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by sathackr 8y ago
As a white American, I carefully watch what I say around police and generally do not trust them. Most police are incentivized to "solve" crimes, not solve crimes. They are exposed to the worst our society has to offer and this t
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by sathackr 8y ago
Plasma TVs do it to me also. It used to drive me nuts to go into a Best Buy and look at a wall of plasma TVs. Looking up the retina displays, I see they are either IPS or OLED. The IPS likely has an LED backlight, and OLED is...LED. So a fl
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by sathackr 8y ago
There are plenty of people[1] that can perceive whatever PWM frequency is typically used in vehicle LED taillights. Like a few the people in the linked forum, the switching in the vertical Cadillac tail lights are particularly visible to me
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by sathackr 8y ago
What gives me a headache is not being able to control the focus. Normally you can choose to focus on something close or far away. With a 3D screen, the focal point is always the same. Something that's not in focus on the screen can&#x2
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by sathackr 8y ago
Most LEDs have their brightness controlled via PWM, which essentially switches the LED on and off many thousand times per second. You can see this in most LED car taillights if you move your eyes while paying attention to the light -- it wi
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by sathackr 9y ago
This will fail also. Why on Earth would anyone write a message system that wasn't based on dumb-pipe internet? What can RCS do for an end user that IP can't? Nobody likes being tied to their carrier. I have been using Google Voice
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by sathackr 9y ago
> > As a parent I try to instill my perception of good values in my child, while allowing him to develop his own take on them. > So ... how does that "developing his own take on them" work if you prevent him from perceivi
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by sathackr 9y ago
delete because I meant to reply to sibling, not parent
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by sathackr 9y ago
FWIW I did not downvote you. I welcome criticism as it often helps adjust perceptions and behaviors. It has nothing to do with what I'm comfortable with him seeing. As a parent I try to instill my perception of good values in my child,
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by sathackr 9y ago
I'm not going to give every example but a couple were some excerpts from Saw, some animated FNoF skits that I felt taught the wrong values. Some with some inappropriate sexual content. (As in sibling comment, I won't delve into th
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by sathackr 9y ago
I have no problems thinking about him viewing it. Maybe because he is my stepson? I do not seem to have the typical aversion that causes most parents to prefer to just put on blindfolds and pretend their child isn't growing up. I don&#
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by sathackr 9y ago
So you're saying I should just let my 12 year old do as he pleases? Just remove all of the rules? No rules, no consequences. Sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately real life doesn't work that way. I agree, the best way to make su
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by sathackr 9y ago
My intent is protection, not control. Each situation is different. Even though things turned out the way they did for you, can you say they would have been different if they had just allowed you to blatantly disregard their rules? Can you s
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by sathackr 9y ago
I disagree, as we are not doing anything sneaky. He is well aware of it and it actually was his suggestion. I often ask him for advice on how he things I should handle a situation, and after reasoning things out, he usually comes to the sam
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by sathackr 9y ago
Just recently in the news: tl;dr: 10 year old girl talks to a man on a game, tells him where she lives, leaves a note to her parents saying she went to a friend's house. He picks her up, takes her to a motel and rapes her. http:/
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by sathackr 9y ago
I don't conduct a fully peer-reviewed study for each parenting decision I make. It seems to me, for my particular situation and this particular child, that this is the best course of action. Obviously it may not be the best course for
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by sathackr 9y ago
https://fightthenewdrug.org/ from a related comment I've read many studies, of which I didn't catalog, but the above link should get you started.
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by sathackr 9y ago
I think you have a preconception on how I interact with my stepson that is not correct. Monitoring and discussion are not mutually exclusive.
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by sathackr 9y ago
> Ideally, you protect your child from things that will damage them permanently, but let them enough freedom to experiment and get hurt, so they can have a true learning experience. Exactly what I'm trying to do by allowing most thi
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by sathackr 9y ago
Absolutely, we've had several discussions about it, mostly surrounding the unrealistic expectations of women and sex in general that it promotes and its effect on emotional development of your brain. It does no good to tell someone the
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by sathackr 9y ago
yes -- that's what I'm saying. They could disable the VPN, it's not a bulletproof solution, but good enough, for now. I agree it wouldn't work for all children in all situations, but it works for us for now. I'm not
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by sathackr 9y ago
What consequences could you imagine a parent should allow a 10 year old to experience? The consequences of an abnormal sexual development or an unhealthy attitude towards females due to stumbling across hardcore porn and becoming addicted
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by sathackr 9y ago
We use sophos UTM. It's free for personal use and works about as good as it can work. It filters based on site category and does SSL interception. We have a VPN on the mobile devices that funnels all traffic through the home network so
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by sathackr 9y ago
Trust. But verify. Step-father of a 12 year old boy here. We started monitoring his internet after we caught him looking at inappropriate videos on youtube. He knows he is being monitored and I only block actual porn sites. Neither of us li
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by sathackr 9y ago
Agreed, but I'd say the likelihood of something in space disrupting an optical path between two satellites for any significant duration is quite small, much smaller than the potential for a cable to be physically damaged. But I'm
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by sathackr 9y ago
I can't imagine being able to establish multiple spatially separated beams between satellites that are hundreds or thousands of miles apart. If the beam were small enough to not 'paint' the entire receiving satellite, it woul
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by sathackr 9y ago
It's pretty easy to claim your location on Google/Google maps, which is usually where I find business hours and contact information.
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by sathackr 9y ago
Amazon is refusing to list Google products on its site. How is it any different if Google refuses to list Amazon products on its search engine?
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by sathackr 9y ago
I don't understand why an identical twin was needed to learn this. Couldn't an astronaut's DNA be sampled before and after a mission and compared?
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by sathackr 9y ago
They may filter what routes you can advertise via BGP, but nearly every Tier 1(And most Tier 2) providers will accept traffic sourced from any IP address. I handle about 10 different connections and can source traffic from any IP on all of

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