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by ecdavis 12y ago
"It is cheap, basic and widely available around the world. Yet the Casio F-91W digital watch was declared to be "the sign of al-Qaida" and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I understand the reasoning and this is why I'm saying it's an issue with culture, not with police carrying guns. > As far as getting out of the vehicle most police don't like surprises so if things go step by step accordin
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I understand the reasoning behind the action, but it's still not justifiable. Following that same reasoning we can argue that police should approach car windows with their weapons drawn and aimed. After all, if an officer approaches a
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Plenty of otherwise intelligent STEM students and graduates hold the liberal arts in contempt and will take any opportunity to mock arts degrees/students/graduates. In my experience the prevailing attitude of arts students towards
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Police in Australia carry guns and yet suspects being shot dead is rare enough that when it happens it tends to be headline news (often nationally). Perhaps part of this is that civilians in Australia are far less likely to be carrying weap
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> Guardians of Peace, the group claiming responsibility for the Sony hack, issued a sharp warning this week promising a “bitter fate” for viewers of the movie and warning others “to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.” &g
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by ecdavis 12y ago
It would be neat if a sufficient number of upvotes could cause a comment from a hellbanned account to show up as normal. I guess this could be gamed to circumvent bans, but in Terry's case it could lead to his informative/worthwhi
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by ecdavis 12y ago
If you accidentally published sensitive info in that package you may want to contain the damage.
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by ecdavis 12y ago
>If it's public static content, what is SSL protecting? Plenty. Off the top of my head: It protects people/companies from having their reputations ruined by a MITM attack that replaces content on their site with something offen
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> I can very easily see that being fraudulently exploited, or just plain misunderstood by new immigrants. Particularly when you're getting letters in the mail urging you to vote and telling you how. I've been getting a lot of t
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I'm a non-citizen with a valid photo ID. Looking at it right now, there is no obvious way of determining my immigration status from it. IIRC all I needed to get my ID card was my SSN and some other acceptable proof of identity. Presuma
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Neat site. As others have pointed out, the sentiment analysis is off in many cases. I'd be quite impressed if you managed to correctly classify this one, though: http://i.imgur.com/wmWUitu.jpg
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> done at 5:00pm I really don't like this euphemism. When I read this I know what you mean[0] but I wish this meaning wasn't tied to leaving the office at 5pm. If someone's effective in their role, why should they be judge
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by ecdavis 12y ago
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106 It's under 106Aa3, I believe. Pretty interesting stuff which I wasn't aware of. EDIT: Note that the rights cannot be transferred, but can be waived. So if you
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> Are people in Australia seriously talking about getting him removed? No. The political climate in Australia has seriously deteriorated over the last decade and much political discourse is now indistinguishable from hysteria. The critic
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Geography and climate. The western US is very mountainous with lots of desert areas.[0] The east, in comparison, is very flat with plenty of water and climates more suitable for farming.[1] Population in the west is therefore more clustered
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I don't know if it's the color choices, the dot placement, or some combination of the two, but this appears misleading to me. Looking at the Central District in Seattle, one could be forgiven for thinking it is a majority black ar
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Devon Rexes leave less hair behind than humans, in my experience.
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by ecdavis 12y ago
>I was thinking of a way to destroy my facebook account because you can't actually delete it "Maybe that was true in the past, but today when you delete your data it is gone. Trust me, I wrote it myself. The law enforcement gui
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I've been very frustrated by this as well. I tried changing a booking with Virgin Australia earlier today and got a popup message: "Important information: an unknown error occurred. Try again."
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by ecdavis 12y ago
>a few days without shampoo, (even if I rinse) and my hair becomes extremely greasy and nasty looking Ideally you need to go a week or two without shampooing to allow your hair to adjust. The thinking on this (and I don't know if it
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Again, I can only offer anecdotes. My cat will react to unusual movement outside a nearby window even when he's curled up with his eyes closed. I remember one instance in particular where I was playing music fairly loudly. He had his e
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by ecdavis 12y ago
My cat ignores mirrors. He also ignores screens and isn't bothered by audio of dogs or cats. At the same time, he's very alert and will generally spring to attention if he hears a dog or cat outside. A few years ago he was introdu
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by ecdavis 12y ago
My mother has a degree in Archaeology and considers Jared Diamond fairly suspect (Guns, Germs and Steel in particular). Apparently he cites some articles/books that have various problems (methodology, factual errors, etc.) These proble
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I've been meaning to work more on this, but my free time is fairly limited. At the very least I should probably put my script on GitHub (although it's far from groundbreaking). For me, one of the pain points is quality of metadata
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by ecdavis 12y ago
One problem that really interests me is the "dynamic playlist." Once your music library becomes sufficiently large and diverse, simply shuffling songs ceases to be an acceptable way to listen to music. You'll randomly switch
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Ah, yes, quirky Santa Claus who dresses in red and white for some long lost reason... "The Santa Claus we all know and love — that big, jolly man in the red suit with a white beard — didn’t always look that way. In fact, many people ar
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by ecdavis 13y ago
Maybe for some. He probably has enough in the bank to live comfortably in Vietnam for the rest of his life, though.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
ISK is not as equivalent to money as bitcoins. For one, there's no CCP-endorsed way to turn your ISK into money.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
Can self-confessed trolls really be trusted to give honest answers on personality surveys?

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