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601.
by flatline 8y ago
But most solo officers or those in pairs don’t have a high expectation of an armed response when responding to a routine call. I mean, there is a certain background expectation of encountering violence for a police officer, but when a SWAT
602.
by flatline 8y ago
When you are voting for a dozen candidates and a dozen ballot measures, it takes time to read through all of them and make sure you are marking the correct boxes, even when you know how you will vote in advance.
603.
by flatline 8y ago
Centralization will always be more efficient, generally speaking. Access to a centralized channel for distribution can be prohibitive for many reasons - cost and censorship being the foremost in my mind.
604.
by flatline 8y ago
Driving statistics would imply this is far from true for the general case.
605.
by flatline 8y ago
I mean, it’s a blog post. I missed what he’s selling. We all tell ourselves stories like this about our lives, and those stories are always a good part bullshit. So what?
606.
by flatline 8y ago
I hate most of the driver assist technologies I've used or witnessed so far. Backing out in my coworker's new Subaru, it beeps like crazy when there is a pedestrian 50' off to the side. Already there's a slew of problems
607.
by flatline 8y ago
I have still not found a decent automatic transmission for mountain driving, off-road or on. The manual override makes it do-able but it's a jerky ride because you can't use the clutch to ease downshifting. All these years and mos
608.
by flatline 8y ago
I’ve used it for recursion in anonymous functions in C#. It is straightforward enough to implement. Was it the best choice? Probably not, but I took the opportunity when presented.
609.
by flatline 8y ago
My parents both hated math but I loved it and excelled at it through public school. That was due 100% to my own interests and having two PhD math teachers in high school.
610.
by flatline 8y ago
Interesting analogy, given that this attitude is pretty reflective of the industry as a whole. US manufacturers lobby against fuel efficiency regulations, and stonewall any newcomers to the industry. European manufacturers fraudulently subv
611.
by flatline 8y ago
Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?
612.
by flatline 8y ago
> as you get more senior, more of your comp comes from equity Maybe in SV? Or if you buy options or discounted shares in a publicly traded company you work for? But I don’t feel like this is the norm nowadays.
613.
by flatline 8y ago
I used to lucid dream all the time as a kid, it just happened naturally, and never left me tired. It mostly stopped and in my 20s I tried some exercises to induce lucid dreams. My experience was like a restless night of sleep after studying
614.
by flatline 8y ago
> Work to shore up the foundation of the bridge was being carried out at the time of the collapse Seems like a more plausible explanation on the face of things. Lots of highly publicized incidents in the US of fatal bridge and overpass i
615.
by flatline 8y ago
I mean, okay to the second part, but as to the first part, who is going to pay to run your simulation?
616.
by flatline 8y ago
The author did disclose his bias up front and was responding specifically to a question about a traditional degree vs. a bootcamp. I personally still think that general education holds a lot of value. Of course it’s not for everyone, and
617.
by flatline 8y ago
It can happen with various meditation and yogic practices as well, and the effects can be just as severe and long lasting. I suspect that some people’s minds are in an unstable equilibrium that, when perturbed, sends them way off balance, a
618.
by flatline 8y ago
Usenet is still a thing, going on 40 years now. It may not be uber popular but it's far from a failure.
619.
by flatline 8y ago
If you live in a walkable area, that means a city, and if you ever want to get out of the city you’ll need a car, or a serious dedication to biking. There are exceptions, I had no trouble getting out of the city on foot in Boulder for exa
620.
by flatline 8y ago
There are jobs all across the country. The total cost of living in SF is the highest in the US right now, so it can't be the pay that's attractive - if you're making $250k/year and paying $1mm for a starter home, you cou
621.
by flatline 8y ago
Wasn't that kind of the point of AirBnB in the beginning? They will facilitate an agreement between two parties for just about any non-conventional arrangement, often even if it flies in the face of local tenancy laws. And that worked
622.
by flatline 8y ago
Thanks - I’m thinking of those agave at the bottom with the Black tips. Lots of cool plants in the desert!
623.
by flatline 8y ago
Fascinating - I live in NM and have seen both the yucca blossoms but also what appear to be the same thing as those agave spears. I had assumed they were all yucca around these parts as the plants that give off the tall spear blossoms are s
624.
by flatline 8y ago
Doesn’t the wormhole scenario require bending the thing back on itself? I always thought that just because something could violate causality doesn’t necessarily mean it would , but IANAP and maybe that distinction doesn’t matter.
625.
by flatline 8y ago
I don’t expect it to be somehow advantageous to me, it is about lessening the suffering of another being. Plus my mom had stated for years that she wanted euthanasia if it got to that point, but it was not a legal option.
626.
by flatline 8y ago
My mom went through the same in hospice. She refused any food or water. Given that she was in the later stages of Alzheimer’s I thought it was a pretty impressive feat, euthanasia would have been so much more humane.
627.
by flatline 8y ago
> Mostly this is just me missing the websites of the early 2000's, and trying to figure out a way to rediscover them. Apparently somethingawful and ebaumsworld are still around in some form, and Slashdot of course. The thing is, the
628.
by flatline 8y ago
Perhaps in a modern context. I know that the ancient Chinese were big into sacrificing prisoners and captives of war. And the end result is eerily similar even when couched in terms of law and order. Sacrifice has both been used to appease
629.
by flatline 8y ago
For a long time you couldn’t switch between google accounts at all except via url manipulation.
630.
by flatline 8y ago
But if you have n entanglements you can get n bits of information from the channel by timing the disentanglements at agreed-upon intervals, no? Like, Morse code...

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