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by Proziam 6y ago
If your entire store gets looted or burned down, completely eviscerating your livelihood (potentially leading to homelessness for you and your family) or threatening your well being and safety then it's probably not about one guy carry
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by Proziam 6y ago
Just a question, but what is the methodology being used to count cases and track outcomes? Are the same methods being used globally so that a fair comparison can even be made? Are there are incentives to potentially 'tweak' those
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by Proziam 6y ago
The agism you reference doesn't exist across the software industry as a whole. There's a massive demand for "old" folks who are familiar with technologies that are considered outdated.
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by Proziam 6y ago
Dropping millions of dollars worth of ordnance on a structure built from sticks and clay by hand (or, a tent...)isn't a "sustainable" strategy. Insurgents get several advantages that make asymmetric warfare a truly brutal exp
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by Proziam 7y ago
The most educated people I know all have at least a handful of opinions that are provably untrue. We're talking about people who correctly modeled economic crashes, developed and implemented SAP modules for a lot of companies you kno
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by Proziam 7y ago
Have you tried Streamlabs OBS?
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by Proziam 7y ago
[0]There are services that do this. Of course, this goes against TOS for affiliate and partnered streamers on twitch. As of my last check, it's not an issue for other platforms yet. Being able to do this is actually the number one reas
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by Proziam 7y ago
Even according to 'anti-gun' sources you're about twice as likely to commit suicide with a firearm than to be a victim of a gun-related homicide. https://lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-violence-statisti
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by Proziam 7y ago
I was responding specifically to a comment about mass murder. That said, gun deaths is a murky statistic due to the inclusion of suicides. Whether that is 'fair' or not is a matter of perspective. I don't believe it is, perso
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by Proziam 7y ago
You may know this already, but "mass shootings" account for a small number of deaths per year compared to what the media portrays. [1] In comparison, you're about 3x more likely to be killed by choking on your food, 7x more l
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by Proziam 7y ago
> But the truth is you would not like the result of that purity should the government follow that advice. I would prefer companies that buy back stock, pay ridiculous salaries and bonuses to execs, have giant golden parachutes, and so f
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by Proziam 7y ago
Yet you're advocating to arrange things for everyone according to your principles which can also, demonstrably, cost lives. I'm advocating that individuals make choices for themselves about when to work together to solve a cri
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by Proziam 7y ago
You seem to love misrepresenting people's views, or perhaps you just really don't comprehend them. No, I don't think the unfortunate should be harmed or taken advantage of. I also don't think anyone should be force
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by Proziam 7y ago
I want both freedom and a competent government. However, there's no need to spy on people to properly prepare for a pandemic. That said, given that governments have proven to be both incompetent and evil, why should I want to give
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by Proziam 7y ago
All the soldiers, firefighters, and doctors/nurses/EMTs (and many more) are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in. Some of them believe in the constitution and some of them simply desire to help their fellow man
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by Proziam 7y ago
Until the government decides that it's in the public's best interest that such an application be installed on every phone, and non-removable. We already have NSA / Tech company "collaboration" so this is hardly a hu
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by Proziam 7y ago
I honestly wonder if more people have been killed by dictators and authoritarian regimes or the black plague. I suspect it's relatively comparable. As technology has progressed, I believe it's become more reasonable to fear man mo
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by Proziam 7y ago
Put another way, would you want your children to live in a world where their government abused and spied on them? Borrowing from the future seems free at the time, but the true cost can be enormous. Everyone has to make their own value judg
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by Proziam 7y ago
My hope is that people don't lose sight of the long term in spite of the short term suffering we may experience. You can only surrender your rights once, the effects of losing those rights will last forever. How many movements would ha
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by Proziam 7y ago
> but they will return. In what time frame? How many businesses won't return because the owners couldn't afford to keep the thing going? How many business owners themselves will be wiped out because their primary income sourc
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by Proziam 7y ago
> Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? If so, I'm not sure what to tell you. If the result is (another) permanent loss of privacy and freedom akin to t
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by Proziam 7y ago
My entire city (Las Vegas) is closed. Most of my friends are out of work, not knowing when they will return. Of course, their rents are due in a few days. Everyone I know has cut all discretionary spending, because they either cannot spend
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by Proziam 7y ago
Simplest solutions are usually best in cases like this. As such, paying out the sums directly to the people is definitely a viable solution. However, I prefer a different solution because $1200 isn't enough to cover the rent for a lo
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by Proziam 7y ago
I want to agree with you, but I do have a concern about this point of view that I've yet to see addressed. Perhaps you or someone else can give some insight into your thinking. What about the deaths caused by the wrecked economy? Even
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by Proziam 7y ago
> Freedom of assembly is about your right to assemble with other people protest publicly. None of these "freedom of x" are absolute. I'm not sure I follow. The whole point of the bill of rights is to specify things the gov
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by Proziam 7y ago
Both the 'Stop and Frisk' policies and the CIA nonsense in the 80s that destroyed entire communities are after WW2. > But even white people are more free today than we were before ww2. This statement proves ignorance on the sub
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by Proziam 7y ago
I gave half a dozen concrete examples of the ways American citizens have had their rights infringed upon. Cherrypicking an example of progress doesn't make any of those other things not true . Apparently that's not enough, so I&#
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by Proziam 7y ago
> Somehow, all of this is constitutional, and these countries didn't descend into Orwellian hell after WW2. Context matters, and desperate times often require desperate measures. The US has been stripping rights from its citizens as
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by Proziam 7y ago
'Citizen, we see that you have been assembling and have fined you $1,000 for the greater good' "But I need money for rent so I was just selling all my worldly possessions!" (Nice Version) 'Citizen, you now owe us ta
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by Proziam 7y ago
You can dislike the behavior all you want, and call it out as being immoral and stupid. You can fine people if they take risks that cause harm to others. But if you get in the way of the freedom to assemble and communicate like human beings

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