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by adamsea 6y ago
Why even posit that to begin with, when we have plenty of science - psychology, sociology, behavioral economics, etc - that are intensely interested in human behavior? We have actual data and reasonably useful models to draw on. What you de
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by adamsea 6y ago
You are the utopian, You live in a fantasy world where you imagine that police forces in America serve to uphold law and protect the public. Black Americans, as a group, have made it abundantly clear that they in fact feel threatened by t
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by adamsea 6y ago
What’s the problem with defunding the police? Take 3/4 of their budget. Put 1/4 in community development (so people might actually be able to get jobs or a decent future) 1/4 in mental health, and 1/4 in community-based,
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by adamsea 6y ago
From the article: 'Couper, the creator of the Madison Method, said, “It’s this whole attitude of, ‘We keep order because we kick ass, and it’s us against them.’ (...) We've got to root those people out and say, ‘Look, this is the
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by adamsea 6y ago
There's actually very little confusion; police are unaccountable and behave as such. You realize that the heart of the issue has nothing to do with rules, conventions, or regulations, right? You could create all those rules you listed,
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by adamsea 6y ago
Depends on the topic and the circumstances of the time, doesn't it?
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is the #1 story on Hacker News? At this moment in time? Unsure if I should be glad people have a place to escape to and talk about the banal, or be concerned.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Our drones need a blimp mode : ) :)
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by adamsea 6y ago
I totally get the appeal of the technology involve in sophisticated weapons, and find it appealing myself (and especially did in my teens), but I wish we would read less about it. So many cool technologies out there to choose from.
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by adamsea 6y ago
As the people say, "Fuck 12".
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by adamsea 6y ago
Contact your local chapter of Black Lives Matter (or a different social justice group if you prefer) -- thats the besr way. The more we technologists can engage directly with the organizations and communities, the higher the odds we will be
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by adamsea 6y ago
Or we could just hold police officers accountable when they break the law.
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by adamsea 6y ago
So with the DEA spying on Twitter what messaging apps are truly secure these days for the organizers of the peaceful protests to use?
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by adamsea 6y ago
When this administration with the support of the Republican Party has intimidated peaceful protestors in DC with military helicopters a la Baghdad, yes, it is deflection to talk about that at this moment in time.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Clothes matter more than you think.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Are we going to ignore the elephant in the room? Police are, in the aggregate, racist. They are more violent towards people of color. The marches are led by POC, include large numbers of POC, and are all about calling the police out for the
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by adamsea 6y ago
I'm with you. Ultimately it's not about the program, it's about the user. Or as Tron put it, "I fight for the user" :).
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by adamsea 6y ago
Is tech like that virus that lives in cat poop, then, that infects the brains of mice and alters their behavior so the mice actually put the survival of the virus before their own? Because tech is also wonderful but clearly humanity struggl
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by adamsea 6y ago
“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.” - Victor Hugo
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Ask HN: What Is Tech For?
6 points by adamsea 6y ago|7 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree. Somebody should arrest all those protestors with shields in matching outfits that keep beating people with sticks and shooting stuff at them. I even saw a video where one of them killed a guy while three others watched.
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by adamsea 6y ago
A combination of law, culture, and the financial incentives of the respective institutions.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> What makes you think so? Reading books about post-civil war American History.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks, fellow-person.
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Ask HN: Guidelines: what is 'an interesting new phenomenon'?
1 points by adamsea 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
What’s the point of inhabiting Mars if it’s inhabited by a society no one would ever want to live in?
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by adamsea 6y ago
More than anything it’s a perverse side effect of catastrophe. ;).
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by adamsea 6y ago
I prefer the Sherlock Holmes approach - my mind is an attic, it only has so much space, so I’m okay emptying it of extraneous shit and then refilling it on an as-needed basis :).
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by adamsea 6y ago
Off-topic, but ... Many normal people are super racist, so, Henry Ford does indeed qualify as a super-successful normal person. My meta-point, of course, is that while excellence and the desire to achieve it (along with a bit of glory) can
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by adamsea 6y ago
For more context, what I was thinking was: Being able be assured that you can find/hire folks to work on your tech stack is a pretty important concern for a business. Thus, it can make sense to go with a popular framework/language

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