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by p-e-w 3y ago
It sets the precedent that fines are inconsequential, not even really "cost of doing business", but completely irrelevant.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Indeed. Imagine if fines for individuals worked that way: "We have video evidence of you tossing a lit cigarette next to a hiking trail in Yosemite National Park. You are hereby fined... 2.3 cents, payable within 30 days. You can appe
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The social "sciences" are a political tool, whose usefulness depends on their ability to reach any desired conclusion. The assumption that better (that is, more accurate) social science is what people want shows a hilarious lack o
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> the Venus of Willendorf could indicate some of those things, but it equally could have just been made by one especially advanced human Hundreds of such figurines have survived to the present day, so tens of thousands must have been p
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The statues, especially in the context of the greater site, could not be made by one person Why not? Sculptors sometimes make dozens of sculptures per year, by themselves. > they could not be themselves participating in hunter-gathe
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> While it may not be reading specifically that is the problem But that's specifically the claim, and it's hogwash. "Straining your eyes" doesn't damage them. Using your eyes in the dark doesn't damage them.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> 60Hz is not mentioned anywhere on the Kickstarter page. The article has a video showing smooth scrolling on the screen, which is completely impossible with current e-paper technology, unless there has been a recent revolution that I&#x
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What does "better for eyes" mean? Reading in poor lighting conditions doesn't harm the eyes, that's an unscientific myth from American parenting culture. But e-ink screens can certainly be comfortably read in bright sunl
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> meaning users are treated to a 25.3-inch Kaleido 3 E Ink screen ... yet the largest Kaleido screen size mentioned on E Ink's official website is 13.3-inch. And such screens most certainly don't have a ~60 Hz refresh rate like
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> How does carbon dating work on a statue? It doesn't, and the stone itself is typically hundreds of millions or even billions of years old. However, many ancient artifacts are found buried in the ground, and it is often possible to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> My understanding is that complex things like statues were not supposed to be possible 12,000 years ago. Huh? The Venus of Willendorf[1] is twice as old, and to my eye displays a higher degree of artistry than the statue shown in the
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Safari's market share dwarfs that of Firefox, and has for a long time. If there is indeed such a "fig leaf", it's Apple, not Mozilla.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I don't buy this idea: > As a user, you probably don’t want your emails to be non-repudiable. (Other people might want to be able to prove you sent some email, but your email system ought to serve your interests, not theirs.) Other
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The only way to stop them doing this is for folks in the right places to make it technically impossible. Sure. Then they'll pass legislation making it a crime to implement technical measures preventing such data collection, and si
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by p-e-w 3y ago
You are quite possibly correct. Late-modern monarchies, absolutist on paper, were certainly granting more freedoms to their people than those people themselves would have likely voted for, had they been given the power to do so. I can only
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's not ignorance, it's malice. "The people" are much smarter, but much more evil, than commonly assumed. And ironically, the false idea that the population is ignorant of every important issue is yet another argument f
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Always keep in mind that such oppressive legislation backed by silly arguments is possible because the people at large are essentially OK with this, and many of them even support it outright if it means getting "tougher on crime&quot
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> for a very meagre result Power is not a meagre result. For those people who live by it, it is the ultimate goal, and they will use any means to obtain and expand it, no matter the cost to others.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No, but they base their behavior and expectations on such shows. Life imitates art.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The scale of incarceration is still unprecedented. A reduction by 27 percent doesn't change that. Imprisonment was an extremely rare phenomenon for much of history (as was police, for that matter). Today's incarceration rates wo
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Those protect the building, not individual people. Nobody carries around mobile lightning rods, even though they were invented centuries ago.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
"Justice" is an incredibly malleable idea that is largely shaped by what people are told. Until very, very recently, nobody gave a fuck about serial killers, or even knew they existed. If the hype stopped, there wouldn't be a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The DA's job is to question the credibility of witnesses. If credentials conferred credibility, it wouldn't be possible to ever convict an expert of anything. So to be plain: No, DA's don't (and aren't supposed to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It is the perfect combination of crap. I think that's being way too charitable. In a world where people are incarcerated on a scale unprecedented in all of human history, and where prosecutorial success is measured by number of sc
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The medical system is a reflection of pop parenting culture Indeed. And not just in relation to parenting. The average doctor is constantly trying to emulate TV doctors, just like the average police detective is influenced by what they
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> If a medical professional testifies that this is the only way, what qualifications does a DA have to question him? Questioning witnesses is literally the DA's job. That doesn't magically stop being the case just because the w
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> what to do about Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Phillip Garrido, or Brian Mitchell Nothing. Those people are one-in-a-million anomalies. If it weren't for the media hype surrounding them, their impact on society would
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> People produce less text with more errors in more time on mobile. I mean yes, of course, but how could it be otherwise? A desktop keyboard is 10x the size of an entire mobile phone. The idea that it should somehow be possible to attain
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by p-e-w 3y ago
"Where the people are" doesn't simply mean "where a large number of people live". It also has connotations of "where it's happening", as in "where people are coming together (right now)". Bu
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> given the input question “Sammy wanted to go to where the people are. Where might he go? Answer Choices: (a) populated areas, (b) race track, (c) desert, (d) apartment, (e) roadblock”, distilling step-by-step provides the correct answ

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