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by imgabe 3y ago
It’s pretty bleak and pessimistic for one thing. If you want to solve a problem you have to at first believe that it’s possible to solve. Otherwise, why wouldn’t you just give up?
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by imgabe 3y ago
A few years ago a woman was murdered on the block where I worked. She was out jogging in the evening and was stabbed by a schizophrenic homeless man. The murderer had been arrested several times, they knew he was ill, but he couldn't b
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by imgabe 3y ago
I think coming up with a comprehensive mental health policy is a little beyond the scope of a HN comment, and certainly far beyond my expertise. I merely posit that such a policy could exist, and could be developed. I don't see why not
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by imgabe 3y ago
You are the one creating strawmen by harping on abuses from 60 years ago when I'm specifically saying don't do that. Are you just completely against the idea of human progress? Do you think we're incapable of fixing things
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by imgabe 3y ago
Which of the following statements are you advocating for: 1. There is never any reason to involuntarily commit someone 2. There are valid reasons, but there is no known diagnostic that can detect them. 3. There are valid reasons, and we can
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by imgabe 3y ago
I’m not the one who’s missing the point here. I know people have in the past been institutionalized for bad reasons. That doesn’t mean there aren’t good reasons to institutionalize other people who can be genuinely helped. I’m saying we s
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by imgabe 3y ago
Do you think they're suddenly going to put homosexuality and BDSM back in the DSM-4 and lock people up for it? I mean, you look at the current political climate and you believe that is a thing that could actually happen when the White
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by imgabe 3y ago
> you must imagine that you will be subjected to asylums as they existed. No you don't. Nobody is advocating for that. Nobody is saying we should follow the same broken standards that led to locking up people for protesting, or tha
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by imgabe 3y ago
I swap Ctrl and Caps Lock on every computer I use and it never fails to vex IT when I return it at work.
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by imgabe 3y ago
It has to actually request the permission from iOS to get access to the data and it doesn't do that. When I go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Health, Threads is not listed as an app that has access. Maybe at some point in
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by imgabe 3y ago
Where does Threads require access to health? I installed it on iPhone and it never mentioned anything about that. That is not required at all.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Sure https://tiltingatwindmills.dev/ I should post more. I'm kind of leaning more towards an old-style homepage than a blog though, that's why I separated out the Notes and Miscellany sections for things that don&
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by imgabe 3y ago
Harvard does not have a monopoly on education. This may be a surprise to Harvard graduates, but there are other universities.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Get off my lawn
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by imgabe 3y ago
Assuming the data is only ever used for its stated purpose and not anything else…
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by imgabe 3y ago
The account was firsthand when Rubio heard it. We are hearing it secondhand from Rubio.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Then amend the constitution. Maybe it made sense when representatives had to travel to the capital by horse and buggy, but it's 2023 now. There's no reason to have such a restriction.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Maybe they could meet more often? What are they doing the rest of the time?
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by imgabe 3y ago
My favorite example of this is that Mark Wahlberg has a chain of restaurants called Wahlburgers. You know that had to start as a drunken joke that most people just wouldn't have the ability to make a reality.
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by imgabe 3y ago
This seems to come up a lot lately. I don't see why this matters. If you're doing something like charting a flight path where it actually matters what the real sizes are, I'm sure you have access to the correct information. I
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by imgabe 3y ago
Truth has never been that important. Humans spent thousands of years thinking a giant man living on the mountain threw lightning bolts from the sky, or the spirits of their ancestors watch everything they do, or fairies and gremlins and wha
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by imgabe 3y ago
For me none of the things that are suppose to "relieve packaging pain" have ever done anything but cause more pain. Plain virtual environments with venv work fine. If you need a different version of python, download the source, bu
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by imgabe 3y ago
Philanthropy can also be marketing. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Like, what's your goal here? Nobody is allowed to help anyone unless they do it wearing a hairshirt and flagellate themselves afterwards? Are you trying to hav
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by imgabe 3y ago
It's a lot easier to complain about how someone else isn't helping people the way you think they should than to help people yourself.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Nothing life changing? Didn't he help blind people get medical treatment that restored their sight? That sounds pretty life changing to me.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Then some gorillas to fight off the bears.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Just require the company to pay for it anyway, they can pay with the profits from the past 100 years of drilling oil, or levy a tax on the owners or use some of the taxes California collected over the past 100 years that the oil industry ha
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by imgabe 3y ago
Why compare the cost to the future profits of wells that are just about dried up? How much profit have they generated up to this point and how does the profit it generated in the past compare to the future cleanup cost. Obviously if the wel
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by imgabe 3y ago
instant death
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by imgabe 3y ago
Be careful: you want https://1337x.to/ note 1337 not 1377

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