BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
That's why we need a greatly reduced standard of proof for officer misconduct, especially when it comes to consequences like just losing your job (as opposed to, e.g., jail time).
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I think they mean staff notation, not a textual notation like "B♭".
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Can you elaborate on why you say that? What is it about US politics that has influenced your views on Lai and others like him?
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I don't disagree with most of what you said. But a tyranny of the majority is still better than a tyranny of the minority. And yeah, pretty clearly the alleged checks and balances we have weren't the right ones. The problem is t
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
> My point is that you should follow the rules if you want to complain about others breaking them. I would say the problem is people doing bad things , and the rules are disconnected from any substantive connection to what is good or ba
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
All such arguments about the constitution and federal power are just a waste of time. The constitution is so riddled with flaws that there's little point in attempting to save the good parts. We absolutely should throw out a large pr
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
No, because we do need the federal government to do stuff. We just need it to mostly do the opposite of everything that it's doing. We don't need to reduce federal power, we just need to reduce the overall power to do bad things
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The point is the line should actually be at like G. They set the line way too lenient.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
It would be great to do that, but we can't do that while the government has a gun pointed at its head. There's no room for doing anything substantive when someone else can just get in and destroy everything. Thinking that this i
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
No, I think the better idea is, if the Democrats get power, pack the union, remove the pardon power, and basically send everyone associated with either Trump administration to jail for life (including all House/Senate members who voted
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The fact that this is being introduced after the whole Epic/Apple thing clearly shows that the penalties in that case were not nearly severe enough and the standards set were not nearly stringent enough. The mere attempt to engage in
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
What if you think they're all evil?
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Amen to this. There's a certain mindset that seems depressingly prevalent in tech, which I can't even call fatalism because it doesn't really even have much of a negative-emotion dimension. It's just a sort of amoralit
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
You can say that, but then I can say why do we care about whether something is a productive use of capital? What I care about is life being good for human beings, not "productive use of capital".
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The fact that he's able to fake it until he makes it is a failure of our society. He should be impoverished and incarcerated.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The page title includes "generated with AI", but that's not included in the post title here. At least for me that totally changes how I regard the site.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I'm actually receptive to this argument, but there are two problems. One is that we have no mechanism for implementing international policy of this sort even in theory (i.e., there is no jurisdiction with authority over both those to
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The short answer to your startup example is that the number of businesses that take a $100M investment plus 10-20 years to realize a profit should be much, much smaller than it is now. It should be near zero. The fact that we currently ha
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The article calls out "bad" union bosses as being those who push things like two-tiered contracts, prioritizing more senior members and creating inequality within the union. But in my perception (and I don't think I'm a
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
We currently live under the misapprehension that a company growing from a value of $100 million to a value of $1 billion is a "productive use of capital". My contention is that in general that is not true, and that kind of growth
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I am describing a system where the government can take anything you have over a certain amount . (Or more precisely perhaps can take a proportion of what you have that asymptotically approaches 100% as your total wealth increases.) In my
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I think I am fine with taking an approach to that that is just brutally tilted against large values and brutally tilted in favor of transparency. So like, you can't do anything with your ownership share in that privately-held company
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Why not just tax wealth at steeply progressive rates? If the robots result in increased wealth inequality, a wealth tax will counteract that. If not, then it means the introduction of robots led to more broadly-based benefits. Either way,
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I don't like the current AI trends much, but I've found duck.ai the best way to experiment with AI. I've had mixed results with DDG search and the site is sometimes slow to load.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
There is definitely something lost by relying on the algorithms, although I have found some fun stuff using Pandora. I wonder though how much of the decline in less "railroaded" discovery is due to algorithms per se versus the se
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Is this going to involve any concrete penalty for Apple? If not, what incentive do they have to not keep doing the same thing over and over?
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
What is the enforcement plan? What will the penalties be for noncompliance?
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Oops, true, that was a thinko on my part.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> But North Carolina law caps penalties at $5,000 per inspection, offering retailers little incentive to fix the problem This is a huge problem with all manner of laws in the US. We are not willing to insist that fees be limited only
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
It's not just a matter of "read the docs", though, because languages can differ in how many distinct concepts/constructs they employ. Python has gradually added more over the years but still I think is well short of Per

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