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by cobrausn 13y ago
Next up - facial recognition. The article isn't even really about license plates, just about how they are being used.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
No, it's not. It's more like someone trying to sell you on the idea of a patriotic youth league and then... well, you know.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Nobody you were replying to made any sweeping complaints about the French. And pointing it out as a citizen of the U.S. doesn't count as crowing unless you get defensive and interpret it that way.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You were responding to someone who was being derogatory towards Société Générale. How is this 'Anti-French'? Isn't your objection here pretty ironic considering the topic at hand?
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by cobrausn 13y ago
He only brought it up to show the absurdity of it - the poster is probably from the US. Any other nation's constitution / body of laws could have been used as the example.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Yeah the United States never does anything outside its jurisdiction that anyone else finds annoying. Except we aren't talking about the US right now, we are talking about one particularly boneheaded action by France. https:/&#x
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Impressive, especially since it is still fairly readable. On the other end of the spectrum, I give you raytracing on the back of a business card, in C++. http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Give it time. You will be safe from everything soon.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
'Less likely to kill again' isn't the only metric we are going for here. Some people like to assuage their own conscience by believing in rehabilitation only, but prison sentences are actually for more than that. They exist
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You cannot just take a system that works some place in the world and transplant it to another, completely devoid of any cultural context associated with it. What works for Norway would probably work really well if applied to most middle-cl
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Kneejerk doomsaying followed by praise about resistance to kneejerk doomsaying.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Yeah, targeting weapons is a great idea if the enemy has low enough shields (based on your weapons load) that you can punch through them, disable weapons completely, and then do the same for the shield, while they sit there unable to shoot
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by cobrausn 13y ago
There was more to the article than just that, like the fact that some people seem to think hiring decisions should be greenlit only if that person has shown a willingness to work outside of normal work , for free , which changes contribut
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by cobrausn 13y ago
All I can think of when I see it is "Man, I thought the future was supposed to be awesome. Where is my engineered to be delicious lab grown steak? I get Soylent ? This is not awesome." Given, as long as I'm not being forc
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The stealth cruiser is definitely hard to work with, and requires very precision timing on the part of the player. It's a tough ship to win fights with if it doesn't have the ability to outright destroy or cripple it's enemy
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Agreed. Don't know what it is, but I see this kind of comment all the time on HN, Slashdot, and the like, but rarely encounter it elsewhere.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Oddly enough, I only ever made it to the final boss twice. The first time was with the stealth cruiser, which had maxed stealth and teleporting, and I got annihilated by missile volleys and those combat boarding drones. The second time was
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by cobrausn 13y ago
And yet she shows the barrier to entry for a woman to be other women in HR who were of the same race. How is 'critical self awareness' of straight white males going to help that? I've talked about this before at length, bu
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by cobrausn 13y ago
And for at least 1.7 million people last year, they were? http://www.cnbc.com/id/101099732
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Speaking of nerd snark, calling flight attendants 'lowest-common-denominator' people is pretty arrogant on your part.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
So, agreeing that race can (in some cases) be a good predictor of need, we can agree that the opposite is not true? Case in point, the OP had need, but got no help because he was the 'wrong' race. If your goal is to create lasti
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by cobrausn 13y ago
The key thing to keep in mind is, if you're not a white dude, you've spent most of modern history totally shut out of the conversation. The key thing you are forgetting when you say 'shut up, straight white boy'[1] is
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Providing benefits to anyone while excluding anyone else is technically discrimination. That's doesn't make it bad. Not all things are equal. It's discrimination that students pay less than you to take the subway. Also discr
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by cobrausn 13y ago
If YMMV, then why the need for the disclaimer? Assigning 'privilege' to race and gender seems fairly lazy to me, considering there are so many ways that it may not actually be a privilege to everybody. You know what is always, wi
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by cobrausn 13y ago
As a former Catholic, when I read lines like that I can't help but be struck with the observation that this seems to be a feminist/progressive version of confessing your sins in order to be absolved of them.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Uh, I do? Not sure what I'm being accused of. I like sidewalks.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Hah, this is a laughable claim. The final year of the Bush administration (partially shared by Obama, fiscally) being higher and Democrats 'reducing it' is a word game. So are you saying if Democrats give themselves a 1 trillion
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by cobrausn 13y ago
And I doubt raising the tax rate on fuel would do much at all, in America at least. Gas prices have gone up significantly over the last few decades and we drive more and more. EDIT: Can't reply because of HN time restrictions on long
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I would rather bike in cold than subtropical heat, personally.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
You are correct, I just get annoyed at flippant comments about changing government policy that just happens to affect billions without thinking through the consequences.

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