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by dunmalg 12y ago
The question is not whether any one lapel cam video might result in action where various random cell phone cam videos have not, but rather, how many such videos in how short a time frame will result in action? If the evening news had a 20 m
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Not to mention the fact that the perceived lack of action in one particular case does not accurately predict what happens when it turns into hundreds of cases.
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by dunmalg 12y ago
> It would be impossible to show the prices with sales tax when there are 50 different states with differing sales tax laws Heck, the state level sales tax rates are even the easy part. Within states there are counties which often levy a
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>Since this interviewer seems to have made up their mind already with pre-conceptions of which candidate is worth hiring, what is the "correct" answer to this question? "Pick random co-ordinates, check, and retry?" Th
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Yeah, there's no contention AT ALL up to the DSLAM. DSLAM is DSL Access Module. Every DSL customer has their own dedicated copper pair from the DSLAM to their house--- it's their phone line. There may be congestion between the Cen
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>Is there any possible reform for the disaster that is the plea system? Prohibit prosecutors from going to trial with charges any higher than they offered in the plea deal. If they offer to (say) let you plead to only misdemeanor drug po
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Multinational businesses aren't that simple. The Bhopal plant was owned by the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide, UCIL, which was half owned by Union Carbide, and half owned by the Indian government. Among the eight convicted in India
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>Not foresight. It was a limitation of the hardware at the time. Nonsense. Even mechanically timed lights can be wired to illuminate any arbitrary set of lamp in either direction. The only difference between then and now is that back the
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Heh. Seriously though, it does feel like I have anti-ASMR. I swear, every single thing that is supposedly happy-making for ASMR folks is "please pull my teeth out with pliers" level bad to me. It's like the same neurological
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>I tried to listen to some ASMR triggers, and I got the same physical reaction and feelings of discomfort I get from fingernails scratching on a blackboard or hearing someone clean their teeth. Glad to hear I'm not alone. My wife an
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>people without linguistics training seem to find it useful for discovering nuances in their own languages that they hadn't considered. Learning any foreign language will tend to do that, though. It's a function of being forced
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>"There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs". I disagree with this and think that it is a self-defeating, irrational attitude. Yeah, I think he's misinterpreting what his photographer friend
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>How did Chris Paget's IMSI catcher demo at Defcon a few years ago work then? Oh, it's actually not too difficult to modify transceivers to work outside their regional prescribed bands. There are usually internal jumpers or, mo
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by dunmalg 12y ago
GSM-450 is pretty much right there at the top end of the 70cm, and GSM-950 is right in the middle of 33cm, but here in the US at least the FCC is pretty nuts about insisting that stuff sold here is locked out of other devices' yards. T
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by dunmalg 12y ago
I think the point is that "trendy dietitians" != "science"
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Touch-screen interfaces are inherently imprecise. Ever tried to select a destination on a GPS map?
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Cost of employing someone is more than just their hourly rate * hours worked. For example, at one job where I was paid $26/hr, my time was billed at $48/hr--- and this was for a government agency internally billing itself, so ther
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by dunmalg 13y ago
High end commercial/industrial HVAC systems already have automation that far outperforms anything Nest offers. Google up "honeywell comfortpoint".
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by dunmalg 13y ago
>One Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?" This sentence illustrates one of my main gripes with
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by dunmalg 14y ago
more like 0.2% of its actual COST. His point is that he thinks cost and value are out of sync.
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by dunmalg 14y ago
I don't know that it's "raw conviction". That's the sort of thing a tech-ignorant CEO needs. Sounds to me like Zuck simply isn't the sort of guy who is interested in being rich at the expense of not having something interesting to do. Like
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by dunmalg 14y ago
>"Hand-wavey" is not a term that ever comes to mind reading Scalia's opinions (except when talking about drugs or gays). I'd say his opinions become "tortured" when he is forced to address issues that he and the US constitution are at o
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by dunmalg 14y ago
"and running over motorcyclists ("I just didn't see him there!")" I'd call you sexist, but my sample size of one smashed femur by a female left turner who didn't see me fails to disprove your theory.
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by dunmalg 14y ago
"And BTW, you should probably never fly in an airplane if you believe this BS since pilots constantly listen and talk on the radio while flying planes and navigating in the same time." To be fair, airplanes are not comparable to automobiles
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by dunmalg 14y ago
It's sad to say, but the majority of people cannot follow a logical progression more than a two or three steps. It's not even an issue of "smart" vs "dumb", as many of my quite clever coworkers have this issue. It seems to me to be predicat
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by dunmalg 14y ago
How about when I say I hate videos of what should be written text because years of exposure to gunfire in the Army has impaired my hearing? I will never understand why people think that the crappy audio channel of a youtube video of some gu
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by dunmalg 14y ago
He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/quotes?qt0271097
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by dunmalg 15y ago
"it gets cognitively tiring to sort people appropriately into one-and-only-one circle." That's not how it works. You can put people into as many circles as you like.
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by dunmalg 15y ago
I'm partial to "I kept this week's password on a post-it note stuck to the keyboard. Did you lose the post-it?"
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by dunmalg 15y ago
"I changed the password every 3 days and never memorized it. Current password was on a post-it on my monitor. Did you guys lose the post-it?" Simple as that, right? They can't compel you to remember information you never had in memory. It's

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