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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Read more closely, especially the bit about how they used daylight savings as a control, as it suddenly changes the written time of the incident but not the actual darkness levels at that time.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I've never denied that, and it's sad, as no one should be racist. > In my experience, the ones who mention race first, are usually racists themselves. How does one address racism without first mentioning its existence?
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Religious and political conflicts that cause people to overthrow their government are unrelated to why people rob and kill their neighbors. Religious and political conflicts often literally start that way. > Homicide rates are stu
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I'm pointing out that many poor countries have low crime rates. "We're very safe, we just violently overthrow the shitty government a lot." (And I'd note you're conflating low crime rates and low reported
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I’ll acknowledge that if all of the relevant details were different, then I’d also be concerned. Relevant detail: Cops have done this with every new tech they're given.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Somehow, when it's dark, black and white motorists commit similar levels of traffic offenses, but when it's light out, there's a disparity. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/05/veil-darknes
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> The travel advisory is because people overthrew the government recently, which is a different problem than the ordinary crime we're talking about. It feels like that's a tiny challenge to your thesis. > The homicide rate
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
You'll get people going "well that's because they do more crimes" to this. IMO, the toughest study to argue with is https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/05/veil-darkness-redu... They stu
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advi... > Travel advisory - People's Republic of Bangladesh: Level 3 - Reconsider travel And a little spot of Level 4: > Do not travel to the Chi
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
People generally recognize there isn't a universal ideal place to live, because people are often different. Some people leave the rural paniopticon where half of the dating pool are cousins for a reason, for example. Why'd your Da
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Chatrie has sections like this: > Second, Location History allows police to reconstruct “retrospective[ly],” and with no real effort, people’s comings and goings in any area, enabling “tireless and absolute surveillance” of any number of
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
That they're not willfully blind to the reality we live in?
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Please let us know how this violates the 4th. It seem awfully similar to the geofence surveillance SCOTUS just said requires a warrant. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-112_0am4.pdf
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
"We're bringing the paranoid old biddy HOA worldview to everyone, non-consensually!" is your upside ?
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Did you read the article… These are being used for active calls only. Did you? The article provides clear counterexamples to that policy .
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Part of the problem is it leads to stuff like this: https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-... > The cop, Lamar Roman, wasn’t trying to pull over a suspected criminal. He was tracking and chasing a w
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
How would you know? From the article: > Curry and Robert were struck by the fact that, in all the videos they watched, no one ever looks up at the drone or makes an attempt to hide from it—perhaps evidence that, given their size and alti
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Per the article, that doesn't appear to be the use case. > The innocuous appearance of many of the videos raises questions about whether the surveillance was necessary. In one “auto boost/strip”-related call, the drone follows
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
It's not a one-liner joke. I believe citizens being able to run around without being continually surveilled is an essential liberty.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Sweet, you've invented pre-crime.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Helicopters are expensive and thus rare. Consumer drones can't summon a SWAT team.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Most of these won’t count. Cloudflare doesn’t have 88% uptime.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Radiology is using AI extensively already. I was at a radiology conference in Boston recently; entire session tracks on it. Apparently 80% of FDA-approved AI medical devices are in radiology.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
I’m not sure that “we don’t make satellites out of rock and ice” needs a cite, but here you go. https://research.noaa.gov/noaa-scientists-link-exotic-metal-... > Niobium and hafnium do not occur as free elements in natur
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> If you read it then you know you maliciously selectively quoted it then. No. I quoted one part that was just deeply goofy logic. The presence of a video on YouTube is, quite simply, not evidence of the behavior in it being legal. YouTu
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
I did read what you said; that's why I quoted part of it. I think "I make explosives for YouTube revenue" falls squarely within the business territory. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/27/55
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> His videos of making them were on YouTube for years, publicly. So? That doesn't make something legal.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Well, that, and the making explosives bit, it seems. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/sweet-springs-missouri-...
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
There's lots of knowledge out there about stuff like this. Milennia of humans tinkering with things that go boom. Surfacing it more easily has value (in a manner of speaking; as the @dril tweet goes, "you do not, under any circums
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Not in scientific edge domains. That's JWST-style stuff, not SpaceX at this point.

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