diordiderot

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by diordiderot 18d ago
> trust me bro
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by diordiderot 19d ago
> We need you guys to think about how you overcame those problems so those lessons can be applied to countries that desperately need the help We have studied this problem ad nauseum. The West knew the answer until about a century ago. Eu
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by diordiderot 2mo ago
«don't prevent much» Of the measures available to the justice system for deterrence, increasing the perceived certainty of arrest is possibly the most effective. An arrest also prevents the same offender from committing more crimes. Si
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by diordiderot 3mo ago
Hence why the EU is competing so well against the US
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by diordiderot 3mo ago
This type of comment is generally frowned upon on hn. That's what the upvote/downvote feature is for.
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by diordiderot 3mo ago
That's not saying what you think it's saying... They're saying, that social media use before suicide is like drinking water
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by diordiderot 3mo ago
Chopping wood is for suckers. Half your woodpile will get redistributed to strangers who just moved in down the road.
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by diordiderot 3mo ago
There was no option to select no! Only which age you wanted the ban to start
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
You'd think that an army full of oppressed Roman citizens would've overthrown them right.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
You're mixing up two different things. Moving electricity with HVDC is easy and cheap... building the grid infrastructure is, well, not so easy or cheap. The system cost depends on connection queues, transmission buildout, substations,
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Still notably lower than the previous high of March 7, 1876
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Zuck has a lot of money in biohub iirc
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Lol, sure. until the first "revolutionary" takes one in the chest. Americans are too comfortable. Leftist rhetoric is virtue signaling and costless.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Get some skin in the game then smart guy
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Land permitting is tough maybe why they use tents
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
90s medical advertisement disclaimer voice Only if what those people want is something I agree with otherwise I think the state holds the monopoly on violence and we need to mobilize it against the wrong thinker.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
People have weird kinks these days
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
They're building more coal than anyone. Also more nuclear than anyone, which one must assume you hate, because preferring solar requires you don't actually understand thing
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Exactly. Same with tractors. Once they arrived, nobody benefited except Big Tractor. Famously a net loss for humanity.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Yeah, crazy for a company with nothing but the largest civilian satellite network and what amounts to a monopoly on space flight.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Boomers and luddites won't let them be built on earth so no other option really
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Lol it's American whites who are so detached from the reality of violence. Why did people suddenly stop talking about body cams after mass adoption. Maybe it didn't show you what you thought it would.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Side note, UK police harass people for 'non-crime hate incidents' and put people on terror lists for being critical of protected ideologies. Judges give longer sentences for mean tweets than hoarding child pornography or months lo
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
> if you look at the right parts of the US No, I’m saying almost the opposite. Crime in the US is highly concentrated. A large share is committed by relatively small groups, in specific places, and follows a power-law pattern rather than
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
> risk of being a victim of violence is higher in the US You really gotta look at how those numbers break down. Who's killing who and where. Be in the right places and you're much safer than anywhere in Europe
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Like trial by jury... Oh wait. Going this year Or freedom of protest... Er ehm, that was three years ago Well at least no Double jeopardy... until 2003 Right to silence! Oh no not that one either Shrugs and scratches head
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
It's actually easy to avoid getting killed. Simply don't chase, harass, attempt to run over, or assault LEOs doing their jobs Hope that helps.
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
Wealth cannot be created or destroyed, only distributed. /S
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by diordiderot 4mo ago
You know who will shut up and do as their told, the H1B replacing you this fall
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by diordiderot 5mo ago
Oh good. But I think you're over estimating the 'concentration of power', and under estimating 'benefiting the whole of humanity' Most homeless people have smartphones, and consistent access to food and clean water.

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