diminoten2

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by diminoten2 11y ago
When he was playing, it was a lot harder to level. That being said, I doubt the reporter got it quite right, or simplified it intentionally, wistfully thinking non-nerds would be reading the article.
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by diminoten2 11y ago
Except grok simply means to comprehend/understand something to the level of competence. I've never heard of anyone using grok to mean something along the lines of "mastery".
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by diminoten2 11y ago
I bet you find speeding cameras, the ones that only turn on if you're actively breaking a law in front of them, detestable too, don't you?
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by diminoten2 11y ago
In the hypothetical situation where these drones were taking recorded video of publicly accessible areas of Baltimore ("the streets", so to speak), would you have a problem with that?
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by diminoten2 11y ago
Really? That's news to me, I thought the issue primarily revolved around "surveillance".
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by diminoten2 11y ago
Do you see no difference between recording the location of every cell phone and taking video from the air of city streets?
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by diminoten2 11y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it's not "unnecessary dragnet surveillance" to fly a drone over a hot zone in a city during a period of riots to monitor the state of the area, nor should the employees of companies wh
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by diminoten2 11y ago
Anything the BPD is doing to circumvent warrants is obviously bad and needs to stop. I'm not arguing they should be allowed to do any of that stuff. What I am saying is there's nothing inherently wrong with arial surveillance,
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by diminoten2 11y ago
There are not alternatives. I recommend you look at Google Loon before citing it as an actively running alternative in India. For the people who use Internet.org, there are literally no other ways to get online.
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by diminoten2 11y ago
It is an all or nothing situation. You're asserting that you would take away internet.org. Since there is no alternative, that would leave the folks who must use internet.org with nothing . I apologize for the account swapping --
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by diminoten2 11y ago
One can say, with absolute and unwavering certainty based on what we know about practice, that folks who spend every waking hour thinking about and learning about some specific skill will tend to display a higher level of competence than th
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by diminoten2 11y ago
So you would literally go to these people and tell them they are going to continue to not have any way of communicating with one another or others throughout the world because what they're being offered isn't the "real"