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by content_sesh 6y ago
911 isn't a personal concierge, it exists to take calls from people in urgent need of assistance and dispatch the correct help to them. If my house is broken into, why does the person who takes my statement so I can file an insurance c
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by content_sesh 6y ago
You're missing the point, which is the cop you ride along with may behave differently if he or she knows there is someone (you) observing them. This isn't pure speculation - a study by Rialto PD showed use of body worn cameras red
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Good thing that poster was talking about police as an institution and power structure and not making your strawman argument about about what is in the heart of each and every cop
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by content_sesh 6y ago
The story makes no sense and falls apart under even the most cursory inspection; most of the news is around how bogus the story is and social media's reaction to the bogus story. Slinging unsubstantiated mud at your opponent is an old
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by content_sesh 6y ago
This is probably more of an argument against taking broadly-stated descriptive statements from studies and uncritically turning them into prescriptive statements. You and I both find that our brains are more engaged when writing by hand
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by content_sesh 6y ago
How would giving workers few places to sell their labor-power result in increased wages?
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "gains getting sucked up from where they naturally would have gone". If you have a capitalist economy where: - productive output increases - wages remain the same - the length of the working day
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by content_sesh 6y ago
As always, the proper solution is via actual legal channels and laws against libel, not dictating how a tech website should meet the needs of it's customers. If a business is demonstrably not racist, sue Yelp and the newspaper Yelp lin
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I think it's a mistake to track the metrics at a individual level, and an even bigger one to do it publicly. Your team owns your product, not your individual devs. So by measuring each team member individually, you end up mis-aligning
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by content_sesh 6y ago
The last mass email I received that was successful (got me to do something) I didn't actually read. The subject line was something like "50% off sale through the weekend" which was literally the only information I needed.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
It's not uniquely American, its bog-standard "startup trying to establish a parasocial relationship".
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by content_sesh 6y ago
For sure. As Brooks might say, code like that is high in "essential complexity". There's almost no boilerplate - there's a nearly 1:1 ratio of lines of code to important idea.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
The vast majority of those incarcerated in America have taken plea deals. The only source I could find from a government agency is a 1984 report from the BJS but it's fairly staggering - median ratio of 11 guilty pleas for every trial[
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I'm having a hard time finding data for the state in question (California), but at a federal level this is very much not true. BOP stats show 46% of inmates are in for drug offenses, and 5% are in for property crime[1] [1] https:&#x2F
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by content_sesh 6y ago
If you agree to the conceit that a system of justice is about rehabilitation, then someone needs to sit next to, work next to, live next to a person who committed a "serious, violent crime" that sent them to prison for 13 years.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Yes, this bolsters the author's point that it is essential to create more opportunities because what she had to do to help her friend was only possible because of her extraordinary connections. The author herself points out that most p
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I remember getting a very helpful tip as an undergrad Math major: once you start doing senior undergrad/early graduate level classes, expect each textbook page to take a long time to read. Upwards of an hour is not uncommon. And I foun
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by content_sesh 6y ago
The follow up studies on this are also quite interesting, especially the one with the "unreliable tester". There are many factors that go into individuals' decision making processes, and trust is a big one.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I haven't read the book either, but from reading the reviews it seems like the thesis is that your wealth is a function of your time orientation - whether you prefer to plan short term or long term. If that's the case, I disagree
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I feel like we're getting a bit silly at this point. But to continue that train of though: SCOTUS clerks are now unpaid, further ensuring that only those already wealthy can afford to take the position.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
"In a 9-0 decision, SCOTUS has struck down as unconstitutional the law giving Senate Judiciary power over hiring clerks." More seriously, I'm not convinced moving this to a Senate subcommittee would lend any more legitimacy t
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by content_sesh 6y ago
"Working class" in the sense of political economy, not Western shorthand for "blue collar". And yes, I believe that if you sell your labor for a living, whether it be for $400k at Apple or otherwise, you have more in com
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Wealthy people have the resources to defend themselves in court. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you generally cannot afford lawyer fees, taking time off work for court appearances, or the risk of actually losing a case, or the probably m
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Your salary is not what makes you working class or bourgeoisie. The distinction is, broadly, whether you must sell your labor to survive.
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I'm not trying to nitpick or anything, but to my ears calling a clearance a "perk" speaks to misconceptions about the reality of working in that ecosystem. But job mobility is a real thing, so yeah that's a good point to
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Getting your SF-86 leaked by OPM does not, in fact, make you feel cool, like part of the team, or a "made man".
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by content_sesh 6y ago
I was told that an active clearance with SSBI can add $30-50k (or something, this was years ago) to your salary. These days that doesn't seem like anything super special given tech salaries in major metros. But it probably goes a real
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Whatever the appropriate monetary penalty is, it feels like jail time for executives and management within PG&E, who are ultimately responsible for the apparent culture of negligence within PG&E, is appropriate as well. In terms of
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Technology is orthogonal to system change. It can be used to bolster existing modes of oppression or oppose them. Sometimes even the same technology can be used to do both, based on who uses it! The real question is what is being deployed,
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by content_sesh 6y ago
Agreed. There's unfortunately been a lot of wild accusations online about who's starting fires and why. But that's not a good reason to plaster his name, age, and face all over the article

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