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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Often that reason is "committed a horrific violent crime"
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
You may be done with that idea but the idea is not done. We can choose to limit the franchise or we can have it imposed on us when a strongman takes advantage of the chaos.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Great response, you said it better than me. I am more skeptical of homicide rate stats than you are, given the garbage data I see for crime in general, but even I am willing to admit they're much more robust than the rest.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Short answer: idk. Longer answer: this is a fundamental problem across many domains. I don't think anyone has solved it. I think of a story of Bezos being told by his Amazon execs that customer support wait times were meeting X service
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Stats are also "not necessarily representative of the state of things". At the very best they are a single factoid about a very complex human existence. Stats only get worse from there: at neutral they contain no information, at w
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Very funny, thanks for the response. I am concerned about the lack of follow through after police intervention. Lack of prosecution and convictions, light sentences, repeat offenders being released, etc. If judges would simply keep someone
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
I work with stats. I think even very honest people with high incentive to tell an accurate story and good data have trouble with stats. Now add politicians and police and bad data into that mix with winner-takes-all politics at stake and th
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Thanks for the response and I generally agree. Though I HATE HATE HATE the march towards the surveillance state, we need to stop crime. I was specifically asking about the GP's focus on vehicles (larger plates, unregistered vehicle enf
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
It's weird that people think popular ideas flow from popular politicians instead of realizing that politicians picking up popular ideas is what makes the politician popular. In other words: idea -> pol. Everything else you said shou
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
>questionable if we should allow the childless and the aged to even vote We do need to restrict the franchise drastically. I don't know if this is where I'd draw the line, but it is actually one of the better ideas. Other ideas
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Just curious to understand how you think vehicles are such a critical point for decreasing crime in the US? I do agree that we have heavy crime (though HN will say it's all anecdotal and the stats show we're in a period of remarka
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Wow a masking-maximalist in 2025! I admire your tenacity!
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
Hey CJ! No I don't have a genuine concern at all. But it was a real question and thank you very much for answering it with a real answer. FWIW, I like that there is a carveout for economically disadvantaged folks. Either way doesn&#x27
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
How does NYC congestion pricing deal with disparate impacts? Real question, I don't live near NYC
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
It's weird that immigration and housing is an off-limits topic for you that you're not able to discuss it objectively.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 10mo ago
You think that a minimum of 35% of demand being artificial isn't a factor that can be seen to increase overall demand? edit: I say "minimum 35%" because that is just the percentage of immigrant-demand that managed to secure h
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
Great response. Totally agree.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
What is the standard for being too mentally ill to pilot a plane?
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
In the culture I grew up in, this was considered cheating.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
It filters out the people who are too mentally ill to mask.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
Tricky problem. I sympathize with pilots here, but the zero-risk approach has worked very well for fliers in aggregate.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
People are allowed to pull their kids out for religious reasons.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
The fact that humans are bad at tracking stats does not necessarily mean that statistics are a more accurate "map" of reality than human intuition. (edited for clarity)
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
Don't improve anything until you can fix everything! No incremental improvements allowed!
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
The other factor is not removing the bottom _% of hugely disruptive and violent children from schools.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
This is exactly right. I had a kid in Seattle schools during this time and this is exactly how I saw it happen and and Seattle schools were a major reason I left Seattle.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
>cross section of actual American kids So many factors have led this to be a major liability for young people now. School is not what it was 20 years ago.
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
The community got together, worked on a solution, that solution lead to arrests. A politically savvy prosecutor would not easily dismiss an organized community with proven ability to drive results. So yes, the camera didn't do it, but
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
what
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by ahmeneeroe-v2 11mo ago
Bad reading comprehension. This isn't a "both sides are bad" thing. Both sides are different than they were from 1980 - 2008.

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