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by glenra 13y ago
This was a "they're out to get us" kind of conspiracy. The NSA sought to expand its own power in secret though quasi-legal means with the help of a few powerful men in government and a lot of scared people in corporations.
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by glenra 13y ago
This data exchange is arguably both unlawful and unethical. Unlawful in that it's an illegal search under the 4th amendment to the constitution. Unethical in that it makes liars out of these companies when they claim their customers ha
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by glenra 13y ago
> It just seems extremely plausible and not part of a massive conspiracy to give the NSA access to as much data as possible. Wait, why can't it be both of those things? What could the phrase "massive conspiracy" mean
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by glenra 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by glenra 13y ago
Is THAT all you meant? That criminals would grab the delivery at the delivery location ? Bah. I'm sorry, but anybody building an unmanned delivery system will have thought of that right away and dealt with it any number of ways. For instan
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by glenra 13y ago
The answer is yes, Wikipedia is specifically a place where the worst biases can flourish. It only takes a couple of cranks to keep the biases in, and there are more than enough cranks around. I don't know that it can be fixed. The good
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by glenra 13y ago
You are postulating a group that is willing to hijack an unmanned truck in order to steal the goods being delivered and doesn't mind the risk of being seen because they "have a bandana and shades on". Question: What is so special about an
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by glenra 13y ago
That is a movie-plot threat; you're being silly. Vehicles can stream audio and video and GPS tracking data to dispatchers who would know where and how the car got broken into and could dispatch security. The cars don't need windshields and
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by glenra 13y ago
>as though workers don't really mind being killed or injured on the job. It's a matter of probabilities, not certainty. And workers quite often DO prefer to trade off safety against other concerns. Not just pay, either. Convenience is a
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by glenra 13y ago
Microsoft actually used non-windows OSes for lots of tablet-like devices. Windows CE was "windows" in name only - IIRC it was a small custom OS they rebranded from some company they bought, much like what Apple did with the first iPod OS. P
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by glenra 13y ago
Doh! You're right, I misread that part. But I think the rest stands.
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by glenra 13y ago
Saying "the tablet vision is from MS" is a bit of an overstatement. The party mentioned would have been in 2005. Apple had released the Newton in 1993 (after having worked on it for many years) and refined it over the next 5 years, inspirin
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by glenra 13y ago
Ugh, even just seeing that picture of an airport security checkpoint makes me angry. I cannot believe we are collectively so dumb as to require the waste so many hours, so many billions of dollars, and so many lives on this ridiculous sec
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by glenra 13y ago
> The golden question then becomes how this study found a 0.15 C rise in temperature from data over the last decade. In my skimming of the original article I didn't see where that claim was presented. But if I had to guess, there are at
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by glenra 13y ago
> The article this discussion started about finds that if you just use data from the last decade and project that forward you get an average projection of increasing 1.55C in a period that previous models had said would increase 1-3C
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by glenra 13y ago
Um, you mean cuts off 25% of our potential supply. What happens then is we exercise more of our options (or just negotiate new deals) elsewhere to make up for it. In short, pretty much the same thing that happened when China declared war
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by glenra 13y ago
Okay, let's make the example even MORE explicit. In normal times we'd buy most of our actual supply from China or Taiwan, because they're the cheapest, fastest, most flexible supplier. We'd buy those side OPTIONS (that are never exercised o
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by glenra 13y ago
I don't think you understood what I meant by "buy options". So let's flesh that out a little. Suppose steel costs $2/unit from a US firm, but costs $1/unit on the world market. We can go to companies in various other countries and pay some
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by glenra 13y ago
Um, we can consume 10x as much per capita as the Chinese because we produce 10x as much per capita as the Chinese. And we could produce (and hence, consume) even more if we wasted less effort on making war and propping up inefficient
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by glenra 13y ago
So store 12 month's supply, Or 18 or 24 months. And buy options to buy from a few other countries that we can exercise if need be.
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by glenra 13y ago
> it's a good idea to retain a meaningful industrial base (eg domestic steel manufacturing). Whenever we "protect" one industry, that has negative downstream effects on all our other industries that depend on it. In the case of steel,
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by glenra 13y ago
> now we are screwed for at least 6 months, since we don't have the ability to create the product anymore. So stockpile it. Just buy 6-month's supply of cheap foreign steel and store it in a warehouse somewhere. Now if things turn south
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by glenra 13y ago
> We would have a hard time bombing China if our bomber aircraft were manufactured there... You say that like it would a bad thing if we "had a hard time" bombing specific other countries. :-)
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by glenra 13y ago
> The difference is, it wouldn't be okay if all our domestic steel production went overseas. Why, exactly, wouldn't that be okay? We'd only lose "all" domestic production if foreign production were quite a lot cheaper, in which case the
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by glenra 13y ago
The quote you're responding to said "past 10 years". Strictly speaking, that's accurate. You can play with the chart here - this is a chart of an average of several global temperature series over exactly the last 120 months, with trendline:
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by glenra 13y ago
One would naturally assume he was opposed to the bailout. Michaels was opposed to the most recent auto bailout too - here's him being snide about it: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7622306&page=3 It's really weird how many p
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by glenra 13y ago
that temperatures have dropped (or more accurately, shown negligible warming) in "the past 10 years" is pretty easy to check. Um, try this site: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/last:120/plot/wti/last:... (Note that the "woodfortrees
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by glenra 13y ago
How is your statement relevant to either the article or the article headline? The news is just that there's a correlation between A and B, which suggests that either A causes B, B causes A, or A and B both relate to some third factor C. Whe
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by glenra 13y ago
What makes you think the individual frames look like the letters? They certainly don't have to. At the price of a little flickering you could, say, show the top half of the letters in one frame, the bottom half the next, the right half the
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by glenra 13y ago
> "Given my frequency of long distance trips, assuming the existence of charging stations along them" Where are those trips? That "assuming" is actually kind of a big deal given that there are currently only 9 supercharger stations

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