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by haroldp 5y ago
Libertarian here! If you don't really care if you step on a few toes to make the world better overall... Then we should still be on the same side of this issue. I mean say we hate the idea of sex work overall, and there are real probl
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> 3. It ignores second order effects. It assumes that forbidding prostitution will eliminate it and doesn’t consider the additional risk of harm resulting from pushing prostitution to the black market. At it's heart this is an argum
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> We know that many of our customers create a lot of untitled documents for quick note-taking, and rely on BBEdit's legendary stability and robust crash recovery to protect their work. We've added a new "Notes" featur
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Found the hacker!
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If you send a letter, the USPO automatically takes and stores a picture of the envelope, and will show it to law enforcement upon request - no warrant required. Pen & paper has is a meta-data leak. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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That is a valid point but let me highlight three counter arguments: First, a large fraction of those benefits come from "overtime pay" or "other pay", and are dispersed as cash. Second, benefits typically come out of pa
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Why wouldn't you include benefits? Do you consider benefits when accepting a job? Would cops accept only base pay as compensation? I am paying for these benefits, and they are not, like $50/mo into your 401k benefits. They are
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Here's a search for the pay for every "sergeant" in my state. Not brand new cops, but not lieutenants, captains of chiefs either: https://transparentnevada.com/salaries/search/?q=sergeant Cops make
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Base salary is a fraction of what cops earn. Indeed, it is a way to hide what they actually earn. Check this out: Deputy Jason Wood is the sort of shitty cop that I would like to avoid based on his poor ratings from interactions with my c
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What's $100 to a dude making over $100 per hour?
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My city has a monopoly contract with one provider. I don't get to choose.
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What is the point of this if it omits the step where you can choose not to use someone's services if you don't like their rating?
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by haroldp 6y ago
Quince are naturally very high in pectin, so they were often grown to be added to other fruit as a thickener in jams. These days people just buy commercially produced pectin, or more likely, don't make jam at all.
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by haroldp 6y ago
Digital data is not hard to duplicate. Both can be true.
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Still upset.
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> Police are beholden to government leaders, who are elected. That is a platitude that doesn't really reflect reality.
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> Curious, what's the ancap version of something like CPS? I think this is the best question I have been asked in this thread. As you might imagine, ancaps are very into this topic and have done a pretty good job of thinking through
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AnCaps also support a system of law.
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Poor people pay for their policing today, but don't get much for their money.
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Negative karma for stating a fact? Does someone disagree that this is what AnCaps believe? Or do we just suppress heterodox ideas here?
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> Do I need to point out the obvious here? Uber and Lyft are subject to whatever states they operate in, including those police forces. Would you still give Uber money if they were shooting up Lyft? > The ancap police forces you'
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> But we don't see them shooting each other up because there's the Leviathan with the big guns telling them not to. Do you think that 7-11 is itching to shoot up AM/PM? Would you still buy your Slurpies there if they star
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I mean... what you are describing as a worst case is actually the current system.
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Ancaps believe that street wars would be notably unprofitable, and competing "rights enforcement agencies" would quickly normalize their relations with one another, in the same way that we don't see Uber and Lyft shooting eac
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For what it's worth, anarcho-capitalists substantially agree with this collectivist anarchist, but still consider police worthwhile for your edge cases. They just want to voluntarily pay for private policing instead of having a monopo
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Compared to American cities? This actively fights the American propensity to always build out instead of up.
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The striking example that comes to mind is Tokyo. Japan liberalized their zoning after their last housing crisis, and median income families in Tokyo can actually afford to buy homes in the city. https://www.ft.com/content&
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The FreeBSD Ports tree specifies package building via reproducible instructions, and handles things like running extra patches for compatibility and security on source distributions. FreeBSD binary packages are simply packaged ports.
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That was fun. And then I clicked through to "Arcology...a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated, ecologically low-impact human habitats" and they list, "Begich Towers" in Whittier,
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But think of all the space saved by turning every web browser's title bar into tabs or location bars. So what if you're left with 8 pixels to grab a window with your mouse and move it!

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