mikedilger

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by mikedilger 6y ago
Roland G Fryer's recent work shows that for every investigation over a white cop shooting a black person allegedly wrongly, 179 extra people die due to the severe reduction in policing (up to 90%!) over the next two years. Roland G Fr
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by mikedilger 6y ago
You might be underestimating the prejudice of the people calling things in to the police. Listening to police radio for just a few hours I was astounded at the things people report to the police: 1) A man and young girl walking down a count
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by mikedilger 6y ago
When you say "..which leads to more crime" I'm going to presume you mean that it leads to catching a higher percentage of the existing crime, which leads to more police, which leads to catching a higher percentage yet again..
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by mikedilger 6y ago
"It is not within the power of practitioners of demonstrative sciences to change opinion at will, chooing now this and now that one; there is a great difference between giving orders to a mathematician or a philosopher and given them t
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I don't use a VPN as I'm pretty sure my traffic identifies me once it pops out the other end. But I do tunnel DNS with a server I trust so that my ISP only ends up seeing encrypted traffic (DNS over ssh, and HTTPS). I don't
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by mikedilger 6y ago
The color green, the imagery of leaves. This symbol clearly invokes the natural and warm feelings commonly associated with blasting things with nuclear radiation.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I also think discrimination based on political grounds is a bad idea. In NZ political opinion is protected. Human Rights Act 1993, 21 Prohibited grounds of discrimination (1)(j) "political opinion, which includes the lack of a particul
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Except in Washington D.C.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I understand you see two roles that should be separated, and I won't weigh in on that - perhaps you are right. But let me highlight something that isn't so obvious in this discussion: Job #1 for police is to keep everybody alive,
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Could you imagine if "youtube.com" were blocked and locked by IANA/ICANN/? because of reports that somebody posted a video with misinformation and phishing content? I don't expect google appreciates how devastating
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by mikedilger 6y ago
"Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order." is the first sentence of the Wikipedia page for Rebellion. Irrespective of the primary intent of the civil unrest [1], failing to disperse after being orde
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by mikedilger 6y ago
ssh-keygen defaults to RSA
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Censorship "theory" is sound. And that's what is so pernicious and dangerous about the idea. The idea of removing content that could cause harm makes total sense. If the people making the censorship decisions were widely resp
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I read Michael Holick's book (can't find it at the moment) he was the guy who discovered the circulating form of vitamin D.. IIRC you get vitamin D from the sun in rather large quantities. Just 15 minutes per day with only your
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I noticed the article in the WSJ about New Zealand. But I (a kiwi) haven't seen any local news indicating that the government has declared any sort of elimination. If you have seen one, could you link it? I'm currently skeptical o
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Might I suggest a line? Damage. Quantifiable damage that reasonable people could assess in a court of law. Stop and think about every exception to free speech that the US has: libel/slander, disclosing troop movements, breaking non di
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by mikedilger 6y ago
The reason I asked was to learn more about UBI and other people's perspectives on it. Not to be chastized and offended. None of this comment was helpful. I'd explain why sentence by sentence but I doubt that would be a fruitful e
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I may have overstated, believing people on average are more like myself than they are. But I think you're likely doing the same thing in the opposite direction, believing people will keep working hard for little benefit when many of th
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I get how losing a benefit if you start working could be an even greater disincentive than UBI. I wasn't catching that point previously, so thanks.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
You're right about that guy. So I'll be more specific. The model that shows large numbers like 14,400 (not even 100,000) presumes we do NO contact tracing at all (not just slower contact tracing). I'd wager most people wou
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Then I suppose I projecting (psychologically). I would stop working. I'm barely working now. But I shouldn't assume I'm typical. Thanks for the feedback.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
"Without fast case isolation after restrictions ease, modelling shows that the virus could spread exponentially and ultimately kill 100,000 Kiwis." The left out the word "unreasonable". "Unresaonable modelling show
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I've not heard this. Can you explain how? And are you also suggesting that UBI proponents support abolition of other kinds of social insurance, replacing them with (not augmenting them with) UBI?
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by mikedilger 6y ago
If you downvote me because you disagree, PLEASE share your thoughts on this. I cannot understand why you disagree if you simply downvote.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
UBI to people outside of the workforce is entirely different. My argument against UBI is that it erodes the desire to work, and we still need nearly everybody of working age to work... until the robots catch up (they still have a lot of ca
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I don't think there is any sort of unanimity regarding UBI. Being compensated for staying home is not UBI, because it is not ongoing. I'm against UBI for reasons that became apparent while playing MMORPGs. Stay with me here and I
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I'm in favor of building things. But we build in response to demand. Once people need more of something (e.g. PPE), production ramps up. That effect has been in place and has worked quite well for thousands of years. It doesn't re
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by mikedilger 7y ago
I hope this works for somebody, but I'm going to have to critique the whole concept of "timing' when baking sourdough bread. After years of baking sourdough I find that I cannot predict precisely the timing. I have to judge t
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by mikedilger 7y ago
I've been picking off the green caterpillars and squashing them, but I've also ordered a butterfly net (unfortunately to my work address which is shutdown due to the lockdown here). Today there are tens of them fluttering around
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by mikedilger 7y ago
Potatoes are indeed the game changer if you need to survive off of your garden.

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