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by leot 9y ago
> Suppressors have a legitimate purpose in reducing hearing damage Flame throwers have a legitimate use as a brush clearing tool. Fortunately there are straightforward and safer alternatives. The best way to prevent hearing damage from a
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by leot 9y ago
Does the loudness of a gun deter its use in the commission of a crime? I think it does, though perhaps only in a handful of cases. Gang violence comes to mind: the gun's loudness gives you away if you're sneaking up on folks, and
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by leot 9y ago
> "History is repeating" How so? This is not about blocking political speech from these platforms. It's about a specific issue: whether YouTube should make it easy for people to find instructional videos on how to make and
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by leot 9y ago
Yeah. Though I deeply disagree with political affiliation being a protected group (at least in part because you get to choose your political views). In any case, there isn't yet a gun-rights-maximalist party against which YouTube could
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by leot 9y ago
If your post covers it, it should be easy for you to answer the question: Should YouTube be forced to host porn and snuff videos? Why or why not? In answer to your question: the porn thing was a dicey question of tradeoffs, and in the US wa
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by leot 9y ago
I think content providers and platforms should be free to make whatever choice they want regarding content on their platform, provided they don't discriminate illegally (i.e., based on membership in a protected group https:/&#x2F
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by leot 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group Actually, political opinion is not protected against discrimination. Otherwise I could create a political party that advocated, say, the extermination of a particular group
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by leot 9y ago
That seems like a fig leaf. The tradeoff is between the relative costs and benefits of suppressors. Given that ear protection is cheap, plentiful, and doesn't increase the probability of someone getting shot, it's hard to justify
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by leot 9y ago
Note that FPS Russia etc. are still allowed. YouTube is banning videos that show people how to make and modify guns. This isn't a debate about censorship. This is a debate about where to draw the line on what is and isn't acceptab
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by leot 9y ago
Do you believe YouTube should be forced to host porn? Why or why not?
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by leot 9y ago
So are porn videos. So are snuff videos. How do you propose YouTube draw the line on what is and isn't acceptable? Because legal/illegal isn't going to work here.
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by leot 9y ago
"Censorship" is a Bad Word because of Nazi book burnings, Soviet political censorship, Fahrenheit 451, and other notions of "government censorship". Its "Bad Word" status means that we don't want it to app
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by leot 9y ago
They, and you, and all of us, are allowed to discriminate, and we do so all the time. However, we have made laws that prohibit certain kinds of discrimination against "protected classes", e.g. based on sex and race. Being an advoc
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by leot 9y ago
"Liberal agenda" <= really? I don't know what you mean by that. Please explain. (EDIT: Legitimately don't understand the downvotes here.)
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by leot 9y ago
Should the enforcement of rules be stricter or less strict when applied to those responsible for enforcing the rules?
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by leot 9y ago
This seems similar to the Magnus effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect (Spinning a pen fast enough can turn it into a wing, causing it to behave strangely when tossed upward)
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by leot 9y ago
Diamond-like carbon should be applied everywhere there's wear. It could allow drill bits, gears, bike chains, joints, etc to all last virtually forever.
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by leot 9y ago
> oddly enough, being willing to be unhappy has made me happier. Suppressing, fighting, and avoiding feelings usually strengthens them. By contrast, calm compassionate and curious observation will often allow them to dissipate "on t
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by leot 9y ago
Unions, like police, serve as a corrective force. Sometimes needed and often not, they are good only contingently. It is sad that they are often seen only as either hateful or a panacea.
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Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead(amp.ft.com)
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by leot 9y ago
The trouble is that "regret" is doing too much work. It's at once a statement of fact and an activity. As a statement of fact it's ok. As an activity it's usually a waste of time.
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by leot 9y ago
Why do you smile when you see a friend? Was it a rule you decided on or something you just do? What if you suddenly stopped?
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by leot 9y ago
Regret is unhelpful and indicates a lack of acceptance of the past and present. As such, it is personally irresponsible and shouldn't be celebrated. Stepping back, norm breaking seems to have gotten even more newsworthy lately. However
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by leot 9y ago
DECEMBER 7, 2017 By: Izabella Kaminska Over the last week or so, we’ve recounted the problems with bitcoin’s market structure and how they are likely to impact the upcoming launch of bitcoin futures (here, here and here). In the course of e
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The smartest Bitcoin trade in town?(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by leot 9y ago|2 comments
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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program(mobile.nytimes.com)
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The smartest Bitcoin trade in town?(ftalphaville.ft.com)
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Read 3x faster by not reading at all(medium.com)
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by leot 9y ago
Or cast a net.
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by leot 9y ago
Yeah. The advantage is that there's a human in the loop, and value is driven by human desire for it. I don't know the endgame, but consider if the rational decision of any investor becomes, with high confidence, to convert most of

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