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by laverya 5y ago
I thought the whole point of the ongoing systemic racism debates in the US was that even after correcting for poverty, African Americans still had worse outcomes on essentially every metric from college graduation to murder rate?
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by laverya 5y ago
> > Most people don’t even understand how a gun mechanically functions. It lives in the realm of magic for most people, despite being mechanically very simple. This base ignorance of the function of a firearm is one of the biggest rea
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by laverya 5y ago
600k-2.5m/year is specifically lawful defensive uses. If you count "shot skeet", or "went hunting", or "went to the range", the number of lawful uses goes up a LOT.
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by laverya 5y ago
Grade inflation ('A's becoming more common, 'D's less common etc) would also show up as boys performing relatively worse over time in this scenario.
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by laverya 5y ago
> But it will be and soon, and once it is the left will embrace it like they did with prenatal vitamins. Embryo genediting and embryo selection works just fine, and the databases required to find polygene traits are beeing created, the t
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by laverya 5y ago
This assumes that it's impossible to reverse the perceptual hashes used here in such a way that you could determine poses and coloration, for one. And in retrospect, you don't need to match that - you just need it to appear obviou
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by laverya 5y ago
And if you make the second image be actual, 18+ porn? Will Apple be able to tell the difference between that and CSAM after the blur is applied? Bonus points if you match poses, coloration, background, etc.
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by laverya 5y ago
"Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" [0] apparently does a good job of explaining exactly how our civilization has regressed in this sense over the past 50ish years. In short, it's the principle of "As Low (risk) As Rea
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by laverya 5y ago
And thus, we will spend the next 10 years playing around with building piddling amounts of renewable power generation and storage instead of actually having a solution in 20 years. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second
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by laverya 5y ago
I wish they included a few more things at the end, like "US National Debt", "Total US Government Debt", etc.
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by laverya 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse, but we did run that experiment, here in the US. It played out pretty much like the GP suggested.
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by laverya 5y ago
> If a module specifies go 1.17 or higher in its go.mod file, its transitive requirements are now loaded lazily, avoiding the need to download or read go.mod files for otherwise-irrelevant dependencies. To support lazy loading, in Go 1.1
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by laverya 5y ago
As far as I'm aware, you can't buy a gun from an FFL (a gun store, or anyone whose business involves selling guns) in a neighboring state without presenting an Illinois Firearms Owner Identification card. And most (all?) gun store
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by laverya 5y ago
Don't forget Hauser's law [0]: "No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP." 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
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by laverya 5y ago
Right, but trials are all that matter - there's a huuuuuuge list of drugs where we "know the mechanism" and it turns out that they still don't actually work despite that.
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by laverya 5y ago
> If you don't have a proven, understood mechanism (which ivermectin doesn't for a virus like Covid) then you have to rely on trials, and those just don't stand up. Please, there are a ton of antiviral drugs without an und
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by laverya 5y ago
That's because other states have already done this! [0] Though there's been a big push for such legislation over the past year. Not mentioned in the article: what happened to Kansas's [1] attempt to bypass federal gun regulat
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by laverya 5y ago
In practice, it means that local/state police won't/shouldn't call the ATF if they suspect someone is doing something evil with a gun, like making one with a 15" barrel, putting a stock on a pistol, using an oil fil
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by laverya 5y ago
Stereotypically, but stereotypes aren't reality. After all, quite a bit of modern gun control legislation is based around the principle that "We can't let blacks carry guns, since who knows what they'll do next?" (C
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by laverya 5y ago
To me, this has an obvious answer - size/weight. A fission primary is in the 50-150kg range, and can spark quite a bit of a fusion secondary at once. How many tons of pistons would you need for the same effect?
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by laverya 5y ago
Permanent population of 492, though. 80 [0] kids in pre-k through 12th grade at the school. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island_School_Distric...
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by laverya 5y ago
> You definitely can't do it with a quadcopter, which doesn't have anywhere near the precision reaction capability to counteract rifle recoil. I think you're overstating the difficulty here. There's three things a dro
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by laverya 5y ago
Free float barrels are designed more to make it so that a bipod or handgrip doesn't change the point of impact when you put wait on them, but I don't think that would matter here. That being said, if I was designing a system like
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by laverya 5y ago
Except that detectability is an advantage , in the doesn't-set-off-global-thermonuclear-war sense. If your nuclear (or command) assets can be removed at any time without enough warning to launch, that means you have to launch now be
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by laverya 5y ago
Do you know what the difference is between an ICBM and a warhead predeployed in orbit? The ICBM can hit anywhere (instead of just where the orbit track happens to pass), in less time (or at most the same time, since deorbiting takes around
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by laverya 5y ago
Depends on how that capability is setup, I imagine. "We have remotely operated mines at a 5nm radius and HMGs for close-in anti-boat defence" would be enough to deter anyone without anti-ship missiles, but still more than enough t
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by laverya 5y ago
Which is why so many ships sail under the flags of states with the ability to protect them, like the USA, Great Britain, Russia or China, and not Panama, Liberia or Bolivia.
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by laverya 5y ago
> The classic ban on shouting "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater can be justified entirely on this ground Falsely shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater is currently allowed per the Supreme Court [0], as of Brandenbu
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by laverya 5y ago
There is quite a bit of evidence suggesting genetic inheritability of intelligence. For a very simple example, we have twin studies that show a greater correlation in the intelligence of identical twins than fraternal twins. (The correlat
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by laverya 5y ago
2/3rds of gun deaths are suicides, and so any differential in the firearm suicide rate will tend to swamp differences in the firearm homicide rate. [1] puts CA as 3.4 gun homicides per 100,000 people per year, and TX at 3.2. Top of the

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