knorby

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by knorby 8y ago
Rape and sexual assault come to mind, since that's what happens far more often than blackmail for petty ends. Plenty of studies have shown how bunk your claim is. It is a sexist conspiracy theory.
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by knorby 8y ago
The professors ruining the students' life through traumatic actions done to the students, right? I'm sure that's what you meant.
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by knorby 10y ago
That's absurd and offensive on a lot of levels... The thing anyone in a protected class wants is to not be judged on that as a factor one way or the other. People working at Uber are "struggling" because their perceived ticke
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by knorby 10y ago
A lot of TNC drivers have cameras pointed into the car, some (but not all) with signs indicating the passenger is being filmed. It is even more standard in real taxis. The expectation of privacy is more that such footage in any of the menti
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by knorby 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324514
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by knorby 10y ago
Bear Stearns didn't fail due to fraud, it failed due to not adequately tracking and assessing the risk of its assets. It is worth noting that there have been serious allegations made a few weeks ago against Snap that they are lying on
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by knorby 10y ago
This last presidential race more or less started 2 years ago. If he were to run for President for the election in 12 years, he'd more or less start running in 10.
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by knorby 10y ago
This story is about extreme storms. The example storm mentioned from 2014 occurred in the worst of the drought, caused all kinds of issues, but it didn't fix anything. Both future droughts and more extreme and frequent pineapple expres
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by knorby 10y ago
Uber has the garages for both Otto and these cars on Harrison, between 3rd and 4th streets, on the side of the lanes headed to I-80W/101S. When they need to park either, particularly the semi-trucks, they get people in vests to come ou
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by knorby 10y ago
Trump is also unique from pretty much anyone else in government with regard to conflict of interest law, as is part of the discussion now. Given the term mentioned was two years for Zuck, he couldn't be president and remain in control
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by knorby 10y ago
The Manhattan Project had nearly unlimited resources at a time of scarcity, and it took enormous engineering risks. The risk component is something easy to overlook, but these were enormous infrastructure projects by any standard done at sc
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by knorby 10y ago
Soil liquefaction is the real risk during earthquakes. Clay absorbs the energy and shakes a great deal more, and the soil can potentially destabilize further and allow structures to sink in.
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by knorby 10y ago
Facebook's hardware also includes the open compute project, which is quite the opposite of locked hardware
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by knorby 10y ago
Ballot props are far more regular in CA than headlines suggest. The requirement for signatures keeps dropping as voter turnout drops, and it doesn't take that many resources to get something on the ballot. An appealing title and descri
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by knorby 10y ago
These are baseless associations. Perhaps Diablo Canyon and PG&E aren't flawless and honest, but you aren't establishing risk. Do you have some reason to believe there is a meltdown risk? I don't really think a reactor bei
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by knorby 10y ago
That there is an earthquake risk doesn't mean it isn't properly dealt with. The plant is built to withstand significant seismic risk, 10 times more than the faults around it could produce. That's right there in the wikipedia
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by knorby 10y ago
The funny thing about the horrible post-dystopian future scenario is how many far greater nuclear threats could exist. Assuming the cause of said horrible future isn't caused by nuclear war already, what would happen to all the more po
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by knorby 10y ago
If you look at the totality of content many news organizations put out, there are a great number of slightly edited corporate press releases of the sort you are mentioning, and people read such things. It is also worth noting that FB trendi
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by knorby 10y ago
With roads north of the arctic circle. It looks like it would be difficult to do that without crossing into either Sweden or Finland too, which would be an issue for Snowden.
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by knorby 11y ago
Nationally-funded research that's published in expensive journals is still very much available to the rest of the world. That's true with about anything that's published...
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by knorby 11y ago
Boston Dynamics was a defense contractor before Google bought them. Despite what was said at the time of the purchase, the continuation that business relationship should be the expectation.
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by knorby 11y ago
I really wish any journalist would call out the DoJ marketing this strategy with ISIS. They tried this exact same strategy about 3 months ago with a meth dealer, but people don't respond the same to the DoJ trying to get evidence with
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by knorby 11y ago
Chicago, as an example, does have cameras on streets in certain areas. Evidence gathered by these is considered admissible without a prior warrant, and no one in the state really debates that, ACLU included ( http://www.aclu-il.or
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by knorby 11y ago
For a device meant to detect a something like a weaponized airborne agent over an area, I'm guessing Homeland Security would more likely detect all monitors being unplugged simultaneously than an actual airborne attack.
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by knorby 11y ago
Except he did provide context as he cited an article with a genuine criticism. Your suggestion is in all ways a loss of information.
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by knorby 11y ago
There is again absolutely no difference between phones and glass in this regard... Android phones now have trigger word detection ("OK Google") available as well, which is all that glass did. Again like a phone, the camera is onl
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by knorby 11y ago
Phones continue to be a bigger or equivalent privacy threat to the individual user and others than Glass ever was. The ability to discreetly take photos and short, low-quality videos also continues to be something highly possible with phone
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by knorby 11y ago
A great deal of the value to a manned mission to a planet, in terms of tangibles, exists in coming back. Humans can take samples easily, and a return mission would bring them back. Humans would significant contaminate any site they visit, a
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by knorby 11y ago
Well, there is Webpass for some in SF. I pay $60/mo for 100mbits up & down, and some buildings go up to 500mbits. No contracts, and I just hook up to an ethernet jack in my apartment. It is a local startup that is expanding elsewhe
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by knorby 11y ago
There isn't really much to see at UofC, and you can go to a monument at the site now. Most of the sites in the secret cities are decaying, cut off to the public or at extremely limited access, and the goal of the park is to preserve an

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