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by zyxley 10y ago
Consider the New England states, where there are a lot of organically-developed small towns that are low-density and low-population but still reliably avoid most of the problems in the article.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Seems a lot of the arguments is based around the fact that suburban developments are poorly designed, not that the idea of suburban life is flawed. Well, yeah. A well-designed area isn't "suburbia", it's "a sma
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by zyxley 10y ago
> However, fundamentally, there isn't really a great model of care for people who won't or can't believe that their ailment is psychological and requires psychological treatment To quote from the article: > “We detected
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by zyxley 10y ago
> The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit. The moral of the story: If you include any kind of port in something, people WILL plug things into it sooner o
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by zyxley 10y ago
> A famous example from another field is the case of the derivation of the double-helix model of DNA by Watson and Crick. Their advantage in the field, mostly regarded as a weakness before their discovery, was their failure – unlike all
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Like "He's a great guy but sasses his mother" sort of stuff. The article specifically notes incidents like improper searches and civil rights lawsuits. That's a far cry from the brush-off you're trying to give
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by zyxley 10y ago
Step 1: Give homeless people a home. As Utah found, just giving homeless people a home, without demanding any substantial money or qualification or whatever from them for it, reduced the number of long-time homeless by a huge percentage and
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by zyxley 10y ago
Do keep in mind that large companies have a very strong incentive to push stories of entirely legitimate lawsuits as 'frivolous'. The McDonalds coffee case is a classic example.
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by zyxley 10y ago
There's obviously some kind of bug here, and one that Apple should rightfully be lambasted over, but given that plenty of people, including me, have used Apple Music without anything local getting deleted, it's pretty obviously no
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by zyxley 10y ago
This is a weird claim to make when there are already legal self-driving cars out there that have no such capabilities.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> "But... if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present." This does not imply "a pleasant conversation of a few minutes on the street". This implies, given th
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by zyxley 10y ago
If you were to really anthropomorphize cars, I imagine that they'd consider humans as useful symbiotes that repair injuries and retrieve fuel from the deposits found here and there on the asphalt seas.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> I suspect at some point automatic drivers will become so precise they will truly be able to scare the shit out of passengers safely. You can pretty much get that already on closed test tracks, with self-driving cars that do 'speed
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by zyxley 10y ago
> And there will be rare instances of cars trying to drive to Ireland through the Pacific Ocean. It's silly to assume that a car is going to trust a mapping service over its own sensors saying "there's no road or path here
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by zyxley 10y ago
> I'd be more excited about autonomous cars if I could turn it off in the country (as some cars today allow) for recreation. Why assume that you won't be able to? Even the most elaborately "uncarlike" self-driving car
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by zyxley 10y ago
"We are going to try and question you without your lawyer present" is at best an implicit threat.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> however there wasn't a threat of implicit physical or social harm "We are going to try and question you without your lawyer" is absolutely an implicit threat.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Also, if it's the car itself doing the driving, you're free to look around the surroundings and say "find a turn onto ____ street going north" when you see something over there thataway that looks interesting. (My city h
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by zyxley 10y ago
Reacting with stress and worry to an implicit threat of physical or social harm is exactly like a healthy person.
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by zyxley 10y ago
And again... that's their problem, not hers. Her only reasonably prudent action at that point was to do nothing. Talking to the FBI directly instead of letting her lawyer handle it could have just made things worse. If the FBI actually
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by zyxley 10y ago
If we're going to veer into dumb analogies again, this would be more like driving to work after somebody leaves you a voicemail saying "I'm going to be suddenly braking in front of your car for your entire commute".
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by zyxley 10y ago
Why not? > I mean, is there precedent? For what? FBI agents harassing people? Just look at my comment about Hemingway.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Yes, and? Her best course of action was, at that point, still "let the lawyer handle it".
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by zyxley 10y ago
Being told "the FBI has decided to talk to you without a lawyer present" has a small but entirely real chance of resulting in personal or professional harm. Also, I don't know where you got "in the head" from.
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by zyxley 10y ago
The situation caused her anxiety, yes, but resolving it was still on the onus of the FBI, by way of talking to her lawyer.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Finding someone to ask them a question is not harassment. Refusing to talk to a person's lawyer, then saying "we will be attempting to talk to this person without a lawyer present", is absolutely harassment.
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by zyxley 10y ago
If we're going the analogies here, this is more like someone with a gun pointed at them worrying that they may get shot. "Stop worrying!" you say. "You can trust the person holding the gun! They almost never shoot people
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by zyxley 10y ago
> But they won't talk to the actual lawyer involved. Too bad. That's their problem, not hers.
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by zyxley 10y ago
If they wanted to know something about her code, they should have told her lawyer that—or, if they believed she'd be uncooperative, served a subpoena for the relevant information.
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by zyxley 10y ago
You're basically saying she should try and act like an imitation lawyer. That's stupid - that's the job of the actual lawyer involved.

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