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by gozur88 9y ago
Legal weed is not "almost here". It's still a schedule 1 controlled substance at the federal level, and in theory you can spend a year in a federal penitentiary for possession of any amount. That's what I'd like to
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by gozur88 9y ago
I read the wiki article. In practical terms it's the same thing. If you don't have enough evidence to prove the accused committed a crime, it really doesn't matter whether or not you think he did it. A "not guilty&quot
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by gozur88 9y ago
But that's exactly what "not guilty" means. Would it really matter that much if we changed the words?
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by gozur88 9y ago
That .001% is what charity is for. Personally, I think people should pay the price for their stupidity. Subsidizing stupidity never works out in the end.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Ok, so credit reporting agency collects sensitive personal and financial data on basically every adult American, loses it to a bunch of criminals and now I have to deal with the consequences? This is what pisses me off - I never gave th
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by gozur88 9y ago
I have other things I'd rather do with my money.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Does someone who makes bad choices deserve to be homeless and destitute later in life? The rest of us don't deserve to pay for their bad choices.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I have very little sympathy for the 40% or so of the population who could save for retirement but don't.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>That is, if a home is 10x the median salary, you can't really say "well, if I didn't buy a home I could work 10 years less." Yes, but what you can say is "If I move to this other place I can work ten fewer yea
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by gozur88 9y ago
Heh heh. "Flag" is terribly abused here.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Oh, I see what people are saying. It's just wrong. You can't convict people of a crime that could put them in jail for decades purely on an accusation.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The "side of caution" is innocence.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>If Bob has sex with Alice, and Alice later alleges rape, that should be taken as prima facie evidence that a rape occurred. Absolutely not. Everyone has the right to a presumption of innocence. The key issue is whether consent was ther
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by gozur88 9y ago
That kind of makes sense, though. You probably can't keep up with healthy people if you're in pain bad enough to require opioids.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's a weird headline. Governments can ban technology, but they can't make it obsolete.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It would surprise me if they didn't .
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by gozur88 9y ago
"It's weird. The chart says depth here is 200m, but we always bottom out." Yeah, that's just a crazy number. It would be a crazy number if mussels were made of lead.
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by gozur88 9y ago
> Much has been written on this topic, with a large number of studies. Since you apparently don't seem to know much of the topic to give even a hint of a counter-argument, perhaps you don't know enough to simply write "it&
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Things like TIS-100 and Shenzen I/O confuse me. Why would I spend time learning some esoteric assembler that exists no where else, when you could take that same time and learn an actual assembler? I think it's really more for
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by gozur88 9y ago
I would say it's incredibly naive to think that IQ and poverty aren't causally related. If you've ever worked with lower IQ people it should be pretty obvious the jobs they're capable of doing don't pay well.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>How can you also agree with... Because IQ is largely heritable, and the best indicator of your income and health later in life is your IQ. It's not that growing up in a poor household makes you poor - it's that you're go
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by gozur88 9y ago
Probably not. If I had different parents I'd be a different person.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I do. Why do you think that is?
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by gozur88 9y ago
"Rule of law" is really a spectrum. China may be toward the arbitrary end, but maybe not as much as we'd like to believe. Prosecutors in the US have enormous power, which is why 98% of US federal cases are pled out.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That would be fine with me. I thought Bugzilla was better.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>I think that is a horrible argument. It always bothered me that my employers could ask a lot of money per hour to their clients and I would only receive a very small part, even though I did most of the work. Did you? Are you ignoring a
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by gozur88 9y ago
Just because the government doesn't make the decision for you doesn't mean you won't have information. There's no reason the FDA couldn't still exist as an advisory body.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You couldn't take that much money from wealthy people, and if you tried you'd wreck the economy so badly we'd end up like, well, Venezuela.
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by gozur88 9y ago
More than that. If you make that kind of money you're going to pay a higher percentage of it in taxes.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I know people who are making mid six figures working for Google-tier companies. But I don't think there are very many of those kinds of people - hundreds, maybe. And these are people with highly specialized skillsets in addition to t

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