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by handrous 5y ago
I say get them out of looking for speeders and light-runners, first off. That can be a whole other job. Boom, you now need... what, 1/3 as many cops? Even that many? Might even help at least a bit with the whole "driving while b
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by handrous 5y ago
The property tax thing is mostly a red herring. Again, some of the best-funded schools in my city are the worst ones, because they get lots of money from other programs that aren't funded by local property taxes. They're still v
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by handrous 5y ago
Effective solutions amount to "solve poverty, and/or socio-economic divides in housing distribution". By that I don't mean that we shouldn't try, but we should, ideally, work toward actually solving the problem, w
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by handrous 5y ago
Everywhere had similar "just dropped off" stats. I'm sure some places were worse than others, but alarming rates of students who basically didn't attend school were the norm. [EDIT] FWIW, in-person schools saw worse resu
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by handrous 5y ago
If I have a screensaver I want it to be that, or flying toasters. Not interested in anything else. No, not even Pipes or Starfield, as nostalgic as those are.
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah—you arrived there by redefining the word. Got it.
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by handrous 5y ago
> And let's ignore the actual criminals who legally counterfeit US dollars to finance war all around the world. I've not heard of a legal counterfeiter. How's that work?
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by handrous 5y ago
The overhead of ideal levels of automation, like > In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent. doesn't make sense from an
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd help you out, but I expect to use my 12 mini for at least 3 more years, maybe 5.
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by handrous 5y ago
I figured that term had taken off because people were acquiring it from farm stores or pet supply places, so they were literally buying "horse dewormer", as it might be labeled on the packaging or signage. Same as they do for ot
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by handrous 5y ago
This is why, when people start asking for categories or hierarchies, you implement it as tags without telling them, if it's at all possible to do so. Then when they decide they actually need tags, you either get to be a hero, or to g
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by handrous 5y ago
That's how it was in the US not that long ago (~20-25 years ago). Then Wal-Mart starting doing 24/7, and McDonalds, and most other businesses didn't match that but did significantly expand their hours.
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by handrous 5y ago
As someone who's never thought the massively-expanded store hours since the late 90s were a good thing, that's great news. Going back to the only things open 24/7 being some gas stations and maybe the odd pharmacy or urgent
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by handrous 5y ago
There's freedom, then there's "freedom", the branding term used to chase a certain market. This is clearly the latter.
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by handrous 5y ago
We don't need more of the "git-[whatever]" commands to be in scripting languages. It's hard enough to bundle, distribute, and support as it is (especially on Windows). Though, yes, parts of it are already Perl so that
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by handrous 5y ago
Classical liberalism is a retrospective name for one thread of liberalism. It does not—and this is important—encompass all liberals before some date, but one branch, influenced by a set of thinkers and writers who are also counted among
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by handrous 5y ago
You'd have to be using these terms in a non-standard way, for that to be true. Some common forms of libertarianism are under the umbrella of liberalism, or part of its family, if you like, but they are not identical.
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by handrous 5y ago
Frontend devs who can also design (especially make impressive mock-ups) and talk OK are gods in meetings, which translates into better social standing (which can equal money, if they play their cards right and move into "product owne
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by handrous 5y ago
It's a bit bad if you're not using typescript—then it's entirely fine. It's a bit bad if you try to add a bunch of extra shit to it unless you really need that shit (e.g. Thunk). The terminology's kinda bad (&quot
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by handrous 5y ago
This isn't even a joke, it's just true. "reddit [my actual search]" is the only way I know to sort of get at all kinds of info that Google is no longer any good whatsoever at finding. I guess if that stops being useful
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by handrous 5y ago
This strikes at a fundamental problem of what the correct role of a representative is: is it to be an appointed expert and professional, devoted full-time to finding the best solutions; or, is it to be a conduit for the will of the people,
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by handrous 5y ago
Simply liberal as in "liberal democracy", which I'm using in the normal way, since the argument goes that that's the system and the general state of things that the 2nd amendment is vital to preserving. https:/&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
I do think the history of the Black Panthers is one of the more likely veins to yield gold, in my search, and intend to do some reading there. I'm entirely serious that I could turn around on this position completely, if I found comp
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by handrous 5y ago
It's close, but browser support & integration was never good enough, and that lacks the ability to carry on a dialog or to attach one's own post to someone else's, which people clearly want. Any move to develop it further
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, but the degree of the effect matters a lot when the other position is "of course they're countries X and Y are turning into tyrannies—people don't own enough guns to stop it"—as if that's a major, or even deci
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by handrous 5y ago
I mean the usual things that are meant by both those words, no special meaning. To address the simpler of the two directly: it's not necessary that an authoritarian state be unpopular—often they're not, especially at first—but tha
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by handrous 5y ago
Twitter should be a protocol integrated into browsers, not a site.
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by handrous 5y ago
Tweets not loading, with an error, except after several tries, is a commonly-reported problem. I've seen it for years, across multiple browsers & devices, happens all the time. It might go away if you log in. I wouldn't kn
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by handrous 5y ago
What the fuck? No, I just don't think an exiled authoritarian government overthrowing a foreign-imposed kleptocracy is a great example of private firearms playing a vital role in preserving liberty & democracy, which is what I aske
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by handrous 5y ago
I strongly suspect this "fleet-in-being" effect of private arms only marginally affects outcomes, and even that is outweighed by their utility as a tool of oppression. The best I can figure as a credible argument for private arm

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