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by downerending 6y ago
Laws are for other people. It's all the rage these days.
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by downerending 6y ago
Yeah, that sucks. Your description makes it sound like their face was impacted by a metal canister, but looking at the picture, they seem to have simply been maced. Without more context, I'm guessing their parents took them to a prote
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by downerending 6y ago
The problem is that only occasionally getting killed during a traffic stop isn't enough. No sane person would take such a job.
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by downerending 6y ago
> you cant really call someone a criminal until they've been convicted of a crime This is a technical nicety not available to a policeman in a real situation. If someone points a gun at them, that someone is a criminal, even if the
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by downerending 6y ago
> The point is that "black on black violence" is essentially a myth. This doesn't even pass the laugh test.
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by downerending 6y ago
I'm guessing that that cop in Vegas that was just paralyzed for life by some "protester" would not agree with you. You don't have to be killed "feloniously" to be dead. And you don't have to be killed at
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by downerending 6y ago
Neither of those stats means anything without context. Not surprisingly, criminals get killed a lot.
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by downerending 6y ago
Thanks for some summaries. Any idea of how many of these cases involved people acting illegally? (e.g., refusing to leave an area after being ordered to)
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by downerending 6y ago
> the police are causing most of these protests and riots Free will is a thing, and the police cannot make you go out and commit vandalism, mayhem, and murder.
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by downerending 6y ago
Unfortunately, criminals aren't going to have higher standards of conduct, even if they "should". That's why we call them criminals. And the police have to deal with these people all day long--there's no easy co
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by downerending 6y ago
This is a horrible story, no doubt. Broadly, unless you have a million dollars to lose, you have no business putting your money in anything but mutual funds. Even there, only low-overhead index funds are a good call. For most people, buy
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by downerending 6y ago
I think most basketball fans would agree with that argument.
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by downerending 6y ago
Not sure I'd call it a privilege exactly, but frank boredom probably did help me learn computers as a child. There was no hardware around, nor anyone to learn from, so I simply read whatever sales literature and manuals I could get
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by downerending 6y ago
Yeah, I think that's true. I consider myself utterly incompetent for this task, and yet I've ended up with eight step-children over the years. It sucks for all concerned, but something is usually better than nothing.
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by downerending 6y ago
Sure, but you're simply restating the problem. You can also keep from getting seriously burned by carefully following the strategy of keeping your skin cool all of the time . Problem solved. Hooray.
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by downerending 6y ago
No, GP is detached from reality. Nothing to see here.
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by downerending 6y ago
Excellent points, especially for the "medical" part of the storm. But against that, we must weigh the reduced likelihood of infection in a remote place. Furthermore, I think most of the storm is not really medical. I'm feel
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by downerending 6y ago
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular . There's a reason why there are very few great Ashkenazi basketball players, and it's not racism or
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by downerending 6y ago
I did the ring/knee thing once. In retrospect, was a mistake. A true life partner will want to choose their own ring, and in particular, will want to think rationally about all of the other things you could do together with that money
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by downerending 6y ago
I've seen zero incidents of racism over several decades in tech jobs. I'm thus inclined to think it's quite rare. Alternatively, it could just be that kids today are a lot more racist than my generation.
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by downerending 6y ago
> There is a curse on these ideas, so please contact me if you want to use them elsewhere. I've added my own curse, so also contact me if you need a license to use them. :-)
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by downerending 6y ago
I read his comment as "inherent racial disparities in ability". For basketball, I doubt you'll find many that disagree. For STEM, or computer programming and math at least, it's far harder to know. Certainly there are
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by downerending 6y ago
Somewhere in the Bible there's an admonition to "pull the log out of one's own eye before chastising someone else for the mote in theirs". Seems applicable here. Certainly the very last people I'd use as an ethical
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by downerending 6y ago
Even if that's true, that still leaves us with FB's even shittier and more toxic model.
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by downerending 6y ago
Yes, it's been highly disorienting and depressing for me. I suppose I always imagined that the right would come around to some of the left's better ideas, but I never expected that the left would pick up some the right's w
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by downerending 6y ago
I'm not particularly claiming that IF works. My main point is that nothing we know of really works generally and reliably. I've personally lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off continually for more than a decade.
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by downerending 6y ago
It's a plausible idea. I already life in a relatively "safe" place, and yet I find myself considering moving to an even "safer" shack in the remote woods somewhere. Feels like a storm is coming...
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by downerending 6y ago
You're probably correct, in that losing a lot of weight greatly improved his health. That said, losing weight is freaking difficult, and if intermittent fasting is a path towards that, it'd be very useful. I've done a lot of
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by downerending 6y ago
In my opinion, the import of this piece is the larger ideas presented, rather than any details about the institution in question and its employees. In any case, it's a great essay, and worth reading on that account alone.
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by downerending 6y ago
There's a piece of bioinformatics software by the same name, for which this quote would be quite fitting.

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