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by amalcon 7y ago
What factor do you believe explains the 78% drop in deaths and serious injuries per bicycle trip in NYC from 2000-2017? https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-cycling-risk... I'm legitimate
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by amalcon 7y ago
The stats are quite clear that protected bicycle lanes improve bicyclist safety. The article literally cites such a study.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Right, this is exactly the misapprehension. The agreement that nobody claims the middle of the ocean does not exist for the purpose of letting folks create their own countries, it exists for the purposes of allowing everyone's ships
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by amalcon 7y ago
It doesn't prevent it, but it also doesn't prevent any nearby country from folding you up if they feel like it. The premise of seasteading seems to be that they are somehow prevented from doing this by maritime treaties.
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by amalcon 7y ago
From the article: > In the first type, German banks and stockbrokers bought and sold shares for foreign investors in a way which allowed them to claim a tax refund for which they were not eligible. Many question the legality of the prac
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by amalcon 7y ago
Well, yes. Maritime treaties exist to facilitate trade, so that you aren't subject to some absurd law just because that country decided your boat was in that jurisdiction. They obviously don't exist to give folks a place to comm
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by amalcon 7y ago
This is one of those concepts that seems to come out of thinking of the law as similar to software. It's not, because software is run by computers while law is run by humans. If you find a straightforward loophole in software, the com
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by amalcon 7y ago
The supply/demand/finance angles are all different governments, though (state/local/federal). It's incorrect to attribute loan issuance and college administration to the same entity, because the federal government
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by amalcon 7y ago
What part of this is actually different than a traditional market? Government involvement does not preclude the use of market techniques. In this case, the government is just an individual player with weird values.
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by amalcon 7y ago
Emergency departments basically never make money. When they are economically viable, emergency departments effectively function as a loss leader to get patients admitted to the (sometimes profitable) inpatient facility. You therefore can&
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by amalcon 7y ago
What's the problem with running a fan all night? Legitimate question, as it's never occurred to me not to do that in the warmer months.
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by amalcon 7y ago
That's not why (the salt does need to be secret secret), but it is true that the hashing should not be done client side. It's more because it doesn't actually accomplish a whole lot. The hash basically just becomes the pass
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by amalcon 7y ago
> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History > Go was publicly announced in November 2009,[29] and version 1.0 was released in
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by amalcon 7y ago
> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers started the project to develop systemd in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History > Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009[16] and a nnounced it in 2010. &gt
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by amalcon 7y ago
Climate change is bad for a lot of reasons (e.g. individual quality of life), in addition to that one.
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by amalcon 7y ago
It is true that censorship was offered as an alternative to overt discrimination, and to that end it was a clear improvement. It is also true that the end result was indeed censorship. However, if you prefer a more pure anti-censorship cha
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by amalcon 7y ago
Thank you for your very well researched and reasoned disagreement. It's frankly a breath of fresh air, and I can't really say that you're wrong on any specific point. I think the fundamental issue in the US right now is not
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by amalcon 7y ago
That's all correct. I'd looked at News Corporation for the list of assets not acquired by Disney, and didn't notice the spin-out of Fox Broadcasting. This does rather undermine that particular contrast. National Amusements
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by amalcon 7y ago
You're not wrong about that. I don't think this is a case of that, though. CBS is one of four major legacy broadcast networks. They are owned by National Amusements, whose other assets basically amount to a lot of movie theaters
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by amalcon 7y ago
Assuming we are taking a US centric view here, I feel just the opposite: that speech has scarcely ever been so free. It was less than a decade ago that the U.S. military had a policy literally called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell&q
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by amalcon 8y ago
You claim that there was no process change in April 2018? That's certainly a new one to me, and frankly I'm not sure how to have a discussion when we disagree on such basic facts. Politifact (sadly the most neutral source on my
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by amalcon 8y ago
Price per unit area is the thing that's more or less fixed based on similar homes. You can definitely see a 3000sqft home next to an 800sqft home, if the neighborhood grew organically. The price difference in that case could well be
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by amalcon 8y ago
I guess that's fair. The laws on the books provide similar maximum penalties, but enforcement is obviously wildly different. I'm prepared to retract that comparison, though I would still maintain that the current de-facto penalt
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by amalcon 8y ago
The first offense carries only up to a six month sentence. I would agree that the second offense should be punished more harshly. In that case, it is less likely to be a legitimate asylum seeker for obvious reasons, and more likely to inv
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by amalcon 8y ago
> In the United States, misdemeanors are typically crimes with a maximum punishment of 12 months of incarceration, typically in a local jail as contrasted with felons, who are typically incarcerated in a prison. Jurisdictions such as Mas
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by amalcon 8y ago
Re: "the right to be in the country", there is no such right. U.S. citizens do have the (pretty sure only legislative) right to obtain a U.S. passport, which may be presented at a port of entry. Entry may not be denied to someone
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by amalcon 8y ago
You've mentioned rights accorded to citizens, but not to noncitizens, twice now. I can't see the relevance. Which relevant right is guaranteed to citizens, but not to noncitizens in U.S. jurisdiction? Detainment is not the only
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by amalcon 8y ago
The U.S. Constitution grants most of the same rights to non-citizens within its borders that it grants to citizens. Things like due process and legal representation are guaranteed to non-citizens within U.S. jurisdiction. There are of cou
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by amalcon 8y ago
Which part is different? - Do illegal immigrants with families mostly have significant existing criminal records in the destination jurisdiction? The ones that do should of course be treated more harshly, but most do not. - Do illegal immi
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by amalcon 8y ago
It's a misdemeanor, though, like speeding or public drunkenness. People are not arrested for speeding unless it's particularly egregious, and are not held for months over public drunkenness.

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