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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…

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 provi…

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 l…

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…

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.

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 o…

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 i…

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.

The shortcuts help a lot. Thanks! Now I'm starting to get the hang of it.

Thanks. Also, just now I was seeing other people's cards showing up in my tree. When I switched trees, it corrected itself.

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.

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 pr…

You have three instances...that meets your hurdle for statistical significance?

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.

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, …

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 transparenc…

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 tim…

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.

Who cares if a magazine can be picked up by a metal detector?

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…

If "the only thing 'preventing a dictatorial government' is an educated and informed electorate", then we're screwed.

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 th…

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 opportunitie…

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 gi…