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by ndiscussion 6y ago
> Society has a vital interest in reintegrating people who have been punished Food for thought, but this is only true if we release them. For most of history, we simply executed criminals. In most of the world, that's still the case
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
But the DA and police chief choose not to pursue property crimes or even assaults... the officers themselves are probably not conspiring, but it's a culture of "leave the criminals be" which leads to needing this extra protec
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
The QR code is scanned, not the text on the paper printout, as far as I understand
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
You're right, it does seem like a strong counterexample. But I'm not sure how cops would fix this one directly either - they surely can't station an officer at the store all the time. Part of my point is that they spend so mu
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Look at the obesity statistics by age, this is something that will pay off far into the future imo. One good thing my parents taught me is that vegetables can be eaten without cheese or salt, and I currently eat healthier than anyone I know
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
It's probably impossible for the store to solve it, hence the closing. This problem is really up to the city to solve, and it doesn't seem the city is interested. Gated communities and all that.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
In my experience, police are more likely to focus on corporate property crimes than violent crime. It seems to be a sick game of incentives gone wrong... the police department just needs to grow, so it needs more money. So it protects the c
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I wonder why?
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I don't support busing them out, and actually, I used to acknowledge them and treat them as humans. Eventually, it became a large time sink, and not a pleasant one (give a mouse a muffin). Out of curiosity, do you live in a large city?
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
In many cities, they are bused out to become someone else's problem. I'm not sure what the solution is, but many of these people are obviously extremely unhappy, and they show no sign of changing soon. If I viewed them as part of
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Just fyi, I'm about as far from a sheltered techie type as they come... since 18, I've lived in shared room situations with strangers on Craigslist for most of my life, often in the cheapest and most unsafe neighborhoods. I actual
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I'm glad this has been your experience.. my experience in cities is largely limited - Portland, LA, Seattle, NYC. For me, I've encountered huge amounts of harassment in the first three cities. Oddly in NYC I didn't have a pro
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I'm sorry, on further consideration, you're right about the salaries. I think with some charities (like feeding children), my expectation would be that the salaries would be very low, and the costs of providing the "good&quot
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Yes, thank you, these people are actually a bigger issue than panhandlers in my experience (though panhandlers are much more common in my area and they slipped my mind)
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I think I can agree to disagree with most people replying, I consider it highly misleading that they prod users to donate when using Firefox, and don't mention that Firefox is not funded by donations: https://donate.mozilla.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2018/mozilla-fdn-201... Unless I'm misreading something, 64% of their expenses in 2018 went to salaries.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I edited my post if you're interested, I assure you that I don't do anything to agitate these people, and if I did, I'd deserve whatever came to me (probably a knife).
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Sadly just like Mozilla. Most of these charities are a lavish waste.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Interesting article... it does make me wonder if they're missing some key ingredient. One example for me personally is the level of aggression in the locals. There are certain streets I avoid due to this aggressive behavior, and someth
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
"The top "Censored" news stories are identified through the Campus Affiliates Program, a collaborative effort between faculty and students at many colleges and universities." Since college faculty often skews 10:1 or bet
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I read Peopleware last year and totally agree, it's the masterclass. Along with Mythical Man-Month, it's clear that we didn't need any other management books.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Check out this post: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/ I really recommend his book Developer Hegemony, although it was very depressing and I haven't quite recovered a year later :D
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I'm not exactly a bootlicker, and I'm not informed on the situation, but do we have any proof this isn't the same kind of peaceful protests we had in the USA? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics&
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Is that all? Not sure what else I can add to this comment, but that's comically low, and a slap in the face to our new underclass.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
It's about power not money.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Sorry, this might come off as obtuse, I don't mean it that way. Perhaps I'm misreading your title, but I find it odd that a UX designer or product person would be the one writing proofs of concept that require a database. Unless y
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
The changes this policy drives will be apparent after several years, not several weeks.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
I consider art another type of materialism, but perhaps my definition is wrong. I consider any kind of hedonistic pursuits materialistic (even if they are free). Consumerism in other words. I'm not speaking of just money and property,
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Interesting, do you have any examples of female warrior societies? The wikipedia article seems to start with WW1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_military And even then, they were support, not infantry.
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by ndiscussion 6y ago
Not trying to be condescending to women, but we are a sexually dimorphic species due to the heavy costs that women bear in reproduction (ie they are unable to fight for 9 months, and they can only reproduce ~annually, whereas a man can repr

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