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by daenz 4y ago
The topic has expanded to the related topics, as conversations do. ShotSpotter wouldn't even exist, much less be the topic of criticism, if there wasn't a rampant problem with gun violence in these communities.
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You are not required to have committed a crime to be legally searched. If you're fleeing the area where gunshots have been reported, it's not unreasonable to search you.
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A piece of advice because you're using a throwaway account: it will be easier for people to believe your claims if you give some kind of inside information about why it doesn't work other than "it just doesn't work"
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According to the data from the uncharitable vice article, their numbers seem pretty good.
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>bullets, bullet holes, property destruction Find the bullet hole, and you've found the property destruction, and the bullet is either embedded in the property destruction or fragmented all of over the place, as bullets often do. So
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by daenz 4y ago
I wouldn't want to live in a community with even 10% of the loud noises being gunshots, no. Saying that there's only 5k real gunshots doesn't make it sound any better. Maybe we should focus on why there's so many gunsh
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by daenz 4y ago
Another way of phrasing it is: these gunshot detection systems are deployed where the vast majority of gunshots occur.
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by daenz 4y ago
I wouldn't want to live in a community with 50,176 gunshot alerts either.
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by daenz 4y ago
Top article on that vice link: >In Chicago, a government watchdog says Shotspotter alerts have only led to evidence of gun crime in 9 percent of cases. >fewer than 2 in 10 investigatory stops following ShotSpotter alerts resulted in t
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by daenz 4y ago
Facebook will die, Meta will live through Instagram and whatever else it can purchase.
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by daenz 4y ago
I bought my (used) Toyota Corolla in early 2021...fortunately right before the used car prices hit an upwards inflection[0]. Every time I've checked the KBB value, it has increased. One year ago today, it the trade in value is 12% more
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I'd prefer it to a city of the dark ages built by a government of the future.
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>There is nothing anyone can say to justify this being on the front page There's a "hide" button on HN posts if downvoting them isn't enough for you.
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Yes, the sensible default for this feature would be opt-out, like noatime, in case you need the performance boost and understand the implications of the choice.
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I didn't upvote it, but I think the product does inspire discussion about why we don't have basic important features like mandatory "last accessed" metadata on external state sources. Think of the number of hours of pa
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by daenz 4y ago
Every source of state should have this feature. It is always inevitably needed.
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm going to post my unsolicited opinion about K8s here, as an SWE+SRE who used it heavily for about 1.5 years on GCP. It's a very cool system. I completely understand why people half-jokingly call it a "distributed operating
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by daenz 4y ago
They mention different dog studies in the paper, which may cover what you're asking about. >The authors found that when labeled a “dog person” the men were perceived as more masculine than when labeled a “cat person.”
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by daenz 4y ago
Is this an accurate representation of the situation? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm not throwing up my hands (if you were suggesting that) because I still think kids should be socialized. I would agree that society should socialize it out of them, and if they don't, it is a failing of society, but I still don
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by daenz 4y ago
>Largely, this is a problem with society In the adoption example, I would argue that it is not a product of society, but just very present in society. I don't have data to back this up, but kids seem to be innately cruel about thing
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by daenz 4y ago
>On May 11, 2022, Coinbase’s director of security operations emailed ISHAN WAHI to inform him that he should appear for an in-person meeting relating to Coinbase’s asset listing process at Coinbase’s Seattle, Washington office on Monday,
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by daenz 4y ago
I love the technology behind this stuff but the number of applications with negative social benefit seem to outweigh the rest.
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by daenz 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this please?
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>Chinese Government has little interest in the activities of most domestic US citizens. Including influencing public perception of domestic and international events? You may as well say the Chinese government doesn't care about worl
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by daenz 4y ago
Help me understand your perspective: are you American or no? I have a hard time understanding why an American wouldn't see FAANG as the lesser of two evils here.
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by daenz 4y ago
Sounds similar to a timing attack[0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack
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>even if it means defence Can you elaborate on why you feel uncomfortable with the idea of defense? Related[0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_operations_other_than...
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Weird edge cases are very rare by definition. If they're not very rare, then they're not weird edge cases. And allowing them to exist and be handled in a bespoke way is not the same as handling all cases in a bespoke way. The law
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It's not surprising to me. It is an extremely complex topic that touches on so many aspects of rights, norms, safety, poverty, individual vs collective, etc etc. I don't think it will ever be settled, and the best we'll see i

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