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by joesmo 10y ago
They could and should be trained otherwise and better. It's definitely done in many places throughout the world. This does not excuse murder. Murder is murder. Especially when they knew the guy was suicidal. But then they wouldn't
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by joesmo 10y ago
I'm not sure you realize you're defending a murder here.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Really? I don't see much difference. Slavery is slavery. Torture is torture. Rape is rape. The first two are legal in prison and all three are widely practiced as punishment. Yes, you have a better chance of surviving our prisons, but
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by joesmo 10y ago
If it really works like they say and can be added to any car, that's pretty huge. I'd definitely buy one. I wonder what it takes to install it ...
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by joesmo 10y ago
The owners are a minor percentage of the workers in these fields and therefore what they make is irrelevant.
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by joesmo 10y ago
They aren't good jobs. The average salary for plumbers is around $50-55k or so, right around the median for the US. Ok, but certainly not good. For roofers and mechanics, you're significantly below the median around $35k, basicall
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by joesmo 10y ago
Yes, legally you can refuse, but then the cop will come up with some reason to detain you so you can't refuse. If you approach a police officer, you've already made a huge mistake and pretty much are fucked. Don't do it. That
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by joesmo 10y ago
So, basically, don't ever talk to the police, don't even say 'hi'. There's no such thing as a casual conversation with the police. They should be avoided at all costs. Isn't this common sense? That's the f
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by joesmo 10y ago
I don't need to. Most of my readers can process more than once sentence at a time.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Yeah, I'm all up for writing everything in machine language using punch cards. Anything else is clearly too much abstraction and obviously a sign of bad engineers.
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by joesmo 10y ago
"Nothing wrong with supporting the troops." That depends on what you mean by "supporting the troops." I actually have no definition or even a clear idea of what this means and I'm certain no one else does either. It
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by joesmo 10y ago
This lecture is amazing. I sort of put some of it in the background the first time I watched it, but now I want to delve deeper into it, so thanks for bringing this up. For people who haven't seen it, IMO, it's a real eye opener.
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by joesmo 10y ago
If the idea behind the punishment of prison is to remove someone from society, shouldn't that be enough? Why is our society accepting and in some cases even encouraging things like torture, rape, solitary confinement, etc. for prisoner
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by joesmo 10y ago
Maybe not, but they certainly can have a human review every single potential image after the fact (which they do if I remember correctly) because relying on an algorithm to do this is simply impossible and therefore even dumber than not bei
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by joesmo 10y ago
Sure. Read that. But the ends don't justify the means. Doesn't matter how happy he was, shutting down a whole account because one server was hacked is preposterous. The same situation happened to me on AWS, and if AWS had done the
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by joesmo 10y ago
Soon, people will start to realize that for actual information, news, and debate, you have to venture outside of Facebook, just like you have to venture outside of TV for those things currently in the US (not a single actual news program av
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by joesmo 10y ago
"Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes." False. It's a real problem that people think this. No wonder our justice system in the US is so fucked up. People don't even know what's happening.
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by joesmo 10y ago
It doesn't matter what kind of support you have for Cloud if Google's first reaction is to turn off all services and there isn't a way to get in touch with support outside of social media. Adwords may have some support, but a
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by joesmo 10y ago
"Many educators and parents continue to believe that acceleration is bad for children—that it will hurt them socially, push them out of childhood or create knowledge gaps." And we still wonder why in the US our children are so stu
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by joesmo 10y ago
How can one know if the water is reasonable in the US? We certainly cannot trust the local governments tasked with this job. Recent events in Flint and hundreds of other places in the US show that, if you can afford it, bottled water is at
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by joesmo 10y ago
Apple's bluetooth has such a high failure rate on laptops, IMO, it simply doesn't work. After trying to get it to work in multiple locations with multiple laptops over multiple years, it's clear to me that Apple does not have
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by joesmo 10y ago
That's because the CIA doesn't hire without a criminal record. And smoking weed alone is probably not enough of a criminal record for the CIA.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Just because our system falls so far outside the ideology it claims to espouse does not mean it's not capitalism. Just as the reality of communism was far from the ideology, so is our reality of capitalism. I'd argue, however, tha
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by joesmo 10y ago
These are all "ego-involving topics" here, to borrow an excellent phrase from the parent comment. I'd say most of the time, predicting HN's reaction to a topic or even a specific comment is easy and almost makes the comm
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by joesmo 10y ago
It's thinking like this that leads to disasters like Flint. How many people have to die or get injured before we start caring in America? Apparently way too many for most of the stupid idiots in this country to count to.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Or you could just reply to the list itself with the word 'remove' in the subject (doesn't work for all list servers). That's how most servers handled subscriptions back in the days and probably still is now.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Ok, but what are the costs beyond $100k? Even the worst cars as far as maintenance (BMWs and such) can make it to $100k fairly reasonably. This is even more important in the Tesla apparently because after 8 years you're shit out of luc
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by joesmo 10y ago
Ridiculous all around. Had a similar thing happen to one of my EC2 instances on AWS. AWS shut down all outgoing connections, let me know about it, and even gave me time to investigate. It did not affect any other AWS resource I was using at
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by joesmo 10y ago
What you do in your own private office is your own business. No one cares. What the rest of us care about is what goes on in the classroom. I think you're missing the point completely by arguing for something that no one else here is t
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by joesmo 10y ago
I feel the same way about cancer patients. They made so many stupid decisions, disregarded so many warnings, etc. And cancer patients are cancer patients for life - it's not like it can ever be cured. They will be health money sponges

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