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by abrahamepton 8y ago
It is very odd and telling that this is the comment that gets downvoted on this thread, while all the deep-state ravings get upvotes. What is happening to HN?
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
> Flynn (security advisor for a couple of day) -- was setup Uh...ok. Citations, please. That's quite an outlandish and unsupported claim. > There was no collusion with Russia to change 2016 election outcomes, that Flynn was accus
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Yeah, he walked back the "treason" comment that I didn't mention, and said nothing to retract the "sold your country out" comment, because the two are in fact distinct claims. "Collusion" isn't an act
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
This is...utterly delusional, and totally disconnected from the evidence on record. The President's campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, personal lawyer and National Security Advisor have either pled guilty or been convicted of f
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
So literally 2 cities. Wildly expensive cities like DC, Seattle, Boston are still highly livable on $1.5 million. Honestly, if you're regretting your life choices so severely but you're unwilling to live anywhere but NYC/SF,
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
It's not just that it's not worth it, but that growing up in the rich-private-school/elite-suburban-school bubble is actively detrimental to people down the road. It's making the kids less happy and less able to be a par
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
> If you have a family, a $1.5m house (which barely gets you a shabby 3-bedroom in a high cost city) Uh... median house price in Seattle is less than half that. $1.5 million for a house in Seattle will get you an extremely nice house. Ex
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Granted I don't have kids - but that parents act like this seems utterly delusional to me. Frankly, I think you're getting a below-average education if you're spending tens of thousands a year on it (before college). Private
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Me. I would say that this is an entirely novel state of affairs, without precedent in American history. As others have pointed out to me in this thread, "American history" contains lots of pretty salacious and wild stories of gove
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
See my reply to a sibling comment; I'm not unaware of history, though there's an incredible amount I am ignorant of, certainly. But I'm familiar with Hoover; this is wildly different. For one thing, unless I'm mistaken,
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Zero evidence, sure. But a pattern of behavior that is deeply, deeply troubling and suspicious. As others have pointed out, he tweet-taunted Bezos a few weeks ago in a way that seems rather connected to this recent revelation. Joe Scarborou
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
No, that's not "the only thing strange" about this. Perhaps you're unfamiliar with American history, but this is wildly without any remote precedent. Not to say that previous Presidents haven't done bad things, abus
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
I had a slightly different perspective, as someone who's been a web-ish developer for the last ~8-10 years: I've picked up a lot of this as I've gone, and it's fun to see it all listed out this way and think about it hol
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
You never know when, one day, you'll find yourself in a similar group of targeted people based on some otherwise-mundane characteristic. And by then it'll be too late for you to "not use Facebook".
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Always glad when HN discovers the existence of a learned scholar, atop their field, who's spent decades studying a truly hard thing and an HNer decides that, in fact, the True Thing They Needed to Understand was there all along, and it
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
By the way, the initial point I was (perhaps inartfully) trying to make was that "more guns === more shootings" in part because there are lots of types of shootings. Accidents and suicides, mainly. Those are incredibly common, and
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
I guess the way I see it, the drugs are incidental. Historically they haven't been, and for now the mix of drugs is changing - less weed, more opiates and meth - but I don't think just getting rid of the drug war would end gang li
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
I grant you that oversimplification can be a problem. However, I would argue that we're not particularly oversimplifying here. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an... sums up the overw
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Oh hey look: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an... So: Switzerland vs "the United States and across high-income countries"; Switzerland vs "data from 26 developed countries
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Yes, I would argue it is in fact an axiom: a statement that is regarded as being established or self-evidently true. Since basically all of the evidence we have available to us suggests that fewer guns lead to fewer shootings, and more guns
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
It's a major shipping/transportation hub, with a huge number of spanish-speaking people, so i think cartels have historically found it a useful place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel#Operations
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
My point (poorly articulated) was that, in an environment where the cost of labor is driven to zero, there doesn't necessarily need to be much revenue involved at all. And of course Chicago is a major cartel nexus, so there's plen
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
The argument for gun control has never been that criminals will just obey the gun control laws. The point is, and has always been, and will always be, to reduce the number of guns available. Fewer guns === fewer shootings. Axiomatic. Of cou
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
A) Big. The south side alone is ~60% of the city; the west side is much smaller, but the point is that by land area (not a great measure, admittedly), there's just a ton of space to patrol. B) No. It's been tried, pretty consisten
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
It's somewhat ironic, I suppose, but it's also the case that those laws, when enforceable (some have been struck down), are a bit useless in the midst of a sea of free-flowing gun sales across the midwest. Drive 90 minutes to Indi
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
I think it's more that they've got a surplus of young men with no other options; historically, in any society where that occurs, you get violence sooner or later. Young men with nothing to do cause trouble, no matter where they ar
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Yeah but those "historic meanings" change all the time, and names shift because what's easy to pronounce wins over what's "correct". This is a digital equivalent of a very, very, very old process utterly intrin
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
For Chicago, specifically, the closest official equivalent is the 77 community areas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago ), which definitely don't align with how residents see neighborhood bou
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by abrahamepton 8y ago
Another way to put that would be to say that if you buy used instead of new, you can treat yourself to a $5 coffee every goddamn day (who does that!? even on weekends?!). There's nothing wrong with having good personal discipline, but
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by abrahamepton 9y ago
You completely missed the entire second half of the last sentence, which refutes your point.

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