losteric

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by losteric 9y ago
My huge employer does - UPS takes the cargo elevator but get access to the mailroom, inside secured the premise. Come to think of it, couldn't a device just be hidden in a package? Like a small statue delivered to a bad address?
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by losteric 9y ago
I know one person that drove into a light post in the middle of an empty parking lot. Daylight, sober, not texting, not tired, not stunting - they were looking at the exit and simply didn't see the one light post between their car and
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by losteric 9y ago
Should we judge performance in every scenario distinctly, or in aggregate? That is, if the risks of one edge case goes up while the car performs far better in the vast majority of situations, is the car worse than a human?
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by losteric 9y ago
I can't find an authoritative source on the claims of the "US exploding" in response to "Kaspersky closes CIA backdoor" * GSA already pulled it from their recommended list months ago: https://www.wired.co
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by losteric 9y ago
I still hold that this shouldn't matter to consumers. My priority of problems is * When fraud happens, banks can pass the pain and burden of proof onto consumers. * Banks use insecure SSNs for authorization; some data is used for val
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by losteric 9y ago
This. I went through the same process - Facebook rejected a photo from a really obscure magazine, so I asked one of my friends to send me an image they already uploaded to Facebook. FB quickly accepted that one.
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by losteric 9y ago
I want to clarify context here because I'm not sure you read this thread much less the article: Treatment from natural stem cells is old news, a while ago we discovered how to convert specialized cells into artificial stem cells then i
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by losteric 9y ago
Can you point to scripture that could be interpreted as standing against stem cell-based cures? Because opposing lethal injection is a pretty strict, literal interpretation of "thou shalt not kill".
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by losteric 9y ago
Right, but Jehovas Witnesses wouldn't be a concern here - they would reject both pluripotent stem-cell based approaches, and this one.
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by losteric 9y ago
I would use this if it was implemented as a federated state-level service, expanding on drivers license/ID card programs. Not everything, but certainly for applications that already require a drivers license (eg airlines, banks, apartm
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by losteric 9y ago
Nowhere! If you're in SF, move out to the east bay Besides that, hope residents use legislation to balance out the market... progressive taxes in aesthetically pleasing areas, education/public transportation in economically compet
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by losteric 9y ago
I expect managers to go to jail, in addition to a financial kneecap that forces other companies to vigilantly pressure their management for security. Well, maybe not expect. This is America... I expect infuriating golden parachutes. But I c
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by losteric 9y ago
Plus stronger regulation of how data is stored. Personal information is valuable - banks have security requirements, why not institutions like this?
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by losteric 9y ago
Obviously. However, training alone is insufficient - training is the way to trust cops with real guns, but tasers and guns still fill different roles. Tasers are non-lethal ranged weapons, complementing non-lethal close-range (batons/p
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by losteric 9y ago
That's a good point, but I think that > At least before they shoot someone they think twice doesn't hold in practice. Fight or flight translates to shoot or run, few police have the discipline to think twice and exercise cautio
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by losteric 9y ago
I agree, there is an argument for broader regional governance (whether it's the bay area, or western King County in Washington), in between the city and state level... whether through expanding existing bodies (reforming city borders)
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by losteric 9y ago
Huh, I wonder why the top negative copy+paste responses are not tied to any organization or grass-roots effort.
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by losteric 9y ago
There is no good list for everyone... Personally, "stability" is antithetical to my contentment
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by losteric 9y ago
Better public education. Virtually every societal problem in America can be traced back to our sub-par and falling public education. It's a hard problem to fix - deep reforms take decades to reflect in society, and the vast majority of
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by losteric 9y ago
What's the difference between influencing and anarchic disruption? Disruption increases noise, influencing manipulates the signals that gets through. Putin is not the only actor here. The Clinton campaign publicly employed crowdturfing
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by losteric 9y ago
The law can and will be selectively enforced to the betterment of those in power. Facebook will be fine giving the government unlimited access to their deeply mined data. Diaspora, Mastodon, those are the sites that will get crushed.
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by losteric 9y ago
The change you want is political campaign finance reform. Everything else is secondary. Without financing reform, the accumulation of wealth leads to political influence that furthers the accumulation of money and political power... creatin
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by losteric 9y ago
Of course. eg it can be used to measure how people are influenced by a clothing display, what brands/seasons they're looking for, the effectiveness of different "Sale!" signs, which products are dead inventory wasting fl
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by losteric 9y ago
They don't need it, but they'll keep asking in hopes that you'll click "yes" (by accident?)
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by losteric 9y ago
Self-driving longboards Or, more seriously, the broader class of self-driving vehicles for disabled: driver assistance for quadriplegic wheel chairs, segways for the blind (self-navigating, or just obstacle avoidance with tactile feedback f
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by losteric 9y ago
I think you could raise the price to $30 at minimum. The hybrid approach is also viable. As the other poster mentioned, you could add features to justify a "pro"-labeled version... maybe pivot-searching backups, or automatic S3&#x
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by losteric 9y ago
I will begrudgingly subscribe if the app is good enough, but vastly prefer purchasing software and paying for new versions/pro features. "Good" is a high bar... If an app costs $5/m, it has to convince me I'll see $
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by losteric 9y ago
I should have said conservative media. CNN had no problems attacking with everything they knew, but they avoided excess speculation and treated the Charlottesville attacker the same as Hodgkinson... which was my point.
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by losteric 9y ago
Obviously most of the right is against Nazis, but the modern conservative faction seems to draw a much higher ratio of violence and fascist rhetoric than the left. When something happens, the media gives right-wing fascists the benefit of t
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by losteric 9y ago
And there is plenty of opposition from "the left" itself against that kind of censorship

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