positron6000

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by positron6000 3y ago
so you get the exact same answer? in js, Boolean('' && 0) will give you the same answer as bool('' and 0) in python. if i code golf in python (like the article does in js), i'll also get weird-looking code a
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by positron6000 3y ago
flannery assoc is a shell company. who's providing the money for purchasing farmland at 5-10x its worth? can you name a single officer of flannery assoc?
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by positron6000 3y ago
ah, hacker news: the frontline for the culture wars. i'm sure these comments will be constructive.
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by positron6000 3y ago
"i'm not a 'car guy' - where can i get a simple interface for a killswitch that only needs to be installed once and can be controlled from an app?" ^ this is where the value is, which is what the $1.2m is intended t
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by positron6000 3y ago
the idea is to add a safety control for preventing harassment to a hugely popular communication medium, not to promote a company. > It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me. they're probably ok with t
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by positron6000 3y ago
wait wait wait - you think that the characters not being all white men is "progressive"? that would mean that reality is progressive, right?
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by positron6000 3y ago
Based on the data here (which your source is based on) four out of the five rural hospital closures in NY are in counties that voted for Trump in 2016: Irving, NY - Chautauqua County - Trump Fulton, NY - Oswego County - Trump Ticonderoga, N
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by positron6000 3y ago
> Nope. That will not work because the bill says services not people. no it doesn't. it says that services can be denied based on moral objections. people are the ones that receive those services.
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by positron6000 3y ago
> The article lies and pretends it's about the person. This is not true. can you back this up? where in the bill text does it say this? i've read through it and nowhere does it make a differentiation between denying care based
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by positron6000 3y ago
it isn't a "personal boogeyman" because it's literally in the text of the bill. you seem intent on pretending that this is related solely to "procedures" which apply to everyone when that is plainly not what th
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by positron6000 3y ago
lmao jesus christ - "being gay or a minority and seeking medical care is the same as drone striking a wedding, actually." keep it classy, hn.
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by positron6000 3y ago
you keep saying this, but if a doctor believes that a gay person is not a human being because of religion, this bill would allow them to prevent giving that person any kind of care. "i have a persistent cough and need a check up."
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by positron6000 3y ago
Great! Where am I going to get money to move from a small town to a city with a higher cost of living, and how will I - a high-school dropout - acquire the skills necessary to get one of these better jobs? How long will it take? Where will
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by positron6000 3y ago
> It's a market. If you don't like your job look for a better one. Sure! I live in a small rural town with a poor public education system and no professional opportunities outside of manual labor. I had to leave high school to
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by positron6000 3y ago
> Cuba is facing a famine right now Because the US has embargoed Cuba for decades to cause hunger and desperation: > If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action w
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by positron6000 3y ago
citation?
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by positron6000 3y ago
what news outlets do you read?
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by positron6000 3y ago
"After BuzzFeed News and ICIJ published a joint investigation, officials across the globe began taking action to finally thwart illicit financial activity and the criminals who move money through Western banks." - https:/&#x
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by positron6000 3y ago
buzzfeed.com is not shutting down, their investigative reporting organization is: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
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by positron6000 3y ago
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations
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by positron6000 3y ago
> libraries wanted to make porn available to kids this is an extremely bad faith interpretation of librarians upholding the first amendment.
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by positron6000 3y ago
but this is about public libraries, not school libraries. also, the linked video is from Alaska, not Missouri.
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by positron6000 3y ago
No I didn't. I've been working with UCR data for 10+ years and I recognize it in the wild. Furthermore, my points still stands regardless of the source: "there is no dataset that will allow you to reliably rank every 'ma
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by positron6000 3y ago
The quote you posted offers no actual information about how they purport to plug gaps in the data: > And further: Once we have these complete set of reported crime data, along with millions of geocoded reported crime incidents using a GI
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by positron6000 3y ago
On the link you provided ( https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime ) there's a "Source & Methodology" link which says "Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agenci
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by positron6000 3y ago
The numbers are misleading because they're based on voluntary reporting from law enforcement agencies to the FBI's UCR program. The FBI has this to say: Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause
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by positron6000 3y ago
That's the point: there is no dataset that will allow you to reliably rank every "major city" by crime stats because every city reports crime differently and no crime dataset also accounts for factors which may affect those s
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by positron6000 3y ago
Because the dataset is incomplete if even a single city doesn't opt into sharing data, or only provides a portion of the real data. From the FBI itself: > Pitfalls of Ranking > UCR data are sometimes used to compile rankings of i
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by positron6000 3y ago
That data is sourced from the FBI's UCR program ( https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-an... ) which relies on _voluntary reporting_ from law enforcement agencies.
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by positron6000 3y ago
you know what really bothers me? i want to build airplanes, but the people who make the parts have made it so, so complicated. all i want to do is fly around - but because some moron wants job security, they've made it needlessly compl

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