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by stickfigure 2mo ago
> But being a police officer in the US isn't even in the top-10 most dangerous fields You don't think that has something to do with the exact policies you are objecting to? They call them "high risk stops" for a reaso
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I agree, but "this car was used in a homicide" is pretty unambiguously a high-risk stop.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
We don't the details of the flag. In general cops err on the side of protecting themselves from danger and I can't fault them for that. How would you approach a car whose driver is suspected of homicide? Obviously someone made a m
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I'll bet it would be enough just to make sure that the vaccine waiver signature box is positioned directly below some glossy full color pictures of emaciated, rash covered dead children.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Inaction (and really, let's be clear - making it worse) is RFK's choice. We managed to cut the smoking rate pretty dramatically, including in about half over the last decade. Public policy is not ineffective, we just need competen
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
> it's going to take a lot more than Trump going out of office to fix Probably true, but it's nevertheless a necessary condition.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
RFK and his anti-vax ideas are popular only within a small fringe of the American population. Enough to drop herd immunity to the point where we now have to worry about measles again, but it's far from the majority.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
A major campaign by RFK's replacement could absolutely make a significant difference stopping the spread of measles. That's the whole point of the (proven extremely effective!) vaccine.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
You have no idea. Stop it.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
This is exactly right. I find John Oliver entertaining, but I'm acutely aware that he gets eyeballs by stoking outrage. And the few times he touched on subjects I know something about, I felt he was being misleading (at best). John Oli
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Sure, but - by definition - half the population is below average social status. At least here in the US, those people are still partnering up.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
> housing (which is a requisite status symbol for dating or marriage I get that culture is hard to change, but it still seems easier than changing the economics. There are men and women out there who presumably are interested in partneri
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
If you spend time in neighborhood groups like nextdoor and local facebook groups, you find plenty of support for Flock. I'd even go so far as to say a majority. This doesn't have the scientific rigor of a random sample, but it&#x2
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Someone bounced from "let's dump 40 vats at once" to "we can't allow even a slow leak". No, I don't think we're seeing rigorous scientific competence.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
Orders of magnitude more fish die offshore of this village every day. I'm skeptical of scientists who think there's no middle ground between dumping it all at once, and treating it like plutonium. More likely there is some interse
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I am shocked to learn there is no dog in a hot dog. Calling my lawyer...
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
I-prefixing interfaces is a practice from Microsoft's COM, and to this day still isn't part of Java culture, despite the efforts of subversive dotnet renegades.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
This is genuinely funny. I have to admire the chutzpah.
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by stickfigure 2mo ago
This is specifically Spring culture, not Java culture in general. I don't tend to see this outside of Spring. Maybe back in the J2EE days, but that community seems to be more or less dead. Java is a big tent. Yeah there are some parts
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
People with a handful of hours towards a private pilot's license have no (zero, zip, nada) expertise or insight when it comes to the design and manufacture of commercial airliners. You might feel like you do, but it has no basis in f
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
> what other possible explanation is there for someone putting a PIN visible on their phone that wipes it while crossing a border? Two obvious answers: 1. It's for the general case of lost/stolen phone. 2. It's for the own
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
The most recent started service in 2014. They may in fact be obsolete but not because they are old by soviet standards.
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
> As someone who has 31 hours towards their single-engine ppl cert, FFS, have some self-awareness! This is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in practice.
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
Bullshit. Last time I flew internationally, only two of the eight seats had window access. Interior isle seats cost as much as window seats in airlines that charge for position. People just want space.
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
> There's a reason all modern silo based (and submarine) ICBMs are solids. Believe it or not, here in 2026, this is incorrect! Those crazy Russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-29RMU_Sineva https:/&#x
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
1.5M civilians already live in Bahrain. This usage makes the term "war zone" meaningless.
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
Taiwan has been self governing for longer than almost everyone that lives there has been alive. It's also a vibrant democracy. If you care about democracy and human rights, it's morally reprehensible NOT to support Taiwan. We can
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
> 640K ought to be enough for anybody. The question is really whether 640k is enough to last you until your next hardware upgrade.
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
OP's take seems to be unfairly critical. I wasn't at the MIT or Georgia Tech lectures (Gene Ray spoke once at each) but it sounds like the audience was pretty respectful, all things considered. He was given uninterrupted time to e
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by stickfigure 3mo ago
You seem to be banging on a stereotype. Yudkowsky doesn't speak for everyone (not even everyone on lesswrong) and AI safety/paranoia is an incredibly polarizing issue. There's a loosely structured community of people who self

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