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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Well in the context of this argument, it's moreso that a black fellow isn't racist towards black people because s/he is black... which tends to hold. Also it's my experience that if an all black community decides to enac
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
>Systems overtly or tacitly designed to fuck minorities tend to successfully fuck minorities even when operation of local mechanics are effected by minority agents. An infallible argument; the oppressee can just as well be opressor, beca
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Having spent a decade plus in chicago, I would suggest you go visit HP one hot summer night. It may make you reconsider that twitter cliche you wrote.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
If you think armed cops are the obvious danger in shotspotter neighborhoods, you've departed objective reality. Eg https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/7/27/23280415/chicag...
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
The explanation I had in mind was more directed to the narrative over reality when it comes to shotspotter, rather than the mechanics of structural poverty incentives that invariably drive people toward illicit income that's fraught wi
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
The reality is in those areas cops are always armed and expecting active shooters. Look up the gunplay stats for places like Back of The Yards in Chicago.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
I would think the system will have difficult time materializing high rates of people that have been shot, which tends to be the chief metric for where it's deployed.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Wow definitely bringing back repressed memories for me - my audi s8 for whatever reason would refuse to stream via a2dp unless I had some music actually on the phone, in which case it would auto play said music after some random delay. So m
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
As was the full PID setup for the depth control.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
>vessels registered in Nosafetystandardsland Ha will have to borrow that
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
That take is far more of a Rorschach of your views than anything to do with the topic on hand.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Huh, street sweeper bristles are metal?
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Didn't he short out the battery when snipping both wires at the same time? Neat idea though, will see if i can find any.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Actually not quite - dollars themselves are worth nothing, same way meters, or liters are worth nothing. They purely a convenience unit of measurement, so that a baker selling bread to a plumber doesn't first have to find flour mill th
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
I've yet to have success explaining that very ex nihilo problem to crypto people* - even if you build out all of the last 100 years worth of financial system innovation, at the very bottom all it's doing is very efficient price di
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
> google how to format a USB drive and all the page are 100,000,00 words and subdivided into 60 chapters, including the entire wikipedia entry for what is USB This has leaked to virtually all content: "medium rare lamb temperature&q
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
I would posit the reason why you'll find few homeless in low population dense areas is the same why you'll find few starbucks there - not enough human activity to support them.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
ha, accurate
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
This - the nag screen to sign up iCloud when attaching photos in iMessage is prime example of this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250951130?answerId=2518...
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
That's the irony of it all - when faced with a real world issue of extortion and theft, given the opportunity the libertarian drug utopia solution matches the one of a Central American cartel. All those libertarian manifestos that Ulbr
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
>This thread is an interesting example of how powerful the Internet folklore about Ulbricht is. I imagine this is just self defense mechanism at work - if you concede to the reality that a libertarian drug utopia took around 3 years to d
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Killing someone and not getting caught is actually not equivalent to not killing anyone. What a bizarre line of argument that people make about this guy.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
That's the same as thing as "it didn't happen" right?
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Motorcycle rider here, cars doing left turns across oncoming traffic account for the majority of car x bike collisions. If the drivers' eyes aren't on you, you're about to join that statistic.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
On the off-chance someone gets inspired by this, for the HP Z6 the 2.68 firmware + Radeon Rx580 is the magic combo to make MacOs work via opencore.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Was there perceptible difference after you replaced the front and rear fans?
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Interestingly enough, just picked up a dual xeon silver HP Z6 for roughly that amount of money, seems like they are rolling off warranty and getting disposed of. It took me an obscene amount of time to get macos catalina running on it, howe
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
IIRC bulk of the gain in average life expectancy over the last 2 centuries came from reducing infant mortality, which had outside impact on the aggregate mean.
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
The very premise of this type of FUD was actually explicitly mentioned in the Supreme court decision (by Kavanaugh if I recall correctly) - the notion of states hunting down their residents or tracking activities in other states is as far f
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by pxmpxm 4y ago
Appeal to emotion, therefore your point is invalid... Didn't expect to read something this vapid on HN. You may as well have said they owned slaves and therefore their ideas are forever wrong. I would suggest you actually read about th

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