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by baumy 5y ago
> Asking cops "do you do crimes" is an interesting methodology, for sure. How do you think the population wide numbers are gathered? The core point is that the 40% number is exaggerated BS, if for no other reason than it litera
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by baumy 5y ago
Those studies have been thoroughly discredited. Not only do they qualify things like "shouting" and "loss of temper" as domestic violence (which of course do not meet the legal threshold for that term), they have never b
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by baumy 6y ago
True in Seattle as well, and Portland too from what friends tell me but I don't have first hand knowledge of that one. Had my wallet stolen at a community rec center in the Northgate area (a few miles north of downtown Seattle for thos
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by baumy 6y ago
At some point a year or two ago I googled around for "best rss reader app" or "best rss news app" looking for android specifically, and I don't remember seeing newsblur talked about anywhere. All of the ones I did t
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by baumy 6y ago
I'm tempted to agree with you because the BLM non-profit seems to be an extremist political organization, and most people are not extremists. On the other hand, that does not explain why so many of those selfsame people become very def
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by baumy 6y ago
> As a citizen, would you trust the government if they did yet another 180, after demonstrating to you 2x that they didn't actually know what they were talking about? One of the many things that I've learned from this pandemic
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by baumy 6y ago
> it’s tough to just say hundreds of thousands of students are wrong Can you share your reasoning behind this statement? I don't find it remotely tough. If anything, it seems like the most sensible default position. At risk of sound
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by baumy 6y ago
Also not affiliated at all and seconding this, love mine and would have bought another by now if I still had to go to an office and also work sometimes at home. I've tried all kinds of keyboards - the microsoft ergonomic ones, full siz
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by baumy 6y ago
It is perfectly possible to be worried about both, which is where I'm currently at. The amount of influence a handful of individual companies (run by unaccountable BDFLs) have over our entire social discourse should make everyone uneas
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by baumy 6y ago
I didn't react as strongly as the person you're replying to but I get it. The "Does that make sense?" bit, along with the rest of the comment, makes it read like a schoolteacher trying to patiently explain why something
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by baumy 6y ago
CDC best estimate IFR for COVID-19 is as follows: 0-19 years: 0.00003 20-49 years: 0.0002 50-69 years: 0.005 70+ years: 0.054 So only age 50+ have at least 0.5% chance to die from COVID-19. These numbers also include everyone in that age ra
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by baumy 6y ago
> There are not infinite number of hospital beds. In NY they were past the limits for a month, killing med staff and also ptsd for them. This was barely avoided in Seattle To be frank I've stopped caring enough to follow the news in
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by baumy 6y ago
I see where you're coming from but I don't really agree. Consider a couple of scenarios, both of which are equivalent to things that have actually happened: - Despite you not being on social media, someone who very actively is can
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by baumy 6y ago
Can't help you with TikTok or Vine since I don't understand those either (I believe the target market for them is mostly people around age 21 or younger, so if you're outside that group that's not surprising). For Zoom t
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by baumy 7y ago
This comment is very weird to me. The hypothetical group of stoned gamers being discussed are certainly entitled to choose to spend their time smoking weed and playing games. I don't see how it follows that they're entitled to me
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by baumy 7y ago
This isn't on topic, but assuming you were serious about writing novels in your free time - I enjoyed this comment so much I read it several times, and probably will come back and read it again at some point in the semi-distant future.
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by baumy 7y ago
Chiming in to agree with you - where I work there are different coding competencies that are assigned per interviewer (e.g. good understanding of data structures and algorithms, good problem solving when dealing with ambiguity, knows how to
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by baumy 7y ago
The pro sportsballer, hands down. His superior work ethic is likely a big part of why he made the pros, and 99% of first-year college players won't.
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by baumy 7y ago
> This is equal parts editorializing and [citation needed]. Keep in mind that correlation != causation. If you still trust any citations to social science research in 2019, I have a bridge to sell you. Unfortunately it is my strong belie
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by baumy 7y ago
Not OP, but my gut agrees with his. Very tricky issue and I don't think anyone can say who is "right", so I fall back to one universal principle to inform my opinion here, as well as a general societal observation. The princi
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by baumy 7y ago
It's always fascinating to me how two people can read the same words and come to two polar opposite conclusions. My read of silveroriole's comment is that the commenter is a woman lamenting the fact that women are in the position
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by baumy 7y ago
> The famous "characters" of open source are notorious, not famous. No one looks at a Linus rant and says "Wow I want to try my hand at adding a patch for Linux!". No, they say "Wow, I want to have that kind of p
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by baumy 7y ago
I don't find it remotely hard to believe, and I don't think this is a good example. US consumers have more disposable income and are more aggressively advertised to than the rest of the world. Apple historically has done an amazin
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by baumy 7y ago
I don't have a lot of faith in common sense, no matter whose it is. Especially when dealing with large numbers, large populations, diverse human behavior, common sense is rarely common and frequently wrong. So yes, a citation is needed
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by baumy 7y ago
> The benefits of lower barrier to entry aren’t worth the increased, unnecessary risks. Every study I've ever seen contradicts your statement here. You are all over this thread making strong, sweeping claims about bike safety and yo
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by baumy 7y ago
This will be my last reply since it's quite clear we're at an impasse, but I assure you I have been exposed to many more perspectives than just HN, and frankly am offended that you would assume otherwise. I think it reflects poorl
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by baumy 7y ago
Agree to disagree. To me there's nothing more American than citizens/organizations coming out in support of what they believe in, and forcing their representatives to either advocate on their behalf for those beliefs, or face the
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by baumy 7y ago
My ideal statement would have gone something like this: "I (Adam Silver) support the principles of democracy and human rights, and stand with the people of Hong Kong in trying to secure those for themselves. The rest of the NBA stands
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by baumy 7y ago
Another longtime NBA fan here, just backing up what you're saying about Morey. Especially in regards to the NBA in China, he's a fairly significant figure, more so than the original comment implies. On a different note - I was in
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by baumy 7y ago
> Most people don't live within 15 miles of an Amazon distribution center May not have a huge impact on your overall point, but bump that number up to maybe 20 miles and I actually would bet that the majority of Americans at least

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