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by genericuser 11y ago
I agree that democracy depends on transparency, I don't know where you got the idea I thought otherwise. I just stated that sometimes, and I mean sometimes as in not all the time, it is in the best interest of the public to not have al
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by genericuser 11y ago
Would you mind if I create a strawman of an edge case to test your devotion to the use of the word 'never'? That is a fairly absolute word, and I tend to doubt you actually mean never.
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by genericuser 11y ago
While I will acknowledge that it is possible parties won't place ads to try and persuade people to support their point of view, I personally would find it amazing considering how many ads are run on TV around any election or vote by sp
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by genericuser 11y ago
And how do they automatically detect the criminal wrongdoing being committed by that car or its occupants? That is the part I don't get. Yes if they decide to look for John Smith, License plate 1AMJ0HN, then they can probably automati
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by genericuser 11y ago
I agree with you, but I do not agree with what seems to be the prevailing opinion here which I would summarize as "If you don't have information about something, that something is bad" I realize I phrased this in what is prob
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by genericuser 11y ago
No, and you are really reading a shitload into what I wrote. I didn't actually state my position at all, just state events that will happen. The logical outcome of which I believe would be my position which is the following. My posit
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by genericuser 11y ago
When is an option labeled 'Hilarious twist option' ever a good option to actually do when pursuing serious issues in real life? I never suggested the president was above the law, I made a joke, and I thought I labeled it as such.
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by genericuser 11y ago
Another thing to consider is as soon as the details are public, we will be assaulted by ad campaigns by various interest groups which this negatively effects telling us why it will ruin our lives. While the general Hacker News population m
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by genericuser 11y ago
Hilarious twist option Obama gives WikiLeaks and everyone else the trade deal details, and claims the 100k. He could then just put it back into the government where 100k will not even be noticed, donate to some charity in some sort of PR s
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by genericuser 11y ago
You completely ignored my question to you. I asked how you got to the topic of license plate readers, I know how they work and an explanation of how they work does nothing to answer the question of how you transitioned to that topic.
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by genericuser 11y ago
How did we go from the FBI flying aircraft with video cameras to license plate scanners which scan 'everyone'? I ask because there is no mention of license plate scanners in any of the parent comments to this, or the article. Also
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by genericuser 11y ago
Getting from the admitted targeted surveillance with to 'everyone is being watched' seems like a bit of a slippery slope argument to me. I think, as you point out, that the overwhelming quantity of Data that would be produced by s
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by genericuser 11y ago
I saw an awful lot of of articles similar to these search results a while back, and found it a tad annoying. Then again I guess I must of fallen in with a bad crowd if this is the type of stuff I was exposed to. https://www.goo
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by genericuser 11y ago
That all agrees with how I understand the situation as a fellow external non-expert. I just got really frustrated a while back by all the 'Apple invented USB-C' and even the 'Apple basically invented USB-C' headlines. So
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by genericuser 11y ago
I just want to thank you for qualifying your description of Apple's contribution to USB-C in a correct manner, as opposed to perpetuating the myth that Apple invented USB-C. It's initial conception having come out of the USB 3.1
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by genericuser 11y ago
I have been seeing Thunderbolt as an option on motherboards when I do builds for at least the last three years. But I am generally looking at motherboards in the $200 price range, as the lower end ones are usually lacking connectors and fea
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by genericuser 11y ago
And how they run the interview may influence whether people accept an offer should they make one. While the power is definitely heavily weighted in the interviewer's favor, it is important for them to remember they are trying to find
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by genericuser 11y ago
Why not do the parts suited best for paper and a whiteboard on that and the parts suited best for a computer on that. You know give the person both sets of tools and see how they make use of their tools, like they actually will when employ
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by genericuser 11y ago
"it really helps understanding how the developer thinks when he's trying to solve a problem." How does it do this over watching them code on computer? Could you please provide examples of how this helps more than say them br
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by genericuser 11y ago
When white board coding is required, I really feel it is better suited to allow a fair bit of psuedo code to be used in it. This article basically says they will take into account the lack of things like InteliSense, but their example is o
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by genericuser 11y ago
This presumes aquiring large quantities of money is a required motivation for developing new technology for one to be qualified as 'in their right mind'. To me this comes off like saying 'No one in their right mind should be
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by genericuser 11y ago
Well just off the top of my head bin-pickers probably need to have millimeter accuracy when grabbing something so as to get close enough to suction it and not stab through it. Cars on the other hand are not functioning at that level of pre
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by genericuser 11y ago
The 24/7 access 365 days a year wasn't mentioned in the article you linked that you said you got 'all this' from. So would you please provide that source. I see them saying it needed to be open during the winter, and i
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In that it told him he could ONLY charge $2 for parking vs the presumably free (EDIT: incorrect assumption on my part, as previous owners also charged a fee, but I can't find any indication that he was being limited to a lower fee than
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by genericuser 11y ago
Yes but any of that 500-600k cost which was actually required of him could have easily been known by him at time of purchasing the property. Saying you don't want to pay the required upkeep on something because it only benefits others
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by genericuser 11y ago
Well that or whatever they were in gets blown up and you never actually see them die. But explosions have remained a popular death to this day, so they don't really date 80s movies.
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by genericuser 11y ago
Land while probably an inevitable hot topic, is not actually what would classify as a problem for a project that if sees full scale deployment will most surely have government backing thanks to eminent domain. Yes, the project will still b
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by genericuser 11y ago
It seemed to use 6.000000000000000444089209850...??? TiB when I tried values.
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by genericuser 11y ago
Did not know such a thing existed, thanks. However as a minor clarification on what you said, after reading over a few descriptions by various providers it is clear however that the insurance itself would have to be purchased by the event
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by genericuser 11y ago
If the event 'has' to operate in this manner, how will the event organizer provide refunds should something happen and they have to cancel their event? I ask because planning an event in my 2nd hand experience of weddings and such

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