micahbright

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by micahbright 10y ago
If you re-read the comment, I wasn't talking about Castile: "he better not be obviously resisting arrest" - Alton Sterling. So, you can call me a victim blamer, erroneously. You can say it's racially based, erroneously
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by micahbright 10y ago
The fact that there are racial biases in what prosecutors offer between black and white is misleading at best. It simply follows from the facts that we already have: blacks are convicted more often. If blacks are convicted more often, the
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by micahbright 10y ago
It's interesting that you get to choose which victim I'm blaming. I didn't get to see the part of the video where Philando Castile got shot for doing nothing, so I can't really say that he was doing nothing. As silly a
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by micahbright 10y ago
That's all interesting, except you have to realize that DA are motivated by convictions. Convictions are hard because it requires a unanimous vote from a jury of your peers. So, yes, they exercise their discretion on what facts are r
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by micahbright 10y ago
Yeah, but when you show me a video of a man getting shot by the police and you want me to show some sympathy, he better not be obviously resisting arrest. It's the "clean hands" principle. I feel bad, but I feel bad that no
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by micahbright 10y ago
Alton Sterling was obviously resisting arrest - that's a fact.
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by micahbright 10y ago
Because they are carrying 9mm when they should be carrying .45
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by micahbright 10y ago
I've seen some stats for racial breakdown of perpetrators firing on police - for example, for NYC 2011, it was 72% black, 67% hispanic - No white.
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by micahbright 10y ago
Thank god we have a system that it's really hard to convict innocent people. You know, a unanimous vote of a jury of your peers is required to convict and all.
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by micahbright 10y ago
You're right - it could be. But we don't like to make assumptions since we're having a rational scientific discussion. BTW, since the proportion of convictions is so high, it is going to require some pretty good explainin
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by micahbright 10y ago
I'm a reasonably well compensated white person, and you might be surprised at how often I get pulled over. I don't get shot because I keep my hands on the steering wheel and I don't make any sudden movements.
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by micahbright 10y ago
"...the free market approach to everything in the US"...It's almost as if you believe there is a free market in education or healthcare or...almost anything in the US.
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by micahbright 10y ago
Interpreter or not, the JIT compiler will certainly get faster with the c++ optimizations. The libraries that are linked against will get faster. The underlying OS components will get faster. Since .NET assemblies are mostly just glue co
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by micahbright 10y ago
Are you saying the "code generation layer" of the CLR isn't itself written in c++? All of this stuff trickles down without a doubt. I realize it isn't going to magically optimize the bytecode, however, the thing that ru
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by micahbright 10y ago
Hopefully, they will just recompile the binaries, and the CLR will just get faster...
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by micahbright 11y ago
"I strongly believe that the continued and constant emphasis in taking pride in failure is EXACTLY what women need to be exposed to..." I'm gonna disagree. It seems like you were so close to understanding "the secret sa
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by micahbright 11y ago
"FED will counter that effect" Of course not. Since the original statement was about holding gobs of money on a balance sheet, it is clear that regardless of what the FED does, you would increase inflation by spending that money
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by micahbright 11y ago
Of course Mac Users think it's about them - everything is about them.
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by micahbright 11y ago
"The thing is, when you hoard wealth as numbers on a balance sheet rather than spending it, you are actually destroying that wealth." Money != Wealth, for one. If you hold money on a balance sheet, you are not destroying anything.
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by micahbright 11y ago
And take some fish oils. DHA is brain food. I think there may be(admittedly tenuous on this one), a brain benefit to coconut oil. Also, try fasting(shown to increase BDNF when entering the ketotic state).