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by imagist 10y ago
> You also seem to be saying that Mader risking his own life in the process of trying to talk down an armed, suicidal man is acceptable. Yes. > There are all kinds of problems with what he did: statistical likelihood in these situatio
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not treating this event in isolation--I'm actually considering more than you, as I'm considering the lives of suspects across the officer's career in addition to the officer's own life. I can only imagine that t
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by imagist 10y ago
You're appealing to fear of a hypothetical situation here, but we're talking about a real, non-hypothetical situation. There weren't bystanders, and Mader was trained to deal with the situation: "Immediately, the tra
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by imagist 10y ago
Okay, we're analyzing this situation in two ways, which I think are both legitimate ways to analyze it: 1. Looking only at this situation , Mader made the right decision which, if not for the other officers, would have saved the suspe
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by imagist 10y ago
> The reason is obvious: 9 times you might survive trying to do the right thing and then get shot dead on the tenth. If police aren't trying to do the right thing, then absolutely nothing differentiates them from a gang. I have no o
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> There isn't some secret reservoir of especially heroic people to draw on. This is true, but irrelevant. The conversation at hand is about the fact that we are actively firing heroes for taking heroic actions . > They are not e
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by imagist 10y ago
> I think resorting to our own anecdata coupled with what the media presents us is a tempting fallacy. It's likely that most cops are good people trying to do the right thing. In one sentence you criticize mildbow for using an anecd
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by imagist 10y ago
> Asking people to endanger themselves on the off chance a person with a gun isn't going to shoot is nothing short of insane. This is a straw man argument. I never asked anyone to endanger themselves. I don't criticize the offi
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by imagist 10y ago
> Yes: hesitation to act once you see a gun in the hands of someone who presents him/herself as unstable is a credible threat that places your life and (perhaps more relevant to this situation) the lives of your fellow officers in j
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by imagist 10y ago
No there's something really important to see here. When a cop shoots a suspect, there's often little investigation or transparency. The argument against these things is that cops are putting their lives at risk to do their jobs, a
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> Do you need to pay $5k up front? It's common here to take loans for used cars. No, you don't have to pay $5K up front; you could take out a loan, but typically if you're taking out a loan you're buying from a dealer
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by imagist 10y ago
Agreed, that is an enormous difference, but is that difference material to the definition of OOP? I tend to think it isn't.
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Well, Armstrong may have been exposed to C++-style OOP like many (most?) programmers, which would of course lead him to believe that Erlang was very different from C++'s OOP. But languages that really orient toward object orientation r
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by imagist 10y ago
I can't speak for most American millenials, but my options are: 1. Buy a $5000 car up-front, which is an expensive up-front cost for me (and more than most people my age have in savings). If I've been careful in investigating the
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by imagist 10y ago
You're comparing the very best laptops on the market to the worst plausible used cars on the market without consideration for the cost of repairs that you're going to make on a car with minimum 80K miles on it. You're also no
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by imagist 10y ago
> No, it really isn't. If you have professionals on your team, they will be able to work together. Okay, would it feel more comfortable if we interviewed for "professionalism" instead of "culture fit"? Fully real
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by imagist 10y ago
Whether or not you equate what you do with your wallet with what you do in a bedroom or a bathroom, it's objectively possible to tell what you do in your bedroom or bathroom from what do do with your wallet in many cases. Condoms, birt
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by imagist 10y ago
What's your point? That you shouldn't try to filter candidates for culture fit because your methods for doing so might be flawed? Sure, anything done badly enough can be worse than not doing it, but that is a completely obvious
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by imagist 10y ago
Yes, it would require deals to happen between active users. This does to some extent reduce liquidity, but I am skeptical that such liquidity is more valuable than security from having all your money stolen.
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by imagist 10y ago
I agree on the lack of appreciation and meaning, but the problem is more fundamental than good or bad bosses: the problem is that "bosses" rarely are a needed part of the process at all. A good boss can minimize the damage they do
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by imagist 10y ago
You're not wrong, but it's worth noting that there are some really obvious things we could do which would cure a lot of people. Not, for example, requiring people to work 40 hour weeks when there isn't enough work to employ t
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by imagist 10y ago
To be able to buy and sell goods without anyone besides the person I'm buying and selling from knowing about it. Not because I want to do anything illegal, but for the same reason that you shut the door when you use the bathroom, and d
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by imagist 10y ago
Failure to recognize the importance of relating to other people is a technical deficiency.
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by imagist 10y ago
> For a reason which, standing on a train station platform as I was, I failed to note in my prior comment: anonymous, untraceable money transfer not only makes it easier to conceal crime, but acts as a uniquely powerful inducement to sam
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by imagist 10y ago
> There is a great deal of both law and precedent against perfect privacy in financial transactions, because of the strong association between such perfect privacy and criminality, and the very effective cover which the former affords th
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by imagist 10y ago
LocalBitcoins is one way. Another would be to only store the centralized currency, and only facilitate transactions. So the person with USD deposits USD into the facilitator's account and provides a Bitcoin address to the facilitator.
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I would argue that this comes from attempts to centralize a fundamentally decentralized currency. With a centralized currency, the central repositories of currency have ultimate control over the currency: if a mistake or fraudulent transfer
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by imagist 10y ago
Just because the article equates privacy with crime doesn't mean privacy is equal to crime. Privacy isn't equal to crime, and it's an attack on fundamental human rights to claim it is. Whether it's the article or Anima
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by imagist 10y ago
> Pop quiz: which is the character code for a word character, \w or \W? From memory, \w. Conceptually, this is because in regular expressions, capitalization indicates negation. \w matches word characters, \W matches non-word characters,
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by imagist 10y ago
He has virtually a 100% chance of dying with or without the surgery.

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