jeffdavis

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by jeffdavis 6y ago
What do you mean about the bears?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"But they are withholding that same empathy from the people who are on the other side of police interactions." How would you explain people who empathize strongly with the images that we've all seen on TV... but then look at
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
If you go to the WaPo database: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... And select 2018, you'll see a total of 991 people killed by police. If you also filter by race, you'll see
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The table you linked is a little confusing because it's focused on the murders , but the offenders are more relevant to your point. It also excludes a lot of murders where information about the offender is missing, so the overall nu
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I'm not sure we want to use nepotism as the standard to meet.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
I was just trying to follow the evidence presented to see if it supported the argument made, and I was unsuccessful. I am not saying the argument is false, I am just trying to follow the logical chain and I had a question about it. Aside: a
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Strategically, this allows Trump to get his ad taken down by facebook, which has previously not done so. That means he now can claim some kind of conspiracy against him. If the story does not grow big, that's the end of it, and a small
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Perhaps I am failing to follow a twitter thread properly, but I saw a downward red triangle with "antifa" written over it. I also saw a similar symbol that looked like an emoji. My question is in earnest to understand the context.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
In your second link it does appear associated with antifa -- or am I missing something?
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Arson is not generally considered a property crime, because it is a major threat to public safety.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Arson laws were designed around the idea that fires sometimes go out of control and cause huge amounts of damage, and potentially loss of life. Laws are also designed around intent rather than outcome. So there are harsh punishments for int
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
All rifles combined -- including "assault rifles" -- are involved in fewer murders than knives. Also involved in fewer murders than hands/fists. This is true even in states where laws for obtaining them are very lax: https:&
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
She was charged criminally. The PD could also bring a civil suit for her to pay for the damage, but they probably won't bother.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
C++ and Rust come to mind. C++ can certainly go awry, but it does seem to have the tools available, even if they might be hard to use. Rust still has a few things to prove, but things are looking fairly good. Both languages can express cons
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Isn't that one of the major problems with censorship[1]: that it's hard to apply these vague policies in a way that's consistent, useful, and ethical? It all seems fine when the people making the decisions seem to be aligned
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"they aren't smarter or more sophisticated than they were before" To be clear, I was not suggesting that more layers of abstraction reflect more sophisticated developers . Just that more layers require something in the langu
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
There's a tension in languages between making it easier to write many layers of libraries versus making it easier to write applications. Languages that want libraries that go ten layers deep need to carefully manage things with sophist
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
It looks like the move was pushed by the "Center for Countering Digital Hate". I don't see how that's just business, it seems more like a political move. Which is pretty disturbing, if you ask me.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"Postgres is extremely opinionated" When I think of the term "opinionated" as it applies to software platforms, I think of things that have intended purposes in mind and optimize for the ease of those use cases, potentia
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
What do you mean "social strategy"?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The problem is that it's too easy to dose someone without their consent or any way to prove who did it.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Can you elaborate? What does the map look like, where do the tourists go, and what part of it will be defiled with oil & gas development? You might be right. But based on the information in the article, it might also be true that touris
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Well, there will be a lease auction, so you can feel free to bid $2.50 per acre per year. But basically, almost nobody is willing to even go to this land even if they did own it. Even environmental charities would probably set their sights
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
As someone else pointed out, it's not ownership, it's a 10-year lease. This all sounds pretty routine; "a feature, not a bug", designed to promote economic development and be accommodating in general. If you don't l
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
It's a lease: "The lease has a term of ten years, and, after the gavel comes down, the annual rental fee per acre would be a dollar and a half for the first five years, and two dollars for the second."
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The title makes it sound like an individual will get control of a couple percent of the land in Utah. Reading the article, it seems more like an oil & gas company is purchasing (EDIT: leasing) some land in Utah, and the article doesn&#x
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The article's thesis: "Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable...needs to move...best choice on the market today is rust". If moving away from C/C++ to something, C and C++ are out of the running. You can claim tha
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
By "possibilities", I mean the possibility as an alternative to (or major safety improvement on) C++, which is what the article is talking about: "Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable...needs to move...best choice on
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
I think this is a combination of two things, and is true of many new programming platforms (languages, etc.). 1. If the tech hasn't made full contact with reality yet. For instance, there aren't a diverse set of large projects wri
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The thesis of the article was "best chance". So if not rust, then what? C++ and Ada have lots of great possibilities , but those possibilities aren't making it into practice (for whatever reason) despite a lot of time and

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