Don't get a greyhound. Odds are the burglar wouldn't even know my dog was there.
Fake Dog for Home Security
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#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't like burglars, but a death penalty without trial is a bit much. And what about accidents and misunderstandings? I'm tired of this trope, repeated several times in this, that is used to excuse people breaking into houses. Anyone breaking into a house while people are in it are not burglars, they're attackers . It's perfectly okay to defend your family with lethal force. Criminals breaking into the car in the…
There are large parts of world, where this will get you to prison.
> There are large parts of world, where this will get you to prison.
There is no country that I know off where defending your kids against a successful home invasion will send you to prison.
None.
Re: Fake Dog for Home Security
#353> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals. My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.
Came here to say that :) Our recently-adopted rescue terrier will bark at anything. Right now he's especially targeting birds that dare to land on our (his!) bird feeder.
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#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
My interpretation was that "the rest of the world" is meant to refer to "the rest of the countries in the world" not "the rest of the people in the world". To say that the US has a worse peace index than the rest of the countries in the world is still hyperbole, but it's not so far off the truth. The US has the 129th best peace index of 163 countries, right after Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Azerbaijan.
> My interpretation was that "the rest of the world" is meant to refer to "the rest of the countries in the world" not "the rest of the people in the world". Even by that measure it is false. The only continents less violent than the one the United States resides are Europe, Oceania and Antarctica. The United States isn't even the most violent country in its own continent, that would be Mexico. So really the unnecess…
I wrote "countries", not "continents". I also have not claimed that the US is the most violent country.
By the metric you've presented as a yard stick for violence (Peace Index), there are only 33 countries which are worse off than the US.
Sure, those 33 countries mean the US has a worse peace index than ~80% of countries, not 100%. I concur that (based on this metric alone) the US is not the #1 most violent country.
Having said that: being worse than 80% of countries on any metric, in my opinion, is easily enough to be able to say "worse than the rest of the world" and have a reasonable expectation for that to be understood as hyperbole.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kids were brought up as the reason that pools are fenced. Because adults tend to have motor controls and an understanding of their ability to swim, so pools aren't usually a danger to adults. By contrast, people of all ages can be bitten by vicious dogs ... and shouldn't be. Yet, they are, in large numbers. Dogs go to the vet. Dogs jump over fences, they run out open gates. People go to junkyards. There are many oppo…
That does sound serious. I wonder if there are any anti junkyard dog grassroots movements that one could join to help put an end to this madness?
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#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is your claim that there is a class of people who invade homes while carrying a firearm, but will only use it if the other person also has one?
Yes, assuming "use" means pull the trigger while aiming at a person. If you get threatened by a gun then you'll be more likely to shoot. Do you find that unlikely to be true?
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reminds me of the argument about sentience lately. Why can't a neural network be sentient if all our actions have been trained by interacting with the world since birth?
The operative word in your comment being "actions". What "actions" can (current generation) neural networks undertake? Can they initiate anything? Can they choose their own learning material? Can they even choose when or whether to repeat a certain training set? There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]: experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measur…
A lot of human "choice" is actually just a neuron firing or chemical in the brain going off
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#358> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals. My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.
Certainly a feature. I recommend a sensitivity level which uses breeds for each level. I further recommend the highest sensitivity be "Great Pyrenees" as I can attest my dog barks at every false positive.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, assuming "use" means pull the trigger while aiming at a person. If you get threatened by a gun then you'll be more likely to shoot. Do you find that unlikely to be true?
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
You're evading the question. When you ask me to explain my reasoning I would normally expect you to do the same. Or just say you don't care enough to properly reply, that's also fine by me. Now you spin it back to me by implying I am some sort of idiot instead, which is not very nice.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with the majority of your statement, but I would personally shy away from a specific "Monitored by company" sign, because I try to avoid advertising my security procedures. "Oh, they use Y instead of X? Guess I'll need to bring that other device, instead." I suppose a home owner could be really tricky, and just buy the sign for Y, but have a security system for X? Oh! On a technical note, I was watching a TV…
Yes, there is some truth to it. Many older systems communicate with the central station over an ordinary telephone line. More modern systems will use either a cellular communications link or VOIP. But, the real truth here is that most criminals are pretty unsophisticated and won't even bother cutting phone lines or other cables. Most break-ins also happen through the front door, so, although it sounds great (and it i…
Interesting! I hadn't considered that. :)