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by pluma 8y ago
On the flip side this also means if you're involved in high crime, you should expect the police to intend to kill you so you should prepare for killing them first.
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by pluma 8y ago
Not an American but I see two obvious incentives: 1) Finances. US police seems to hoard military grade equipment. Creating a high risk situation demonstrates the need for superior firepower because it doesn't even suggest the possibili
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by pluma 8y ago
Do you mean "implicitly"? I can't find any mention of pronouns and Rule 5 only seems to propose allowing attendees to add personal interests to the badge. The idea behind adding pronouns is both to help avoid awkward situatio
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by pluma 8y ago
I'd even say most Germans treat 13 the same way as 7, 69, 666, or any Schnappszahl (repeating digits, e.g. 11 or 3333): "oh, nice" and a shrug. It's not so much unlucky as just "spooky" but very few would lose
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by pluma 8y ago
This is a legislation problem, not a conference problem. I've had my badge scanned for a contest at a European conference early last year and the person at the booth pointed out that it's pointless because they'll have to del
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by pluma 8y ago
We're still talking Germany here. The paranoia about floor 13 is considered a very American oddity in Germany.
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by pluma 8y ago
> I’m one column away from the round of mob opprobrium that sinks my career for good. If that column involves you admitting to having sexually abused people, or making blatantly racist or bigoted statements, sure. But I fail to see how t
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by pluma 8y ago
The question is why you punish. I couldn't give a rat's ass about how harsh and cruel someone's punishment may be (in fact, I'd argue that harsh and cruel punishments don't even work), all I care about is whether th
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by pluma 8y ago
You seem to assume that soldiers are by default OK with killing people. Up until the middle of the last century, that wasn't the case. Most soldiers would (often intentionally) miss their targets because it turns out most humans are re
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by pluma 8y ago
Are you being facetious? Identifying demographics and targeting the marketing to them is the bread and butter of modern advertising. The entire justification for Google's and Facebook's mass consumer surveillance is to offer corpo
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by pluma 8y ago
I think it's wrong to market anything that is intentionally created to be addictive.
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by pluma 8y ago
Really it seems like Ireland and Spain are the most interested parties when it comes to negotiating with post-EU Britain. And if you look at UK land borders it should be obvious why that is. This is what's most frustrating about Brexit
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by pluma 8y ago
The POTUS can arbitrarily take military action as long as it can somehow be tied to 9/11 so in effect the type of government doesn't matter much when it comes to the military threat each country imposes. Also, the US has a history
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by pluma 8y ago
> Leave had a bus, with a slogan. Not just any slogan, a slogan that was blatantly misleading to say the least.
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by pluma 8y ago
No, the point is that under GDPR you can't sell personal data because it remains the property of the person it was shared by. You can sell access to that data, but the purchaser inherits the terms under which that data was shared a
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by pluma 8y ago
> It's only logical to balance the moral responsibility to preserve human dignity I don't know, the American prison system doesn't seem to consider that a high importance. The problem in Japan seems to be that the not-even
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by pluma 8y ago
Please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYj_FPT90cM (it's about Norway, which has very humanitarian prisons) The short version is that a naive comparison shows that recidivism in Norway is much lower t
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by pluma 8y ago
> I don't think personal information is so valuable that we need to outlaw its sale. Europeans seem to disagree. Maybe your "reason" is just cultural bias?
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by pluma 8y ago
FWIW I'm an ESL speaker from a non-English speaking country and despite having had endless exposure to (mostly American and British) English since a young age, I've never encountered the verb form of "buffalo" outside th
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by pluma 8y ago
That isn't an argument, you're just expressing your disagreement. Even if it were an argument I'm not even sure it would be an argument worth having because it's likely entirely orthogonal given the context of the origin
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by pluma 8y ago
According to Ben Shapiro, yes, you just need to sell the former beachfront property to whoever buys houses that are underwater and then you can move further in-land. Or, y'know, enforce regulations against businesses to cut back on cli
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by pluma 8y ago
> That goes so far that I can not go to restaurants anymore I would call that a direct impact to quality of life (if only because you're missing out on the social experience), which is the exact point the GP made.
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by pluma 8y ago
Ironically, the wages of government representatives are also called "diets" in German. I'd say "diet" for "Ernährung" just fell out of use at some point and was reintroduced when diet fads became a thing.
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by pluma 8y ago
Hi, I'm part of the Foxx team. Out of personal interest: what improvements to Foxx are you looking for?
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by pluma 8y ago
GraphQL has nothing to do with graph queries though. GraphQL is called that because it was created as a query language for Facebook's "social graph". It actually doesn't provide any graph operations or recursion (i.e. yo
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by pluma 8y ago
I doubt the latter part is entirely true, especially post-GDPR. Privacy law always depends on the balance between legitimate interest and personal rights. Also this article from 2013 seems to indicate that while it was legal to film people
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by pluma 8y ago
Not saying you intended it this way, but "shitistan" implies a dismissive attitude towards the Middle East (because "sending a drone" strongly suggests Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc) by creating a category of "any of t
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by pluma 8y ago
If you're in the EU it does not. You can record anything you want in the privacy of your home but if you record other people, they need to consent to it. The reasoning described in the article "but there's a camera in the pic
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by pluma 8y ago
> shitistan Seriously? This isn't 4chan.
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by pluma 8y ago
As someone who doesn't trust his car's automatic high-beam, 100% this. Are the lasers bright enough to be a health risk? You wouldn't attach a high power laser pointer to a moving vehicle either.

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