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This is what I had hoped Android would be when I first heard about it before it was fully available. It looks like the OS still needs polish but not bad. And only $200 with a dock.

Here is a video walkthrough I found on youtube. I am not sure how up to date it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaJJ6o-mbM

>Are studies of this sort still being done, perhaps privately at Fb or other social networks?

According to my facebook feed they said no, they don't do anything unethical. To be serious though this is pretty scary. The power these companies have to manipulate society is not understood by much of society.

For some remote places that may not matter as much. For example in the rural Rocky Mountains you are limited on internet options. This could still be much needed competition.

In my experience sometimes this is true, sometimes it is not. In some cases when asking for more information it takes much longer. Some of the reasons:

After asking the question I get a meeting schedules where design by committee happens. The story or bug your working on gets completely redesigned. Sometimes in an illogical way. Requiring more questions.

When working remote, like most of us right now, now I will end up waiting for a long time to get a response. I then must start some other story/task/bug. Trying to context switch multiple complex tasks at some point your productivity slows down.

I have also received criticism for asking when I could figure it out myself even when figuring it out may have taken hours more time then just asking a yes/no question.

> RC gliders can stay in air basically forever flying back and forth in rising air along a hillside. It's called slope-soaring and it's great fun.

This was my thought also. The Andes Mountain Range are rather mountain range right next to the ocean. I would think that is a pretty ideal place for a bird to slope soar for a long distance.

I must admit I was wrong when I thought that people could handle wearing masks properly. I took my first trip out in months this weekend to visit family at their house in the mountains. We stayed away from people the whole time and only went out to get groceries. When driving through the town (its a small Colorado tourist town with one strip of shops) only about 50 percent of people had masks on at all. Of those with masks most had them around their chin or not covering their nose. I know that its not as simple to get a perfect air tight fit with n95/p100 but I am not talking about that. People literally just had them hanging on their chin while in large crowds. This was during the day and after dusk. I also noticed a person at the store pull their mask down to talk or sneeze which is the time when its most important to be covered.

I remember this being in the news but I especially remember the comedy movie that was very loosely based on the real experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EWikCCfHJw

I think he meant that some people would prefer the parking service experience. As in some people would prefer having a service where you can pay someone to watch and guard your car.

Doesn't this affect all international students (on student type visas) from any country?

I had one of the last models of matte display apple released. I eventually gave it up for the retina resolution.

In what way does it lead a reader to believe something that is untrue from the actual page? Are you saying that the actual page does not describe a vote to repeal proposition 209?

From the page:

> A "yes" vote supports this constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which prohibited the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.

Some of the text that would be removed from the CA constitution:

> The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

What was unique about a saw filters? Or was it some secret improvement of them?

I don't think people literally voted for the judge to lock up a single mother of 3 girls for 500 days because of unpaid traffic tickets.

They voted for a judge because they thought he would be "tough on crime", or some other slogan. I am really speculating here. The reason though is a lack of information on the voters part. I am not sure how we solve that problem though.

Judges like this should be put disbarred so that they cant practice law or serve time themselves.

Here is a good video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT72rKqTSso

All of these partners have special interest in the airspace for themselves and there is almost zero hobbyist representation. I fully expect that what these "partners" help to come up with will not include home built RC at all.

This is what comes to my mind from my personal experience. Your customer uses excel spreadsheets to coordinate work. They ask you to move what they are doing in excel into custom software that can be shared with other users. If your not careful as a developer you end up re-inventing excel.

What is more important is to understand what the customer/user actually needs and solve that problem. Often times customers do not understand how software could make their life better.

In other words the customer might be asking for a faster pencil (the current tool) but what they really need is an email system.

I agree. This will effectively place the HK people under Chinese laws that much more harshly punish political decent.

What happened when Macau was handed back from Portugal to China? Did the people of Macau just handle it differently? I do not recall hearing about protests or much from Macau.

I know Macau is very prosperous and has casinos so maybe the prosperity had an effect...

In my experience it has been that people expect scrum to be a magic bullet. Things are not going well... it will be better when we change to the new orgs process. Only the real reason its not going well is because of lack of planning and poorly written stories. The how you fix that is much more complicated.

I hope you are right but I don't think it will happen. I you are right that most Americans (US Americans) fall more to the center and resent both parties. If a candidate does not get on the R or D ticket though, I don't think they have a chance. I think it's possible we will have candidates who are not traditional. Trump jumped into politics and somehow won when no one expected it. He may have done so though by simply saying what he thought people wanted to hear. I don't think that we will see a libertarian or green party candidate win anytime soon.

It is a gray area and social media platforms sit somewhere in-between being a common carrier and a being a publisher. Your right there is no hard legal line but the more they decide what is allowed and what is not allowed the more they move farther away from being a common carrier.

> Social media companies don't become more liable just because they moderate.

Actually they do:

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-....

And also: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-...

I am sure China and the WHO will handle it swiftly. In all seriousness though there is a risk of this version of swine flu to become a pandemic there are many zoonotic strains that risk becoming a pandemic at any point. Some already infect humans but just have yet to adapt to spreading person to person yet. The word really needs to be ready to respond to situations like this. We are lucky covid-19 is not worse and hopefully will wake up society to the risks.

The thing is are these companies platforms like a phone company or are they publishers? Social media companies have argued that they cant be held liable for things posted to their platforms in the past and have tried to position themselves at neutral platforms. When they start to become the arbitrators of what is and is not to be posted they are no longer neutral platforms like the phone company. I do not recall a time when a phone company would cut your service because they found it to be distasteful or controversial.

That said I don't really know what these users were actually banned for saying. It could have been pretty bad and although I might not agree with what they said I hope that people are free to express their thoughts and ideas even though I might find them personally offensive.

> Chinese companies offer real competition to that. Chinese companies are very good for my political freedom.

I would not totally agree with that statement. In some ways I may be able to speak more freely as a foreigner on Chinese run platforms because China might not care to suppress the same news that American run platforms would try to suppress. I would not agree that they offer political freedom. The CCP does not believe in any level of free speech. For an example see the recent news. Not only do they want to suppress it but even outside China they try to erase that history.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/06/12/zoom-...

I do think there is something to this. Not just that they spend allot of money consistently but consistently stick with a project to see it to completion. In organizations that I have seen lack of progress they jump from one fire to the next. This means that they work on A for a few months and then suddenly drop it to work on B because B is higher priority. Only to later realize that A was more important and switch back. DARPA having a large budget also allows them to see through projects to the end.

Back in the early 2000s I did not have much money and but was able to get my hands on all sorts of slightly exotic and out of date computers for free. People just gave them away. I really enjoyed running Linux on old SGI or Apple computers. Over time however the novelty wore off and I realized that even old x86 hardware was cheaper and faster. Any people running Linux on some rare old hardware care to share why?

It can be a great learning experience though.

If you live in an authoritarian country that can disappear you for protesting you should turn off your phone or use a burner phone. I am not sure if protesters in places like Hong Kong know that China could be logging BT or WIFI mac addresses and later connect that address with a real owner.

I think the answer is to filter police who may have tendency to violence and racism out of the police force. There have been police who violate rights and the police departments keep them on even after the department or city pays huge settlements.

From my understanding police are able to leave departments and not necessarily have their complaint history follow them to new departments. So if they have racked up complaints then they could move to a new department and essentially have a clean record.

Some of the reduction on crime may have come at the cost of racially biased stop and frisk.

This data shows 9 out of 10 people stopped were innocent. It also heavily showed that black and latino people were stopped much more frequently. https://www.nyclu.org/en/Stop-and-Frisk-data

I am glad that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional. https://civilrights.org/edfund/resource/nypds-infamous-stop-...

Yeah, I fully agree. While I do not want government to have this surveillance I was curious about the problem with the tech itself. As in why was it being biased.

Let me start off by saying that I think we need to be careful with this type of tech. Assuming it never makes mistakes can be deadly.

As someone who has done some work with building deep learning models what is it that makes this unfairly target minorities?

Is it that the people who trained the model did not present enough example images of minorities during training? Is it because darker (presumably black) skin does not show up as well on poor quality videos (presumably because the metering of the camera exposed for the surrounding background which was bright)? Or is it the law enforcement using it was poorly trained and assumed the computer was infallible combined with possible prejudice they already had against minorities?

The first problem I would think could be easily solved. The second problem I would think would be rather difficult. The last would require extensive training but I am sure we humans would screw that up also.

So it could be that of those owners they had one or two tenants break a lease? This would be a much lower number of actual tenants breaking their lease but we do not know with the data provided.