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Taser Will Use Police Body Cameras (and AI) “to Anticipate Criminal Activity”(theintercept.com)
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by baursak 9y ago
Here's Chomsky expanding on this further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFf6_0T2ZoI
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by baursak 9y ago
Now he lives in Berlin I believe. When this was written he lived in NYC.
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by baursak 9y ago
As long as you can protect it when challenged.
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by baursak 10y ago
It's actually just "Engineer", which is pretty broad I guess. Does your diploma have to say anything about "Engineer"?
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by baursak 10y ago
That argument doesn't hold though in many traditionally poor conservative religious countries -- think Pakistan, Bangladesh, or poorer Catholic countries in Latin America. I think religion/culture plays a bigger role. Russia was l
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by baursak 10y ago
> The former-Communist East-European country I lived in as a kid was a lot more egalitarian than most of present-day Western countries and the women were treated pretty much the same as men were when it came to work. This. Soviet block w
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by baursak 10y ago
Which is not the same as direct ownership. It's similar to the dynamic of democracy at work in the US at federal level vs. local municipal level. If large-scale federal level democracy doesn't work too well, we're not immedia
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by baursak 10y ago
> It is very visible in communist economies - the companies are owned by everyone so people care about them as much as they care about the pavement on the street or a public toilet. In existing and past "communist" economies th
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by baursak 10y ago
I agree with you that TSA (since we quietly dropped CBP from the conversation) is pretty inefficient and on the border of useless. However, you haven't really answered WHY you think that local government would do a better job. You just
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by baursak 10y ago
Are you suggesting that local governments should be handling border patrol and passenger screening, or would have been doing it better?
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by baursak 10y ago
Who are the actual airports, as in the buildings, facilities, runways, parking, etc., run by? Who are the actual flights run by, as in traffic control? Who are the roads leading to the airport managed by?
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by baursak 10y ago
Lack of "employee engagement" is not a new insight by far. It's just that implications of what it takes to address the root cause of it go down quite a deep rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx
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by baursak 10y ago
> Political and maybe ultimately economical. Yes, but for different reasons. In practice it means tons of corrupt government contracts to cronies to republish textbooks, remake signage, update software and all government services to new
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by baursak 10y ago
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR.org) articles: http://fair.org/ They are infrequent enough (a couple daily) to be OK in my mailbox, and are very good way to supplement news I'm consuming.
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by baursak 10y ago
Yep. I believe that the meme "if hard work made you rich, [coal miners | cotton pickers | day laborers | etc] would have been millionaires" is relatively recent.
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by baursak 10y ago
I've seen gas stations in the US now advertising lower cash price along with "normal" credit card price.
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by baursak 10y ago
They offered their own theory as to why all of a sudden: https://twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/850186120776306688
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by baursak 10y ago
Arguably, NASA gave up because it was funded poorly for decades. The rockets they're using are Roscomos rockets anyway, which is another government-run organization. US military is pretty effective in its primary function, but may not
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by baursak 10y ago
I wonder if there's some research on this somewhere. Organizations like NASA or the entire US military apparatus are also government-run, but you never hear free-market conservatives argue that US military sucks or is inefficient. On t
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by baursak 10y ago
Yeah, in places like Russia, this "new idea" has been implemented since the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshrutka
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by baursak 10y ago
HOA boards are democratically elected.
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by baursak 10y ago
Claiming that labor in the USSR was slave labor is disingenuous and quite a stretch. By the same standard, I can claim that Western wage labor was also slave labor. I'm also dubious of your Kansas claims (Google search comes up with no
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by baursak 10y ago
So if I unknowingly buy a stolen bike off Craigslist, I get to keep it? If the owner later identifies it with proof and requests me to return it, do I get to say "sorry, no" to him?
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by baursak 10y ago
Slavery still very much exists in places like Middle East, South Asia, and US prisons, so your argument is moot.
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by baursak 10y ago
So if I kill you and take your house, and somehow escape justice before dying myself and passing said house to my son, your son forfeits any claim to the house? Correct?
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by baursak 10y ago
> Also inheritance is ultimately the extension of the will of someone who was economically productive, so I see no problem there. Like Queen of England's inheritance, for example? Or anybody inheriting land on American soil? Totally
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by baursak 10y ago
> one is expected to work AT LEAST as hard is required for subsistence farming on an average 8-acre lot. Are you proposing then that every person should start from that baseline, say from age 18, and any wealth accumulated by their paren
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by baursak 10y ago
Can't tell if this was sarcasm or a serious statement.
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by baursak 10y ago
I googled. What I got was something like "These 11 rich guys grew up poor". Out of 300M population, correct?

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