That was the rage last month. They have gotten over it mostly.
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I thought the fire extinguisher was part of the art installation.Listen... it can be if you want.
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My fifth graders are obsessed with "infractions" this is the school's disciplinary thing eg.Do NOT let fifth graders make up The Rules they are so strict and mean it's absurd.
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This is insane!And I thought the packet sniffing subplot in my scifi story was maybe too unrealistic because it involves just happening to find that some of the traffic isn't encrypted.
I thought "this is silly no one would do that" ... but
maybe it's fine?
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My fifth graders are obsessed with "infractions" this is the school's disciplinary thing eg.My fifth graders are obsessed with "infractions" this is the school's disciplinary thing eg. if you are late three times, or have your phone out in class "infraction" you may get a detention.
But they keep wanting to add stuff to the list "I think not putting the scissors away should be an INFRACTION"
Had to spend the whole afternoon explaining why things would NOT be "infractions"
They just found out about them and I think they just want to see one happen.
OMG.
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Do we know if people writing in cuneiform in clay with a stylus could write fast?@lydiaconwell
but not everyone could write— you might be very busy if you could. -
Do we know if people writing in cuneiform in clay with a stylus could write fast?Do we know if people writing in cuneiform in clay with a stylus could write fast? Has anyone ever had a contest to see how fast people can write numbers that way (in sexagesimal obviously) ?
I think that if you try to do these things sometimes you make discoveries that just staring at a photo will never make evident.
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@u0421793 @davidho -
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If I started a radical leftist credit union I know what I'd call it.I'm still trying to understand what the heck is going on with this "softBank" to be clear.
I do not think it is good.
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If I started a radical leftist credit union I know what I'd call it.Because I'm making fun of "softBank" which I don't fully understand but it keeps showing up in all the worst places.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.Maybe?
But it's not about cops being physically around ... it's how they respond when someone reports a stolen phone. They go into beast mode. They get the camera footage from the subway or business, they check the pawn shops for the serial number. They put in a lot of time and effort for this crime because they do seem to really want to prevent it.
It's mostly basic detective work. Done on a mass scale.
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Oh, great.I have to keep restarting firefox because my adblocker keeps stalling out.
If my adblocker fails I will simply not watch videos anymore. I'm not kidding about that!
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If I started a radical leftist credit union I know what I'd call it.If I started a radical leftist credit union I know what I'd call it.
"HardBank"
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either. -
People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.I want to emphasize that the solution to phone snatching was aggressive tracking of each and every stolen phone. Using the tech that's already in place to find where it went and doing something about it. It was not about chasing people around on the streets. It was about making every single pawn shop decide that buying a phone from some kid just wasn't worth it.
Boring stuff.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.This also makes me think that if NYPD really wanted to they could do something about bike theft. Which is massive in NYC, we are all resigned to the notion that bikes just always get stolen and you can't have a nice one and expect it to last overnight on the street.
Car theft also was once big in NYC, but it has not been a big problem since the late 90s.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.Maybe the London cops should stop hiring ex NYPD to teach them terrorism prevention and instead ask about the task forces that monitor the pawn shops and that track stolen phones.
It's possible to be a big chaotic city and NOT have this be a problem.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.This is odd. Phone snatching used to be a huge crime in NYC, but it has fallen off.
It's not really a thing anymore.
New Yorkers are very inattentive and constantly bumping into each other because we are staring at our phones.
My understanding is that in NYC a snatched phone can't be resold anywhere. Pawn shops are monitored. Targeting the middle men is critical.
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Still not adjusting to "compute as noun now" jargon.Making delete a noun is something I can get behind.