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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 co…

The professors ruining the students' life through traumatic actions done to the students, right? I'm sure that's what you meant.

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 a…

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 expectat…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13324514

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 ma…

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.

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 …

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, particular…

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 fo…

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…

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 t…

Facebook's hardware also includes the open compute project, which is quite the opposite of locked hardware

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…

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…

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 …

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 nu…

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 peo…

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.

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...

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 exp…

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 r…

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 d…

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 simulta…

Except he did provide context as he cited an article with a genuine criticism. Your suggestion is in all ways a loss of information.