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by alex43578 2mo ago
If you remove the technology that they wouldn’t understand, the founders wouldn’t consider Flock to be some absurd concept: a sheriff asking a night watchman standing on the road into town “did you see George go by riding Samuel’s horse?” I
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What right does a Flock camera violate?
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What’s your proposed alternative? If the FDA made the 500 page document instead, they aren’t providing day to day oversight. By logic, a Driscoll or Taylor Farms set of rules needs to sit beyond the regulatory minimum (their lawyers would h
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by alex43578 2mo ago
People have often resisted progress of all sorts, particularly if they feel it threatens their position or erodes their sense of superiority.
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You gave an anecdote that "I've rarely seen an unhoused people do harm". I'm saying do you have any evidence beyond your assertion from personal experience that homeless people are safe? You're making a claim that h
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by alex43578 2mo ago
Can you provide any evidence that homeless people are equally or less likely to commit crimes, compared to the general population?
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Europe is artificially capping the interchange rates - that doesn’t mean that’s the market price for that service. As for America, there’s 4 card networks, and no explicit regulation preventing you from starting another (just the huge regul
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by alex43578 2mo ago
One factor that never seems to come up in these discussions is that while businesses might not like credit card fees, they also don’t like all the issues with cash: managing it, transporting it, losing it to employee theft, etc. The cost of
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by alex43578 2mo ago
"I've rarely seen an unhoused people do harm" is an absurd statement. It's an old study, but Martell in Base-rate estimates of criminal behavior by homeless mentally ill persons in New York City found that "The ra
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Right now, many places in the US aren’t even “treating the symptoms”. We can start there, then move to address the more structural, long-term problems that contribute to these issues. An action that reduces drug use by 5% a decade from now
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If they are committing crimes, they should be imprisoned for an appropriate period of time as a deterrent to crime, a punishment for their actions, and to facilitate rehabilitation (even though evidence shows this doesn't really happen
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One activist's zoning abuse is a homeowner's "preserving the character and value of the largest investment in their life". Many people have chose to buy in single family zoned neighborhoods, neighborhoods with HOAs, comm
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Who said involuntary? I'd imagine many people, if told they were likely to develop Alzheimers, would be eager to participate in lifestyle interventions or even trials for a potential treatment.
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Unrefrigerated and in a suitcase is somehow the least-bad part about bushmeat.
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Oh yeah, those examples are gibberish. Mine hasn't been that bad. More like the comment I responded to, where it's just being a bit clunky. Your examples read like Claude's gone a bit schizo.
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While these are clunky, was this phraseology that much of a problem for people? I don't like reading it, but I didn't find that I couldn't read it.
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Yeah. There's a reason why customs is so strict about the sloppy importation of food: it's host to diseases and pests, capable of causing ridiculous damage because someone has to have that "taste of home".
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There's a genetic continent between hemorrhagic fever and coronavirus, and I'd be far more worried about something like MERS or another already-respiratory virus breaking out than Ebola.
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Were it to spread to Europe, I imagine contact tracing and societal norms would result in a drastically lower r naught and basically make community spread a non-factor. Europeans (at least European health authorities) would hopefully cut do
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Earlier diagnosis, or at least suspected diagnosis, could make a difference in studying progression, origin, etc. Imagine the test is 100% accurate: if you gave it to a group of people, you could then try to make interventions earlier, capt
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That certainly couldn't be why they feel that threatened. But just think, using AI to build it will literally destroy Bambi's entire forest. Just that one prompt. Think about it.
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I'm not putting a value judgement on it, but explaining why the original article's position is oversimplifying by saying "it just makes financial sense", while ignoring the arguably-bigger opposition that is driven by so
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These communities would likely prefer they not be present at all, but sleeping on the streets is the most common compromise on a spectrum ranging from incarceration and institutionalization, bus tickets out of town, shelters, SROs, and paid
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The article says "most of which require no new spending" but doesn't recognize that it isn't just cost behind these rules. SROs are undesirable from the perspective of most of the community: they are broadly viewed as ov
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Cases of actual, clear-cut employment discrimination are expensive to litigate and tough to prove, even with written evidence. A company posting a job and then not filling it, or filling it under a different job title is going to be so murk
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Any flight attendants are going to have a disrupted schedule, that’s just inherent to the time change and travel. The “farts” comment is juvenile, but the cleaners, oil fumes, respiratory illnesses and more that fill an airplane cabin certa
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Great idea, virtually impossible to enforce I’d imagine.
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The outcry over data centers using a fraction of the water used for things like golf courses or growing alfalfa in a desert.
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100b is too high, but 100m is way too low.
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How much ongoing maintenance and community do you need around a mouse configuration utility? If it works for your current mouse, cool. If, down the road, it breaks on a windows update, you get a new mouse, etc; stop using it and you’ll get

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