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by defen 5y ago
The state government is pretty explicitly anti-NIMBY / pro-density (relatively speaking) right now, so bad-faith attempts to restrict growth like that might not go over well.
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by defen 5y ago
> Neighbors reporting each other for crimes is a good thing. Codes of silence between neighbors are what lead communities to cover up murders and refuse to talk to police. People voluntarily gathering in defiance of COVID restrictions is
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by defen 5y ago
I'm in the same boat; you should listen to Saget's tribute to Norm if you haven't already.
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by defen 5y ago
The proposed hypothesis though is that unsuccessful nobles spread their "favorable genes" by descending into the lower classes. To fall that far you'd have to be deeply in debt and not particularly high status.
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by defen 5y ago
You might be conflating nobility with Gregory Clark's thesis in "A Farewell to Alms". There never would have been enough nobles for their failsons to have any kind of measurable genetic impact on the wider society; plus noble
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by defen 5y ago
What I find interesting is that the implementation of `midpoint` is incorrect (should be `U difference = (U)y - (U)x;`), which is not a good look when you want to argue that unsigned makes everything more correct.
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by defen 5y ago
What happens when some random person uploads your code (acquired from your website) to GitHub?
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by defen 5y ago
500 shootings - how many of those were homicides? Also, Seattle is 83 square miles. I'm talking about what happened within a 6-block area over a span of 23 days.
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by defen 5y ago
There were 4 shootings in a span of 10 days at CHOP (the entire thing lasted 23 days and covered 6 blocks). A 16 year old and a 19 year old were killed and four other people were shot, including a 14 year old. That's "not that bad
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by defen 5y ago
I've heard of many big companies not wanting to use JSON-license licensed software for this reason (too much legal risk) - https://www.json.org/license.html
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by defen 5y ago
> Use-of-force experts here would not recommend shooting at all if there's any chance a missed shot is going to hit someone downrange, unless again it can be shown that killing is absolutely the only choice left. Then it seems like
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by defen 5y ago
> If you're not good enough with guns to make a non-lethal disarming shot This suggests to me that you don't know much about guns, gun safety, or gun laws. I'm not trying to be insulting, but saying something like that in
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by defen 5y ago
There's no point in arguing about the facts of the Rittenhouse case, because everyone has seen all the video and decided where they stand on the issue. Arguing about it will only lead to a flamewar. So let's posit that you are 100
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by defen 5y ago
People keep coming up with these fanciful scenarios because they don't like the idea of being able to shoot intruders, but think about that for a second. You're positing that a person wants to kill a random person they don't
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by defen 5y ago
Texas also has the death penalty for premeditated murder, which would probably be the case if you're prepared enough to frame the victim for catalytic converter theft. So if you're going to use an affirmative defense ("Yes I
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by defen 5y ago
> If you read anything about Evangelical Christian culture the single worst sin you can ever commit is demanding your autonomy. This grievous violation of our bodies is used to induce us into servitude Circumcision is explicitly not a
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by defen 5y ago
I was wondering who had been printing these out and posting them on telephone poles around Portland.
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by defen 5y ago
> - person needs a vehicle so he can get to a job You don't need a $30,000 truck (which, again, represents your life savings) to get to work. Just the cost of collision insurance and the cost of flying to Columbus and driving it bac
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by defen 5y ago
Of course they should be able to. I'm saying that the totality of the story (spending $30,000, which represents all of your money, when you're unemployed, to buy a vehicle in cash from a stranger who lives 1,000 miles away) is sus
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by defen 5y ago
> A person shouldn't be subject to seizure of their savings just because they're a little different than most in the handling of their finances. I agree, that was the whole point of my comment. > I might be OK with the warra
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by defen 5y ago
> That's not how the legal system works (or he'd be already in jail) and it is already a broken system. You'd need proof to convict him. I don't understand your comment. I'm not suggesting that the DEA agent shou
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by defen 5y ago
I think civil asset forfeiture is a farce and should be ended. At the same time, the idea that a 58 year old man would spend his life savings by purchasing a $30,000 truck from a stranger who lives a thousand miles away, using physical cash
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by defen 5y ago
> This kind of cross-cutting issue is very challenging for even the best run organizations to deal with Do you specifically mean local governments here when you say organizations? If he were the CEO of Long Beach, Inc, and you were a sha
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by defen 5y ago
> This guy almost certainly didn't even realize he could do anything to fix the problem Isn't that alone an indictment of him or his organization (which, by extension, is an indictment of him)? Why did no one on his team tell h
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by defen 5y ago
McCarthy lists Moby-Dick as his favorite book [1]. The otherwise-impenetrable sentence "The Dipper stove." from the first page of Blood Meridian will be immediately understandable to anyone familiar with early 19th century whaling
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by defen 5y ago
The key is to read one chapter aloud before bed each night for 4.5 months. You're not reading it for the plot.
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by defen 5y ago
One way to test out your theory would be to pretend that someone else wrote the essay. If the essay no longer makes sense, or if it still comes across as self-congratulatory, I would agree with you. However if you perform this thought exper
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by defen 5y ago
> Writing a piece called “Beyond Smart” where you literally equate yourself with Einstein in the first paragraph is a special level of arrogance. He didn't equate himself with Einstein, in either the first paragraph or the rest of t
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by defen 5y ago
Are you talking about the text from the paper itself ("The male performance advantage...") or something else?
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by defen 5y ago
If one's position is "we have to censor the truth because the truth is immoral" then it's worth considering having an "are we the baddies?" moment.

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