixed distance from which the optimal driver can stop a car doing x mph. Yes, an autonomous vehicle has a faster reaction time* to begin the
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by bmelton 9y ago
> then they'd be classed as assault rifles and there'd be no regulation at all Well, they'd need to become a Type 7 and Type 10 FFL, subject to numerous regulations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, meaning
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by bmelton 9y ago
I don't know if that's what OP is saying, but it seems fair to say that it's at least enough bullshit that it should probably never be used as evidentiary. The states who pioneered its adoption (New York and Maryland) have
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by bmelton 9y ago
I think that secret shopping is a great idea for forensics, but I worry that in areas of criminality, just pushing fake requests over to forensics won't work unless it's accompanied by the usual pleas from the cops and DAs activel
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by bmelton 9y ago
Agreed. There's a movie called "Banking on Bitcoin" currently on Netflix that I recently watched, and while it's got plenty of libertarian rhetoric, it showcases well the transition of "Bitcoin's going to fund
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by bmelton 9y ago
Conversely, I prefer the lightest-weight covering possible, but I inexplicably still need something to cover me. In the summer time, I like a lightweight sheet, and will stick with that deep into the fall. Even if temperatures do drop ov
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by bmelton 9y ago
Because we, as a society, allow people to do things that we don't like. We aren't usually very good at it, but when you consider that it affords people the luxuries of doing things that others might not approve of, like having a
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by bmelton 9y ago
Understood. My point wasn't that a self-owned corporation would have liability, I was arguing that corporate personhood isn't a good example of legal trickery, since not only is that opinion pretty exclusive to non-law people, bu
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by bmelton 9y ago
> However, judges already accept corps having legal entity status To be fair, that isn't a trick. That's been the established legal norm since 1886. Corporations are people for a variety of reasons, including (as Gargoyle men
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by bmelton 9y ago
I mean, they can be, they just aren't now. For it to be common, it has to fit more people's use cases. Clearly, that's more likely to happen in somewhere like NYC than in Memphis, but I would think that most people, even pe
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by bmelton 9y ago
I can one up that. From the headline alone, I was pretty confident that it was going to be a fun pseudo-scientific attempt to predict this guy's return. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088172/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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by bmelton 9y ago
Ditto. I don't know what the most polite way of addressing it is, but I've done that as well and never seen it be the cause of bad feelings. I've also adopted a behavior I learned from a friend, which was to say something li
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by bmelton 9y ago
There's a crop of startups now that are incentivizing healthier lifestyles by gamifying healthy activities, routine doctor visits, etc. Insurance companies pay them per head to make their software available to customers, and reward cu
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by bmelton 9y ago
I downvoted you for being arbitrarily rude. From the guidelines[1]. You're new here, so I feel it's worth pointing out that sort of incivility isn't generally accepted here. > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn&#
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by bmelton 9y ago
A point I agree with. Just felt it needed pointing out that reason, logic and strategic thinking aren't nearly all the attributes that we need to have within a legislature to make everything work, and stuffing our elected offices with
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Reason, logic and strategic thinking is what we need Reason, logic and strategic thinking (hereafter, "they") don't get you palatable slogans like "Yes we can" and "The Buck Stops Here". They don&#x27
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Tax avoidance is the avoidance of the required tax (an alternative name is tax evasion), tax minimisation is paying one's required tax and no more It still isn't. Some sources: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bmelton 9y ago
It's a thing I've seen people do. Visiting a neighboring city to take advantage of their tax holiday for back to school shopping, for example, or buying a car from a neighboring state to avoid in-state registration. People avoid
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Tax avoidance is an illegal means of not paying the actual tax required It seems curious that you'd start by defining terms and then define those terms incorrectly. tax a·void·ance taks əˈvoidns noun the arrangem
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by bmelton 9y ago
Why isn't just getting rid of coupons a viable option?
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by bmelton 9y ago
Except that the laws are the rules, the rules are publicly published, and everyone has access to them. If McDonald's is selling a 10 piece McNuggets for $1.49, and a 20 piece for $4.99, then buying 2 x 10 piece McNuggets for $2.98 is a
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by bmelton 9y ago
If you aren't seeking out the loopholes that apply to you, then you are paying more in taxes than you are legally required to. "legally required to" does not incur a balancing test between what is practicable vs the time it t
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by bmelton 9y ago
Doubt it. https://twitter.com/thelateempire/status/957527371221028865/...
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by bmelton 9y ago
According to NationMaster[1], we're the 43rd most expensive. Notables that are more expensive than the U.S. include Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Japan, Belgium, the UK, Canada, Austria,
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by bmelton 9y ago
If you can defraud a site like TravelAdvisor to turn your shed into the best restaurant ever, then you can defraud a site like TravelAdvisor to turn you bad restaurant into a good one, or a competitor's good restaurant into a bad one.

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