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by cwmma 6y ago
Qualified immunity is unrelated to whether the city will cover the settlement for the cop (which they usually do) this is about whether if a cop does something illegal to you, that hasn't explicitly been called illegal in identical cir
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by cwmma 6y ago
Because it's literally their job to take such a risk with your own life to stop a crime against somebody else. To say that you'll refuse to do your job if there is a possibility of being liable if you commit a crime without explic
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by cwmma 6y ago
Talks by Paul Ramsey are usually a highlight of any GIS conference.
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by cwmma 6y ago
there is a specific command you need to use to create a 3d index CREATE INDEX [indexname] ON [tablename] USING GIST ([geometryfield] gist_geometry_ops_nd); by default postgis just creates 2d ones
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by cwmma 6y ago
assuming you're using the postgis spatial data types (and not the postgres ones) it'll take care of that automatically.
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by cwmma 6y ago
on the other hand, see the Hawaiian missile alert fiasco where excessive friction prolonged the issues.
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by cwmma 6y ago
There was a proposal to just have the California tax authority just send out prefilled tax forms for you to look over, sign and send back with a check or info on where to send your refund, but then Intuit and anti tax groups (who were afrai
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by cwmma 6y ago
My wife can have a cigarette once and a while when she drinks and it's no big deal, last time I did that (6 months after I had quit) it took me 6 or 7 years to quit again.
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by cwmma 6y ago
the general rule of thumb for American Timezones is that Arizona is its own special thing and as long as you stay out of that state then you're in America/{los_angeles|denver|chicago|new_york} for pacific, mountain, central, and e
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by cwmma 6y ago
Conversely, ancient Romans used 1 based indexes for counting time, i.e. tomorrow is two days away which feels super weird to us but shows that all of these things can go either way.
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by cwmma 6y ago
The Earth is an oblate spheroid Well actually it's a Geoid, which is defined as something the shape of the earth and is approximately slightly pear shaped. That being said I do GIS stuff professionally and 90% of the time just pretend
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by cwmma 6y ago
most MOND theories do include some sort of dark matter, there is just less of it and it could possibly be less exotic (think brown dwarfs and such)
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by cwmma 6y ago
There are multiple separate weird gravitational observations besides galexy rotation such as galaxy clusters structure formations etc and while dark matter explains them all MOND does not
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by cwmma 6y ago
Based on the article it looks like it only looks at the rotations of galaxies and not the higher order organization of galaxies, which dark matter accounts for and MOND does not.
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by cwmma 6y ago
My wife used to always says "Hey Google Play Smooth Jazz" when we got a google home, so since it was hooked up to my spotify, I made a new playlist called "Smooth Jazz" that simply contained "Never Gonna Give You Up
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by cwmma 6y ago
The status quo tends to be pretty good for the people who want a safe space from politics.
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by cwmma 6y ago
I don't think they are, I think they are using jszip in some sort of client side context and bundling it up with browserify or webpack which is bringing in some dependencies that are based off of node (like readable-streams)
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by cwmma 6y ago
Considering how many cats I saw when I was in Greece [0] I think this might be more cultural then religious. 0. https://imgur.com/gallery/LbU7j
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by cwmma 6y ago
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by cwmma 6y ago
target/walmart buy from wholesalers and then sell to customers, that's fundamentally different from how amazon works which is to facilitate a sale directly between sellers and buyers.
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by cwmma 6y ago
at least with roku we're already seeing that conflict of interest with them trying to use their position to leverage more money out of HBO Max
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by cwmma 6y ago
> 1b) `DateTime` should probably be split into two separate things, one of which is aware of time zones. due to daylight saving timezones depend on the date, which makes it hard to separate date and time
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by cwmma 6y ago
see the wedge [1] for a similar situation inside the US. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_(border)
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by cwmma 6y ago
Nassim Taleb didn't actually predict THE crash, he predicted A crash. His whole model was just that crashes happen with some amount of regularity.
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by cwmma 6y ago
honestly the more HN comment is somebody complaining that it does redirect http to https because <long rant about certificate issuers> and then somebody brings up lets encrypt and then it degrades into a big argument until eventually
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by cwmma 6y ago
You are correct, but really only about the first couple of times he does it, subsequent times people know his M.O. and he either gets a reputation for overblown bullshit, or a reputation for finding actual fraud.
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by cwmma 7y ago
Now you just need to trust the software developers not to increase mining rewards and the crypto exchanges not to scam you
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by cwmma 7y ago
Charles Stross wrote a whole thing on why we point to point rockets weren't a thing that would work https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/01/why-wer...
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by cwmma 7y ago
the one thing that annoys me about let/const that leads to me occasionally using var is that with var you can declare a variable in a try block and then use it afterwards, instead I have to declare a let outside the try or put way more
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by cwmma 7y ago
Locust are crickets so yes you would be able to

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