cnelsenmilt

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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
A democratic government (like the one they have in France) is also the people.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Absolutely. And union negotiations, and then a strike, are some ways that the workers can make it break.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
It can still be assault and kidnapping when the police do it, if they don't have a good reason and follow the rules. Same applies to surveillance. The question is not cops vs. non-cops: it's what the valid reasons and rules for th
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
People objected to the TSA, but the political climate in 2002 was too much in favor of it.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Personally I've always preferred to muddy the waters by treating it as a fourth-declension noun, so that its plural would be octopūs .
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Sure, this is the desirable solution. But...your example, people did believe it. So is it not as easy as we'd like? Or as a society, what do we do when this easy bar is not being met by our friends, neighbors, relatives?
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Weird, why is this year-old article reposted twice in 12 hours? Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399753
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
There's no reasonable equivalence between the two events you're referring to. If you wanted a recent rightist event comparable to CHAZ, you could go with the Malheur standoff, perhaps. Also, "no armed confrontation with polic
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
I truly can't think of a more fundamental element of a democratic system than who is enfranchised, and there have been two or three enormous changes in the answer to that since the founding.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
If you go to the bookstore and there are two shelves, one of Danielle Steel novels and another of Dan Brown, are you making a free choice to read trashy pulp fiction?
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
This doesn't appear to be a response to any of the content of the comment it is posted in reply to. Or indeed the entire thread.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
I'm not sure how "defamation" is germane to the discussion, or the original point that you responded to.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Is it your position then that since the developers had neutral intent, therefore the algorithms do not need to be adjusted?
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
In the same way when you sit down to play a boardgame with someone and they draw extra cards, fudge die rolls, and flip over the table when a turn goes against them: they're no longer playing the agreed-on game at that point, and you a
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Future investors are not analogous to customers.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Well, I've lived here for the last 15 years and other than getting buzzed by a car once or twice on my bike I have not ever "feared for my life".
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
You're begging the question with your assumption that the previous price of labor reflected its true value and the new price is excessive. What if it was previously undervalued and the new price is correct?
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
This and also arguably 70 year old moms are probably just fine at "don't lose this crucial piece of paper" given stuff like social security cards, birth certificates, savings bonds, and all the other bits that have been impor
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
25 years ago there was a pay phone in every gas station, and in denser areas in every corner market, bus terminal, grocery store, hotel, ..., not mentioning those installed directly along the street.
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Sure, and this is why the wealthy always use some of their wealth protecting themselves. In a society where physical violence is an immanent possibility they hire some kind of bodyguards; in a society like ours where the main threats are no
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
It's funny, because this should be a point of crossover for the (populist) left and the right. Basic nationalism on the one hand, "Buy Local" on the other. They all want the same thing, or close to it. The potential for allia
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Sorry, I'm confused now, are we talking about a place where people exchange > civilly-expressed criticism of themselves and their worldview [0] or where they should expect to be ridiculed and insulted? And why would anyone sane want
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
> If an outgroup wants a private, safe space to express themselves That's not particularly close to what I said. I am talking about the outgroup being able to participate in the "public square of free expression", in a way
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
Well, the big issue is that completely unmoderated free speech in an environment like Twitter only stays free for the loudest, biggest two (or so) groups. The others are just shouted down and may as well go home. > the sort of place th
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
But do they think the police should be more involved in exactly the same way they are now? I don't know, but I do assume that if asked they would suggest some changes in behavior: "police should be more involved but also they shou
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by cnelsenmilt 4y ago
> you can't send human remains by postal service or courier), and much easier too. I wonder whether anyone offers it as a commercial service Wouldn't that just be a courier then?
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by cnelsenmilt 5y ago
> Theoretically, then the bike should be stopping. As I and others have pointed out elsewhere, the law hasn't changed at all what a bike may or should do when there is a car present. It only covers the situation when there is no o
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by cnelsenmilt 5y ago
This new law hasn't changed a bicycle's abilities, privileges, or responsibilities when other traffic is present . So if there is a situation where "the people driving the cars expect you to stop" the person on the bicy
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by cnelsenmilt 5y ago
Not really; in that case the stop sign should just be a yield sign. That's the point of this law: the margin where an action is safe enough is vastly different between bikes and cars. A car and a bike travelling at the same speed will
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by cnelsenmilt 5y ago
> wait in line behind a car, but often drivers dislike this more Yes, it can also cause you to miss the light or be in the intersection when red, if it is a quick one and the driver up front is not paying attention, since the bike can&#x

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