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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
> Want to spend an hour on the side of the highway while the police search your vehicle? Again. I don't commit crimes, so this isn't likely to happen to me. And if it does, they will find nothing, and I'll be slightly inco
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
I live in a country where such abuses are rare? They happen, sure, and are broadly covered when they do, but this distorts the perception of how often they happen, which is "not very often". I also don't commit crimes, so I r
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
Neat, thanks for the source!
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
I mean, is it a problem if that's what I believe? In practice I'm not even getting "tracked". No one is likely to be looking up my license plate and looking at my movements, because I don't do anything that would wa
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
The reason I'm skeptical of this, in this particular case, is because the data here isn't actually owned by the police/government (I think?), it's owned by Flock. A department can search the data for given attributes, bu
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
I don't think this is true. Do you have some sources for this?
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
Is it? I thought only searches of the database were available that way? Like, the history of queries, not the raw data. I don't think FOIA requests can be used to run your own searches of these databases.
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
If that's not what he meant, then maybe he shouldn't have said "anyone" twice? With the caps for emphasis, even.
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
> Not to drive like an ass. I don't. Color me skeptical
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
Seems like you're more moving the goalposts away from your original, inaccurate, and highly sensational claim? Maybe don't make the blatantly false claim in the first place?
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
> And installing malware on the computers of people merely suspected of a crime is even more insane. But it's not "merely suspected"! It's "suspected with enough evidence to convince a judge to issue the warrant&
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
> This is about a database of collected data on you that can be searched by anyone. ANYONE. Except this part isn't true?
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by try_the_bass 10mo ago
> On a related note, when I lived in FL, I often saw cars with this opaque plastic cover on number plates. I think these are installed by the drivers so that they can avoid paying road toll (FL has many road tolls). I also noticed that t
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
I don't think I understand this part. Why does the rate at which frames are rendered (by the GPU?) relate to the speed at which input is registered? [E] Ah, I think another comment [1] up in a different branch of this thread answered t
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
> If the game is running at 500fps, it registers within 2 milliseconds, even though you won't see the action for up to 16.67 milliseconds later. Okay I think I follow this, but I think I'd frame it a little differently. I guess
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
I don't understand how this works, I guess? If your screen is 60Hz, you're drawing four frames for every one that ends up getting displayed. You won't even see the other three, right? If you can't see the frames, what d
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
Huh, I didn't know those existed now. I think the last time I was shopping for a monitor, 144Hz was the new hotness. Things have come a long way since then!
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
Out of curiosity, why are such high fps numbers desirable? Maybe I don't understand how displays work, but how does having fps > refresh rate work? Aren't many of those frames just wasted?
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
No, what you said is what's called "pseudo-profound bullshit". Sounds deep; has no actual meaning--nor any specific relationship with truth at all.
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
I'm younger than you, and have definitely seen them be honest multiple times. So apparently experiences differ!
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
I think they're saying that learning to play golf is necessary to succeed in such an environment. I don't think they're claiming that learning to play golf is sufficient to succeed. You're arguing against a point the
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
This is a wildly antagonistic take. It's apparent that the meaning of the quote is true to the parent commenter, regardless of whether or not the attribution is accurate. The attribution being inaccurate does not rob the quote of i
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
This is a wild take. I think the point of the parent comment was that those "values" have to be honest to be worth anything, not that they shouldn't exist at all.
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
My pet theory for a while now has been that all of the biggest VPNs are secretly run by the NSA or other equivalent nation-state organizations.
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
> Vern Unsworth said that the submarine wouldn't work He said a lot more than that, and none of it nice. He definitely threw the first punch in this exchange
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
> We allow compassionate testing of therapies that might allow you to live longer because the alternative is an ugly death. Calling many of these therapies "compassionate" is a bit of a stretch after you learn about their side
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
So if you're after the FAANG money, you have to play the FAANG interview game. If you're unwilling to play the FAANG interview game, then maybe you shouldn't be pursuing FAANG money.
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
I think it's obvious they disagree with the statement. Why else would they be rejecting it? Why even ask this question?
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
> I don't think anybody denies that, but getting into and paying for a university is very much a financial and social class issue. I mean... Not really? I got a BS in Computer Science from a cheap, small university (plus a bunch of
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by try_the_bass 1y ago
> I'm specifically concerned with how those communities affect the real world people I talk to outside of the internet, and there I find that the "anti PC" crowd takes their philosophy along with them much more readily. My

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