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by rmxt 10y ago
Fair points. Someone has to "pay", whether through effort or money, for the new systems to garner traction. I agree that it is hard to see where the momentum could or would come from, and no I cannot name an instance where somethi
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by rmxt 10y ago
I'm not sure that what people believe about Snowden is inextricably tied to people's perception of location tracking. In fact, I speculate that there are probably some people who both think Snowden is a traitor and think that corp
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by rmxt 10y ago
I see the "if you don't like it, don't use it" suggestion quite a bit. Can't we advocate for better public understanding of, and decentralization of, location services while also acknowledging that the best way righ
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by rmxt 10y ago
Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to capture the impacts of elevated train lines. Elevated train lines are overwhelmingly (nearly exclusively) concentrated in the outer boroughs, and imbue the streets beneath them with a very distinct
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by rmxt 10y ago
So... second guessing someone's retelling of a completely sober, undoubtedly career impacting scenario (one way or another) in the workplace is equivalent to second guessing someone's retelling of a drunken haze of a night? It&#x2
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by rmxt 10y ago
Glad to see that self-congratulatory snark and drive-by skepticism is alive and well! The amount of time it took to post this could have instead been devoted to finding research of the type you supposedly seek in good-faith. Starting point
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by rmxt 10y ago
At least on Android and the Google Maps app, when one requests mass transit directions, UberX is often given as a potential route. Gives a fare quote and a trip time, IIRC.
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by rmxt 10y ago
Most of the submitted page is devoted to the answers to your question.
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by rmxt 10y ago
Surely college admissions procedures have changed significantly in the intervening 17 years, right? We're talking about the advent and removal of the 2400 point SAT, the rise of digital applications, and the rise of SAT subject tests,
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by rmxt 10y ago
Putting your ideological motivations aside, how do programs promoting home computer ownership or basic literacy (with the ultimate aim of getting people up to par in literacy, before encouraging development in the sciences) in impoverished
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by rmxt 10y ago
Does poverty create "bad people" or do "bad people" end up in poverty? That seems like a question that you would need answered before you can assert that "it's not economics keeping people from the sciences.&qu
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by rmxt 10y ago
If we can't agree that the last three refer to "separation" ( de facto discrimination) and not de jure discrimination, I think we will only continue to argue past one another.
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by rmxt 10y ago
Only one (the first) of the four quotes you've chosen restrict market forces in the way you are envisioning, i.e. white workers don't want black competition. I'd be interested in what the next sentence was, and wouldn't
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by rmxt 10y ago
Linking to Wikipedia without expounding which details you are referring to is a bit of sleight of hand. Specifically, what part of "separate but equal" [1] "legally required" that "separate" facilities for blac
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by rmxt 10y ago
Maybe five, ten, twenty years ago traffic signal buttons in NYC were an everyday sight, but they are increasingly further and fewer between. Taking the article's 100 functioning + 1000 non-functioning buttons at face value, combined wi
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by rmxt 10y ago
Undoubtedly some aspects of life will become safer, but the interesting question is "At what expense does that safety come?" Just because something is the new normal, doesn't mean it is "right".
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Inequaligram: Measuring Social Media Inequality(inequaligram.net)
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by rmxt 10y ago
I agree, and I forgot about the "half billion over 12 years" line in the article. But why throw shade at the homeless due to a failing of the city?
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by rmxt 10y ago
What do you propose as an alternative? Charge them 25c for an hour of use? I find it hard to blame the homeless (as you are) for taking advantage of a free perk, when it should be the cities and companies being held accountable for returnin
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by rmxt 10y ago
Those with nothing have plenty to gain, but they should have more to gain. If private companies are profiting off of the backs of the public (both the "haves" and "have-nots"), why shouldn't/doesn't/d
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by rmxt 10y ago
Is your implication that he was at Princeton only due to his race? Can you prove that? Otherwise, this seems gratuitously negative and irrelevant.
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by rmxt 10y ago
You are correct to say that you can't commit a trespass by observing someone in public. However, trespassing is not an exclusive test as to whether a search is permissible (though it was the applicable rubric for Jones). The Katz test
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by rmxt 10y ago
There needs to be further refinement as to what actually constitutes "watching", e.g. with respect to duration, frequency, information monitored, etc. US v. Jones held that installing a GPS device on a car constituted a trespas
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by rmxt 11y ago
It's not just men that can "have everything taken from them". Portraying yourself as some sort of "victim of the system" because other people can get married doesn't exactly seem like the strongest way of a
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by rmxt 11y ago
Rather than dismissing things as "strawmen," it would help if you clearly elucidate your claims before you make (what appear to be) broad brush statements, e.g. "Muslims took to the streets", "What are we suppos
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by rmxt 11y ago
Clearly the best response to violent and fatal intolerance....is more kneejerk intolerance. Assuming all Muslims are ideologically the same, and that Muslims monolithically defend this sort of behavior is an asinine assumption.
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by rmxt 11y ago
Did you post the wrong link? There is no mention of a definition of colored, or any mention at all as to what sort of impact Jim Crow laws had on Asian immigrants. The website solely talks about Caucasian and Black. Your angle here is disin
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by rmxt 11y ago
You didn't answer the question. I'll take that as a "no". My point is that the properties of each paperclip are unique. Trying to make the sort of extrapolations between paperclips that you tend towards (misery poker) is
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by rmxt 11y ago
Playing misery poker with racial hardships (like you are) is ridiculous and vain to begin with, but I'll ask you this: can you find one example of an American law targeting Koreans akin to this Louisiana law specifically targeting blac
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by rmxt 11y ago
There is a line between "acknowledging reality and the lingering effects of institutionalized racism" and "the racism of lowered expectations," but it is not drawn at "blacks can't get away from the various hel

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