jMyles

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by jMyles 5y ago
Right. So, the most obvious answer is to simply restore the institution of the Sheriff while abolishing police. An even better answer is to reimagine decentralized community security with all of the capabilities of an information age socie
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by jMyles 5y ago
This has never been the job of police, but of the much older institution of the sheriff (though today, there's hardly a distinction).
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by jMyles 5y ago
It's 2021 - well into the age of the internet. What relevance has the practices which police ostensibly supplanted to the matter of how we handle public safety post-abolition?
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by jMyles 5y ago
I have no problem with any of this, and I'm a full-blown police abolitionist. I love drones and their potential for public safety assurances. However, it's a completely different discussion when we talk about arming them.
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by jMyles 5y ago
This simple calculus needs to be the basis of police armament generally, not just robotics.
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by jMyles 5y ago
> If the future of cars is autonomous to save lives, then the future of police could be the same for the same reasons. The presumption that there is such a thing as "the future of police" is worrisome. The now nearly 200-year
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by jMyles 5y ago
> I mean, I know these are just random internet things -- but I vaguely remember that advice even being in kids' books when I was growing up. Yes, I think it used to be common. But I don't think it is nearly as much so now.
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by jMyles 5y ago
It seems like you're outwardly defending drug prohibition here. Trading with someone who previously sold plants or compounds to a third party is not per se a moral or ethical quandary, despite apparent laws to the contrary. If that wer
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by jMyles 5y ago
I certainly don't tell my child that, and I don't know of any American parents who do. Police represent the interests of the state, not the interests of my child.
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by jMyles 5y ago
> If a website does not honour legal request, it'll get blocked If that is happening, then the architecture of the internet needs to take more evolutionary steps. If the state can censor the internet, there's nothing 'inte
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by jMyles 5y ago
Google scholar is probably a better resource to answer this question (and the "how" is still in the early stages of being understood).
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by jMyles 5y ago
> Really it was a lose-lose situation. Ignore it and you stack bodies in a freezer truck like in NYC. I can't tell whether this is sarcasm, but in the unlikely event that it's not, how do you explain every place that didn'
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by jMyles 5y ago
A tangent: Six years later, with the $1,000 question uncollected, it seems that a cosmic ray bit flip is also the cause of a strange happening during a Mario 64 speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzTUdOHm9A
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by jMyles 5y ago
I agree with the author. His thesis: > While I sympathize with this point of view, I feel that reporting the CPU usage at 50% is a more accurate representation of the situation.
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by jMyles 5y ago
> Police officers are given extraordinary powers by society and yet they can act like spoiled brats (or worse). I'm not sure the phrase "and yet" is precise; it seems like these are cause-and-effect. This is power corrupt
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by jMyles 5y ago
Don't get gaslit - this comment is on-point. (Though I think it's obvious that USDT is a scam.)
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by jMyles 5y ago
> The stablecoins that succeed aren't very interesting because they're simply blockchain representations of actual funds held elsewhere. Now do MakerDAO.
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by jMyles 5y ago
I have to say, it seems to me that OP specifically started the list with two different, interesting, novel approaches that are not as you describe. It's as if the comment was designed to repel lazy, karma-farming comments like this on
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by jMyles 5y ago
I'm not much for utopian visions, though I respect some people who are. I do notice that, at this moment in history (but I grant, not at all moments) the political processes (tactics like voting, lawsuits, etc) seem to produce changes
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by jMyles 5y ago
A substantial portion of the logic unit of my homeschooling relationship with my six-year-old is playing and analyzing the SNES randomizers, which are possible in part because of Near's incredible contributions. Near was not done with
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Near, SNES developer and advocate for accuracy in emulation, has died of suicide(docs.google.com)
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by jMyles 5y ago
> The State can be replaced democratically. Is this still relevant in the information age? I care a lot about my communities, and I don't think that, from my position of privilege, I can justify going around and telling people, &quo
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by jMyles 5y ago
This perspective is just so alien to me. I don't understand how anyone can casually express such vulgar celebration of the state, knowing the misery that it inflicts on the most vulnerable in society, with money as its chief method
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by jMyles 5y ago
Oh, it's so absolutely lovely. (Do we know each other? Or did you just read somewhere that I was going? Or just divine it from comments?) Although this is my 4th, I haven't been to the last seven in a row. From 2014 to 2021, it
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by jMyles 5y ago
Among the many reasons: because they can censor the ledger to make it impossible for you to pay for the vegetables you prefer to smoke.
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by jMyles 5y ago
I think that the consequences of imperialism and warfare are reasonable understood as part of the ecological toll of the dollar for the purposes of comparisons to the carbon costs of PoW mining. (that's the former) ...while I don&#x27
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by jMyles 5y ago
I think the former is a perfectly reasonable consideration, while the latter is short-shrift. Am I wrong?
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by jMyles 5y ago
"Endorses" here means "allows the ONDCP to make a statement," not "acknowledges his mistake and the decades of destruction wrought as a result." There has still been no actual mea culpa or apologies to the fami
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by jMyles 5y ago
Given the somewhat clickbaity headline, this piece is straight to the point and surprisingly sober. I found this to be the central thesis: > If anything, crypto is more likely to hurt the currencies of countries that are doing very poorl
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by jMyles 5y ago
I don't think it's a weird trick. Call me naive, but I think that there are plenty of statesmen (and -women obviously) who can see the writing on the wall and realize that their capacity to control reality doesn't extend to

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