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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 …

Because “political work” is an oxymoron

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.

Thanks. That indeed was one of the questions I had in my mind--"what changes once a diagnosis or label has been affixed?"

thanks so much for sharing this.

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 …

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 supp…

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Access logs are meaningless when police are only accountable to themselves and unions shield them from any disciple of their wrongdoings

I was an infoseek.com man myself, but we probably still could have been friends.

Melodramatic much?

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 connotat…

I would assume so since much of the code seems to have been stolen in the first place

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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 beyo…

>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. Poo…

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…

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 u…

“Reasonable” is subjective to the wearer

Oh look, only took 7 comments to find someone that is making the assertion that bad UX is a partisan issue.

“Cool clock, Ahmed”

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. Ne…

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 up…

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.

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…