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ItendToDisagreeon Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)

To be fair it probably always has been the leading cause. Especially if you include things like yelling at your kids to stop messing with each other, day dreaming, etc. The issue isn't that it is dangerous, the issue is that it is selectively enforced.

Also, regardless of the level of criminality, driving infractions can be/are selectively enforced. Being pulled over for being distracted can quickly lead to being arrested for some other offense, or for the police to search your car, or even for them to claim you were aggressive and shoot you dead.

ItendToDisagreeon Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (2013)

Off the top of my head... Distracted driving is a crime in many states now (where distracted has been interpreted more or less broadly to include electronic devices or even eating while driving). Having a phone playing Spotify/Pandora/$X into your car stereo can be a punishable offense in MA, OR, WA, NY, etc.

Just because there have not been actual convictions for said offenses does not mean they are not prosecutable. Depending on the state, simply interacting with an electronic device while driving (to change the station for example), can be a punishable offense.

ItendToDisagreeon Why has regional income convergence in the U.S. declined? Housing costs

Just no.

All investments are not owned on the back of consumption foregone in the past.

Unless you believe that someone with 100 million dollars is "foregoing consumption" when they invest (particularly in real estate).

ItendToDisagreeon Ask HN: What does your diet look like?

EAT: The blood of my enemies. Small amounts of leafy greens. Lots of nuts. MEAT.

NOT EAT: Fluffy puppies Anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) More than one drink that contains calories on weekdays

ItendToDisagreeon The Weight Loss Trap

Damn them LIBRULS!

Never mind that actual healthcare costs are more expensive than in other countries on a pill by pill and procedure by procedure basis.

Healthcare cost in the United States isn't about liberal or conservative or progressive or whatever label. Get over your tribal blame game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-an-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/26/21-gr...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-...

ItendToDisagreeon Convert ASCII scribbles to SVG

This is awesome! I'm trying to dig out early 90s warez/gamez nfo files to run through this thing!

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

Your first paragraph sounds like it contains all the markings of a successful psyops campaign to be totally honest.

Whisper campaign to erode public trust and increase partisan divide while diverting attention from more important matters.

If it WAS interference by any nation state (Russia or not; uncovered or not) it seems to have been pretty successful right?

ItendToDisagreeon [dead]

Already posted earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14423361

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

He lied in his confirmation hearing after being pressed on an issue. Then admitted he was not truthful after it was publicized. Lots of people (especially in Gov) get away with that sort of stuff without conviction. That seems to have been a large point of the last election no? Different set of rules for everyone else and all that.

I'd say my posts were drenched in bias from the very start. I'm amazed you missed it ;)

ItendToDisagreeon Comcast taking action against Comcastroturf.com for trademark infringement

The connection is pretty obvious. But I'll spell it out.

Comcast appears to be using patent troll level fuckery in an attempt to further their goal of stopping net neutrality. A goal, which itself is about controlling the flow of information, and mirrors this attempt to control information.

Attempts to control (like turtles) go all the way down.

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

1) Russia is not a "European" country. Though it does exert influence in that sphere and has a 'European Russia'. Anecdotally most Russians I've met would bristle at Russia being called a "European" territory.

2) If Manafort, Flynn, Sessions, etc had non-shady dealings with Russia you would think they wouldn't have to be so shady about how they present those dealings. Sessions wouldn't have to explicitly commit perjury in front of the Senate to try and hide his interactions with Russian officials if they were normal interactions.

3) If you're taking large amounts of money (say for real estate deals) from Russian state banks and oligarchs you're playing a dangerous game of being in someone's pocket.

ItendToDisagreeon Comcast taking action against Comcastroturf.com for trademark infringement

Why is net neutrality important again? Is anyone ready to respond with a defense of Comcast's monopoly on high speed ISP service? (edit: in many cities and locations)

/snark

ItendToDisagreeon Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison

This is untrue. Are you seriously attempting to use a colloquial joke as some sort of evidence?

While Germans are a bit more conscious of driving in the left lane when not passing, what you are saying neither makes sense, nor is it applicable, especially in any amount of traffic.

It also totally discounts the vast amount of road construction and maintenance that Germans continually do on their roadways (infrastructure maintenance is a big deal). The construction alone, especially in Hessen/Rhineland Pfalz vastly impacts travel times in ways going 40kmph faster could never attempt to approach.

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

Sources on any of this conjecture?

What large donations from Russia did Clinton receive? Were they comparable to Trump's MANY funding streams from Russian banks? Or multiple of his campaign advisers (not to mention his pick for NSA) having deep Russian ties?

Also wasn't Trump the guy falling all over himself to praise Putin/Russia both on Twitter and in-person? Or explicitly asking for Russia to publish more leaks during one of the presidential debates?

Seems like you have your information pretty mixed up (or simply made up).

Can you post a substantial source for any of your claims?

http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/ (details Trump's many ties to Russia and was written by a Republican to boot.)

ItendToDisagreeon Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

Thanks for the reply! The European 1 often looks like an upward facing triangle without a bottom line. Surprisingly frequently it has caused European's in the US to have issues with the IRS/Taxes because the European 1 is often interpreted by Americans as a 7 (because Americans do not use a bar across the center of the 7 or Z). A household size of 7 instead of 1 can be a real back breaker!

ItendToDisagreeon Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

This looks cool but I wish it showed examples of different kinds of handwriting being detected.

Cursive?

European numbers vs American numbers (the 1 especially)?

Doctor (or other badly rendered hand writing)?

Seems like this technology isn't really all that useful if it doesn't work on various inputs, especially 'unclean' or 'sloppy' inputs.

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

Your post quoted: "So it's better to hide the truth from voters if that means voters knowing the truth is in Russia's interest?

How is being more informed a bad thing?"

Where did you 'clearly say' it was in Russia's interests for the GOP to win? It sure sounds like you already had your mind made up and no leak of RNC corruption could ever be big enough to sway you anyway.

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

This stance MIGHT make sense if the hacked RNC documents were also leaked. Surprisingly (or not) those files were not leaked out.[1] Sure looks like "truth" was not the element that was in Russia's interests.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-...

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

https://outline.com/hswuDt For the Wall Street Journal article text

It has some dates in the screenshots and more accurately portrays the timeline.

ItendToDisagreeon Florida GOP consultant admits he worked with Guccifer 2.0, analyzing hacked data

I'd wager that in the abstract the answer is "NO!"

But then again IOKIYAR probably takes precedence here... And the Republicans are in charge of all the checks/balances at the moment.

ItendToDisagreeon Tesla Model S and Model 3 comparison

Driving faster on the autobahn (or any freeway/highway) will not get you to your destination much faster. The total transit time is impacted the most by city/local traffic and such. Unless you are on a 500km journey you are not saving much time going 180 (rather than 140) on the autobahn.

ItendToDisagreeon Using Deep Learning at Scale in Twitter’s Timelines

Why isn't a working method of disabling these sorts of sorting 'features' ever provided?

Seems like they could please the "I want to see relevant" and the "I want to see most recent" camps.

ItendToDisagreeon America’s dental-health divide

He is talking about tooth alignment (braces) not decay as in cavities. Incorrect tooth alignment can have many health risks regardless of it being a class/beauty standard.

The bacteria/decay thing is a whole other mostly preventable thing.

ItendToDisagreeon Paint and Press: “Pirate Printer” Turns Street Graphics into Clothing Patterns

Even if it was permanent (it isnt). Why would painting dirty/rusty/messed up stuff with a coat of black ink be "defacing our landscape"? If anything the black ink would cover up the dirt, rust, blemishes, etc with an even coating of black. To my eyes this would be much better looking than disabused and dirty.

ItendToDisagreeon [dead]

If someone is yelling "Kill all $racialslur" are they practicing hate speech yet? They are most certainly openly advocating violence against a specific group not just "being mean" Hate speech can indeed be quantified. Though definitions will vary (as with anything.)

ItendToDisagreeon Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO

Perhaps. But stuff has gotten pretty nutty recently...

ItendToDisagreeon Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO

Why do you feel the need to post that? The line about the ACLU becoming much more active? Can you disagree that they have become much more active on various issues during the new presidency?

ItendToDisagreeon M.M.A. Fighter’s Pummeling of Tai Chi Master Rattles China

Haven't you ever seen a Kung Fu flick? This is an entire trope.

ItendToDisagreeon This Dystopia Is Completely Ridiculous

How many poor black females do you know with the income and need/interest to get a passport? Honestly curious.

ItendToDisagreeon Mark Zuckerberg should try living in the real world

How do you square this question: Does a billionaire's understanding of the world really affect anyone at all?

With this later comment?

Let Zuck go on his little The Simple Life experiment and let's worry about, I don't know, net neutrality being destroyed or whatever.

Honestly how? There is a "billionaire" currently tearing apart net neutrality because he doesn't know about (or care about) the internet other than as a way to make money and to bully people.