LawTalkingGuy

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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Were these men speeding through civilians or fleeing dangerously when they were shot? No, the men in your stories were sleeping in their cars. One was shot 55 times. The driver in France had just been witnessed fleeing through civilian
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Joyriding and fleeing police at high speed through a city is a violent crime. He doesn't have to be convicted - they witnessed it. They told him he'd be stopped and yet he chose to endanger more people trying to escape lawful cust
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> I claim a society where the cops can shoot an unarmed young man in the face with no repercussions is an unsafe society Then you aren't talking about this case. This man was driving his weapon and had already risked the lives of pe
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
What does "people like him" mean, is that some racist dog whistle? > you’d already decided that it’s okay Before I heard his race, yes. Based on the fact that he'd risked people's lives before they stopped him and he
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
You're trying too hard to force a racial context onto France and deny one in the USA. In California a Christian is less likely to be white, and a progressive more likely to be white than not. And many of those Christians come from coun
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
Every driver who was fleeing at high speed through civilians, and who attempts to do it again, yes. Absolutely. It's literally the time they're supposed to shoot. I'll quote US law here because it's in English, but it&#x
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> why cops are shooting unarmed kids. Which unarmed kid? A car is a deadly weapon if you've been driving it through crosswalks at high speed. If your family had been in that crosswalk you'd be complaining about the lack of poli
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
That's surely what happened, even though it obviously isn't correct. Islam is a religion, not a race. It's just as reasonable for the French to complain about Islam as for a progressive Californian to complain about Christian
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> the birth of a child doesn't obligate either parent to accommodate the newcomer. The newcomers were accommodated, just not feted. They have rights, but those don't override the rights of other French citizens and residents. &
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
I think that generally if the customer hires you for something that is legal in general in their country, like price comparison, that they're fine if you employ means that wouldn't be legal for them, such as automated scraping, as
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
You wouldn't hire some ex US special forces person hiding in Russia in deep cover, like a movie. You'd hire local thugs who works as enforcers for a gang to simply grab these guys and shove them in a van and deliver them to a ware
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> There have even been multiple instances of myself and other rank-and-file coworkers trying to have discussions about bigotry at large (not even in the workplace itself), only to be shut down by those very same DEI coordinators under th
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> I also find it suspect that equity or inclusion are "political," The way you say "suspect" seems like an attempt to sway opinion, which seems like a tacit admission that that the terms are political. For instance, i
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> I find the "precedence" approach taken by English / Common Law incredibly silly — and actively harmful, [...] Judges' interpretative rulings should not have (almost) the same effect as the legislative passing a law.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Should DEI teams be hiring people who are against [...] Yes, otherwise you're saying hiring is just a political test.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> CP and gore for shock value No, that stuff is gross and you block/avoid it. The integral part is that the forum uncensored - even if a large quantity of that uncensored content is unwanted. And fwiw, 4chan is only one example of a
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> It’s pro bono legal advice. No, it's asking an agency to clarify its own rules. If I, as a ham radio enthusiast, find an unclear section of the FCC rules I expect to be able to contact someone and ask what the agency's unders
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> I'm so sorry, I'll try to be better. Thanks. > That shouldn't even remotely be a debate on why I left. Sure, you're the definitive source for why you left. > there's a forum that I saw tons of child porn
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> It's a weakening of Kaczynski's argument to say it's about activists not caring about collateral. Maybe, but what you say here isn't supported by the bit you quoted. That bit actually seemed completely level headed
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Americans ingrained need to be racist against everyone Have you ever been anywhere in the world which you found less racist than the USA? (Bonus points if it actually has a substantial population and racial/ethnic mix to test th
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> you ... defending CP Yikes. On 4chan you'd have just blindly implied that the poster fathered himself in a freak accident with his mother, who is a bovine. Here, on the nice polite internet, you merely implied that a real person,
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> To paraphrase 'ole ted "You see, affirmative action makes white people feel bad and mad at black people which is the real secret goal of leftists". No. It's more like "Leftist activists push AA and other polici
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
fwiw, I get this just as much with remote, but it's a chat message. To fix this, use "the process". Create a ticket for the job for this person and if they want the job done right now, get them to up to priority themselves (p
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
>> supply and demand in the labor market has nothing whatsoever to do with the profitability of a firm > [supermarkets] All supermarkets have to pay the same price to buy strawberries, regardless of their individual profitability.
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Do they genuinely have a mindset that nothing is worth trying if it failed the first time? No. But the way you first picked to do the thing is very likely impossible to make work. Don't decide on a mechanism, like cookies, and fix
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
It's a joke because it demonizes a specific technology which is only tangentially related to the goal. Imagine if we wanted to make drive-by shootings illegal and rather than passing a murder law your politicians criminalized having wi
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> Could the bias you see have other reasons, given it's not purely predicated on sexual identity? It's cis-phobic and het-phobic. Cishet. That's partly sexuality and partly identity. They were cishet men, they became lesbi
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
This is exactly what the media does, point to the craziest and imply that the group shares all their views. Even if everyone in the group was a conspiracy theorist they can still be right that workers are feeling the strain more than others
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> You don't get to use [a copyrighted work] unless you have a license. Not when you give it to me. "Hey, can I see your pamphlet? Sure, here's a copy." > an implicit license to consume this content No, copyright pr
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by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> focus on improving its context recognition rather than trying to fix that by inserting even more training data. That's how you improve its context recognition. You show it many contexts. > most AI projects don't exactly ca

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