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by splat 10y ago
I'm not in any way a Trump supporter or on the right more generally, but I can see why people on the right might be skeptical. The tech community did, after all, run Brendan Eich out on a rail when they discovered that he donated $100
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by splat 10y ago
I think your point here is a little disingenuous. (For reference I'm a longtime LP party member and have recently been getting very involved in the LP at the local level.) While it's true that the recent presidential nominees ha
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UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet(sacbee.com)
277 points by splat 10y ago|75 comments
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by splat 10y ago
Interestingly, another approach that was seriously considered was to build a fake "Havana airport" in southern Florida and have the planes land there instead. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/skyjacking&#
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by splat 11y ago
> That unelected, life-tenured judges exercise this much authority over us, that they routinely subvert our collective democratic will as expressed through elections and referendums, that people even defend their votes for President on t
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Reconstructing David Huffman's legacy in curved-crease folding [pdf](erikdemaine.org)
2 points by splat 11y ago|0 comments
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by splat 11y ago
> In the U.S., despite what officers tell you, you do not have to identify yourself when asked. This varies state to state. In many states you must identify yourself at the level of providing your name and address, but you are not requi
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by splat 11y ago
For a body that's nearly spherical like the Earth you do a multipole expansion. Most of the gravity comes from a monopole (just a point mass at the center of gravity). Then you calculate (or measure) the contribution to the gravitati
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by splat 11y ago
The reference to Renaissance art may be a reference to the relatively recently formed subreddit /r/accidentalrenaissance [1] where people post photos with unusual compositions that are reminiscent of Renaissance paintings. The ph
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by splat 11y ago
This shouldn't be confused with SmartFlix.com, which is like Netflix DVD, but for instructional and educational videos: https://smartflix.com/
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by splat 11y ago
The graviton is expected to be massless, but I don't think there's any information about the particle's rest mass.
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by splat 11y ago
There's a fair amount of activity here in central Ohio, as well. The most reliable source of discussion is that every few weeks the police department posts a notice about the locations where they will be having DUI checkpoints. Like
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by splat 11y ago
No, it would be the longitude. The average of sunrise and sunset will be local noon, and from that you get the longitude. To get the latitude you would need to see where the Sun rises and sets or see the stars, neither of which you could
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by splat 11y ago
This article goes into much more detail about why it became popular in the West to adorn textiles with pseudo-Kufic script during the Renaissance: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fashion/crusader-chic The short version
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by splat 11y ago
With regards to point 2, at the federal level things do seem to work very differently. Here is a flowchart outlining the steps you would have to take to reclaim your assets from federal forfeiture: https://reason.com/assets
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by splat 11y ago
I didn't want my excerpt to be too long, but Kozinski actually talks about this in the very next paragraph: "Even more troubling are doubts raised by psychological research showing that“whoever makes the first assertion about some
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by splat 11y ago
What the legal profession believes to be "beyond a reasonable doubt" and what the members of a particular jury consider "beyond a reasonable doubt" are two very different things. Judge Alex Kozinski wrote very well on t
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by splat 11y ago
> That means that 96% are guilty. That's beyond a reasonable doubt and probably not far from the best accuracy you can expect from an inherently fuzzy system. I disagree. A 1 in 25 chance that someone is innocent certainly seems li
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by splat 11y ago
I might have had it slightly wrong in my original comment. I think that only one of his brake lights was faulty and it's not illegal to have one broken brake light.
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by splat 11y ago
This principle was explicitly upheld by the Supreme Court in Heien v. North Carolina. A police officer pulled a car over because it had a broken brake light. During the stop, the police officer became suspicious that the car was carrying
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by splat 11y ago
I highly recommend anyone interested in this to read the article Criminal Law 2.0 by Alex Kozinski (a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). He presents twelve fundamental tenants of the criminal justice system that are flawed and s
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by splat 11y ago
> A property tax is generally progressive because the poor do not own real property. Won't those taxes still be passed to the poor as higher rent?
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by splat 11y ago
Shri Kulkarni said something along the lines of "Given a sufficiently large telescope even an arbitrarily idiotic astronomer can make a discovery."
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by splat 11y ago
Border guards and passports as we conceive them didn't really exist until the 20th century. The historian Paul Fussell wrote in his book Abroad : "[B]efore 1915 His Majesty's Government did not require a passport for depart
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by splat 11y ago
We use completely different accounts on completely different computers.
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by splat 11y ago
I used to use ad-block and later disabled it to support websites that generate good content, but now I'm going back. What's driven me back to ad-blocking software is that ad tracking makes it nearly impossible to buy gifts for a
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by splat 11y ago
I've never had much of an inclination to hunt myself, but I know a guy who periodically makes hunting trips in Africa. According to him the meat is usually given to local villagers. They also target older males in the group to give y
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by splat 11y ago
Even native music players don't get classical right. It's virtually impossible to shuffle through a classical music library because you always get plopped in some movement in the middle of a piece. I've always wished that t
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by splat 11y ago
My understanding is that airline pilots only use autopilot when at cruising altitude. At those heights they have several minutes to take over and fix a problem before crashing.
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by splat 11y ago
Interesting, too, that the only California city is Sacramento. This wasn't too long after the gold rush.

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