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by donw 5y ago
"There were dangerous areas before" does not negate "things now are fantastically worse".
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by donw 5y ago
Ping me if you don't mind. :)
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by donw 5y ago
> Blaming this on lax social policy around arrests misses the point I think. No. I'm old enough to remember visiting SF in the late 90s. The city was overall clean and safe. Only a few vagrants. The parks were parks and not shantyto
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by donw 5y ago
> police/lawmakers have declared their intent to never enforce laws. My understanding is that the lawmakers alone (legislature and governor) own this one. Big city police chiefs might be along for the ride because they're pure
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by donw 5y ago
Excellent, thank you!
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by donw 5y ago
Are you sure about "donated"? My understanding is that Israel paid well above market to go to the front of the line, Japan is definitely paying for doses... do you have links to authoritative primary sources on this (e.g., not a n
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by donw 5y ago
This is the most objective summary I have read on this situation. Bravo.
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by donw 5y ago
Doesn’t that just mean the union itself isn’t organizing a sickout?
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by donw 5y ago
Perhaps my grandparents' family died under this man's eye. And I forgive him. That was almost eighty years ago. I am not a forgiving person. Were this man 40, or 50, or even 70, things would be different. But he is an old man at t
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by donw 5y ago
You know what? You're right. Deleted that bullet point.
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by donw 5y ago
The promise is "apologize and this will all go away". That's a lie. Never does. Depending on where you work, you may or may not be totally screwed, but apologizing when you have done nothing wrong changes bupkis. Why give the
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by donw 5y ago
I disconnected from nearly all social media about four years ago, and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I did not even notice the recent Facebook outage in my daily life, and wouldn’t have even been aware of it without HN.
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by donw 5y ago
Peer review in and of itself is of limited value, and usually reveals cosmetic, as opposed by structural, errors. How many code reviews can be summarized by the letters "L", "G", "T", and "M"? Replica
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by donw 5y ago
Should be, yes. Will be, no. Tax preparation is a multi-billion dollar industry.
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by donw 5y ago
This is one of the best lay-explanations of manifolds I’ve seen. Nice!
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by donw 5y ago
> The statement about how Trump was “like a crippled old man furious at his neighborhood kids” is hilariously off the mark. He was furious that Pence didn’t back him up. Maybe? I didn't get the sense that Trump had a game plan at al
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by donw 5y ago
Sure, why not. During the riots, Trump kept tweeting out "LAW AND ORDER!", like a crippled old man furious at the neighborhood kids for trashing his roses. He's angry, but doesn't have the means to do anything about it.
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by donw 5y ago
> Do silicon valley companies not screen for intensity of political views during job interviews in order to prevent issues like this? It would seem that they actively select for it. > It would seem like it would be better for business
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by donw 5y ago
> Its like saying firefighters don't want to put out fires so they'll keep being paid. Burning houses don't yield endless revenue streams for fire departments.
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by donw 5y ago
Correct. The problem nowadays is that most therapists simply don't want their patients to get better. Once you help someone recover, the revenue ends, not just for you, but also for purveyors of fine psychiatric medications. It's
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by donw 5y ago
Having some clinical experience with PTSD treatment: you are almost entirely wrong.
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by donw 5y ago
Likely because reality is out of fashion at present.
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by donw 5y ago
Get people gifts that remind them of your relationship.
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by donw 5y ago
There's this thing called "weapon pull". The more different weapons you give somebody, the more likely they are to use all of them. Beat cops need service pistols, batons, and a patrol rifle (AR-15) in the cruiser. That&#x2
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by donw 5y ago
Depends on Twitter’s campaign contributions.
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by donw 5y ago
Then you should be held liable for what you allow through.
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by donw 5y ago
While this piece is garbage, I'd really like to see this data broken down by county. My hunch, and I could be wrong, so data would be nice, is that the problem lies almost entirely with urban police, which are (effectively) under the
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by donw 5y ago
There's a supercut of prominent Blue Team folks -- including the Vice President! -- publicly refusing to to take "Trump's Vaccine". After Biden took office, they executed an "about face" so hard that their head
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by donw 5y ago
What’s your stance on the pod?
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by donw 5y ago
> We should take all settlements out of the local police Union so that all cops suffer. No, we should abolish public-sector unions, which protect bad cops and bad teachers alike. What we should have is a total rework of Federal labor l

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