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by awillen 6y ago
Sure, I don't disagree with any of this - especially with the almost entirely peaceful protests the last couple of days, curfews are entirely inappropriate. My point is only to say that if they're going to use them, communicating
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by awillen 6y ago
Except there are still extremely large protests in DC/NY/LA after curfew but the looting appears to have stopped.
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by awillen 6y ago
Sure, but it seems pretty obvious that videos of these arrests/beatings are driving other people to protest. They say to never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity, but I just really don't know which way to go o
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by awillen 6y ago
I also agree with this. It seems like in the majority of cases at this point, the curfew does nothing but create unnecessary conflict. It almost creates an objective for protesters - to be serious about what they're protesting, they ne
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by awillen 6y ago
Yep, I've been seeing that in NY, and it baffles me. The cynical part of me thinks they want to arrest people, but that just seems too stupid at this point. The city leadership has to know that doing this is only causing the protests t
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by awillen 6y ago
I feel like some upfront setting of expectations would really, really be helpful here. If you're planning to arrest people after curfew, explain that in clear terms: "Our curfew is at 8pm, so we will start asking groups to dispers
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by awillen 6y ago
Thanks for this - I figured there had to be at least a partial explanation related to methodology, but this is the first I've seen of the details.
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by awillen 6y ago
Schadenfreude is a word used regularly enough that it's actually in most English dictionaries now. Papierwurst is a word you just made up that doesn't mean anything. You're just here trying to let people know that you know Ge
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by awillen 6y ago
I've always found the idea of words that can't translate to miss the mark, especially in the context of articles like this that provide a translation. It's really just that we don't have a singular corresponding word, no
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by awillen 6y ago
Okay, but then I guess my question is what's the point? If everybody knows it's a soulless statement, why make it at all? It just doesn't seem like this contributes anything to the discourse at all. I would actually respect a
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by awillen 6y ago
Am I the only one who's tired of these statements from corporations? I guess they're a relatively positive thing, but they feel so hollow. I got one from DoorDash yesterday, and it's tough not to roll my eyes at a company tha
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by awillen 6y ago
I assumed this was going to be in response to Facebook's refusal to do anything about Trump, but I have no idea if that's the case or not from this...
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by awillen 6y ago
#nottheonion
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't think nursing homes are as terrible as they're made out to be, at least not as a general concept. The issue, in my view, is much like the issue with private prisons - you have a highly vulnerable population with little rec
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by awillen 6y ago
It's unbelievable - you'd absolutely be brought up on charges if you used tear gas, which is clearly prohibited during war. Hundreds of tear gas canisters got fired off at US citizens by police last night, though. Insane.
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by awillen 6y ago
A police officer chooses to put his life on the line tens of times a year. Black people don't get that choice. Anyway this is an idiotic bullshit argument in the context of George Floyd. The man was on the ground, unarmed with four pol
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by awillen 6y ago
And we certainly could still end up with that charge, but my point is that the police committing a crime should act as an enhancement to force prosecutors to charge it more seriously. If a random person commits a crime that would be third-d
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by awillen 6y ago
100%. It's crazy to act as though a fair trial (even if you can get one of those, which you probably can't if you're black) somehow provides recourse against arrest. Beyond the time in jail, you might have to spend thousands
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by awillen 6y ago
Crimes should be charged more seriously, not less, when they're committed by police. This is only reasonable - any crime committed by an on-duty officer is inherently more harmful that the same crime committed by a civilian, because in
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by awillen 6y ago
The problem is defining what those "non-discriminatory terms of service" are and applying them evenly to everyone. That's why Facebook is making a theoretically independent content review board - things aren't black and
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by awillen 6y ago
Especially after Equifax, I'm a big believer that one of two things needs to happen when it comes to the kinds of databases that are used to decide whether people have access to critical things like housing and credit: 1. The governmen
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by awillen 6y ago
Not really. Here's one article that says otherwise (there are a lot more): https://thecounter.org/weve-heard-staggering-statistics-food... , but ultimately the crux of it is that there are things like applesauce and can
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by awillen 6y ago
The fact that it draws attention from other things (inasmuch as drawing attention to anything takes it away from everything else) doesn't make it any less problematic that China is clearly attempting to unilaterally change the agreemen
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by awillen 6y ago
I was taking a sabbatical when this all started, so thankfully I've already begun to perceive time through important milestones like taking the trash out on Tuesday night and giving my dogs flea pills at the end of every month. Really
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by awillen 6y ago
I'm obviously speaking about the SAT/ACT in the context of the US system. The entire Finnish education system is extremely different than the one in the US - to say that they don't use the SAT and have better educational outc
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by awillen 6y ago
Yeah, I agree with this 100% - these students are going to be compared to each other somehow, and it's always going to be imperfect and favor those who are better off. Still, these tests are at least relatively objective, and if you re
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by awillen 6y ago
The headline of this is so clickbaity in making it sound like some little old grandma posted pictures of her vacation and big evil government made her remove them. She posted pictures of grandchildren against their mother's wishes. She
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by awillen 6y ago
I started selling make-at-home frozen dog treats: https://coopersdogtreats.com/ . It's pretty sweltering here in San Diego, so I wanted to make frozen treats for my dog, but all the recipes online are mainly yogurt (whi
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by awillen 6y ago
Honestly, I respect any five-year-old with this much determination and drive (no pun intended). He's going places (okay that pun was intended)...
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by awillen 7y ago
Enterprise software PM here: this is wrong. Customers absolutely ask for complexity. They may not say "give me a complex piece of software" but they sure do provide an onerous list of requirements, plus they need you to meet their

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