Taking The Joy Out Of Life: The Spot

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November 6, 2018 at 3:24 pm
This happens with me and parking spaces quite a bit. Though I’m sure I’ve been on both sides of the equation without realizing it.
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State of the Discussion

41 mins ago

to Oscar Gordon

Mike Dwyer

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+ Many of the examples Sam has cited over the years involve black men being killed that were not in the process of being arrested. Those [. . .]

Many of the examples Sam has cited over the years involve black men being killed that were not in the process of being arrested. Those data points wouldn't even be captured in the scenario you describe, which makes me think it would skew the data.

Another ancillary issue we might look at is how many of these shootings occur with sheriff departments and ow many with police departments. I suspect that information may be important.

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45 mins ago

to Michael Cain

PD Shaw

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The toddlers tend to be biters.

Wednesday Writs for 11/14

47 mins ago

Joseph T Mroczek

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+ Security is a pond cesspool I too find myself swimming in. Security = Safety in the compute/networking realm. However, we do not treat it as [. . .]

Security is a ~~pond~~ cesspool I too find myself swimming in.

Security = Safety in the compute/networking realm. However, we do not treat it as such. In every other engineering/technical discipline safety is the first thing taught and is integrated into every facet of it. Safety in CS is bolted on to a project, at best, and left for the next version at worst. We really do not even have good tools to create computing things safely. Think of a modern circular saw: deadman switch, blade guard, warnings about eye protection and blade sharpness, all sorts of indicators on correct usage. You have to try to injure yourself with that thing, outside of dropping it on your foot. There is nothing like that in computing, esp software.

I had an opportunity to chat with the head of one of the most prestigious CS programs and asked how close they were to fully integrating computing safely into their program. His response was extraordinarily disappointing. Security is an optional elective for freshmen and the subject of some really interesting post-doc projects they have. They don't really touch it in between. They have it as an elective for freshmen because "every one wants their topic in the 101 classes, and it's not very exciting like parallel computing or AI." Until we have at least a generation of engineers that safety is ingrained from the very start and have the safety mindset in everything they touch, we won't even come close to building the tools we need let alone make them automatic.

Ask anyone in the field about what they work on. Is it safe/secure? Would you bet your fingers that it is? I have no qualms about betting my fingers on a circular saw or my life getting in an elevator or airplane. The safety of that stuff is built in from the start and always present in design, maintenance, and destruction. That is not true about virtually every bit of computing gear. (The closest there is to meeting this standard is probably slot machines, but I bet even those engineers would not put their fingers on the line.)

The sad truth is that it is worse than you think even after you take in to account that you know it is worse than you think. It is not hyperbole to say that people are gonna have to die before we really start addressing these issues. The only question is how many. What is the triangle shirtwaist fire of IoT?

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to Philip H

Mike Dwyer

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+ I largely agree with you except for this: "...because a certain white segment of the population doesn’t want to pull African Americans out of poverty, much [. . .]

I largely agree with you except for this:

"...because a certain white segment of the population doesn’t want to pull African Americans out of poverty, much like well to do white don’t want to pull poor whites out of poverty. We as a nation could do it, but that threatens the power of some white men."

It's not that I don't think inaction exist, I just don't think it's quite as conscious or nefarious as you make it sound. It's more often just naivety or ignorance.

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Police Kill Good Guy With A Gun

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Oscar Gordon

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+ I'd start with the stats the 1994 law asks for, which (IIRC) is anytime the police have to use force (any contact that results in [. . .]

I'd start with the stats the 1994 law asks for, which (IIRC) is anytime the police have to use force (any contact that results in an arrest/attempted arrest where the suspect actively resists complying with officer instructions*).

Let's hit the low hanging fruit and work from there.

*A person going limp and becoming dead weight is passively resisting. The suspect is not resisting, they are just not actively cooperating.

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Police Kill Good Guy With A Gun

1 hour ago

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Jesse

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I can verify this also happens to me

A Housekeeping Update

1 hour ago

to Mike Dwyer

Philip H

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+ We know that more blacks live in poverty, so they commit a disproportionate amount of crimes. That has nothing to do with their race. [. . .]

We know that more blacks live in poverty, so they commit a disproportionate amount of crimes. That has nothing to do with their race. It has to do with the inability of our country to pull people out of poverty. With that said, that fact brings them into contact with police officers more often, proportional to the population, than whites. And before you say anything, yes I do understand that a not-small amount of those interactions are also due to racial profiling.

well . . . our "inability" exists in large part because a certain white segment of the population doesn't want to pull African Americans out of poverty, much like well to do white don't want to pull poor whites out of poverty. We as a nation could do it, but that threatens the power of some white men. So while racial profiling is indeed a thing with black men - and likely was in this case since it appears no one actually tried to understand what was going on before they started shooting - that racial profiling exists on the back of a large institutional racism structure.

I agree that this is conversation that's largely statistic devoid - and as a scientist that bugs me to no end. It doesn't change the fact however that what statistics we do have point in a specific direction, as does history. Remember - most of the initial Sheriff's Posses (our earliest police forces) were just run away slave patrols with badges.

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Police Kill Good Guy With A Gun

1 hour ago

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Michael Cain

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+ That said, I see detention used more often than it should be... I became even more concerned when the questions I have to answer every time [. . .]

That said, I see detention used more often than it should be...

I became even more concerned when the questions I have to answer every time I donate blood were expanded to include "Within the last 12 months, have you been held in juvenile detention for 72 hours continuously?"

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