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by thebooktocome 3y ago
Billionaires don’t seem to have trouble doing illegal things when it comes to tax evasion, securities fraud, and the like. Some random municipal zoning board would be child’s play with their resources. The proof of this is that the rich reg
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Here is SLC’s program, including all the community work they have to do to mollify the NIMBYs: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/06/1134230388/village-salt-lake-... Median rent in SLC: 1.8k/mo, 21.6k&#x2F
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Imprisonment is far more expensive than housing. SLC ran a pilot program years ago proving the concept. Of course, if one is the retributive sort, nothing grinds one’s spleen more than someone worse off getting something “they don’t deserve
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I’m glad my impression of you was accurate.
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> A modern employee is in no way comparable to a slave, especially not the kind of employee likely to visit HN. What an elitist attitude. H1B visas are a modern form of forced labor you might be able to find some shred of empathy for, bu
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> but stating a modern laborer is not getting anything out of their labor is quite false. Not as much as they want, sure, but it's not zero. In many cases the net benefit of working a job is negative, because many places pay below t
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Odd choice to fixate on a clause buried in a hypothetical and ignore the thrust of the sentence, but I support your hermeneutical decisions. I do not live in Chicago and have said nothing here about it.
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Agreed. I live in a city with a noticeable homeless problem, but our extensive system of libraries is perfectly safe. Now, ten or twenty years ago, the main branch downtown was in what certain conservative commentators might have called a &
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Excuse me, but I didn’t say anything like “large swaths of the country are just itching to break out the noose.” You’re being hyperbolic and oversensitive. When I’m talking about “some corners of our country”, I’m talking about corners that
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I’m pretty sure Finland does as well, though whether it’s a national mandate or just standard operating procedure I don’t know.
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Those two claims aren’t mutually exclusive.
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I don't know how to tell you that there were George Floyd protests in DC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Washi... . Somehow they managed to avoid breaking into the Capitol building and rifli
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You don't see it because you're not looking for it. Plenty of protest groups were extremely vigilant about minimizing property damage and rooting out violent infiltrators. The George Floyd protests were far more policed: twenty-fi
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I just watched a youtube chef mangle and torture a live lobster the other day, all while claiming to be informed on how to humanely kill them.
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> Petty crime has gone up everywhere. Hm. While crime statistics are intentionally nerfed in the United States, this doesn’t seem to be true here. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191211/reported-larceny-...
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When the LLM inevitably hallucinates a case that doesn't exist or weirdly misstates a widely-known legal principle, the supposed author of that text is going to have some explaining to do. This happens now, by the way—there are semi-fr
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> . . . I have no idea how you’d enforce that. . . Most countries already have a professional lawyering organization that oversees ethics. Those organizations already enforce such rules by either fines, mediation, revocation of the licen
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What’s wild to me is: 1) It’s not neutral. It’s trained on a corpus including works by radicals of every bent weighted by the prevalence of their work in the corpus. 2) It’s not non-human. Separated from its human-derived training data, it
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Means testing is super effective at increasing a welfare program's cost while reducing its societal impact. I read these Borgesian lists of acceptable kinds of hardship (which can be and are routinely bike-shedded ad nauseam) as calls
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Millennial here, paid off my student loan debt with my own, hard-earned cash. My parents were already bankrupted by medical debt before I graduated high school, so no help there. I still want my less lucky peers and the zoomers made whole a
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> Looking at individual country impacts on dangerous heat levels, researchers found that current emissions from 1.2 average US citizens condemn a future human to live in extreme heat. This is a terrible sentence that encrypts their inten
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This has nothing to do with a homespun wool contest. This isn’t a commercial setting. As your link mentions, these sheep have been selectively bred to require shearing.
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Yeah, we are—evidently—but that’s not what you’re doing in parent.
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It requires too much labor for the prison-industrial complex to monitor. Digital files are far easier to automatically censor.
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Good luck making that argument to the median voter. The entire conservative wing believes prisoners deserve torture (unless it’s them or their immediate family); half of the center-left is too busy projecting a “tough on crime” image to gi
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Here’s another example: during the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord Tennyson revived interest in The Matter of Britain (King Arthur, Lancelot, etc.) by publishing, over several decades, what would become The Idylls of the King. Thence T. H. Whit
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The question was, “What renaissance would occur if copyright didn’t exist?” Here’s one that happened because the source works weren’t indefinitely protected (ironically, what Disney wanted for their own derived works.)
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The Disney Renaissance, for example, was built on the back of works in the public domain (Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, etc.)
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> Without copyright, moneyed interests would be able to simply wait for promising new artists to create something that resonates with an audience, then copy that thing and aim their massive marketing budgets at dominating that audience w
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Edging every closer to Stross’ vision in Accelerando.

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