sathackr

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by sathackr 9y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16533403
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The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The defendant has a right to remain silent(5th amendment) and that silence cannot be used against him/her. If there is no evidence* that the person knows what marijuana smells like, then their
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I dug a little deeper and still did not find it. There were two similar cases, one in which the box truck had a pass-through into the cabin, and based on this, the conviction was upheld because it was deemed that the pass-through from the p
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IANAL but I have read a ton of case law on similar subjects involving possession. In the case of Rettenmaier, the possession laws work almost identical to drug possession laws. When the contraband is not in actual possession(physically on t
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Our government feels that the "all men" in "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" really just means US citizens. The courts have held over and over that our co
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The vast majority of convictions arise from plea bargaining. Prosecutors and law enforcement stack charges so that it appears to be a 'good deal' to just accept a plea deal rather than risk trial and spending decades behind bars
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Most judges now just seem to be rubber-stamp operators anyways, particularly in pre-trial proceedings and in situations where someone doesn't haven an opportunity to defend themselves against the action (such as in the case of a search
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Why de-orbit? Why not use the same rockets to move it up into an orbit that doesn't degrade as quickly and doesn't need to be maintained at regular intervals. A ton of money was spent launching and building it. Why not leave it fo
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Nearly the same thing happened to me. Except the instructor felt the other kids would be dissuaded by my typing and told me I couldn't stay in the class. And, similar to your case, typing was a prerequisite to taking any other computer
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If the 'rights' that this country was practically founded with don't need to be 'rights' -- then you should propose just eliminating the constitution in general. Why do we need a 'right' to be free of unre
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I'm not sure if you're being pedantic in that most 'satellite' photos are actually aerial or not. The more obvious sources would be Bing Maps and Google Maps/Google Earth, and they likely aggregate multiple sources.
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Just about any satellite photo provider can be used to locate military bases also. The heatmap is neat but I don't see why it's specifically bad for military bases.
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Yep. I often try to look 'thru' the windows on the vehicle in front of me to see what's going on in front of it. Seeing that car plow into the stopped vehicle plays through my head routinely when driving.
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Humans aren't that great at this either, especially considering our tendency to follow too closely. I witnessed an accident very similar to this. A vehicle was partially blocking the left lane of a 4 lane highway. A pickup truck was tr
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If silicon valley can just nerd a little harder and make it happen, then surely the FBI can just try a little harder and eliminate all crime, and then the problem goes away.
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Airbags save lives. Airbags also kill babies if used incorrectly. There are warning placards in several places in your car saying such. Sometimes an airbag can cause more injury than the accident. A seatbelt may trap you in a sinking car. B
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At the end I was scrolling down looking for the rest of the article.
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The cars don't quite seem 'there' yet. Tesla is the leader here, but I've heard many horror stories about owners' cars needing minor repairs being unusable for months due to parts availibity [1]. They seem also to h
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by sathackr 9y ago
To answer my own question, using numbers from [1]: U235 = 79,390,000 MJ/kg 1 kWh = 3.6MJ 1kg u235 = ~22,000,000kWh 1g u235 = ~22,000 kWh of energy For the HB11 reaction: 1000 / .014 = ~21,000 kWh/g So about the same as curr
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> 14 milligram HB11 can produce 300 kWh energy That's an enormous amount of energy from a minuscule amount of mass. Using their predictions, I could run my house for a year on less than 1 gram of HB11. How does this compare with th
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> And to top that they have also made it an act of terrorism for anybody to approach within 500 metres of a whaling vessel. The slippery slope that it seems the whole world is already sliding down.
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One of the big rises in price of Bitcoin was when it appeared the Cyprus banking system may collapse. http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/ind...
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Yep. And scent candles are causing global warming, thus must be discussed in any article about global warming.
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The tagline for the article: > "...And it has to deal with mounting threats from climate change." Paragraphs 4,5,6: One local climate researcher, Irvan Pulungan, an adviser to the city’s governor, fears that temperatures may r
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So the city is sinking many inches, even feet per year(due to excessive ground water withdrawals). With all the problems the city has, how does climate change(an average sea level rise of a few millimeters per year) even wind up on the repo
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by sathackr 9y ago
If you have USD in Coinbase that you'd like to buy with right now, you can use your Coinbase account at GDAX and transfer USD instantly to GDAX. Trades are working fine at GDAX. Pretty sure GDAX is also owned by Coinbase. I did it just
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Great comment! Currently utilities buy power during peak times from other utilities, or fire up expensive peaker generators to manage the load. A network of charging cars could be managed as another resource with a price attached to it tha
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imo this is basic supply and demand. Bitcoin comes into this world at a fixed supply rate. Demand is currently exceeding supply, so the price goes up. With bitcoin so far, the higher the price, the more press is generated, which increases d
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As a big ISP that stands to profit from the current FCC standpoint, Comcast is in the crosshairs of the internet community. But if what has been said by all parties is true, I can't find significant fault with Comcast. Here is the text
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Relevant: Bitcoin Boiler http://en.hotmine.io

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