JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Many hometowns are mockable, even if someone from them eventually becomes rich and talks about what it was like there publicly.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
There are definitely armed right wingers participating in vigilante immigration enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Percenters > Three Percenters have joined vigilante patrols along the U.S.–Mexico bord
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Being the victim of theft or vandalism is bad even if the act of theft/vandalism doesn't get reported in official crime statistics, which can happen for a variety of reasons. There's no reason to assume that the amount of cri
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
The democratic party is the party in the US more often concerned with the interests of people accused of crimes by the criminal justice system. Republicans are more often concerned with the criminal justice system being insufficiently punit
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> A zeroth approximation of what Palomar intends to be is the analogue of a preprint server for Lean proofs. More precisely, Palomar (which is named after the astronomical observatory) is a registry of external Github repositories (or m
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> Sending a text message "to honest and loyal men about confronting the traitors and criminals and protecting the people and honor of the country" could be legitimate use of the threat of violence to defend the country. Or it c
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
People hate it when faceless bureaucrats decide that some health care expense is too expensive for the large faceless bureaucracy to cover, when they have a medical issue that they would like the large faceless bureaucracy to spend money on
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I agree that there's no difference in principle between the government of the land you live on ordering the cell phone company to send a text message to everyone about wildfire danger; and ordering the cell phone company to send a text
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Who, specifically, is "we" in this sentence? What distinction are you making between a community and a tribe or family? What is it about a community that makes it more worthy of individuals organizing around it than their families
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I think that arguing that Microsoft's control of Windows constitutes a form of colonialism was really a rather cynical attempt on the part of Richard Stallman to take a common class of Western leftist political argumentation, and lever
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Cofnas is completely justified in wanting to get back at the University of Cambridge for (de-facto) sacking him, and for wanting to bring DEI into disrepute, including by naming and shaming specific black people who are incompetent or fraud
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Yes, a number of countries with national ID systems have (wisely) designed the system such that there is no secrecy associated with the number, and people can and do give it out freely without worrying that someone will use it to compromise
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> so what? did he defraud anyone? rob them of their savings? get elected as a public official based on it? was he a bad professor? incapable of educating his students? Yes he was a bad professor. The fact that he didn't rob anyone o
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> They’re never going to admit they screwed up in granting the degree, how do you think that would affect their reputation? How will not admitting they screwed up affect their reputation?
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
One good reason to introduce a national ID system in the US would be in order to replace and deprecate the Social Security Number, which is a terrible system that never should have been used as a de-facto national ID system.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
This is a really important reason why it's not actually obvious that everyone should be getting rooftop solar - not everyone lives in a situation where they can make arbitrary capital improvements to their roof, or even owns their own
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A pretty high rate, because it's pretty easy for an actual US citizen who gets accidentally deported to simply re-enter the country.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Hitler didn't personally come up with the idea of Aryans, in the sense of a historic ethno-linguistic group in Eurasia speaking a Indo-European language; that comes out of the scholarship of Indo-European prehistory. Which isn't t
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I've always been bothered by the level of centralization that the DNS system brings to the internet. I agree that it shouldn't be possible in principle for a random court in Texas to shut down a foreign website; but insofar as the
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Citizens having a say in what is going on in their neighborhood is why housing in the bay area isn't expensive, they use that say to prevent the construction of new housing.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Opposing new housing construction is bad in basically the same way that opposing data center construction is bad; and I'm happy to use the same word to describe both groups of people.
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> The problem with H-1B visas is that they are effectively golden handcuffs - tolerate whatever abuse we give you for X years and you get permanent residency. Right, people on H-1B visas are being paid less in money because they are bein
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Some people are noisy on public transit, and if they aren't policed to not do this (i.e. threatened with violence by armed agents of the state and/or physically removed from the transit), then they make public transit noisy.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I forget the exact brand, whatever was cheapest on Amazon at the time.
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Health insurance is so regulated and so intertwined with public policy aims, that ostensibly private health care companies are themselves essentially an arm of the government. Indeed, the fact that I "have to do business with" the
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It's easy to give businesses a pass on internal inefficiency because you don't typically need to do business with any particular company in order to live your life and businesses don't tax you in order to pay for that ineffic
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I bought some of the new Ikea smart lightbulbs that use Matter-over-Thread instead of zigbee. When I tried to use them with my home assistant setup, I discovered that the pairing process involved using a smartphone to take a picture of a QR
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I checked out the page on Caesar's The Gallic War and looked at its famous opening line "Gallia est omnis diuisa in partes tres , quarum unam incolunt Belgae , aliam Aquitani , tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae , nostra Galli appe
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I was always interested in human linguistics, including but not limited to understanding the classical languages of the Western tradition. In high school I taught myself some Latin from Wheelock's, and I've dabbled in trying to le
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Increasing potential punishment if caught - or making it more likely that you will get caught - dissuades thefts.

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