hcurtiss

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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   As a kid who graduated with a class of 28 students in rural small town America, I’d say we had a disproportionately high number of kids go to the Ivies, Stanford, or the Academies. I never once felt handicapped. Resumes look pretty good whe
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   "Twitter’s heart was in the right place as they know that the average voter can’t be trusted with the future of the country" -- that's an extraordinary statement. Who do you believe should be trusted with the future of the c
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   There's been a lot of validation of the Biden laptop story, which was the impetus for Twitter shutting down NYPost.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   I agree. And at least as near as I can tell, with only a couple weeks of using it, none of the workouts are particularly rigorous. It definitely seems oriented toward the "never done this before" or otherwise frail crowd.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   I haven't used it, but my 10 year old daughter seems to enjoy riding at the same time as her friend. Evidently, they share a real time a mutual video chat. You both join the same class and one of you finds the other in the list of pa
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Presently over two years into the T480s. I love this machine and have no intention of upgrading any time soon.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   For what it's worth, having tried both on two kids ages 8 and 10, I found iOS's parental controls through Screen Time infinitely better. The Apple walled garden definitely has its down sides, but the ability to fluidly manage the
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   I’m more inclined to attribute those “very negative outcomes” to the life choices of the criminals, which all too often come at the cost of innocent lives and livelihoods.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Only that it is exceedingly rare. Proof "beyond a reasonable doubt" is a very demanding standard, and is not even shared by all countries in the west, much less the rest of the world. Talk to any prosecutor and you will be assur
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    To the degree they have committed a felony, either admitted or proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the personality has in most circumstances already been forged. While one can argue about rehabilitation and its efficacy, there are many urgen
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I never said I preferred anyone suffer. I just said I'm ambivalent. But to your question, I am highly skeptical of the efficacy of those methods, and I think they come at marginal cost to deterrence. I also think there are better pl
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I've done plenty, starting well before law school. I mentioned deterrence and I never argued against rehabilitation.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Man, there's a lot of sympathy for criminals in this thread. While there are always marginal cases that pull at the heart strings, generally speaking I don't actually care that rapists are having a bad time of it in prison. I ge
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I genuinely do not understand how deflation could ever be a concern in the US when the fed can always fire up the printing machines.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Sorry, but I don't understand how any of the factors you identify have any association with race. People living in those conditions may be more or less vulnerable, no matter their race. As between equivalent fatality rates, prioritiz
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    But is killing people of any particular race somehow more or less of an issue relative to killing people of another race? That would be a pretty provocative position. One might even say racist.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Did you see some representation of size?
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Did I miss some description of the size of the UAVs?
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Thanks for that. Even if those jurisdictions are not using fast breeder technology, I think they're still pretty good evidence that nuclear proliferation is low risk.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    No, because their abundant use of nuclear power, including fast breeders, has not contributed to nuclear proliferation.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    France seems to be a pretty solid argument there’s little here to cause concern. China too.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I agree with this. What's interesting to me is when you start viewing athletics as a proxy for an innate quality like endogenous testosterone, the sport loses a lot of the romance. Of course, raw athleticism (strength/speed&#x2F
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Thanks. I don't have any education in this arena, but I know for certain why we geld male riding horses. It radically changes their disposition.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I realize that this isn't terribly PC, but isn't it possible that testosterone is negatively correlated with attention span and compliance and positively correlated with risk taking? You certainly see it in other species. Withou
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    But I think he's right that's a mind-boggling amount of power. Those are gigantic engines running full out.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I disagree, and I think most people disagree. This is the ant and the grasshopper, man. Most people are not inclined to enslave the ant for the benefit of the grasshopper.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    That space is probably three times the size of any Best Buy I've been in. I have no idea what will go in there.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Yeah, when it opened, the one in Wilsonville, OR was truly a marvel. Frys was a step down out of the gate. Lately, it's just been disgusting. Maybe it's because I was a kid in high school, but thinking back on the magic of Incr
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Not sure why you're being downvoted. That's precisely how it works.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    There are many kerosene heaters safe for indoor use.