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by manfredo 6y ago
Is it possible that with strict lockdowns people just stop abiding by the rules? This reminds me of a the historical statistic that while tax rates have varied wildly, government revenue as a percentage of GDP remained relatively static. Th
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by manfredo 6y ago
I watched the video. The police were arresting her before Huang shouted that she's a journalist. How is this supposed to be evidence of the police targeting journalists? The video is less than a minute long. Both the police's ac
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by manfredo 6y ago
It looks like Huang was not the only person accosted by the police in this incident. Again, all these incidences of journalists being "targeted" have a familiar theme: a journalist is embedded within a mob, and the actions of the
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by manfredo 6y ago
The automatic weapons ban (specifically the 1986 Machine Gun Act) is distinct from the Assault Weapons Ban. The Assault Weapons Ban was in the 1990s and banned the sale of semi-automatic guns with certain shapes of grip, bayonet lugs, and o
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by manfredo 6y ago
Automatic guns became regulated in the 1930s, and you need approval by the ATF to own them and they need to be registered. They're in a similar category as bombs, rocket launchers, and whatnot. They are strictly regulated and the gover
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by manfredo 6y ago
Usually at auction. Even poor quality, worn out registered automatics will run in the high thousands, or low tens of thousands because of constrained supply. This creates interesting dynamics where people take cheap (relatively, still ~$5,0
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by manfredo 6y ago
It's a violation of civil liberties for the police to unjustly target anyone . If the police for some reason didn't like a certain hairdresser and targeted him or her, then the same protections would kick in.
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by manfredo 6y ago
At this point I'm really not sure how you're coming to these conclusions. I support protests and lawful demonstrations. People and journalists aren't being arrested for that. This was stated in the comment I linked, so I&#x27
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Which is exactly why we expect journalists to have special protection, and thus why we track violations of these norms. And things are clearly getting worse. No, we don't. Journalists aren't some elevated caste that are privi
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by manfredo 6y ago
For context, more than 3,000 were arrested in LA county during the period of unrest last summer: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/george-floyd... Pointing to individual instances of report
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by manfredo 6y ago
Several journalists violated dispersal orders and curfews, and were subsequently arrested and their arrests were recorded. But the police were also arresting non-journalists violating the curfews. There's zero indication that police w
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by manfredo 6y ago
Yes, the 30+ year olds have to make the tough decision of defaulting on their loans and severely limiting their ability to secure loans in the future, vs. continuing to work towards paying off their student loans. If there was no repercussi
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by manfredo 6y ago
I'm not sure what I'm failing to explain. It's not feasible to make student loans able to be eliminated via bankruptcy without restriction, since students could just go through bankruptcy right after graduation and plan aroun
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by manfredo 6y ago
Bankruptcy tanks your credit rating for years. Most of a decade, ~7 years IIRC. If student loans could only be cancelled via bankruptcy after 10-15 years, that would mean students trying to cancel their loans through bankruptcy would be doi
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by manfredo 6y ago
I think this is another good model. Purdue is one relatively well-known university that offers this. What's crucial about an ISA (especially an ISA that only collects on income beyond a threshold) is that the university then has a dire
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by manfredo 6y ago
Make student loans no longer exempt from bankruptcy. The rationale for making student loans persist through bankruptcy is that students could just declare bankruptcy after graduation, since they probably have no assets. Maybe make the exemp
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by manfredo 6y ago
Is this still really the case? My Pixel 3 is USB-C, as was my 1st gen pixel. The Nintendo switch is USB-C as is the pro controller. Heck even my vape pen is USB-C charging now. I feel like USB-C has proliferated sufficiently. Not denying yo
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by manfredo 6y ago
If consumers didn't preorder and waited for games to come out and get reviewed fairly before buying, then this strategy wouldn't work. False advertising only works because consumers are buying games based on promises made in adver
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by manfredo 6y ago
Ultimately, though, the blame does lie with the consumer. Companies seek profit, that's inevitable. The decisions of consumers is what makes it profitable to release unfinished games, and sell hype instead of a product.
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by manfredo 6y ago
Not surprising given the clean internet movement that gained steam over the last decade. However this caught my attention: > “I wouldn’t even type the word ‘sugar daddy,’ I would type ‘sugar daddi’ and things like that lol. For those who
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Police told the crew they were being detained because they were told to move and didn't, one member of the CNN crew relayed to the network. Right, they were violating an order to disperse or a curfew. Again, being a journalist doe
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by manfredo 6y ago
What was the person filming arrested for? I know many in Seattle were arrested for violating curfews or dispersal orders, and proceeded to claim that they were arrested for filming. They weren't arrested for filming, they were arrested
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by manfredo 6y ago
There's a strong argument to be made for police accountability and conduct. But this post seems to complete ignore the actions of demonstrators and the journalists (often self-proclaimed and self-employed) embedded within them. Look at
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by manfredo 6y ago
Maybe. I could see sites removing access to less profitable users, probably in lower income countries to stay below the 45 million threshold. Or perhaps boot low-engagement users in order to keep user-counts below the threshold. When regula
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by manfredo 6y ago
I'm not so sure. Many (most?) of "fact check" websites rapidly lose my trust, because they can't help but editorialize unambiguously true or false facts because they're being employed in a way the authors of the web
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by manfredo 6y ago
No, this is why section 230 exists. Sites are not liable for user generated content. Nobody would ever, ever risk of assuming liability for all of the of millions or even billions of users on a web platform.
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by manfredo 6y ago
And would you be willing to spend $17,500 a year on said service? That's the figure cited in the Economist. And even if you were willing to spend that sum, it'd be far beyond the means of most people. Heck, almost the average glob
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by manfredo 6y ago
24 hours worth of storage worldwide is 60 TWh currently . Once Asia and Africa become more developed this will likely become closer to 100 TWh. By comparison annual global battery production is just under 0.3 TWh - and only a small fract
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by manfredo 6y ago
Lower cost-per-click and cost per impression for lower income countries does not mean that companies are avoiding advertising to those populations. It just means people buying ads aren't as willing to spend money to reach those populat
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by manfredo 6y ago
I disagree substantially. Advertising, especially web advertising, allows us to pay for services not with money but our attention. When the Economist polled people how much they would pay to forego search engines, the result was over $17,00

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