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by atdrummond 3y ago
OP’s point is that revealed preferences matter and I think they did a relatively decent job expressing the state of those revealed preferences. That doesn’t make anything in your response less valid about how we actually should treat these
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I’ve been hit by a half dozen cyclists (all in SF, despite having spent more time as an adult in more biking dense Europe) and never by a car. I’m probably not going to attempt to draw any policy or broader conclusions from this.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Please explain how one can use any illicit hard drug without causing harm to others. Just because addicts aren’t killing people themselves doesn’t mean their actions have no consequences. (I say this as an opioid addict myself who will fore
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by atdrummond 3y ago
@dang - can we replace this URL with the nitter link? https://nitter.net/ATDrummond/status/1681304084987641858#m
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by atdrummond 3y ago
That’s annoying! Let me find an alternative link. EDIT: Try the nitter link. I’ll ask Dang via email to change it: https://nitter.net/ATDrummond/status/1681304084987641858#m
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by atdrummond 3y ago
This is my own personal thread - happy to answer any questions about my experiences with Switzerland’s and Estonia’s MAT programmes, as well as policy questions about why these policies have failed in the US and the UK
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Why SF’s Drug Policies Fail vs. European Medication Assisted Treatment Programs(nitter.net)
2 points by atdrummond 3y ago|6 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Your last paragraph is basically saying that private utilities aren’t revenue or profit maximizing, which is a pretty extraordinary claim.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Smell of rain on soil does have a name, though - petrichor.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Don’t expect much. They give “no strings attached” housing in SF and not only does it not help people get off drugs, it results in millions of dollars a year in expenses to pay for damages caused by the newly housed. I have been on the stre
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Even doing it isn’t a criminal act everywhere. My point was that there are ethical implication of engaging with dark web sites irrespective of what the law says.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Buying drugs online almost certainly funds criminal acts. Some of the most vicious gangs in Europe traffic “mild” drugs like Ecstasy, Ketamine and marijuana. Denying this is to be profoundly dishonest with one’s self.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I’m pretty certain the studies are lagging indicators with regards to the age of incidence; the jobs have seen a significant shift in the ages of employees as more of the work is now done by immigrant/second gen labor than in years pri
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by atdrummond 3y ago
One of the sad things about the massive increase in popularity of engineered quartz countertops has been the massive increase in 20-something year olds getting silicosis and needing lung transplants. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Note that no actual citizens voted on this supposed covenant.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I am happy to answer any questions HN users may have; I’ve been working on Glo for the past year. I myself am a pretty heavy crypto skeptic. That being said, I am very strong believer in cash transfers as a method of providing economic sec
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The Case of Malcolm Gladwell vs. Jerry Sandusky(whyevolutionistrue.com)
8 points by atdrummond 3y ago|5 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
This article doesn’t make clear the most important part of the scandal: the letters contained information that was unique to the recipient, to allow them to believe that maybe the psychic was legit. They didn’t use standard, mass copywritin
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Ubisoft closing “inactive” accounts, deleting user’s downloaded games(neowin.net)
4 points by atdrummond 3y ago|0 comments
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by atdrummond 3y ago
You can do that once the concrete has hardened and set. Just not before.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Sonic and Knuckles has the Lock-in Slot. You were one game away.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I am quite happy with having converted to Orthodoxy (baptized as a child, raised in Reform Judaism) and there are some wonderful Church communities in the Bay Area. Happy to discuss my experience if people want to contact me - I credit my f
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by atdrummond 3y ago
This is a pretty wide brush to paint with. I’m sure you could reasonably argue that even a majority preach prosperity gospel but there are plenty of megachurches affiliated with mainstream/more traditional denominations for whom said t
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Picking metro areas in a state that has suffered prolonged economic malaise is a bizarre way to make conclusions about the amenities of a typical U.S. midsized city.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
I know people who purposely schedule transatlantic flights with iffy connections and bad on-time records specifically in order to maximize their chance of EU/UK 261 compensation.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
If you’re having issues with UK 261 claims, one surefire way to move things along (beyond escalating to the national agency, which may be more or less effective depending on the country of departure) is to take the claim to CEDR. Many times
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Not sure if I should be happy or upset with my result. https://ibb.co/x5DSh04
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by atdrummond 3y ago
What really put me off of them (and as a fan of BCantrill and others there) is this information is highly obfuscated and I was never reached out to the two times I contacted Oxide to find out more info (both times on behalf of an org that c
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by atdrummond 3y ago
We kill plenty of our own babies and there’s relatively little outrage about this proportionally. I’m not sure that ethics and intelligence correlate nearly as well as we would like to think.
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by atdrummond 3y ago
Not yet they haven’t.

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