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by dmoy 3y ago
Cops in the US are not paid to defend the public. There are Supreme Court cases ruling that e.g. they can in fact just hide behind a door while you're actively being murdered.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> there is no pile of crap deep enough you cant peek under. no bug you shouldn't be able to find, I mean, yea, technically? But when the codebase gets very big, it can become intractable to chase every issue down. > given enough
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by dmoy 3y ago
There were definitely Syria war protests here in Seattle, 10 years ago. Substantial enough for ~1k people or so to block 2nd Ave
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yea but like parts of the PNW are >50% hydro too (Seattle is >80%), but they still haven't ever closed the gap to 100% for any significant length of time.
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That's fair, though they do collectively employees hundreds of thousands of eng
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TC for senior at big tech companies is over $300k. Over $400k for Facebook I hear. It doesn't take an extreme outlier to get significantly above $250k. > so it only makes sense to compare with base wage plus benefits. Not really, w
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by dmoy 3y ago
Civil lawsuits aren't really justice at all in the first place anyways. At least not by that measure.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> that could depress future customer retention and hurt the business. But it doesn't really though, does it? People largely dgaf. My info has been leaked by my hospital, medical insurance company, three major retailers, two social
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by dmoy 3y ago
> It’s worth pointing out that the new SEC data breach disclosure rules will only go into effect in mid-December 2023. In addition, companies will be required to notify the SEC within four business days of determining that a cybersecurit
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by dmoy 3y ago
Pedantically, it would have to be an epee, not a foil. The handguard on a foil is less curved.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> it affects the average more than something like heart disease that usually kills men over 50. If you look at the linked Twitter thing in the other comment chain here, you will note that this is not true. The numbers are just very diffe
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by dmoy 3y ago
Also it's unclear if there are other factors worth tracking, since the graph only lists a few. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory disease (not including covid), accidents (which I suppose includes drug OD), Alzheimer's, an
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by dmoy 3y ago
I can't read the underlying article, but that graph a minimum is not saying "2nd highest factor". It notes both drugs (lowers gap to 2.9) and metabolic diseases (lowers gap to 2.2) as both more of a factor than suicide &
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by dmoy 3y ago
Well, maybe like 1% of deaths if you include suicides as "gun violence" (kinda weird, but is often stated), maybe 2% if you focus on only men. But yea, it's a literal nonfactor in aggregate life expectancy. Amdahl's law
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by dmoy 3y ago
You can find a lot of background on e.g. the bill of rights from prior versions, the federalist papers, etc. It can give a lot of insight on the various amendments. That one though... I'm unaware of.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yup it's the opposite here There are limits on exactly how a cop can lie, though the bar is sort of ambiguous - it can't "shock the conscience". They also ostensibly can't entrap you.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> But, even still, its fair to argue that the separation of powers between the state and citizenry should be narrow. I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Beyond the wiretapping example you mentioned: Qualified immunity: cops can do
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by dmoy 3y ago
> As of right now, I would do a token-based approach C++ is gonna get really funky there, with e.g. templates
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by dmoy 3y ago
> The city has a clear message for would-be thieves, Cretan said: “The police will arrest you, and the (district attorney) will charge you.” What is the clearance rate for robbery in SF? Here in Seattle our homicide clearance rate isn&#
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by dmoy 3y ago
Neither rain nor snow. Both don't form from pressure, and require some kind of particulate nucleus thing, which isn't water. Closer to a mesospheric cloud?
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by dmoy 3y ago
> don't understand why Chinese speakers don't put more [any] emphasis on using names that they are themselves able to pronounce, like Tina or Julie. Some are assigned an English name by their first English teacher in school. T
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by dmoy 3y ago
> In a CPU with thousands of pins, how come they use N pins for ground, N pins for VCC, when it seems simpler to have continuous bar-shaped contacts? I can't speak to cpus with thousands of pins, but with significantly smaller chips
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by dmoy 3y ago
Almost certainly the latter
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by dmoy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38172437
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by dmoy 3y ago
> If yes, have they already found a way to solve them? A long history of blood, lawsuits, and regulations. Preventing a building from collapsing is done ahead of time, because buildings have previously collapsed, and cost a lot of lives
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by dmoy 3y ago
To be clear, we don't have a simple rice cooker. We have one of these terrible UX rice cookers with a shit ton of buttons and settings. But we ignore all that and just do the thumb-level of water and hit the button that says cook (and
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by dmoy 3y ago
Alternatively, as we do in our (mostly) Chinese household: Put rice in rice cooker. Rinse the rice and pour out water until it isn't cloudy. Add water to the depth of one thumb digit. Hit cook button, then ignore it. Brown rice, whi
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by dmoy 3y ago
The first Tesla was a Lotus with an electric engine, drivetrain, etc instead of the normal setup. They got partially assembled stuff from lotus (Not a kit car)
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by dmoy 3y ago
The FTC doesn't have a whole lot to do with patents. They have opinions, and occasionally share them. That's about it. That's a whole different ball game where you have to play many-sided gorilla wrestling with the USPTO, t
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by dmoy 3y ago
> so antitrust lawyers, basically). Well, and lawyers-turned-professor and/or treatise authors (who are typically professors). Often the experts turn towards academia if they're truly in it just to know everything about the fi

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