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lambdaphage··on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts
The Miranda issue was puzzling to me. Apparently (http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforceme...) the public safety exception to the Miranda warning was created in a ruling that clarified that statements obtained from an un-Mirandized suspected in response to questions asked by police in the heat of the moment (e.g. "Where's the gun?") were admissible. The spirit of the exception was that the threat of suppressed evidence shouldn't prevent police from asking a question that any reasonable person would ask in order to ensure their safety in the heat of the moment.

Clearly, if you can plan not to Mirandize a suspect, then the public safety exception cannot apply in the first place, so calling for the public safety exception merely makes a mockery of the law. The concluding sentences of the FBI's explanation of the public safety exception are worth quoting in full:

"When police officers are confronted by a concern for public safety, Miranda warnings need not be provided prior to asking questions directed at neutralizing an imminent threat, and voluntary statements made in response to such narrowly tailored questions can be admitted at trial. Once the questions turn from those designed to resolve the concern for safety to questions designed solely to elicit incriminating statements, the questioning falls outside the scope of the exception and within the traditional rules of Miranda."

lambdaphage··on Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
the structure of DNA, the function of neurons

Crick, Hodgkin and Huxley were all physicists poaching in other fields. In fact, relatively few of the people who laid the foundations in molecular biology were trained as biologists.

lambdaphage··on Felix - a fast scripting language
Aren't product types just tuples, whereas arrays correspond to list types? The '^' operator can only construct arrays whose elements are of a single type, right?
lambdaphage··on The lactose-tolerance mutation
> Lactase

Lactose :)

lambdaphage··on My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.
> This kinda reminds me of how peptic ulcers were once thought to be caused by stress until they were found to caused by a virus [3].

_H. pylori_ is a bacterium, as your source indicates.

lambdaphage··on Crime-Predicting Algorithm Outperforms Humans
This is not so unreasonable. In many neighborhoods, underprovision of actual police services (cf <a href="http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php?page=page5&item=3&#... Enemy</a>) is as big a problem as getting hassled for no reason.
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