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by paisawalla 5y ago
Okay, but you said "Blacks are not afforded the freedom to run," not that some people (how many?) have apprehensions or misgivings about doing so (not a lack of freedom). Apartheid in South Africa was a different thing from "
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by paisawalla 5y ago
The signs are clearly intended for would-be criminals, that is the well understood meaning of a phrase like "we don't call 911" or "this house protected by Smith and Wesson". Nobody who lives next to such a house th
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by paisawalla 5y ago
In most gun owning areas of the country, people have managed to be safe and have friends, so your theory is somewhat lacking.
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I grew up in an area where people have these signs and bumper stickers, and never had a problem socializing. I saw no evidence that people couldn't trust their neighbors or community. I've seen these in rural and urban places as w
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by paisawalla 5y ago
How should I make sense of the fact that I saw several Black Americans jogging this week. Are they scofflaws and rebels?
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by paisawalla 5y ago
If you want to engage with the point accurately, you need to break out inner city gun violence rates from suburban/rural rates. Commenter's entire point is that high gun violence is geographically restricted. If you don't liv
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Amazing write up! Can you provide a link to the switches you use? Also, how does HA know when the dog is asleep?
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by paisawalla 5y ago
How did the bank respond? Did they change anything?
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Have you found that feature requests (not issue reports) were also received in the same manner?
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I hope this translates into stronger enforcement against very loud motorcycle exhaust. These seem designed to be unconscionably loud for the purpose of offending as many around as possible.
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I think Occam's Razor, when it comes to Google's enterprise tools, suggests that nobody who is important to Google has complained about this. The understanding being that you can't get your voice heard unless you're a cu
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Amazing. The false information that this gesture means anything has everything to do with that man being fired, and contributes absolutely nothing to the awfulness of the Christchurch shooting, but you feel there is somehow an equivalence
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by paisawalla 5y ago
No. This gentleman is not, and was not, a white supremacist: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove... He didn't lose his job because of 4chan, but because of ostensibly well-intentioned
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by paisawalla 5y ago
You know someone has no point when they have to resort to pedantry. Call it lobbying, advertising, propagandizing, or whatever you like. The effect is the same.
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Ah, you must believe then either that money has no influence on politics, or that it's right for public employees to vote themselves pay raises and benefits from the tax coffers. As a taxpayer, I find this latter situation to be an obv
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I've never heard of employees lobbying (by spending hundreds of millions of dollars) all other shareholders to vote in one of their own as a board member. Have you? More over, a legislator has way more influence over a public agency th
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Public unions are among the biggest spenders (directly and through donations) in general elections, the outcomes of which directly affect the negotiating postures of the organizations they staff.
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Wait until you hear about public employees unions: they literally vote in the management with whom they are negotiating for pay and benefits!
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I assure you that doing something like installing ACs in every home in Seattle would incur a massive cost, and it is not guaranteed that such a measure would ever be necessary at any point in the next 100 years.
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by paisawalla 5y ago
1) Quite a motte and bailey maneuver you're pulling here, given the broad scope of your earlier comments. 2) Merely saying "it could have been different" is not an argument, unfortunately. What you refer to was 10 years ago,
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by paisawalla 5y ago
You would have to compare against the cost of all predicted climate-related trends, not just the ones that hindsight has validated you about. Go back and find all the wrong predictions, and lump in their preparatory or prophylactic costs
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Yes, it's a good way to stick to the cases where communism has been tried at 10-100M+ populations, and not get distracted by tiny, ethnically homogeneous, and as-arguable-as-not socialist countries like Norway or Sweden. Those too are
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by paisawalla 5y ago
Yeah, this is has just been the history of revolutionary communism everywhere it's been tried. IMHO completely worth fighting against, even with imperfect measures. I don't blame the Chileans for stopping it, and we were right to
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by paisawalla 5y ago
I mean, just admit that you don't want this hegemony to exist on the first place. Let people decide if they've enjoyed the dividends that have flowed from being the uncontested center of the world for a century. But let's not
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by paisawalla 6y ago
Nobody is saying "you can't do it." But "averages" is 100% a valid reason to consider why you shouldn't do something, particularly something unknown to most humans.
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by paisawalla 6y ago
This isn't an isolated view, but in my view, it does miss a lot. Most people have an idea of what they would ideally do if given unlimited amounts of time. The reality is, in my experience, that most people cannot put the same level of
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by paisawalla 10y ago
Yeah, I'm saying that as your app grows out of being a simple CRUD app into something more useful and involved, there will be less of a relationship between what you need to store things efficiently, and what you need to present them w
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by paisawalla 10y ago
I used to be a huge proponent of ORMs everywhere, but I've come to realize that if you're writing your app in such a way that a developer needs to be able to do any arbitrary data fetch or transformation whenever they want, that&#