tux1968

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by tux1968 6y ago
I started out asking an honest question, and afterward offered factual information, not my personal opinion. Even if I had seen the video i'd be very leery of making a legal judgement about murder. I'm very sure those guys should
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by tux1968 6y ago
I have never seen the video and I don't know enough about it to declare it a murder, sorry. The main point of my reply was to assuage the fears of the parent that they would have gotten desk duty and been put back on the street withou
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by tux1968 6y ago
They were all fired the very next day after the incident.
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by tux1968 6y ago
> approximately zero of the cops... have been brought to justice. Is that true though? At least in the recent George Floyd case the 4 cops involved were all fired the next day from their jobs and have all been charged and are awaiting t
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by tux1968 6y ago
The point is not that Intel can't do it, it's that Intel hasn't done it.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Is it possible that we're overvaluing decorum? While the battles going on over ideas on social media are base --- there is still progress. Ideas are being put through the grinder and being put on display for all sorts of people who m
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by tux1968 6y ago
How on earth can you say for certain you _always_ notice it? If it came on and you failed to notice it, well.. you wouldn't know would you. You'd still think you had a perfect record of always noticing it.
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by tux1968 6y ago
I suppose it's not an ironclad refutation of the idea, but I think it does suggest minimum wage isn't the magic bullet one might hope. If it doesn't work for a poor country, you had better be able to explain very convincingl
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by tux1968 6y ago
Even though he was talking about minimum wage, Walter Williams line is apropos: "People think minimum wage is an anti-poverty measure, but this doesn't pass the smell test. If it did, our state department could stop all foreign a
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by tux1968 6y ago
The problem is that for most of us, we find some actual truths unpleasant and inflammatory. It's unfortunate that we're not all adept at accepting opposing ideas with more equanimity. But sometimes hearing difficult or poorly co
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by tux1968 6y ago
> So it doesn't really work Yeah, you're right. In Canada, "status indians" get a tax exempt card to avoid sales tax at least. I didn't realize that in the US all American Natives are actually considered US ci
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by tux1968 6y ago
> Re: taxes, the US government will make you pay all your taxes. If you pay taxes to a foreign govt then you can get a waiver for what you paid but if the tribe gives you a good deal the US govt will still demand the rest. That's t
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by tux1968 6y ago
So the answer is yes? This seems like a potential business opportunity for any tribe that was so inclined. They could bestow favourable tax status on anyone who wanted to go down that path.
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by tux1968 6y ago
So could a tribe welcome every single person who asks to become a tribesman? Does the government just accept whatever the tribe says? Would the government then be required to apply all the same rules and exclusions of law for such new mem
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Facebook Just Failed Its First Ever Civil Rights Audit(vice.com)
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Free Speech(reason.com)
3 points by tux1968 6y ago|1 comments
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by tux1968 6y ago
So in the case where Youtube's automated filter flags an infraction, what about them just removing channels from the discovery service rather than pulling the underlying infrastructure out from under them?
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by tux1968 6y ago
What was the death rate and high-severity rate of infection for each of those clusters? The reason people focus specifically on the retirement homes is that it tends to have the most dire outcomes.
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by tux1968 6y ago
What i'm saying is there is a problem with monocultures. They are more susceptible to being wiped out in a single stroke. I'd say that following a scientific approach, we might want to consider not advocating for everyone to tak
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by tux1968 6y ago
What if next year a more virulent strand of Covid comes along that kills almost everyone in the world who didn't get exposed to Covid-19. Will you still consider their measures as ALL WORKING? We have no idea how the future is goin
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by tux1968 6y ago
Sure you can. You can be killed by a bad driver very easily, even if you're just sitting in a park or walking down the street.
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Bullshit Jobs (2018)(bloomberg.com)
127 points by tux1968 6y ago|157 comments
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by tux1968 6y ago
Censoring foul language seems almost quaint now. We're busy taking it to the next level.
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by tux1968 6y ago
What would you suggest as a better alternative to protect your privacy?
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by tux1968 6y ago
There is an argument to be made that carrying a knife should not be a crime for anyone, and that we all have a right to carry a knife to protect ourselves or even use a tool. But lets accept for a moment that reducing the number of knives o
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by tux1968 6y ago
> But my main point is that it’s absurd to accuse Airbus of overlooking an obvious improvement without even a cursory understanding of the matter. Who made such an accusation? The only way you can assume that's my assertion is if y
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by tux1968 6y ago
Thank you. There is lots of room for improvement. Why everyone is so intent on defending the status-quo given its obvious deficiencies is mind boggling.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Of course, and that wouldn't change. But why on earth does that preclude the idea of better feedback for the case where the plane wont even try to extend the gear even if you were to lower the lever?
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by tux1968 6y ago
It's not hard to have an override switch. But it would at least make the pilots 100% aware and actively engaged. You have an example right in front of you how the current system is deficient.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Anything can break in a plane which is why you design redundancy into the system. You could provide a manual override switch too.. but at least it would be a conscious act done by the pilot who is aware of the situation. I can't belie

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