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by qball 9y ago
>I assumed its really due to a lack of well paying jobs Close. It's because there's been a massive reduction in low-skill jobs that can still pay the bills outside of cities (whose size sustains their service sector, so you ca
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>We treat them as adults in school (by making them responsible for their own performance through grading and measuring) from a very young age, yet we don't really cut the umbelical cord (grant them autonomy) until they're in th
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>being a westerner surely gives you such right to assume that we Chinese are all being repressed. You're free to oppress yourselves. You're even free to believe that your slavery is freedom. But I have no doubt in my mind th
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>If the democratic society decides against your conception of the proper weighing of rights, you have the right to continue to try to convince your peers while complying with the law Society is always right, by definition. When your demo
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by qball 9y ago
So the problem here is one of framing. Without the polemic slant, here's what you've effectively said: Gun control. Cost: lessens ability of one societal subgroup to wage a violent revolution, the possibility of which puts a che
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by qball 9y ago
Note that this is only because tech people are scarce in Columbus, OH (or anywhere that isn't SV). See, SV doesn't have to tolerate weirdness- everyone in tech there is replaceable (there's a surplus of members). Because of
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>Considering that, as a nation, American has a foundation in its constitution that surpasses pretty much every other nation It's strange that you claim that; as the American Constitution ranks right at the bottom in terms of forcing
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by qball 9y ago
Funny that you say that; there's a project out there aiming to do just that (their last effort was a modern motherboard for an X61; this new one is for the T60). You can find it here (translated link): https://translate.goog
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by qball 10y ago
When you want to have a mega-city, you need to make some compromises. The bigger the city, the more you need to restrict citizens from affecting others. The inconvenient truth about liberalism is that it doesn't scale as well as autho
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>in what way is making it dangerous to express certain views advancing the "fight" against them? Because the inconvenient truth of liberty is that authoritarianism gets results fast and delivers "solid" security. So
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>We want less regulations all around so as to have a smaller government. The exception is when regulations prevent infringement on protected liberties. So basically, bigger government. A smaller government would recuse itself and let th
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I think it does hold for education, however, specifically higher education. If anything, costs should stay roughly the same for higher education- like broadcasting, higher education costs about the same to provide to 3 people as it does 3
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>Someday, someone is going to get stuck on a cold winter night and freeze to death in this area without cell reception. Here's a good example of this. One dead, one nearly so. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016&
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>I know of no better way to objectively measure "in high demand" than "well-paid." Sure, if the entire US had uniform costs of living. However, it's only the Bay Area that has costs (and local competition and in
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>Games especially have a very long history of having a bottomless appetite for more and more powerful hardware every year as they push the limits of what's possible. Sure, though the CPU has less to do with that. For reference, mos
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>6yo CPU/mobo still does not feel in any way slow or in need of upgrade The limiting factors have changed- or rather, the limiting computers have changed. Throwing more client horsepower or internet speed at the problem can't s
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>Privacy has literally no tangible value to most people. It's just a warm fuzzy to a few, and a practical value to even fewer. There is evidence showing the cost is real, though it's difficult to put a pricetag on missed opport
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>Are people inclined to start shooting game wardens/park rangers? It might be a small factor, but not really. Legal gun owners aren't typically the ones using them against law enforcement anyway (it's not much different
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by qball 10y ago
I probably should have said 'Northeast' rather than 'urban New England' specifically. I mis-remembered; that area encompasses fewer states than I thought it did (and NH is a good counterexample- gun laws there are grea
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by qball 10y ago
There are a few other groups that aren't as heavy on deep-South cultural baggage ( https://www.saf.org/ ). Whether or not they're sufficiently dissociated is another matter entirely, though.
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Sure, but "not doing anything to improve the state of 2A" is not the same as "fighting to impose a degraded view of 2A". The ACLU has nothing to gain by promoting any particular 2A view, because that's the only righ
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by qball 10y ago
>I keep waiting for someone other than the Maryland PD to appreciate the Beretta PX4 Storm. I should mention that the Slovakian army is adopting the Grand Power K100; the action is very similar to the PX4 Storm (the barrel rotates).
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Because military surplus exists, and it's cheap. You still need a significant amount of strength and time to ready a crossbow. Anyone can fire it, but not everyone can load it. Also the bolt is relatively slow (the shot travels in an
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>The world has gotten better in almost every way including the rapid fall in poverty rates, more reliable sources of food and medicine, and better access to technology for even the poorest folk Cool story. Have your own people seen
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>Is there any reason we can't just rely on autonomous cars in areas where these edge cases don't happen? Because there are still ripple effects to doing this affecting areas with edge cases. So let's say you've reduce
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>But I've yet to see any acknowledgement that this is useful. I think that the reason why this isn't acknowledged (by people who should know) is likely to be a political one. Examining the solution that I typically seen given
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>They still used bows, but took to guns due to their power. Not necessarily. Early guns were inefficient; one shot every minute is nothing compared to what a good bowman can do and you couldn't place an accurate shot outside of a f
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by qball 10y ago
To someone with an uncommon interest (a "nerd", in other words, though nerdy interests tend to require higher-than-average intelligence to possess), people with that interest are hard to find. Once you finally meet someone sharing