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by paisawalla 3y ago
Have you considered examining why you feel the need to project false moral superiority onto, obliquely insult, and psychoanalyze strangers? Do you think this suggests a sober self-awareness and firm grounding of your principles -- qualities
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by paisawalla 3y ago
The underlying motivation in these sorts of exchanges is rarely a desire for a global increase of genuine self-examination, but more often to exploit an opportunity for ostentatious preening. We know this because your logic can be trivially
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by paisawalla 3y ago
Can you name the app?
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by paisawalla 3y ago
> I have never been accused of being a racist transphobe whatever, if that’s your number one issue with the site maybe some inward reflection is in order Perhaps you simply haven't encountered the kind of person who, at the vagues
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by paisawalla 3y ago
> Nothing obvious or even true about it. Using the word obvious just hides the fact it isn’t. If you don't believe in the existence of incentives then unfortunately there's not enough shared reality for us to have a discussion.
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by paisawalla 3y ago
That is not my understanding.
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by paisawalla 3y ago
If your understanding of the scientific evidence is that it supports "dry shelters are harmful and their existence exacerbates heroin addiction," then I think that's a good argument in favor of the inclusion of anecdotes on t
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by paisawalla 3y ago
> Dry shelters are arguably a massive part of the problem. As someone who has housed and lived close to addicts, to put it plainly: this is a naive, academic view. Dry shelter are "a massive part of the problem"? Absolutely
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by paisawalla 3y ago
Data which is 1) based on self-reported status 2) fails to distinguish between temporary hardship homelessness and that resulting of addiction/illness Should not be relied upon. For the first, there is an obvious incentive towards exag
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by paisawalla 3y ago
This is tedious. It's a time-worn strategy of all politicians and activists to justify their preferred policies pretextually. If you have something to say about the actual policy he's discussing -- industry protectionism -- you
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Scroll down TFA to the section called "terms that became real". When trolls or adversaries can use citogenesis to boostrap facts into the mainstream from a cold start, what does "98% factual accuracy" mean? At some point
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I don't know how I can be more clear. Maybe you can explain what you don't understand.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I'm going to steer this conversation back on track, and not chase down these non-facts you're asserting. The question is: why aren't police making as many arrests (commits). And the answer I'm proposing is: because DAs a
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by paisawalla 4y ago
... putting their own life at risk, even towards no end. Even if the stated purpose of that risk is subsequently undermined.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
> Frankly, if your commits were being loudly criticized as harming/killing people then you have no right No, my commits are perfectly fine, as are the vast majority of my peers' code. Only an extremely small number of complai
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by paisawalla 4y ago
1. The average person doesn't have your grasp of probabilities. 2. You're still asking him to take a small chance with his life.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
"A cop should risk his life to effect an arrest, even if that act will be immediately undermined by the prosecutor and will have no measurable difference on society." Are you saying they shouldn't value their own lives, but i
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by paisawalla 4y ago
As a developer, I would get pretty upset and demoralized if someone came and periodically reverted all my commits. Imagine if I actually had to risk my life to make those "commits"? It's not hard to see why they stay in the c
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by paisawalla 4y ago
That's quite some stretching you're doing. 1. I'm pointing out that poverty and racial factors often confound each other. The comment I was replying to made it seem like racial effects disappear when you control for income. I
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I can't read the article, but does it control for race within poverty? A lot of poverty conclusions are confounded by race, yet even within poor cohorts you will find significant disparities by race. For example, > Whites from fami
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by paisawalla 4y ago
In 2020 this poll found 32% of Americans report owning a gun, and 44% live in a household with one. So not "most", but not insubstantial either. https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-ow
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Revisionism is the logical end of the modern, expansive concept of psychological harm, and the safety regime it necessarily implies.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
1. It's easier to connect to the wifi from across the street, without setting foot on the premises or showing your face on camera. 2. I'm not claiming that all attacks will be mitigated, but that this is an easy win from a cost:be
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by paisawalla 4y ago
If a hotel could spend a few hours and definitively prevent misuse of the fire emergency button, they would do that.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
There are certainly people out there who are motivated to trigger false alarms in hotels: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/22/police-appr...
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Hotels are reasonably protected to such an attack. There are almost always cameras in the elevator, and the electronics are typically, to some extent, tamper-resistant.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
> Would you protect against someone running down the corridor shouting the same thing? ...yes? Do you think hotels aren't protected, to some extent, against any random person putting on a blazer and announcing an emergency?
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Personally, even the remotest possibility of someone broadcasting "evacuate your rooms, there is a fire/active shooter in the building" seems worth spending a few hours protecting against.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I've been using distinct FF profiles to separate work browsing from personal browsing on the same machine. I give each profile a differently colored theme to visually separate the two and discourage accidentally using one profile for a
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by paisawalla 4y ago
This is an interesting, if terse, analysis. Can you spend a few more words elaborating your thoughts please?

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