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by gambiter 11y ago
It really depends on the jurisdiction, but it certainly isn't 'crazy wrong'. http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/resisting-an-u... That said, I definitely agree with most of the sentiment
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by gambiter 11y ago
The criminal justice system determines if the accused is innocent. The arrest is a separate action. In fact, if you are convinced that is IS a wrongful arrest, you may legally resist arrest, tell the officer, and he is supposed to let you p
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by gambiter 11y ago
I'm curious... in a situation like this, could you sue for wrongful arrest?
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by gambiter 11y ago
> The "forced" you so easily dismiss is entirely the point. I think it's you that missed my point. > people choose when (and if) they upgrade, for a variety of complex reasons If they're running Gentoo, or maybe a
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by gambiter 11y ago
Then, why do warrants exist? For that matter, why have a police force at all? According to your argument, locking up a percentage of the population doesn't make sense, so let's just let everyone do whatever they want, amirite?
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by gambiter 11y ago
> That's what it may be sending today. What about next month after one of the forced automatic updates? You mean, like this? # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Granted, running that isn't 'forced', but given
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by gambiter 11y ago
I really truly don't understand why people this this is an ethical issue at all. I personally own 12 personal domains, all for various content that I personally put up. Some blogs, some game servers, etc, etc. I don't charge for m
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by gambiter 11y ago
Did you read my comment? Because, I explained this already. 'I can't really explain this through text though, so I'll give you a better explanation when I see you this evening.' While I'm not explicitly saying I kno
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by gambiter 11y ago
But that's not entirely true. The fact is we DON'T actually know. There are working theories, but none of them truly explain things, which is another way of saying "we don't know." Instead of saying that, however, h
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by gambiter 11y ago
I don't really understand all of the comments that are trying to argue with you. I personally agree, he WAS acting like a jerk at that moment. If it was anyone else, people would be very annoyed at the person arguing semantics when the
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by gambiter 11y ago
The trajectory of the bullet generally doesn't matter with city ordinances. If you don't have a reason to be using the deadly weapon (self-defense) you generally aren't allowed to use it in a populated area. I had a neighbor
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by gambiter 11y ago
How do you think your computer can understand 'entering an appointment'? There's a lot more that goes into understanding than JUST speech recognition. First of all, speech recognition by itself isn't exactly trivial, and
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by gambiter 11y ago
You realize the 'personal assistant' functionality of today is slightly more complex than just speech recognition, right? Because, it is.
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by gambiter 11y ago
Can you really call a discussion about ingredients which have been studied/discussed for decades a 'fad'? I think the main point is that there is A LOT of misinformation out there, and people have made up their minds on thing
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by gambiter 11y ago
Am I the only one that got tripped up by the wording of the second question? My immediate thought was, "Does that mean five minutes EACH or five minutes TOTAL?" Without a clear question, my brain refused to give an answer, so I go
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by gambiter 11y ago
This is intended as a 'piano tab'. If you can sight read, you already have music. Those of us who don't know how to read music would benefit.
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by gambiter 11y ago
I'll admit I've been out of the field for a long time... I sort of cut ties and haven't read up on the latest tech in probably 15 years. Your point about missiles receiving mid-course updates is very interesting, though. I ha
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by gambiter 11y ago
A lot of the comments here seem to be focusing on the definition of 'person'. The fact is, 'person' has always been a species-ambiguous term. Anything that exhibits 'personality' is a person, by some definition
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by gambiter 11y ago
> I did the same until I got a safety razor and found some good blades. > Smoothest shave of my life I have an honest opinion about that... I've done the disposable refills most of my life, but recently was balking at the amount
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by gambiter 11y ago
You seem to be missing the point. I'm saying there's literally NO application that claims 'unlimited' that doesn't actually have SOME limit. There are always going to be technical limitations. Even if it's unli
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by gambiter 11y ago
Heh, I was sort of wrapping all of the negative comments I've seen (HN and otherwise) into a singular reply.
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by gambiter 11y ago
Most 'unlimited' things still have some max. Using a BIGINT for your primary key will get you a max of 18446744073709551615. Should we complain that we can't go higher in any application that uses one of these? Slack's a
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by gambiter 11y ago
> Big online courses, for example, routinely draw 100,000s of students, and might make the same mistake we did (Harvard's CS50 class did). Why would you think all 100,000 of those students would need access to each other through a c
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by gambiter 11y ago
This is the question all of the detractors need to ask themselves. Honestly, when I first heard of the story (word of mouth) I immediately thought she was not understanding how it really worked. I had flashbacks to Metallica resisting strea
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by gambiter 11y ago
Except, nearly the entire article is based on speculation. Speculation doesn't raise awareness, it simply makes you think you're informed. In reality, you're just accepting someone else's biased opinions.
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by gambiter 11y ago
> > If doctors and professionals are using BMI blindly > They aren't. I see, I misread your original comment. The phrasing just threw me. > How can the results be skewed if they are straightforward math from the body mass (
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by gambiter 11y ago
> We shouldn't assume other professionals are "dumb"; we shouldn't assume that we are a brilliant bunch, capable of seeing beyond an indicator, while doctors and nutrition professionals use them blindly. Um... what? I
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by gambiter 11y ago
I hate to show my ignorance, but why the focus on binary trees? I've been programming for decades, but there are plenty of things I've never touched because I just didn't have a need in the particular job. Binary trees are on
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by gambiter 11y ago
The problem is, it's not a full sandbox, because all of the containers are running on the same kernel, and are capable of influencing the others, at least indirectly. I have trouble with the idea of calling them 'the future'.
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by gambiter 11y ago
125.1 seconds. It took me a bit to understand the problem. I'm not sure if it was explained oddly, or if I was just speed reading. Once I figured out the goal, though, I just used patterns to make it work. Horizontal, Vertical, Diagona

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