mmirate

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by mmirate 8y ago
Luckily those ideologies have yet to fully rule the US.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> tax on the poor, the un-creditworthy, and the financially illiterate. Taxation is glorified theft, but in this case I don't care because these are acceptable targets.
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Federal Judge: Albuquerque's Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional(reason.com)
118 points by mmirate 8y ago|22 comments
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Have you looked at the complexity of driving a semi trailer? There is a ton that can go wrong even in the best of conditions. How much of that could be solved by a fly-by-wire control system?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Correct. Have a nice day.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> From a legal standpoint, this is broadly true, but I'd say from a user's perspective, this is only very narrowly true. Oh, please. Of the two, the former is the only one that really matters here.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> I have heard people say that prison rape isn't a bad thing, because those getting raped are criminals anyway. Do you agree with that? The victims being criminals makes the "is it a bad thing?" question all-but-irrelevant
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by mmirate 8y ago
> To start, the US (Main HN audience) incarcerates 0.716% of its population. Add on family of those incarcerated, and prison rights immediately effect a sizeable portion of the population. Then there is the societal effects of how we tre
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by mmirate 8y ago
I don't understand. I'm not trying to troll here.
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by mmirate 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14946683
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by mmirate 8y ago
No. If I don't fear them, then they're of no consequence and I don't care about them.
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by mmirate 8y ago
No, unless you are using "manage the underclass" as a euphemism for "protect us from crime, including that committed by subsets of the underclass". Because that is what I was referring to. Nothing more, nothing less. The
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by mmirate 8y ago
> I shudder to think that the description of the exploitive terms of the deal would bring a smile to anyone's face The past several decades have seen that idiots and their resources are departed less swiftly than before. I gladly we
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by mmirate 8y ago
> a little more explaining Does "I'm not among them" not suffice? Sheesh.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> But the bulk of these costs are borne by the families of these convicts Then they're idiots, too.
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by mmirate 8y ago
How can this article possibly be relevant to a non-negligible number of HN readers? (unless criminal-grade risk-affinity is more widespread than I thought?) I mean, sure, good on JPay; but the interesting details are mostly absent. EDIT: I
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by mmirate 8y ago
Simple supply and demand, really. The same skills that can provide software which - if the right people tell the right politicians the right things about it - could save some amount of librarians' labor ... can also provide software th
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by mmirate 8y ago
Most people at the front of the queue of stopped cars , yes. The person 20 cars behind, who is threatening to waste several more minutes of my time if the two of us don't get through the green light? Unlikely.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Then it should also cost money every time someone outmaneuvers me in traffic and ends up ahead at my expense.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Not my choice. We've had over 50kloc of Python for several years before I arrived. The packaging shenanigans still occasionally sputter.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Third-party dependencies. Their BRPMs will all install to the OS's old Python. Pull them from PyPI using setup.py, and we get the problem I describe; the alternative is to build our own BRPMs, which is a massive headache to set up.
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by mmirate 8y ago
When I make a right-hand turn onto the far-right lane of a divided highway with four lanes in my direction, and over the next three blocks, three lanes become right-turn-only (gradually narrowing the road down to one lane) but I need to not
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by mmirate 8y ago
In such a tragedy, any one person's most logical action is to obtain as much of the price-controlled commodity as possible, before the price returns to normal.
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by mmirate 8y ago
You find a way to make that hunk-o-junk accelerate as fast as my small SUV can accelerate to get a right turn into a gap in traffic ... and I just might believe you.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Pfft. I couldn't weave, pass and lanechange through the usual shitty traffic if my vehicle was that unmaneuverable.
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by mmirate 8y ago
On the contrary. There are several reasons why vehicle size isn't going any further. SUVs are at the upper limit of what most people are willing to tolerate in terms of unmaneuverability. Too big a vehicle, and you have trouble passing
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by mmirate 8y ago
It's a very reasonable assumption for anyone who's been around cars for more than a decade of their lives. Electrical systems in most consumer-grade vehicles have rarely been able to exhibit the kind of reliability expected of mos
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by mmirate 8y ago
Then more people would correctly point out the parallels with a variety of dystopias, including nonfictional examples.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> all the but hottest/coldest days Have you ever driven in Georgia during, well, basically this exact time of year?
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by mmirate 8y ago
And when the drunk driver of a 10-seat family van plows into you at high speed, do you want your "compact car" to become a "compacted car" with you inside? Personally, I don't believe my life is quite worth the mone

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