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by chc 9y ago
You appear to be disagreeing with the opposite of what I said. The question isn't "What percentage of people with a carry permit would get drunk while carrying?" but "What percentage of people who go out drinking while
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by chc 9y ago
I would expect that the majority of the latter two groups are also in the first one, and very close to 100% of the last group is in the second one. Do you not think so?
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by chc 9y ago
If the casino owner were going around the taking furtive pictures up girls' skirts, would you still think it was clearly on the up-and-up? The fact that it is private property doesn't mean you have unlimited rights to do what you
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by chc 9y ago
The most obvious answer based on the previous observation is "see through your skin," not "cause cancer." I think we'll need more to go on than that.
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by chc 9y ago
Why is it frightening for somebody to focus solely on accumulating lucre and not to care about other people or society at all? Because hurting people is bad.
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by chc 9y ago
The idea that the limit would happen to be just beyond where it was earlier in our lives reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: "1. Anything that is
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by chc 9y ago
I think you have cause and effect backwards. It's not fighting against that. It's not like these people are opposed up deep connections any more than I'm opposed to having a million dollars in my bank account. They just don&#
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by chc 9y ago
I think you're confusing blocking and muting.
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by chc 9y ago
All mistakes are accidental. Seldom do people write a line of code thinking, "I'm making a mistake." If your language encourages people to casually write unsafe code, any time you spent on safety guarantees was wasted because
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by chc 9y ago
You appear to be conflating several identifiably distinct things (e.g. identity, sexual orientation, role in society) under the label of "gender" and then wondering why people seem to treat them differently even though you've
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by chc 9y ago
1/2 being equivalent to a coin flip is only true if we're looking at a binary value. In reality, much fewer than one in two coin flips would accurately pinpoint the location of an ancient city. Even if it only worked half the time
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by chc 9y ago
Yeah, Firefox on desktop has always just had a badge on private windows, with everything else being the same. I think mobile uses different colors, though.
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by chc 9y ago
No, people don't usually say that, because it is obvious to most people what the product is in that situation, and trying to redefine terms so that it's something else seems like newspeak. The game is a product — the company prod
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by chc 9y ago
This seems like a simplistic take, and I don't think it accurately reflects the view of many people who actually work at Facebook. In online games like League of Legends, we do not say that whales are the customers and the players are
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by chc 9y ago
How in the world does the fact that it is an ID number in the Social Security system mean that it's meant to be used as an identity mechanism by businesses?
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by chc 9y ago
Unless you have some amazing new information, one country and one campaign is about as bold as it seems reasonable to be.
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by chc 9y ago
Taxes are even less palatable than subsidies. A carbon tax is a great idea, but before you can implement it, you have to fight the people who hate taxes, the people who hate environmentalism, and the companies whose products you're now
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by chc 9y ago
How does the standard deduction going up benefit the rich or harm the non-rich? Aren't lower- and middle-class people most likely to take the standard deduction, and thus be able to deduct more?
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by chc 9y ago
If you check ID, but make that ID available only through a particular process that is difficult for some people to access, you've effectively disenfranchised that demographic. This has actually happened in some states, where older blac
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by chc 9y ago
The negative press was basically just 15000 different ways of saying "A car once crashed while on Autopilot, and I have a theory about how it means the whole product is a sham." There's really not much more to it besides me-t
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by chc 9y ago
Musk's "hype" of AI? He says we should be scared of it.
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by chc 9y ago
It seems really weird to suggest that no big companies would make software if they knew that competing software could be developed. Regulations on drugs require extensive and time-consuming trials, and that's the strongest argument for
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by chc 9y ago
Most of Apple's major markets had pretty good Internet connections by 2012, when they started producing computers without CD drives.
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by chc 9y ago
No, the organization that put that slideshow together concluded at the end of its investigation that the primary causes of the crash were the truck failing to yield properly and the Tesla driver not paying attention for a long time. Their o
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by chc 9y ago
Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, your reputation is practically all you have to worry about.
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by chc 9y ago
Not having to meal plan is bigger than a lot of people think. Most of the couples I know hate having to figure out what's for dinner.
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by chc 9y ago
I wouldn't call that an aspirational income, though — would you? That's just your real household income. It's also not an option for most adults, who are almost all older than 18.
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by chc 9y ago
Wouldn't applying for credit based on "aspirational" finances be fraud?
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by chc 9y ago
It seems pretty clear to me from reading the article that the headline is simply using "time" as a shorthand for "the arrow of time," and the article tends to refer to the arrow explicitly. This is a common usage (e.g. &
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by chc 9y ago
You think an unaffiliated individual just recreationally hacked the White House Chief of Staff's phone?

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