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by giantg2 1y ago
And what does that access mean? How many of the weapons used in school shootings would have been banned? They've done studies on the effectiveness of the ban and showed no real effect over that decade, but speculated that there could h
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by giantg2 1y ago
I was going to say, you can study 10 hours a day on topics that you like or find valuable and not cover all the material for the test. I took the SAT as a junior and didn't really study for it, so I hadn't covered some of the math
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by giantg2 1y ago
That's a good score. I took a practice LSAT once. I think I got a 148 or a 152. I thought that was pretty good until I looked it up. Not terrible for not studying, but it was only the 40th percentile haha.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"I think a strategy aimed understanding wrong answers in your weakest area can be a more efficient use of preparation time." This is how I study. I don't need to review my strong areas, I need to learn the weak ones. I can cr
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Are you thinking the outcome would have been much different if she threatened to kill Mexicans on Teams at work instead?" Yeah, she'd probably get fired but law enforcement wouldn't get called because there was no speci
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by giantg2 1y ago
Yes, and there have been additional law and rules changes since then (NICS, trusts, etc). Thus the number of laws and rules are not substantially lower than in the recent past.
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by giantg2 1y ago
At least 10 years ago you could remove the cable/bridge that connected the network board to the rest of the car. I'm not sure thats possible anymore. About 8 years ago you could get a fleet type vehicle that didn't include st
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by giantg2 1y ago
I generally agree. I have an 8 year old work trim truck that doesn't have much tech in it. Im dreading the day I'll need to replace it. Hopefully I'll get another decade or so out of it.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Public schools are run by officials elected in public municipal elections. How is that not government?
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by giantg2 1y ago
Gun laws vary dramtically by state. If we are only looking at the federal level, then there has been no substantial reduction.
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by giantg2 1y ago
This is not the vocabulary nor the mindset that someone with 5 year old control and unrealized potential should be exposed to. It's fine for us old, ground down folks with self control.
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by giantg2 1y ago
I would commit at least 30 minutes out of each of you 12-14 hour days to working on your resume, looking at job boards, networking, etc. If your SaaS is shutting down, maybe look at some of your customers to see if they have a need for your
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by giantg2 1y ago
I don't think that's universally true, but I do generally agree. It at least raises the probability substantially.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Kids saying shit is now equivalent to 'normal terrorist[ic] threat cases'?" It's terroristic threats. That's the law most of the school shooting threats would get charged under. The real problem is that most s
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by giantg2 1y ago
Any system will have failures. The goal is to eliminate some of those failures through multiple checks. The automated system can help by bringing up possible issues that couldn't be monitored by humans. But then it should be humans rev
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by giantg2 1y ago
You don't have to be an expert to read the context. In normal terroristic threat cases the people involved are not psychologists. The police aren't using any child psychologists either. The problem here is the brainless reliance o
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by giantg2 1y ago
Inappropriate comments or jokes could easily be handled with parent-teacher intervention and some detention. If it's possibly credible, then reporting it to the police to kick off an investigation is good. It seems that nobody really
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by giantg2 1y ago
"A threat like that has to be reported to the authorities." This forced reporting necessarily creates false reports. Under the law, things like terrorist threats are required to be credible or incite panic. Reporting things that a
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by giantg2 1y ago
There are many federal laws and policies enforced in the schools. The police arresting kids on school grounds are also usually state or local.
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by giantg2 1y ago
You're taking the inverse of the commentor said. Being fed good data and being good is a different thing than being fed bad data and expecting them to be good. There are plenty of studies on formative environments, especially on how ne
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by giantg2 1y ago
I can confirm this. Sent a 5yo to public school and they came home with the new saying "I don't give a fuck!". Not what I want a 5yo to learn. We have massive overreactions by the schools for comments like in the article, but
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by giantg2 1y ago
"can't really blame the school for jumping to conclusions" Of course you can blame the school. They were too lazy to look at context and determine if the threat was real and credible. They took the determination of a comple
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by giantg2 1y ago
Not exactly true. You don't know how old the person is nor their jurisdiction. Some states have fewer laws, others have more. At the federal level, there are more laws and rules than there were in the 60s or 70s (overall more than at a
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by giantg2 1y ago
"1. Schools running and monitoring their own communication platforms. This seems fine. 2. The US government monitoring private communication platforms like Snapchat and arresting kids on school grounds. This seems bad." Public sch
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by giantg2 1y ago
The problem are the lazy idiots using the software. This is the reason we need capable humans in the loop for anything important. Here we have a bad joke. The system flags it. The school sends it to the police. The police detain and interro
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by giantg2 1y ago
More like selling your soul for 35 years.
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by giantg2 1y ago
I completely agree. I saw the claims about 30% increase in dev productivity a while ago and thought how is that possible when most of my job consists of meetings, SARs, threat modeling, etc.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Thanks, I had not seen that.
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by giantg2 1y ago
Kind of misleading. This has nothing to do with the use of the microwave. These are the stove vent filters built into the over-stove microwaves.
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by giantg2 1y ago
"Germanium goes into the company’s infrared sensors," Time to break put the ZnSe. I wowuld be highly surprised is the government doesn't have a clandestine stockpile of minerals for wartime. We're screwed if we don'

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