h4nkoslo

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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
America's general policy for the last 80 years on any particular issue you can name.
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The two proposals they explicitly call out, allowing employers to subsidize the debt, and allowing farmers to write off their debts, are the exact kind of special carve-outs that caused the damn problem in the first place (the genesis being
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
No one's stopping you from cutting them a check. Ideally you would not hold a gun to my head and demand I do the same.
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It would be more accurate to say that it is intended to prevent harassment of gun owners.
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The goal of online conversation is usually not to convince the purported target of the rhetoric.
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This is also known as the "shit sandwich" (when leavened with another helping of praise on the other end), and is instantly recognizable once you see the pattern. The risk is that your initial praise is seen as disingenuous by it
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
There is a simple solution. When a state incorporates a work by reference into the law, there's a pretty cogent case that that constitutes a "taking" - ie, they've essentially seized the work for public use. Whichever
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Don't forget to break out the US by-ethnicity numbers so you get a comparison of, e.g., European Americans to other particularly euro populations. For instance, US murder rate is about double that of Canada, but Euro population is ~at
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It's on the FBI report I linked. Most other nations are leery of breaking out crime rates by ethnicity, so you have to do a bit of cross-referencing to get e.g. Euro-American vs Euro-gen pop comparisons.
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Right, and in fact I said as much.
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Let's ignore for just a second the part where you seem to label black people a "problem population". Let's not. I don't "seem to", it's kind of the crux of my argument (see below). Do you not thin
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
My take is that if you removed all of the crimes committed by black and hispanic people, the US would still have a murder rate that is multiples of that in many other developed countries. Clearly there is some other factor - one which is o
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
For whatever reason you're refusing to engage with the existence of black crime as a problem, and deflecting to whether I secretly believe in particular causal mechanisms or am arguing for heresy. In fact I've been clear in not a
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You're misunderstanding me. I am saying that the raw statistics indicate that dealing with crime in serious way requires imposing not-crime on the black population. That is just a point of fact, and Eric Holder's subordinates at
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Things like metallurgy & fluid dynamics are notoriously difficult to simulate; this combines them in exciting ways.
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Considering a group of people a "problem population" due to their race is racist, but I think this perspective is shared by many people in America. How do we get police to stop being agents of racism when so much of the populatio
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The problem is that the police are being asked to do what amounts to population control, of a historic problem population in the US, that has no real desire to be controlled, on the behalf of people with no real desire to be seen as control
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Policies, decided by elections, have costs and consequences. Educate yourself.
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The point is to disenfranchise them, because they should not exercise power. If it's about "voicing their opinion", cool, they can say what they want, even in a non-election year. The thing about an "election",
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Voting isn't some fuzzy cost-free civic participation ritual, it is an exercise of power (or more accurately, a demonstration of power in lieu of its exercise). If you want to be ruled by someone who cannot figure out the mail, or c
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
These "many people" must not be able to sustain employment either, since proof of eligibility to work (citizenship, or a visa that allows employment but wouldn't allow voting) is a requirement for any job. Somehow, outrage ov
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
My god, do you really want someone who cannot figure out how to use the mail exerting political power over you? Are you aware that anyone who wants employment in the US must present proof of employment eligibility, which in almost all ci
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You can create a propaganda campaign about how delightful voting is and all the cool kids are doing it, here's some dank memes, and by the way if you don't you're letting your country down. Like this one. https://
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Why would we want more people voting, especially if they couldn't previously be bothered to absent a significant amount of prodding?
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There isn't. Initiatives like this are usually attempts to get low-agency voters lacking any motivation and with minimal knowledge of candidates or issues to the polls. Such people usually end up voting reliably for leftist candidates
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
No, it's not. You register to vote a bit before the election. You show up to your local precinct, or request a mail-in ballot. You might have to show the same ID you're required to have for any other institution interaction,
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
These are not "fairness" issues; these are process feedback issues. The same problem pops up if you're using algorithmic selection of machine parts to test for failure, attempting to programmatically evaluate patches for cod
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The problem is that you run out of "good" NAMs (or women with the exact same career preferences as men, etc.) extremely quickly. The demand for "good" NAMs in any given field vastly exceeds supply, since quotas tend to
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There are valid use cases. http://davidbcalhoun.com/2011/when-to-base64-encode-images-a...
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This is kind of trivially obvious, confirmed by every human sense having a different response curve than other animals, different species being able to deal with different abstractions (eg, certain dogs being able to recognize conditionals

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