defilade

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by defilade 11y ago
Not really. In a future of self-driving cars most people won't even own their own car so most of these cars will be shared - essentially automated taxis. So after the car drops you off it will go to its next call or park somewhere unti
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by defilade 12y ago
A police sniper with a magnified scope isn't there to provide "crowd control" in the sense that you're describing, i.e., getting up close and personal with a crowd. They'd be providing overwatch from a distance. Tha
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by defilade 12y ago
Wow, lots of absolute statements there. "Real" soldiers do sometimes use weapon-mounted optics for observation and target ID. They don't always end up shooting the people they're looking at. Your statement about cops sim
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by defilade 12y ago
Think of it this way: you're in jail and you're talking to your lawyer about what he thinks the prosecutor's strategy will be, and how he's going to defend you against it. That has nothing to do with evidence admissibili
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by defilade 12y ago
And it's not like store security isn't going to be watching you. There's a good chance they'll detain you as soon as you try to walk out the door.
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by defilade 12y ago
That's absolutely right, and in the few articles I've seen that break out Manhattan, it's still significantly more expensive than SF. Of course, that's old news, right? And being old news, "Manhattan is the most exp
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by defilade 13y ago
Uber has higher-quality cars and you get to rate the drivers so they tend to be a little more polite and professional. Not that taxis can't have high-quality cars and drivers but it's more of a crap shoot.
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by defilade 13y ago
I'm a big user of Workflowy and I felt the same about Gingko at first. The keyboard shortcuts help a lot though because I can get my thoughts down on paper much more quickly.
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by defilade 13y ago
The shortcuts help a lot. Thanks! Now I'm starting to get the hang of it.
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by defilade 13y ago
Thanks. Also, just now I was seeing other people's cards showing up in my tree. When I switched trees, it corrected itself.
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by defilade 13y ago
Interesting idea. Can you make it so that when I click in the card it automatically goes into edit mode? Having to click an "edit" button really slows things down.
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by defilade 13y ago
For proof that there's a transparency problem, I'd want to look at hundreds of FOIA requests across 10-20 categories, content of news conferences and press conferences, level of press access to government officials, responsiveness to press
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by defilade 13y ago
You have three instances...that meets your hurdle for statistical significance?
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by defilade 13y ago
Just saying that a single example doesn't prove a pattern. Yeah it's a little weird, but out of the context of other FOIA requests it doesn't make much of a point.
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by defilade 13y ago
I believe the issue is what happens to all the other data that's not related to the intent of the surveillance. For example, if you're talking to your spouse about a health issue, your sex life, etc. If that's not the target of the surveill
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by defilade 13y ago
I'm not sure that the handling of a single document, especially one that happens to be about intelligence gathering procedures, should be THE standard by which we judge transparency.
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by defilade 14y ago
It's a complete and utter fallacy to say that the government doesn't have the authority to kill people without due process. The police and Federal law enforcement do it all the time. It's called justifiable homicide.
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by defilade 14y ago
Newsflash: magazines aren't restricted items because they're useless without guns. Which are made of metal. Newsflash #2: we've had plastic magazines for years already.
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by defilade 14y ago
Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?
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by defilade 14y ago
It's not an issue of handguns vs. drones, or rifles vs. tanks. It's an issue of ~20 million households holding 300 million guns. In the (admittedly unlikely) event that someone has tyrannical aspirations, those numbers present a real obstac
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by defilade 14y ago
If "the only thing 'preventing a dictatorial government' is an educated and informed electorate", then we're screwed.
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by defilade 14y ago
Here's the calculus from the legislator's perspective: regardless of what you pass, no one will know for years if it worked. In that case you might as well do something dramatic that provides you with a big victory lap and a resume item for
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by defilade 14y ago
You never know when you might come across a person or idea that might put you back on track. Telling people you're close to closing up shop completely closes off those opportunities.
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by defilade 14y ago
You're just a little obsessed with parsing his every word. Maybe he did find Groupon's growth absolutely disgusting. Maybe he didn't. Either way, he was asked to participate and give advice, which is what he did. One can do that and not
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by defilade 14y ago
> The ideas in this article are weakly argued and poorly researched. Dude we're talking about an article in thestar.com, not an academic journal or a book. The business phenomena he's describing are not new and have been researched els
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Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics(dailyanarchist.com)
2 points by defilade 14y ago|0 comments
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by defilade 14y ago
I can't believe anyone would install their software without having any idea who this guy is.
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by defilade 14y ago
The job requirements and qualifications for an entrepreneur and a hedge fund analyst are so different that it's not necessarily inconsistent
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by defilade 14y ago
Yes and a lot of finance jobs fall into this category including investment banking, hedge funds and VC firms. The more selective ones will typically only consider people from a few schools. It's just a way filter.
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by defilade 15y ago
The article is full of bold assertions with no (or inadquate) evidence: "TED is not simply “engaging” and “entertaining” but a specific type of entertainment that is increasingly out of touch and exclusionary." How do you measure "out of to

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