topkai22

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by topkai22 7y ago
In the US at least there is rightfully a free speech issue. It would take some serious constitutional wrangling to get a ban in place. Tracking technology and terrible analytics platforms that slow everything down are much lower hanging fr
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by topkai22 7y ago
For the US only, but I didn't realize that so few people took public transit, walked, or biked. Given the amount of advocacy and public policy surrounding those transportation modalities, I find it curious that there isn't more ad
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More people work remotely than take public transit to work(washingtonpost.com)
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by topkai22 7y ago
It depends on the service, and a lot is the legacy of Azure actually being windows first or only for the first 5 or 6 years. I'm betting the area you were playing around in was web apps or VMs. If you look at the various container bas
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by topkai22 7y ago
I was a young (kindergarten and first grade) navy brat when the wall came down. I remember the sheer sense of joy and relief that the Cold War was ending. My community basically existed to support the nuclear forces of the United States and
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by topkai22 7y ago
My toddler provides a whole security suite- she will set your critical files to readonly (by pulling all the keys of your keyboard), airgap your network (by playing with the power strip its connected to), and virus detection (by beginning t
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by topkai22 7y ago
It wasn't for a belt and two shirts, it was for attempted murder of police officers. Yes, the interaction might have started with simple shoplifting, but the suspect began firing at police officers. The home was destroyed after a 19 ho
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by topkai22 7y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/health/prison-suicides-massac... General prison suicide rate is 20/100,000, which is almost identical to the male general population rate in the US (21.1) ( https:&#x2
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by topkai22 7y ago
I would, simply because he had attempted once prior to the completed attempt. That said, it is super fishy case.
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by topkai22 7y ago
"1 suicide and 3 attempted suicides"- that's actually both an insanely low attempt rate and an insanely high completion rate/attempt.
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's enough of a hurdle to open up a lot of culture. Maybe not Mara Jade since she is probably the most popular Disney owned character to never appear on film or TV, but the act of having to itemize, describe, track, and actively prote
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by topkai22 7y ago
As for the “fantastic four” solution, you don’t prevent that- as long as it’s actually distributed and available to interested parties for consumption. Creating and distributing a “keep the IP alive” production is still a significantly high
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think a major issue is the lack of distinction between individual works and derivative works. I don’t have a great answer, but I think derivative works need to have a policy closer to trademark (indefinite but very narrow and bounded by c
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by topkai22 7y ago
It's a matter of type and scale. If an org is selling commodity products to DoD as like 5% of annual revenue, it's very different than 30% as part of suite including services.
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by topkai22 7y ago
Great news for Microsoft, but I hope they don’t end up with the tail wagging the dog. There is a reason that you don’t see many companies straddling the defense/civilian divide that much- the military’s crazy bureaucracy, Legal, contra
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’m not sure, a lot of people think HQ2 is being built in the capital region just to support JEDI, and as others have mentioned the knock on effects in the ecosystem are much larger.
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by topkai22 7y ago
I swear "eyes" will roll. There, fixed :)
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by topkai22 7y ago
Most retail stores have been heavily surveilled for a long time by cctv for shoplifting purposes. One, perhaps naive, hope I have for edge based technologies is to enable scenarios that are actually more private. In my scenario, if the proc
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by topkai22 7y ago
To borrow a term from Microsoft, "Intelligent Edge." With the shift to the cloud, we are finding there are still many scenarios that should start local for latency, bandwidth, or legal considerations. Organizations still want thos
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by topkai22 7y ago
An interesting supplement to this is that common law based jurisdictions (US, UK, etc.) still have a legal concept of “Adverse Possession” or “Squatter’s Rights” which effectively lets people claim land or property which is abandoned by sel
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by topkai22 7y ago
Maybe Mega Blocks will give them a license to use their mark :)
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by topkai22 7y ago
A lot of people are saying that the fear comes from lobbyists and the interest groups they represent giving money to opponents. That is partially true, but money is just part of the overall influence that the interest groups lobbyists repre
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by topkai22 7y ago
That doesn't sound right. A quick check on LA Unified's web site says they operate ~1300 buses, while all of LA's bus network operates 2600 buses. While only 42000 of 734,641 students are taking the district provided buses, I
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by topkai22 7y ago
School bussing in the United States has an incredibly complex legal history related to desegration and civil rights. Moving to a fee for use system is probably legally impossible(or at least very difficult) in most of the United States. The
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'm also pretty sure at the higher grade levels (Middle to high school) it is partially about keeping other professions out of sports coaching. If high school starts at 930a and ends at 4p, an awful lot of working professionals could s
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by topkai22 7y ago
This is a great move by California. My family engaged with school district officials a few times on why we started school so early, when there is so much research showing it is harmful for teenager. The answer we got was... buses and sports
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by topkai22 7y ago
Every time this comes up, I recommend "Internal Time" by Till Roenneburg. It is wonderfully written, and it demolishes this concept quite thoroughly. It really is biology. Summary of the book as relates here though: People really
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by topkai22 7y ago
I'd also point out I've never lived in a school district that started elementary school before 8a, so these parents must have had solutions for those years. The real problem is going to be if elementary schools get pushed forward
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by topkai22 7y ago
I think this is generally true, but poor storage and processing at a couple of early sites (I’m thinking Hanford in particular) have had negative effects on the communities.
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by topkai22 7y ago
It probably is, although I can’t quickly find a direct source. The “middle class” is extremely broad in the US, encompassing like 60-70% (or more) of the population, with the lower class taking up 20-30% and the upper class taking 1-10% (th

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