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First, not all suffering makes lives more meaningful. It's the process of suffering through something and prevailing or even being overwhelmed and yet later finding a way to get back up that gives us meaning. Second, we do not have the righ
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What's going on is that Alexey probably something to run away from, probably monetary: hence "fuck off to Costa Rica" and references to $200,000-$300,000.
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This has the same approach in that the weapon is hidden behind a safe and opening the safe means a call to first responders. I am very much in favour of this. My issue is that in US environment that weapon can not be a firearm: neither the
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I should add that "egoist" in Russian is indeed literally the same word as "egoist" in English (albeit written in Cyrillic), but semantically it is closer to what "selfish" means in modern American English. I think the note should be read a
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Certain numbers of accidents happen during firearms training with military, police, and civilians. It is very common for flight simulators to be used as training tools for those about to pilot an airplane, so perhaps building very realistic
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Yes, but discrimination of this sort is possible if it can pass the appropriate scrutiny test. It's just like how constitution says "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed", yet it's clear that certain firearms can be banned and cert
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Yep, that's why I find this insane on more than just practical grounds: 1) You can't teach someone to effectively and safely use a firearm if they do not wish to do so. Most teachers do not wish to own as much as use actual firearms. 2) A f
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On the other hand, violence is generally decreasing in the US, so it's quite possible non-coercive approaches could substantially affect the spree-shooting problem. Deeper structural changes would be needed to fix the actual gun violence pr
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> I hate how both anti-gun and pro-gun groups have blocked real studies out of self interest and fear, and how the debate in general is essentially uninformed by technical facts and often driven by racism and emotion (on the anti-gun si
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I think Russia allows "gas pistols" with a special license too. Nonetheless, a pistol like firearm in general is difficult to aim and use. Mace is fully legal in the US, but not very efficient. Actual tasers (those carried by police) are pr
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> I generally agree that banning possession or even just sale of most guns would reduce the spree killing rate, but spree killings are essentially statistical noise relative to other violent crimes and gun-related violent crimes. Yes, e
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> the temptation to use a "non lethal" emergency device to break up the fight would be a lot higher than the temptation to shoot one of them I think that if it's made clear that the firearm is merely "less than lethal" (it can actually
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This may be off-topic, but I thought I'd bring it up: in a nut shell, defensive "use once" less than lethal weapons for public areas. They would be strictly licensed and regulated by first responders, much like public defibrillators are. Wh
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It's interesting that both pro-gun rights libertarians and most anti-gun violence liberals agree on this point but for (one reason or another) fail to advance this. Irrespective of what you think about gun laws, if you want to significantly
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Very well said (I think I may have been the one to mention the cryptographic signature idea to you, but I am pretty sure I've read it elsewhere). 1) I think the other key point is inferring how guns go from the factory floor to the crime sc
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I'd imagine it's related to the fact that Waterloo not only has very high academic standards (probably comparable to UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, etc...) but that they also require an industry coop for all undergrads.
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Few things: 1) To be honest I'm not the biggest fan of arguing about overthrowing US government, as: a) Very few people (certainly not me) are willing to risk their lives for abstract ideas. In other words, this would have to be a fairly s
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7-2 decision seems fairly solid to me. Breyer is being... Breyer (whose judicial philosophy seems to be more of "that's just like your opinion, man..."), and I would say Thomas' dissent is more focused on "in loco parentis" role of the sta
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This is very interesting, I always thought of Australian natives as having been a part of an out-migration of similar populations (remnants of which still exist, e.g., Andamanese in India, small populations in Thailand, Malaysia, and Philip
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Yeah, it's sad that the article mentions "Tandoori" and anything having to do with South India on the same page.
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I think we're in agreement. Taxes are a small but seemingly inevitable cost to pay for living in a liberal democracy. I am also not using pleasant literally here: as in, places stuffwhitepeoplelike.com crowd like to visit and rave about, bu
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> Although ... were they using FMJ or lead or soft nose bullets? Big difference in wounding capability.... I'd imagine they would be using whatever was popular in bordering US states at the time: a lot of this was actually privately pur
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> especially gaming Experiment: go to the range, find 10 men or women under the age of ~35 with AR-15s. Ask if they play first person shooters. Pretty sure over 75% will say "yes." I am not an FPS person myself -- I like nethack and fre
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It's probably fair to compare 7.62x39 with .30-30 (very similar ballistics) .30-30 seemed to have played a core role in the Mexican Revolution. Pancho Villa is almost always depicted with a Winchester 1894 and bandoliers full of .30-30 cart
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I took the compromise route: I donated to NRA-ILA as needed, but refuse to join NRA proper. In short term, NRA-ILA solves the most acute problem: lobby against stupid gun laws. However, they don't solve the problem that (you too have pointe
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> Is there not police corruption, abuse of power, innocent people thrown in jail (especially for drugs), unjust laws, etc? You can fight against drug war (and this seems to be catching on) without abandoning the idea of police and judi
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How do you enforce non-coercion principle against private coercion without a police and judiciary that is obligated to protect everyone fairly (including those who are unable to pay for police services at one point or another)? Let's say I
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> I would strongly disagree that anywhere in the Middle East is a nice place to live (besides Israel) Precisely! Israel has notoriously high taxes: if you're going to make an argument about how high taxes and socialism (literal socialis
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> Please explain how a web designer making $250k a year freelancing out of an apartment in NYC is "benefiting" from the government more than a $30k/year individual on welfare. Oh come on, this is ridiculous. You know this is not true gi
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Okay, was . Indeed, thanks to the prosecutor's actions that has been greatly changed.

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