NotAnEconomist

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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I came across most of my sources while studying for proposals to open another one, and don't have them convenient anymore. However, looking through NIH reports -- The site in Vancouver appears to lower the fatalities marginally (1-10 l
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with prison a possible punishment, to an administrative one
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> Are you implying we kill/let die the "sickly"? What's the choice? Make other people ill and have the original sick people die anyways? That's all slowing mortality down in heroin abuses does, and it's defi
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
Yes -- that's the logic I was referring to. However "safe injection sites" are anything but safe to the surrounding community, and may increase usage rates while only mildly decreasing fatality rates. By keeping the sickly on
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
So it's the same logic as, "Well, we should let them do heroin -- just try to make it as safe as possible"? Seems like a meme we should minimize the transmission of, to me. > Consider that there is essentially nothing that
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I've noticed that they don't actually believe "Healthy At Any Size", because they routinely skinny- or fit-shame people. So I've started referring to them as "Healthy At My Size", which is their real argum
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
> perhaps the government quietly permits more profit motivated blackhat operations in exchange for some intelligence sharing I've long wondered if we're going to see cyber warfare "letters of marque" at some point. In
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by NotAnEconomist 8y ago
I spent most of my college evening getting drunk with philosophy majors and pretending my math degree meant more than my CS fallback -- but I haven't found the corporate interview system to be that terrible. I do however think it'
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> I never got this working from a coffee shop thing. This is an old tradition. Cafes, bars, tea houses, etc have served as social hubs and placed to read or work on documents (now computers) for literally thousands of years, everywhere o