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by tropo 7y ago
No, society does not want to spend an absurd amount of money keeping people incarcerated. About half of society strongly opposes letting criminals run free, out causing mayhem and destroying our civilization. About half of society strongly
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by tropo 7y ago
It shouldn't even be physically possible for a prisoner to assault another prisoner. I'd even give the prisoners privacy so that they can't see or hear each other. Oddly, people argue that it is somehow cruel to protect the p
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by tropo 7y ago
The harm of a mugging is far in excess of the money taken. Start with PTSD. The victim might never feel safe again. The victim might have many years of waking up in a panic from a recurring nightmare. Muggings cause violence. The mugger thr
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by tropo 7y ago
FISA warrants extend two steps removed from the target. Consider what this means for the Carter Page warrant: 1. can spy on Carter Page 2. can spy on anybody who communicated with Carter Page 3. can spy on anybody who communicated with anyb
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by tropo 7y ago
Yes. We also keep other individuals in prison. If they are similar (once per week, 80% in prison) then the 80% applies in general. The numbers vary and the specific values are unimportant to understanding the basic idea. The point is that k
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by tropo 7y ago
Our system isn't really punitive or rehabilitative, though we pay lip service to both. (truly punitive would involve torture, and truly rehabilitative is simply impossible) What we are really doing is called incapacitation. For a perio
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by tropo 7y ago
Fighting over money is because of personality and disagreement, not the amount of money. You can fight at any level of wealth. For the rich, spouses can fight over the choice between buying a pro sports team and buying a private island, or
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by tropo 7y ago
The GPS antenna on the LTE tower should only be picking up signals from the sky. Transmitters on trucks would need to reflect off of aircraft in order to cause trouble, which would greatly weaken the signal.
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by tropo 7y ago
With an omnidirectional antenna, sure. With a high-gain antenna, no. The attacker could entirely avoid the RFEye or AIRPORT-SHIELD. The attacker could pick a specific aircraft to pester, with no other aircraft able to listen. Add some fancy
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by tropo 7y ago
Some of those are evil secrets. Cheaters ought to be exposed. Living a lie is a terrible way to live.
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by tropo 7y ago
Yes, exactly opposite to each other. They are not friends.
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by tropo 7y ago
None of that requires tracking when the feature isn't in use. It could be built so that the air bag deployment is what enables the cellular connection to operate. Until the air bags deploy, the radio doesn't get any electrical pow
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by tropo 7y ago
Being an election year, many people in the government would stop at nothing to cause a recession.
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by tropo 7y ago
It's worse. Warrants extend two steps removed from the target. Consider what this means with Carter Page as an example. 1. can spy on Carter Page 2. can spy on anybody who communicated with Carter Page 3. can spy on anybody who communi
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by tropo 7y ago
You don't need to pack that much food. Collect all bodily waste and all unused food scraps. Compost it for plants, or feed it to creatures like tilapia. Nuclear power provides a source of light.
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by tropo 7y ago
The change in ownership may have caused stock to vest. That could trigger departures that had been delayed.
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by tropo 7y ago
The threat is effective. You force the enemy to carry extra gear for protection and decontamination. With a serious immediate threat, you can force the enemy to wear the full NBC gear. That impedes everything. They can't effectively ea
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by tropo 7y ago
It's for kids who haven't yet reached age 8 or a height of 4'9" (145 cm). That is the law. They could easily weight as much as their mother.
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by tropo 7y ago
Some places require kids to be in car seats until age 8. This is 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade. These are not babies. The manufacturers have lobbied for this "think of the children" law. Sales go up because parents are forced to buy the
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by tropo 7y ago
For that many devices on SPI, run 7 pins to an address decoder that fans out to 128. You can do this in the spare pins of an FPGA that you might have for some other purpose, and the 7 pins are cut down to one or less if you've already
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by tropo 7y ago
It's easy to hate on those accused of heinous crimes (both the person and their employer) but what about the concept of a fair trial? Imagine you were accused of doing something decades ago. Do you have an alibi for December 17, 1955?
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by tropo 7y ago
Overall wages are rising, particularly at the low end. Wages are growing at about a 3.7% annual pace. Income inequality is dropping too. The share of income earned by the top quintile has dropped, and this shows in the Gini coefficient. The
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by tropo 7y ago
A car has a VIN. It likely has a plate, registration, and title. The owner should be easy to determine. With that, go to court. The devices risk damaging cars and they risk creating emergency situations by disabling cars.
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by tropo 7y ago
Executive pay ratio is mostly determined by the size of the company. We have allowed mergers and more mergers, even ignoring monopoly concerns, creating huge companies. Think of the corporate structure tree, with perhaps 5 to 15 people repo
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by tropo 7y ago
The situation is really only difficult for a handful of countries with very high migration. You aren't in China, India, or similar. It ought to be pretty easy for you. Note that this is based on birth country, not your current country.
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by tropo 7y ago
So... are you going to vote like a Californian, ruining those states, and then look for a new state? People sort of end up with the government they deserve, even if they don't like the result. California would be great if it were fille
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by tropo 7y ago
They can be dynamic, with pixels. One such technology is the optical vortex coronograph. Several types exist.
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by tropo 7y ago
The right charging port is IEC C7 C8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320 Cables are really common. They are typical on home audio equipment. It won't be abused to hack the phone. It offers fast charging. USB
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by tropo 7y ago
10 meters should be doable. You'd need a custom fairing. Probably you'd want a fairing that holds the mirror on edge, so that it travels edge first as if looking to the side during launch. This would save on air resistance during
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by tropo 7y ago
Astronomers do put a screen in front of the sensor to occlude pixels. This is to block the light of natural space objects that get troublesome.

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