polartx

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by polartx 1y ago
This is exactly what has happened with the same junk science tech that “Shotspotter” uses. There are recorded incidents of police leaning on support staff to alter the location of a potential detection. And their junk science software is cl
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by polartx 1y ago
Because “political work” is an oxymoron
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by polartx 1y ago
I got tired of hearing the same spiel about how dangerous motorcycles are, so I used a stencil to airbrush “organ donor” on the side of my helmet along with my blood type.
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by polartx 1y ago
Thanks. That indeed was one of the questions I had in my mind--"what changes once a diagnosis or label has been affixed?"
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by polartx 1y ago
thanks so much for sharing this.
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by polartx 1y ago
I’d like to piggyback on your comment to get your (and broader audiences) opinion on a situation I’m facing: I’ve recently learned my 5 year old is exhibiting behavior problems in kindergarten. His teacher has put the notion in his mother’s
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by polartx 1y ago
The weakest link of the proposed technology like this is guaranteed fallibility of the folks using it, ie the judicial system and the asymmetric power dynamic against those it supposedly serves. This is a very common scenario: a sheriffs de
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by polartx 1y ago
Access logs are meaningless when police are only accountable to themselves and unions shield them from any disciple of their wrongdoings
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by polartx 2y ago
I was an infoseek.com man myself, but we probably still could have been friends.
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by polartx 2y ago
Melodramatic much?
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by polartx 2y ago
Or if the build quality of their vehicles was not up to par with US regulation or the quality standards the US market is accustomed to..which seems very possible given the connotations generally shared domestically around the phrase “made i
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by polartx 2y ago
I would assume so since much of the code seems to have been stolen in the first place
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by polartx 2y ago
If she was falsifying data, I must assume it was to support a biased hypothesis she held however the article doesn’t elaborate on what conclusion her fraudulent data supported beyond this being a “behavioral science” study. Can anyone fill
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by polartx 2y ago
>The Florida Cabinet on June 12 approved *swapping* this 324-acre parcel of Withlacoochee State Forest for 861 acres of timberland in Levy County, according to state documents. Poor journalists. It must be hard trying to manufacture outr
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by polartx 2y ago
You are interpreting “fundamental” as ‘highest priority’, which is not the only, (or most commonly expressed) definition of the word. Fundamental is also defined as “so basic as to be hard to alter, resolve, or overcome.” I would argue that
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by polartx 2y ago
I was reading something recently about pleading the fifth, (like if someone at the hospital was called to testify), I read that in criminal cases, pleading the fifth could not be used against the defendant. However in civil cases, jurors ar
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by polartx 2y ago
“Reasonable” is subjective to the wearer
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by polartx 2y ago
Oh look, only took 7 comments to find someone that is making the assertion that bad UX is a partisan issue.
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by polartx 2y ago
“Cool clock, Ahmed”
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by polartx 2y ago
About once a year I waste about a day shopping for earbuds that would allow me to work in a noisy environment without projecting that noise into my phone calls/conference calls. Never found an adequate product. Seems like noise cancell
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by polartx 2y ago
I have an LG smart tv that is less than 2 years old. I will never buy another LG tv. Inputs randomly activate for no apparent reason. The stupid thing is incessantly nagging for updates, and will superimpose its nag window over any/all
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by polartx 2y ago
Yes. And they instructed him as per their RMA process not to send in accessories such as cables when he was RMAing the original defective power supply.
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by polartx 2y ago
I scoured the article and could not find *which* ELD platform the “researchers” were using as for basis of their fear mongering, I couldn’t find it! I read the referenced “research” paper and could not find it there either. Instead they pai
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by polartx 3y ago
> An "A" would be innovating above and beyond the framework they've been given. >If they want to advance, they need to be an A - and *everyone needs to identify them as an A.* So in order to advance, you need to be over
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by polartx 3y ago
This is why you’re wrong: [Dowling v. United States]( https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/ ) Tl;dr: Supreme Court ruled bootlegged/pirated media does not constitute theft as it do
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by polartx 3y ago
Yes. Mostly because the article strangely veered into a tangent of talking about rare earth elements instead of the story behind the title. Very little was expounded on about the banker, or the mine.
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by polartx 3y ago
>the extreme right wing community who attacks parked Tesla vehicles I’ve never heard of that before…sounds made up
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by polartx 3y ago
That is correct, and I feel like it supports my point..in both of those examples the incumbent empire was weakened by infighting—-a non unified front. I’m not as steeped on the Aztecs as I am the Incas, but Pizarro and Diego de Amargo arriv
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by polartx 3y ago
>no guilt. No reparations. Have you ever wondered why the European North American settlers didn’t have a unified indigenous empire to contend with, such as could be found in Central and South America? (Ie Incan or Aztec). I would posit t
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by polartx 3y ago
It has always been my understanding that the near extermination of the American buffalo never had to do with over hunting. Every bit of industry during that era was centered around westward expansion. The biggest deterrent to expansion was

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