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by wdewind 12y ago
No what? Nothing I said disagrees with that. Can we go back to the part where you explain how scanners at airports are a "blatant violation of our Constitutional rights"?
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Current US Code addresses air travel specifically. In 49 U.S.C. § 40103, "Sovereignty and use of airspace", the Code specifies that "A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airs
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The supreme court ruled 8-1 that strip searches in schools are unconstitutional. They have not. You'll have to point to a specific case because they have ruled for strip searches to be constitutional under essentially what amount
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by wdewind 12y ago
> The TSA is a government agency, not a private organization. Right, but the airlines are private and you are choosing to enter into a contract with them out of your own volition. The TSA is a regulator, but is not requiring that you fl
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by wdewind 12y ago
> It's just easier to point out the abuses when we have governing documents that explicitly say we shouldn't be doing the thing that we're doing. Can you explain what part of it is unconstitutional? Because while I'm
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by wdewind 12y ago
I don't think this is a possibility. While you could get some sort of feedback loop going (fish gets hit it gets shocked, fish hits it gets food or something), there would be no way for the fish to understand the massive amount of inf
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by wdewind 12y ago
I hear this a lot. Unfortunately the science does not support the idea that sitting on a ball all day will significantly strengthen your core, but it may habitually force you into a better posture (or it may not - be careful). Functionall
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by wdewind 12y ago
That's kind of a matter of semantics, I wasn't sure how to say it properly. "Directing" a social network? I understand they aren't literally paying for the nodes, but defining the protocol gives you quite a lot of
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by wdewind 12y ago
Yeah, as troubling as Facebook is, are you literally suggesting the W3C could do a better job running a social network via a federated protocol than Facebook with a centralized one? That SMTP and XMPP exist are just more proof for the value
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by wdewind 12y ago
Who is creating and maintaining the protocol with which the members of the federation speak to each other?
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by wdewind 12y ago
Not parent but... > There is a difference between "track you and show you ads" and just "show you ads." A print newspaper can show you ads. And a federation of networks can get together and decide to share what data t
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by wdewind 12y ago
This is increasing breadth of knowledge. I'm not sure I agree that if we are going for mental sharpness that breadth of knowledge is the thing we want to train. I'd look more into things that where the challenge is incrementally
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by wdewind 12y ago
> Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me. No, if you share something to a circle someone isn't in they wont see it, so they do let
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by wdewind 12y ago
It is actively damaging to the community for you to take snipes at studies when the reason you are criticizing the study is not only unnecessary criticism that any layman could provide, it is actually a misinterpretation of the study. You
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by wdewind 12y ago
This sounds like a success story to me, not a failure, despite the unintended consequences. I feel like the stories not finished though. Was the population able to survive without humans going forward? Or has it entirely died? Or someth
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by wdewind 12y ago
This attitude is not helpful and actively damaging. Small sample sizes in science do serve a purpose: to get larger studies funded. It's as if the top comment to every ShowHN post was: "Not at $200mm in funding. Nothing to see
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by wdewind 12y ago
Awesome, looking forward to a nice sunday read, thanks! :)
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by wdewind 12y ago
Why would people who are actively digging through phone calls not be digging through the relative low hanging fruit of emails? I'm thus using lack of interest in digging through emails as a proxy for lack of interest in this kind of
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by wdewind 12y ago
Your comic is really awesome but the top 20 or 30 pixels are cut off. Please fix it I want to read!! http://cl.ly/image/2J1h2b0B3C40
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by wdewind 12y ago
I'm sure this is a dumb question but why is it preferable to have a pilot in the cockpit if you could keep them on the ground?
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by wdewind 12y ago
> I write software(originally PC based and now web based) to make my life easier. That sounds cool can you expand?
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by wdewind 12y ago
My point is that the analysis of this data is not particularly cost prohibitive. If you want to take all the emails you have recorded and figure out if people are talking about unions you really really do not need something like Watson to
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by wdewind 12y ago
And yet we have millions (literally) of companies who do not employ this type of monitoring, despite it being trivial from within google apps. > WaaS will read everyone's email and parse conversations recorded by their desktops and
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by wdewind 12y ago
Not to be a jerk, but as far as I can tell you have 6 people who work for your company. I don't really think 6 people counts as a culture because you haven't really started to solve the coordination problems that define cultural
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by wdewind 12y ago
> This was the turning point for the company. Gebbia shared that the team initially believed that everything they did had to be ‘scalable.’ It was only when they gave themselves permission to experiment with non-scalable changes to the b
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by wdewind 12y ago
But you had a grandfather to give you wise words...
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by wdewind 12y ago
But is the government more incentivized? If so why?
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by wdewind 12y ago
Which would in turn create a massive opportunity for companies like Bayer to undercut the market. The concept that the government would be more incentivized and thus more likely to discover novel uses for a product than it's sellers d
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by wdewind 12y ago
Every doctor I've ever had has recommended that I have 2 drinks a day. "Heart healthy and liver neutral." Is that BS? Totally willing to hear that it is, especially if you have a source.
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by wdewind 12y ago
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/NEDS&NIS-DRM9/NEDS&NI... This says it's about a 10th of the cost of what you said. While I regardless agree with you that alcoholism is a problem, your solutions

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