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by adjkant 6y ago
> We’re not taking about specious arguments like pot arrests and improper turn signals. We’re talking rape, burglary, murder, vandalism, and assault. Look at arrest data, the former is exactly what we're talking about. Most of these
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> Because I think only one has moral relevancy, not all three. I've been saying it's a mistake to conflate the others with the one specific to moral responsibility. And that's exactly where we're stuck, which is all I
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I don't have anything constructive to add, but this struck me as too funny not to share: > to me Nikon feels more focused on optics This must be one of the few times in history that saying a company focused on optics is used in a po
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The purpose of the bit you quoted is not meant to be a literal example, it's a thought experiment using a pirate stereotype/myth familiar to most readers. The history of pirates and equitable labor is interesting of course, but it
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> The polar bear swims in circles because he doesn't know he's trapped. I find that hard to believe. The polar bear absolutely knows he's trapped, though he probably doesn't know why. Just saw this downthread, he even
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> Being in person has no inherent benefits over being remote. Socializing. Clearer communication with better nonverbal interpretations. The ability to more easily drop by someone's desk, to whiteboard in a room, etc. For some, produ
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> I addressed the privilege in my post. It's in bad faith to bring it up as if I didn't, also gaslighting. You addressed it in respect to the ability to quit. I'm talking in terms of the standard you are setting and projec
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The assumption that being non-remote is for office politics is writing off many other benefits. Even if you can go remote, building a remote culture takes time. Also, not everyone works well remote. Shifting a company to full-time remote is
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The things you describe are far from the charged language you're using, and also much of your description may not apply at all to the post you responded to. How does someone quitting their job because their work is playing a global pan
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I think my post laid out the response to this clearly: NYTimes has affiliated authors, thus enabling liability. Youtube has promotion at best, more like allowing. The sheer scale of Youtube and the vastness of what is allowed (their monetiz
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> by boosting or suppressing those opinions, you have basically exactly the same amount of power and influence as a traditional publisher. Strong disagree there. First, on either platform, you can go seek out every opinion under the sun,
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Curated user generated content and a publisher are very different and this needs to be distinguished. This has been mixed quite a lot in the past few weeks of events. While it is theoretically possible to moderate to th point they are close
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Would HN ever consider possibly adding location as an optional profile field? That may actually be useful in a lot of discussions and avoiding misunderstanding. I realize you can easily add this in your bio, but the explicit field will enco
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When one side has suffered injustice for 400 years, people who are working to make sure the other side doesn't experience any injustice by something swinging too far and needing correction (at the cost of prolonged injustice for the al
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With respect and goodwill (appreciate that you actually seem to be coming to the comments to learn), it's very hard to read your comment in that way when you say things like: > Society pretending that there is massive racism when th
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> Blacks that believe cops are out to kill them will be more likely to resist arrest and get killed. Statements like this make it clear that this opinion is either highly uneducated or clearly not in good faith. Time and time again, blac
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So are Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, but I'd argue most would call them LA. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.010126...
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This repo has a nice data API and multiple different video download archives + an open source download tool for the data https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality
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In fairness, that happened for many quickly over the past month or two as it hit Netflix. A good deal of people still don't know much/anything about ATLA.
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This repo has a tool that supports IPFS! https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/tools...
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This repo (linked in this spreadsheet) has both a similar listing + a downloader tool here: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/master/tools...
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I don't think this is going to be productive if you ignore the vast psychological research that shows this is not about intelligence or capability like you keep trying to argue and I have never said. This is not about a misunderstandin
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> How about decreasing the emotional trauma by actually helping people heal, so they can be calm and not have to fear police brutality or a police state etc, to implement accountability and integrity in our systems? Sounds great, even be
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All of this seems fair, so an interesting note off of this: I find the causality/correlative arrow here interesting as no matter the direction, there is interesting insight.
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> I don't believe there's any gain at all to achieve in terms of societal good The only thing I can say then is to look to psych research, implicit bias, and biases in decision making studies. The conclusions there clearly poin
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In this case, those are siblings of the same root, so not reading too much into it at all. That said, both origin and practical use have relevancy here.
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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how psychology works. "Cognitive hygiene" is not something most people have, if any. To claim you have it is quite arrogant to most of psychological research. > Surely, the parties resp
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And this changes what exactly? Its derivation doesn't change its use as a noun in the common use. Even if it was an adjective, you act as if that magically excludes it from being associated with the master/slave distributed system
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Linguistic meaning changes all the time without the world burning down, so I'm really curious what danger you think there is in this "rabbit hole". Or do you also oppose using "awful" to be a negative, because if we
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A proper noun is a noun...? > Embrace, Extend, Extinguish How did we get from "change one word, find/replace basically" to an entire predatory policy by Microsoft? If anything, this proves that it is possible over time. Th

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