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by 23B1 3y ago
Sorry, I'm not trying to be pedantic but the literal definition of "defund" is as follows: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... - " to stop providing money for someth
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by 23B1 3y ago
"Defund" means removing funding, not reducing funding – though I know it's trendy these days to call a thing what it clearly is not.
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by 23B1 3y ago
> The purpose of police is to maintain current structures of inequality, and to divert, undermine, and oppose mass movements that could lead to a radical upheaval of those structures. This is one of my favorite modern conspiracy theories
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by 23B1 3y ago
Slashing funding ≠ defunding. It's a terrible, nonsensical 'branded comment' that makes no sense, alienates people who'd otherwise support a more reasonable approach, and perfectly embodies the 'all or nothing'
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by 23B1 3y ago
No, that is not common sense at all, especially when you think about incentives. Bureaucracies, if left unmanaged as they are today, will always find ways to increase their own budget or resource. It's as true with police departments a
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by 23B1 3y ago
I'm interested any realistic solution to a social problem. Eliminating police departments isn't one of them; it's fantasy virtue-signaling by people who are lucky enough to have never experienced first-hand what happens in
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by 23B1 3y ago
Absolute rubbish. Police are a necessary part of a peaceable society; 'Defund the police' is virtue signaling for wealthy people who live in safe neighborhoods and who've never experienced real violence.
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by 23B1 3y ago
The NYPD and other big city police departments have been buying and using the same tools as the IC for years. When you hear about 'dual use' tech like Palantir, after DOD/IC these companies immediately target and sell to dome
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by 23B1 3y ago
The people building this ad tech nonsense make well over $124k. I'd wager that number comes from nation/worldwide salaries, and the folks that the original comment described aren't data center janitors or whatever. These folk
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by 23B1 3y ago
Blacksmiths are concerned with the shaping of iron and steel into any manner of functional or decorative objects. "Classically" these jobs were based on the type of material as opposed to what they were making – though there'
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by 23B1 3y ago
As with all of these discussions, the definition of 'consciousness' is the crux of the argument – and since nobody can agree on that term, we're doomed to talk past each other! This isn't a bad thing. It's actuall
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by 23B1 3y ago
I don't think this is strange at all; the evidence is right there in our physiology that we evolved to take in a variety of stimuli and be mobile in our environment.
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And as a NJ resident, this place sucks.
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Had a handful of UK-based employees join our company in a merger; I was shocked at how underpaid experienced professionals were compared to our (U.S.) wages – and I was incensed when our investors balked at a (nominal) raise for them. I hav
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by 23B1 3y ago
Wait till you hear what happens to all the other devices in the world!
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Politicians come and go, but major investment tends to stick around. I don't really care about the partisan politics of WI (or America, for that matter) but this sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face.
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by 23B1 3y ago
One thing this article doesn't address is the pressure that many academics are under in the process of their research, and the 'meta-narrative' of their careers writ large. When you are competing for eyeballs, attention, gran
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by 23B1 3y ago
Right – my comment about academic navel gazing was a critique of the article itself – which to me seems more self-promotional than academic anyway. The author references his own work no less then a dozen times, and fails to realize that he&
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by 23B1 3y ago
I don't get the impression that this was written with everyman in mind. The "someone new" won't understand the plausibility therein; better to appeal to the influencers that do.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Let's not let the cultural identity of those silly 'flyover states' get in the way of our academic self-adulation, mmkay?
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by 23B1 3y ago
Impossible to correct for all the variables in effect here. You can't even safely say that the politics of one region vs. another have been the same over two centuries.
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by 23B1 3y ago
I felt the entire last third was the ending, and Stephenson – reacting to the constant (and imo legitimate) critique of his endings – was like 'screw it, I'll show them!'
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by 23B1 3y ago
I look at the modern privacy environment as behaving the same way rumor does on the internet. Once it's out there, it's out there, and there's no telling who is using it and for what purpose. The "Copy-paste panopticon&q
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by 23B1 3y ago
I wish you were right, but unfortunately 'regulations' always have carve-outs for the government itself, and they're one of the largest consumers of this data.
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They're not just storing and using this data for their own private/commercial purposes. They're also licensing it and selling it to third parties, which in turn will sell it to government(s) or other third-parties; the data r
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by 23B1 3y ago
Underrated comment. I'll never pay direct from my accounts because these companies will 'accidentally' drain an account and put people in an awful position, whereas a credit card company will happily tell a company like Veriz
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by 23B1 3y ago
We are halfway down the slippery slope on this stuff. Ads are starting to pop up inside the apps we already pay for, operating systems, and even in, say, point-of-sale devices begging for tips. It's not about ads being 'the only s
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by 23B1 3y ago
1. Housing isn't necessarily provided, can depend on rank, marital status, and other factors like the amount of military-provided housing provided on a post (it's often not enough, or of extremely low and even dangerous quality) 2
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I'd wager that a big part of the PR hazard is that American taxpayers supported the war(s) – and therefore there is a sense of obligation amongst them that vets should get whatever support they think they need. Not saying grift is excu
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by 23B1 3y ago
The simple fact is that human physiology isn't as simple as 50/50. All kinds of things can contribute to Diabetes, to be sure, but studies have shown that a lot of these illnesses are probabilistic in nature, e.g. there's a h

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