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Comment #49250288
I've been on both extremes - single carry-on (with no personal item, or a laptop in a bag solely to watch movies on the plane) for a two week vacation, and checked bag for a 3-day …
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Comment #49249289
It depends on if you can say things like "it is good they are supporting this" or "I'm glad they're doing this" or "good for them" without having to couch it in a bunch of stuff ab…
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Comment #49248925
You can tell how intellectually honest someone is when someone they hate makes a good point. It's possible to dislike (or even hate) Zuckerberg and understand that he's making a go…
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Comment #49243159
Sturgeon's Law is proved correct time and again. Most things are crap. Most people produce some crap in their lives. Some people only produce crap. Those people still need to eat b…
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Comment #49216394
You know the answer, they would just steal money from people they don't like the pay for everything, and when that runs out almost immediately they'll implement rationing and waitl…
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Comment #49213882
There is literally an entire cottage industry full of people whose entire livelihood depends on getting people medical treatment after it's been denied.
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Comment #49213877
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Comment #49212318
It's MIT licensed, you are free to do whatever you want to it, including removing the logo. They're basically just saying "we'd prefer you didn't do this, but we're not preventing …
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Comment #49212045
I didn't say they were comparable. But there is a common refrain that every single person who works in the trades has their body basically destroyed by the time they're 40, which i…
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Comment #49211996
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Comment #49211094
"Not brave enough" to shoot an innocent person in the back and then run away?
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Comment #49210666
> A lot of those guys have back pain, inflexible schedules, working in extreme weather, And a lot of them don't? A lot of people who work on a computer all day also have back pain …
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Comment #49210594
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Comment #49188873
You think the software around today is worse than software in the late 90s?
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Comment #49183924
It's because it's two completely different things - drone with a potential (unconfirmed) explosive found somewhere on the airport. Sounded like maybe inside somewhere, e.g. not jus…
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Comment #49170123
Look at the photo of the license plate. If a cop pulls up behind that car and runs the plate, or gets a call for "34 DTM," that car is 100% getting pulled over. Dragnet surveillanc…
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Comment #49159802
> But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. The license plate is 34 DTM. How would this have turned out …
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Comment #49159786
Sportsball reference, permaban? There's nothing wrong with "engaging with" the identity of someone when their identity is both reprehensible and negates any impartiality.
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Comment #49159770
> But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. The license plate is 34 DTM. There is nothing about Flock th…
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Comment #49157621
"Should" or "are required to?"
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Comment #49157576
Flock can be a terrible unconstitutional company and this particular incident can have nothing to do with that and not be Flock's responsibility in any way. Acting like anyone who …
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Comment #49157540
No license plate matching system required full, exact matches to return any hits. That has nothing to do with Flock.
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Comment #49157513
> Flock themselves mis-translated the plate, plain and simple, and should not be being used in production for alerting authorities on very serious matters. I am anti-Flock to the p…
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Comment #49157421
Marketing blogspam by an ambulance chasing attorney who stands to make a lot of money from this if public perception moves a certain way.