ajmurmann

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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
So anyone who has LSD on them gets life in prison? Sounds expensive. Is that how other countries have avoided having this many visible homeless? Any concerns about police placing drugs on someone if punishment is this harsh?
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
So mass murder?
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
As others have pointed out the US has a massive prison population. Our problem isn't insufficiently harsh punishment. Our problem is unlikely punishment. The US spends more on incarceration and less on policing and the justice system.
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
Is the problem social cohesion or mental illness and meth and fentanyl addiction?
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
How many of their homeless are addicted to drugs or nectary ill? It seems in the US almost all visible homeless fall into at least one of those groups. Fentanyl and meth seems to be largely a North America issue. I previously was curious ho
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
What do you suggest the solution is?
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
This is what will happen when a hegemon realizes their power and elects someone scrupulous. That's why it's important to be the hegemon. Meanwhile look at the southchina sea shenanigans and the behavior of Chinese fishing fleets a
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
Oh, so "parts of the EU" wasn't about geographic areas but policy areas? But this sounds like more regulation, not checks and balances either. Are you replying to the right comment?
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by ajmurmann 1mo ago
Can you elaborate more? When you say "checks and balances" do you mean explicit legal mechanisms or implicit mechanisms like Tiebout-style foot voting? For the latter areas with "almost zero oversight" seem advantages. A
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Did prior generations of billionaires spend a higher percentage of their wealth on charity? I also genuinely wonder how the ratio of "paper wealth" has changed. How much money would Elon or Jeff have of they actually sold their sh
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
They are worse in other ways as well. They reduce incentive for local businesses to be competitive. They also make it harder to be competitive because access to top manufacturing equipment becomes harder. To get incompatibility similar to G
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Isn't it better that Bill Gates instead pumped huge amounts of money into philanthropy? Meanwhile SF has the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. A cathedral would be nice to look at but
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
https://youtu.be/JJl5UWh-wA8?is=1oX24Nd45lHt99vZ This video gives a decent explanation why fashion has gotten the way it is, particularly for men. The author ultimately traces it back to the French revolution. I'm prob
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Definitely true. I still frequently think about this and how I'd value school so much more now. I think I'd literally be excited about every subject.
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig suggests something very similar. He makes the point that students should go and work a job before picking what to study because they'll see where the value comes from (he of
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
It also has developed a tendency to make numbered lists and then refer to the number instead of explaining. Multiple times each hour so I have to ask what "disposition 7" or "AC6" is even though I keep telling it to inst
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
It's crazy that it wasn't that long ago that all we worked with was a compiler on the local machine and maybe a SVN server you'd interact with every few hours
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
I used to quite enjoy exploring in Minecraft though.
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Here in Patreksfjordur it's all overcast for now but forecast is the least bad of any place in Iceland
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
They also have been giving civilians warnings to leave areas before they "flatten a whole apartment complex"
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
People in Iceland as well!
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Well, some of these exact people are who built Zed.
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
Is it only the first chapter? I remember it to be the bulk of the book.
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
My issue was that the violence and incest were one of the main drivers of the story. It felt like reading some sex novela that happens to have some great scifi elements rather than the other way around.
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
You don't think that there needs to be lots of clearance around the landing area? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to have one landing right next to me while I'm loading up groceries
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
If they are supposed to replace cars we'd need so many of these landing pads. No idea how this is supposed to work. I'm the suburbs it's unclear where you'd put them. Where do I walk to fly this to Costco? Does it land o
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
> Once over the crest every seems to drive like Max Verstappenit's odd, you'd think they'd all try to be ahead at the apex
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
I'm not buying that a significant number of people would switch from their individual car to a self-driving car pool. One of the main advantages of a Waymo over a Lyft to me is that there is no driver. If we now fill the car with rando
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
How do self-driving cars reduce congestion? Don't they increase it because of empty riders between customers? I'm with you though on getting up parking space in high land value areas
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by ajmurmann 2mo ago
I'm shocked this comment is still not dead

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