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> One big problem is that the elected after being elected, choose to not follow or dilute those promises. There is no accountability. So time and again, democracy fails as they just change their minds after being elected.

One solution to this is more direct democracy. When people can propose initiatives and vote on them in referendums, it is harder for politicians to ignore that agenda. This works pretty well in Switzerland.
We should expect police to us less use violence and improve their crowd management and deescalation skills. The increasing militarization of police is a trend that must be reversed. However, we should not neglect the other side of the equation either. This article is, in large part, about just that.

The article points out that many protests in the U.S. went smoothly through the practice of police and protest organizers meeting and jointly managing protests, but that this practice fell into disuse after the 1999 Seattle WTO meeting in which protesters violated the negotiated terms and police responded with violence.

While some recent (and ongoing) protests have turned violent, many didn't. In the coming months we'll have time to do a postmortem. I strongly suspect spontaneous protests without organization will be found to have the most potential for violence, while those with organizers committed to self-policing and, ideally, cooperating with police will be found to have fared much better.

Individual people may be intelligent and responsible, but crowds have their own rules of behaviour and need to be managed. Protests are more dangerous when unplanned or when their organizers give no thought to self-policing.

There will always be organizers who want violence because it reliably brings press coverage and attention to their protests, but social media is also creating new problems. Coordinating a large number of people to show up at the same time and place used to take considerable planning and effort. When you have to work hard just to get the even to happen, why wouldn't you plan how it will unfold as well? Now a couple of tweets or posts on the right reddit subs will suffice. How can police meet with the organizer of a protest when it's really just some dude who had a lot of social media followers and might not even bother showing up himself?
@dang ppl on both sides of this discussion have lost all decorum. Can we have a moratorium on this subject until ppl calm down enough to not resort to reddit style replies and responses that fit better in 2005 blog comment sections which are essentially just flamewar bait
In naming Autopilot, Tesla very well knew that most people would equate it with Full-Self Driving.
Trump Pledges to Deploy Troops Across the U.S. Amid Protests
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False-flag instigators, intentionally escalating in bad faith to provoke a violent response from protesters and police alike.

EDIT - Watch the instigating jerk flip off the protesters who dared confront him as he triggers what would become a failure cascade of protests that had been peaceful for hours.

https://reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/comments/gtn3ps/video_of_the...
I'll be surprised if over time a few million people in the US don't end up with blood clot related complications from having mild cases of Covid. I suspect the healthcare industrial complex will wave their hands at the notion that Covid caused the damage (they do this with anything inconvenient to their interests, like the millions of people damaged by Cipro, a drug they've handed out like candy to millions of people for decades), it'll largely get buried/lost in the outsized cardiovascular & other health problem numbers in the American population.
I am aware more than most. I am a warrant officer in the US Army entering my 5th overseas deployment.
> The relevant discussions are here

Squirmy
the driver applied the brakes at the last moment
50% of ICU patients isn't even close to 50% of infected though, so it's important to keep that in mind.
Meanwhile, in Seattle:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gu3qq1/cop_just_ca...

How would you describe the sheriff casually tossing the tear gas grenade as anything but cartoonishly evil? How would you describe his co-workers, holding the line, without even looking twice at his behaviour?
Small but important distinction: the people sparking the looting/fires/etc seem to be mostly white.

And the only place you're going to have a chance to see the truth on this is in conspiracy forums and on Twitter. How trustworthy is it? Well, it is typically video footage, and it is highly unlikely to be coordinated reporting, so judge for yourself how seriously you want to trust it. But I have watched and read lots on this, and anything I have seen is that the people stirring up shit and instigating violence or destruction, are white, and the people trying to stop them verbally or physically, are black or white.

Here is a good livestream that typically shows 5 to 9 streams simultaneously, depending on where the action is. This is as close to knowing reality as you are going to get. If you watch the "trustworthy" news media, you are maybe going to get some very small amount of truth, but you also run a very big chance of getting a framed version of reality that is often the opposite of what is true.

Look for yourself, think for yourself. Do not outsource these things to authorities who have well demonstrated that they are untrustworthy.
Copy and pasting from a related reply within the group:

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1) There's been no decision on redactions. We're still standing up proj mgmt tools after 1000 members in 4 days, much less "this will be in it, this will be in it"

2) Someone else, not the owner, was largely advocating for police inclusion b/c of the impact of the data. Again, no decision made here about "no cops/yes cops"

3) Law professor is the legal lead, with about a team of 5+ researchers (mix of law students, etc.)

4) True. Marketing = bad, is that the point?

5) True. The author explained it to the T, there wasn't much there there.

6) Creator of the group is with frac.tl, the rest of the 'leadership team' has zero to do with it.

7) So what's the deal.... too centralized around the creator's professional group, or too dispersed management to people away from people that aren't in her group.
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At some point society will realize that this “de-escalation” would be better served by social workers without guns.
>Almost never.

Are there any videos or stories at all over the past few days?

There have been reports in some cities of the actual good cops here and there taking part in the protests and actually looking like they want to improve things in their communities, but I haven't heard of anything where the police have intervened on cops that were escalating violence and brutalizing protesters.

It would be a pretty big turning point in the protests if this is actually happening
Milgram Experiment
These days yes, mostly. Mind you, I studied abroad and when I graduated and first moved back, that really want the case. I remember in my first job, my tech lead explaining how I had to do something, and he said something along the lines of "so you take all of those and shove them into an array" in our native language (Bulgarian). I shaked my head in approval, having absolutely no clue what on earth an "array" was. I checked it in Google translate 5 minutes later and realized I'd have to learn a ton of terminology. Eventually I caught up more or less, though ~10 years later I still get surprised about some terms and expressions occasionally. I'm still far from being able to freely describe and explain stuff in academic terms in my language.
Very unpopular opinion: wait til the military steps in, then you'll see how much more ineffective the violent cousin is.
It would be pretty much impossible to talk about CS in Polish as even the universities teach CS classes in English.
> We should expect police to us less use violence and improve their crowd management and deescalation skills.

What about american history would lead you to this expectation?

That said, I like the rest of your comment. It’s somewhat disturbing to hear people compare the rage of the crowd with the individual intentions of folk who break windows, raid to bring things home, and set things on fire—you’re allowing one person to derail thousands.
The Model 3 is just so fun to drive that I rarely bother turning it on to begin with!
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I’ve test driven one and seriously considered buying one. It’s still on my list but other financial goals are taking priority. I had some opportunity to play with the autopilot and I think it does quite well but I stayed engaged with driving the whole time. Mashing the pedal was just too much fun to leave autopilot on for long.

These repeated accidents of hitting things that should be avoided though seem to indicate that the drivers are out of the loop enough that they don’t intervene when they clearly should. There is definitely a disconnect somewhere either in the attentiveness of the driver or the driver’s understanding of when to intervene or both.
That's pretty insensitive.

Non-English speakers have the option to learn English. It takes a couple of years, but I know a lot of people who have done it. And I can't think of a better investment.

Disabled people do not have the choice to make their disabilities go away. We have to learn to live with it. Compared to what I've already done to try to make my life normal, learning Russian, Urdu and Swahili simultaneously would be much easier.
The US has the highest death rate from COVID in the developed world, leaving over 100K dead, a lot of which has been centered in long term care facilities.

As of early May, Taiwan has had 7 total deaths.

Taiwan is what “realistically” not trying to kill your grandmas looks like.
That’s great to hear. Is there any page that documents the architecture of pants? I understand build systems of various kinds quite well, but I can’t tease out the design philosophy behind pants, especially how the different target types / plugins end and the “core” begins.

I’m going to dig into that 2.0 link though!
I appreciate your thorough response. I was questioning the usage of the phrase "know 100%" because I'm very curious about the relationship between "knowing" something and "believing" something. I would argue that there is no such thing as "knowing". And, I think this is an important distinction to make because the common view is that science is somehow fundamentally different to faith, and so we can magically trust it. Actually, science is simply the presupposition by faith that one's senses, mental computations, memory, and experiments are accurate. That's not to say that there aren't qualitative differences, but fundamentally it still rests on faith.

To the extreme, we don't 'know' that 1 + 1 = 2. In fact, you can't be quite certain that you just read that equation correctly. Or perhaps, after you read it your memory (mental or computer) was corrupted: it actually said 2 + 1 = 2.

You believe that 1 + 1 = 2. First, you believed it because someone told you (you trusted your ears). And then you reasoned about it for yourself, and you saw how if you have 1 object and another 1 object and combine them, then you had 2 objects (you trusted your eyes). And eventually you figured that this equation is perfectly knowable because it a metaphysical truth, but you still had to trust your mind to be infallible for that. Even if we believe 1 + 1 has always equaled 2 in the past, we have to take on faith that that is still true in this moment.
The conversation is quite mixed up in Startups where I'm from. In enterprise it's mostly native language.
Depending on where you work one or the other will sound strange to you.

I'll put some examples on my native language: Spanish (I'm from Argentina).

Enterprise: "Pensamos desplegar a producción este Sábado".
Startup: "Pensamos deployar a prod este Sábado" (deployar => to deploy).

In the startup scene there are lot of English terms commonly used: "logueado" (to be logged in), "rollbackear" (to rollback), feature, endpoint, queries, cache, "checkear" (to check). Some of them are used to sound cool, other just because it's easier.

Lately I'm trying to stop mixing things up and I notice it brings a certain deep to my understanding of things. As if something is lost in translation.
Yes. Don't let anyone become an officer. Raise officer pay and benefits. Also, give credit to the police have done well and are well intentioned, which must be throughout the majority of the population, otherwise the US would have become unlivable decades ago.
I've been using Windows and before I'd get a Linux VM, but now I can just do it through WSL. Yes, technically WSL and Windows itself runs on Hyper-V (a type 1 hypervisor) as VMs, albeit with virtualized GPU passthrough. I use WSL on my laptop, but on my desktop, I use Proxmox with Windows, macOS and Linux VMs, each with their own GPU passed through with one for the host. Makes it super nice to see all three OS on one ultrawide monitor, especially if I'm testing desktop apps (usually written in Flutter).
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It seems the equivalent of saying come for a longer tourist holiday, and perhaps one day you could also become a citizen, with no pathway of course.
Gee, that version (which wikipedia also links to) is very mangled. "Is not a patrons my lord" ?!

The letter concludes with:

Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.

Having carried on my work thus far, with so little obligations to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation,

My Lord,

Your lordship’s most humble,

Most obedient servant,

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

https://archive.org/details/beautiessamuelj00keargoog/page/n...
Well then ...

A friend of mine was driving home up 101. There was a large boat sitting in her lane. She thought her brain was playing tricks on her but eventually figured out there was actually a boat sitting on the highway. She was able to avoid the boat.

That's the problem with rumors.
Huh, on the balance of things refusing to use such a system would cost a lot of lives.
> MLK does not rule out violent resistance on moral grounds, but practical ones.

This is my point. People are quoting MLK in order to suppress or silence protests, even though there's a vast difference between morally condemning riots and disagreeing on its effectiveness as a tactic.

Also, importantly, this was ~50 years ago. How long should people have to wait peacefully for justice? Most of the progressive points of MLK have not been fulfilled.
"Police commanders ... WANT mayhem"

That's what I responded to. I'm curious if you truly think the people that I listed want to see their home towns on fire.
Ach, my bad. I do remember discussing this well before last week.
There is a problem here, in that some times the business concepts do not exist in English.
Cars should not detect "obstacles". They should detect roads. They should not seek _exceptions_ to driveable space through classification- or segmentation-first strategies. They should only detect driveable space. Full stop.

You either detect a full-stopping-distance's worth of clear road through reliable (non visual) ranging with dense enough samples to preclude wheel-catching voids ... or you will continue to run into "objects" which slipped through your classifier.

I can accept reduction in this margin (e.g. in dense traffic flow) when it is first shown to work with margin.
The only one I've seen was where two cops were restraining someone while being filmed. One of the cops had his knee on the arrestee's head/neck, and after some time his partner (administering cuffs perhaps) noticed it and wrenched his knee away.
You Americans need to be way more angry about what has been happening in your country for decades (centuries even). Way more angry.
1: Your scraper must be anonymizing data that it gathers, removing identifiable information to prevent disclosure of names of arresting officers or cited citizens.
https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Police-...

5: It's still an SEO tactic that should raise flags. Here are the names of the past posters if anyone wants to dig:

Matt Meadows:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191118214540/https://lawsuit.o...

Kristen: https://web.archive.org/web/20200527213804/https://lawsuit.o...

Ryan: https://web.archive.org/web/20200518181855/https://lawsuit.o...
No, the driver applied the brakes
I think we can have a civil discussion without resorting to slogans and rallying cries.
one man's information is another man's noise. =)
> Obama jailed a journalist? Who?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/shocked-by-th...

I don't see anything about jailing them - and I remember reading a story awhile back about but can't find it. So if I'm wrong on that point, I stand corrected.

With that said - Obama definitely attacked journalists from DC. Spying on them, following them, etc.

> Trump removing various people

Those people work at the Presidents discretion. All previous Presidents have fired staff at various stages for various reasons.

Trump is a businessman who is known for firing people... You may have seen his Reality TV Show. His catch line? YOURE FIRED!

https://www.rollcall.com/2017/05/10/a-list-of-notable-presid...

He has the ability to fire people at will.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165983

> The final vote was ten in favor and ten opposed, so Adams, exercising for the first time his Constitutional authority to break a tie, settled the matter in favor of the president’s exclusive removal power.

> The president’s authority to dismiss an appointee is now settled law, but with the text unclear, it had to be settled by the First Federal Congress.

> autocracy

Trump doesn't have the "unlimited powers" of a King or a Dictator though... you can claim it but he's got the same power as those before.

You could argue about "incremental" movements... but Trump hasn't moved the needle any further that I know of. Previous Presidents? Definitely... but Trump has been using everything previous Presidents have used - from Obama on back.
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I couldn't really navigate your blog easily. Any posts you'd like to point me to that you think are good?
Technology is machinery (sometimes virtual) which makes a task easier than the alternative. It's used for whatever the owner decides it to be:

It can be used for improving life e.g.; Electricity, Engines, Mechanisation of Agriculture, The Internet, Sanitation.

It can also be used for controlling life e.g.; Propaganda, Mechanisation of War, Internet Addiction.

"If you can't control the technology, then it's controlling you" - Open Source Enthusiast
Are you saying they haven't? The DOJ considers anti-abortion activists domestic terrorists and treats them as such.
If it increases their power and budget - sure! It's not as if they were personally affected.
Adding LIDAR would make the millions of cars on the road a liability. You'd have to make those people whole and basically recall the cars. If you can 'make it work' with cameras, you save millions.
Would it really make a difference if libraries could make copies of their most borrowed books? The book is still being shared by hundreds of people.

Libraries didn't get the right to make copies of books when copyright was invented, simply because libraries didn't need an exemption - it's cheaper to buy another copy than to maintain printing capability.
As a pure layman, I would think that the 4th amendment would preclude cops from getting a warrant and then stealing everything on site. It says a lot about the country when we need MORE legislation and more rulings to prevent such a thing from happening.
Indeed, but there is no shortage of evidence that this disease is more damaging than the flu.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/covid-19-...

> “These data demonstrated that the recovered SARS patients had a poor quality of life 12 years following recovery, and were susceptible to inflammation, tumors, and glucose and lipid metabolic disorders,” researchers wrote.
Unlike those upstanding citizens who brandish guns on the capitol steps...

Funny story about that, open carry is illegal in Washington state because the BPP did that exactly once.
What about small business owners and members of the public subjected to violence and looting, who keeps them safe? I don't care about the police or protesters, they put themselves in this situation knowing too well what they are putting themselves into. But why regular members of the public need to suffer from this? Any policy should take them into account first and foremost.
Fixing corrupt data pages in MS SQL. Manually. One record at a time. Using obscure tools. It was a medical records database. Pure nightmare.
Yes and no, if you were driving based on a stream of fixed, low-res, low-framerate video you would definitely crash more often than you do now.

You're also disregarding the (hugely important) role of other senses like sound and stuff like "I saw a bike coming from the right 10 seconds ago, where should it be now?".
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such as prior exposure being the pre-existing condition that everyone else dismisses your life for