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by wat10000 6mo ago
Another decent chunk is medical events. If an officer has a heart attack and dies while on the clock, that's "killed in the line of duty."
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The impact of qualified immunity is greatly exaggerated. All it means is that an officer can't be sued for performing their duties. They can still be sued for acts outside their authority. And more importantly, qualified immunity has n
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Either the officers resigned in protest, or the union withdrew legal support in protest and the officers resigned as a result of that. Either way, the resignations were a result of union support for the criminals in their ranks.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Money is power. Extreme wealth means extreme power. That power can be used to screw people over even if their income looks nominally decent.
815.
by wat10000 6mo ago
I ignore job titles on resumes. I want to know what they did, I don't care what their company called them.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Same here, but I think even you and I would get annoyed if we had to write machine code directly. Some people like assembly, but I've never encountered someone who eschewed even that. If we look at automation beyond assemblers (e.g. co
817.
by wat10000 6mo ago
We’ve had partial automation in programming since the first assembler was written. I don’t think we’re more miserable than we would be if we still had to write machine code by hand.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Sounds like a skill issue, as the kids say. If you go too fast, you'll be sad. I don't buy it that 2WD makes you more likely to go fast.
819.
by wat10000 6mo ago
That's never been the case for me. Acceleration may be the issue I'm most likely to encounter, but the worst thing it'll do is inconvenience me. If traction is bad to the point where I won't be able to accelerate properl
820.
by wat10000 6mo ago
Traction is very rarely the limiting factor with regenerative braking even when it's only on the rear wheels.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
A few months ago when it snowed last time. I used to occasionally drive a V8 with no traction control in Wisconsin winters. It was fine, just took a little care. A modern electric drivetrain is about a million times better. Unpowered wheels
822.
by wat10000 6mo ago
I probably wouldn't buy a truck, but it's at least a possibility that I'd get one for hauling materials and towing around town. If I did, I'd prefer a RWD model just to save a little money. I find the modern obsession wi
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Be careful how you ask for it, too. A "NEMA 14-50 outlet" is likely to be quite a bit cheaper than "EV charger" and especially "Tesla charger."
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Not sure what living in Monaco has to do with gas prices in California.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I'm certain the number of children suffering illness or even dying due to air pollution from Texas refineries is more than zero. Not very high, I imagine, but not zero. There is a very real human cost to these things which we really li
826.
by wat10000 6mo ago
I completely agree, but there's a decent chunk of people out there who don't.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I think they mean that it's 4-6 weeks until they hit zero, accounting both for stored products and the current rate of production/imports.
828.
by wat10000 6mo ago
That is the solution used for most labor shortages. Typically when people talk about "shortages," they actually mean something where the market price is higher than they arbitrarily think it should be.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The evidence is plentiful and obvious. Numerous such factories operate in free countries where people have a choice about what they do for a living. The locals willingly choose the factory work in large numbers. A young woman who thinks she
830.
by wat10000 6mo ago
I suspect there would be broad agreement across the political spectrum that more education means later marriage and later first pregnancy. The disagreement would mostly be over whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
831.
by wat10000 6mo ago
Back in the stone age we called this "keeping up with the Joneses."
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by wat10000 6mo ago
When used well, it's not noticeable and nobody complains. The problem is only when it's used badly.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
China currently provides a the great majority of that stuff partly because nobody else has bothered to produce much. China doesn't have a majority of world reserves (although the USGS says it's close), just a majority of product
834.
by wat10000 6mo ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, but it actually is.
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by wat10000 6mo ago
The ire comes from the actual deception. Why do companies make products worse rather than bumping the price? It's not because they think that's what people prefer. It's because they hope that at least some buyers won't n
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by wat10000 6mo ago
It's important to remember that actually reporting news is a tertiary purpose of the news business. The primary purpose is to sell advertising. The secondary purpose is to get eyeballs onto their product, in order to facilitate the pri
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by wat10000 6mo ago
I'm not even looking at Lenovo's profits. I'm comparing their revenue to Apple's profit just to emphasize the difference in scale. By the numbers, Apple is a smartphone business that has a casual side hobby of also being
838.
by wat10000 6mo ago
Do they have anything like the same volume? Lenovo’s annual revenue is about half of Apple’s annual profit .
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by wat10000 6mo ago
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't have a clue what point you're making, then, beyond "some things are bad."
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by wat10000 6mo ago
An attacker might only have read access. Could be a read buffer overflow like Heartbleed, a partial sandbox escape, a sophisticated Spectre-type vulnerability, a cold boot attack, or something mundane like a core file taken from a crashed p

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