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by cavanasm 8y ago
My dad worked as a general counsel for a power company for a long time, and he told me they basically had a budget for how much they'd pay in violations of the Endangered Species Act related to bird deaths around their wind turbines.
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by cavanasm 8y ago
Also (sort of) the crux of one of my favorite horror manga, Biomeat: Nectar, which is about a genetically engineered animal that eats "garbage" (basically anything but metal, glass, and stone IIRC) and can be harvested for food, b
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by cavanasm 8y ago
From the abstract, it looks like they just gave the participants a survey, and did an MRI. Actual time spent with the participants probably wasn't more than a few hours for just that (probably for cost reasons too).
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by cavanasm 8y ago
I think that's sort of related to #2, "to get even for some perceived slight" although parent is specifically mentioning organization and not an individual in the org.
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by cavanasm 8y ago
And they'll sue you if you try to buy genuine parts that they rejected in QA that are not being advertised as genuine.
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by cavanasm 8y ago
No one is getting murder or rape convictions removed from the record. This is considerably smaller scale stuff, and the story itself mentions that two men jointly fought to have news of their conviction removed, one who got 6 months in jail
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by cavanasm 8y ago
In that particular instance they had a clear playbook to follow, which was the film industry. I don't know there's quite as direct a parallel between game content and user data sharing / selling as there was between game cont
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by cavanasm 8y ago
They were banned for being inhumane, not not militarily useful. The international community doesn't like the idea of military actors running around with weapons that permanently cripple but don't kill; landmines are probably a bet
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by cavanasm 9y ago
The quiz app wasn't the real data source though was it? People who want to take the quiz have to press "yes" on a menu that vaguely mentions "We need your friends list" and things like that, and those permissions we
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Can the title be changed to note that this is from 2017? It's new to me, so I assumed it was recent (but it was also posted on Google+....).
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by cavanasm 9y ago
RE: "character assassination" and corporations; if closely held corporations have the same rights as individuals now, could you character assassinate a closely held corporation?
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I recall earlier news stories that Waymo's first settlement proposal last year included demands for a public apology from Uber. Is this that? I wonder if Uber is also paying $1b like Waymo initially demanded, or if that part changed as
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by cavanasm 9y ago
My sister's dog is the same way with counting people in the house. She's a rescue, so we aren't sure exactly what her lineage is, but she has a color pattern somewhat reminiscent of a border collie, and she tries to herd peop
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by cavanasm 9y ago
The tire was not in wide circulation. There were only around 160,000 ever made, and most of those were presumably sold for delivery vehicles, which is what they were supposedly designed for. The problem is that some number of those 160,000
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Goodyear had test results indicating the tire would get to 225 degrees or higher when operating at 65-75 mph.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
When I used Venmo for the first time, I had this concern as well, but the cost of the transaction is private to everyone outside of the parties involved (and this isn't an options choice). I switched all my transactions to private, per
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I grew up watching Warren Miller movies, but wasn't aware of some of the recent drama the article brings up. It's nice to hear that in that copyright issue he stepped in. I sort of imagined him as the kind of person who would take
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Speaking of Sanderson, I'm a big fan of his initial Mistborn trilogy (from which he takes his reddit username), haven't read the second set though. It had by far the most unique fantasy universe magic I'd seen.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I think parent means that not all guns were designed explicitly for killing. Target shooting is popular enough that there are guns designed explicitly for it.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
IANAL, but if other companies have already done it and it's that easy to find, then it wouldn't be a good patent troll, because there's obvious and easily discoverable prior art (which would invalidate the patent anyway).
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Yeah, joy from inflicting harm is sadism. Author probably just wanted to use the word schadenfreude. It's a really fun word.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
The problem with that is the video feed is being actively used. If you want to know where someone is going, you can't just make your drone fly around randomly for hours recording video of the area you think they're in, you have to
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I believe parent post means that Republicans will stop protecting Trump the instant Trump decides not to pass their legislation, since they have control of Congress, and Mike Pence is an establishment dream president.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
You seem to have been downvoted, possibly for how quippy your comment is, but there's some indication that this reasoning isn't far off. Earlier this week Trump made clear during his televised immigration policy meeting that he wo
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I believe that was Waze, not Bing. Or at least, Waze did that and got accused of being racist, but it was also generating those areas based on user input.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
It looks like you meant to post this in the thread about SpaceX claiming their rocket worked great.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
In my public high school in the US, it was required for all my math classes past basic algebra, but I only knew one person who ever tried to code anything on it themselves (although people transferred games pulled online frequently; this wa
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by cavanasm 9y ago
IIRC, exercism doesn't really encourage completing things for points, and didn't especially heavily gamify the learning process. Copying answers really just seemed like shortchanging yourself when I was using it.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I used exercism for a few days to brush up on python about a year ago. One of the big reasons to submit incomplete answers is to get feedback / help. I was getting feedback comments within an hour or so from other people working on the
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by cavanasm 9y ago
And bought a massive amount of student loan debt, which was immediately forgiven, giving his show the record for largest TV giveaway (taking the record from Oprah).

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