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by jhiska 9y ago
There are decades of research studies on this topic in criminology alone that the NYT can tap into. Look up the field of "victimology". On the other hand, the NYT is not a scientific journal. Supposedly, they know what makes peopl
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by jhiska 9y ago
Self-reported. Not a random population. The numbers are higher because most men (the ones who refused to take part) are intelligent enough to not denounce themselves to the NYT for serious sexual offences. Not reliable, and may do more harm
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by jhiska 9y ago
>My whole life I was suckered into this idea that people will treat you fairly regardless of your skin color, your gender, your ethnicity, the country you come from, etc. As usual in American discussions, class is forgotten. A heterosexu
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by jhiska 9y ago
Too little, too late. At this irreversible point it's not actual actionable regret, but a merely symbolic act meant to save their conscience from hellish guilt. Besides, the blame for the Facebook-surveillance state and "alternati
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by jhiska 9y ago
"Dark art" is really glorifying what those desk jockeys do. It's just a bunch of organized paid trolls with fancy ideas about themselves and what they do, because it's all secret-y and covert-y, but really, they're
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by jhiska 9y ago
I agree. I don't want the police using biased tools either. OP has stated elsewhere in the comments that the reason they're interested in the tech is for testing it in some other unrelated area.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Both the iPhone and the Nexus 6Ps have horrible battery-swap design, but I still don't want to pay middle-men for what should be simple service I should be able to do at home.
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by jhiska 9y ago
You can go to a store and ask someone there to replace the batteries of your TV remote or battery-swappable phone for free, if you like.
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by jhiska 9y ago
I guess I could call them alternative facts, if you prefer.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Replaceable batteries increase lifespan. The iPhone is a well-made phone which would have greater lifespan if the batteries were replaceable. As it is, users who bought an older iPhone now have to pay middle-men to replace the battery or fa
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by jhiska 9y ago
Sealed, seamless, performance-degraded, costly to service, with planned obsolescence. It's quite obvious that it's a waste of money to pay middle-men to perform basic service on it for stuff a user can do at home with any other ph
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by jhiska 9y ago
That is a fair point. I worry for what transpeople -- who lack meat-world social choices -- are enticed to reveal about themselves online to the secret police. Our governments' thugs are happy to lend an unsympathetic ear to their prob
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by jhiska 9y ago
What's your point?
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by jhiska 9y ago
Thank you for addressing the reasonable and consistent part of my unhinged rant. I know what the real problem is. No rapport was established. You are in the defensive because you feel I corrected you as well and thus passed judgement. It&#x
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by jhiska 9y ago
It is not easily replaceable as with any other phone. The issue is not creating waste, but wasting one's money on middle-men for replacing one's phone batteries. >I know every TV remote I've owned with a battery door event
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by jhiska 9y ago
I guess that means all Samsung phones ("not sure which ones") are inferior to Apple phones, hm? ;)
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by jhiska 9y ago
It wouldn't. It would obviously increase the lifespan of it. The spinsters are deliberately confusing "lifespan" with "resale value".
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by jhiska 9y ago
Somehow I am reminded of the lyrics "You spin me right round, right round, baby." The spin, I feel, is that somehow being able to replace one's batteries is bad. Whereas having an iPhone with degraded performance and an expen
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by jhiska 9y ago
You make a good point. If you consider that you can't easily change the battery in an iPhone without voiding the warranty or paying a premium price to Apple Support then one can make a strong argument that it's sneaky planned obso
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by jhiska 9y ago
One can argue that replacing real-life relationships with digital ones is unhealthy. And digital lives are more easily monitored by governments -- not just the American or European governments, which is already bad enough. This too is dange
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by jhiska 9y ago
Yet another social-media whatchamaycallit. Somehow I end up not following my own advice and simplifying and making only one point per comment. That way people wouldn't focus on a minor thing about it and ignore the rest of it. (The adv
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by jhiska 9y ago
Yet another social-media thing. I thought the consensus in non-social-media media was that all social media was unhealthy. Now we're getting an ad (or infomercial, if you prefer that term) from traditional media for an open-sourced Fac
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by jhiska 9y ago
OP wants an open sourced, data-based statistical model of where crime might occur (methodological flaws and all), and not an unasked-for politicized preaching about the supposed virtues of a subset of people over another subset of people.
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by jhiska 9y ago
I'll withhold my judgement until they ship it. Early reports (RoadToVR) say that the FOV is rather bad ("about the size of a VHS tape held at medium distance"). I'll wait.
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by jhiska 9y ago
uMatrix is better than the new NoScript.
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by jhiska 9y ago
You're right. It's yet another teaser. Not holding my breath.
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by jhiska 9y ago
The biggest impediment to a politician who in good-will wants to implement actually crucial policies is public opinion. The problem is so bad that politicians don't actually talk about the hard work -- hours of reunions, negotiations,
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by jhiska 9y ago
You are asking the wrong questions. Is morality powerful enough to stop actions? Government thugs can survive with a guilty conscience.
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by jhiska 9y ago
Germany lost the war. Although it's not true that the victors always write the history. There are cases where the defeated write books detailing all the injustices committed against them and it gets picked up centuries later after the
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by jhiska 9y ago
> When will people learn that industrial control systems can't ever be safely connected to the internet. When a disaster happens. Politics as usual, and it's not the politicians fault (who are mostly limited by the whims of pub

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