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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Safe injection sites are a socially responsible way of using resources. It costs society money for ambulances to be running around to OD people. Safe injection makes sense. It doesn't promote heroin. No one is saying: Heroin in a Healt
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Let's reconsider this position using some other example: Healthy on Heroin. HOH HOH is not BS. Here's the deal. For lots and lots of people, being not addicted to heroin is very very hard. So hard, that even though there is enormo
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
It doesn't have to be. I put together my own. Here is what I purchased: Jarvis Stand Desk Frame Only ($445) Home Depo Door ($60) Confidence Power Plus Motorized Electric Treadmill Black ($200) So total of $700~ for basics. Additionally
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
My comment was on why governments don't intervene as quickly when detecting bad behavior from important nodes. This applies to the US as to the other countries. I seem to remember a quote from some Russian book I read that went along t
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Actually, I'd add that this is more related to the importance of the individual or company as a node in the country's economic network. The larger the impact on the network in terms of either magnitude or volume of souls owned, th
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I believe a factor in this is the incentives at play based on a mentality. The incentives are that if data is deleted, the person doing it can be in trouble for destroying it. The probability of getting in trouble for not deleting is low. T
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I don't see them as black and white. I said there was an issue and gave examples. I asked a question based on such examples. Stop moving the goal posts. Stop your whataboutisms. My original post comparing #1 to #2 stands. You confound
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
"physical assault can be far less violating than ... verbal harassment." ... You are the reason for the article above. Congrats. Now celebrate your victory.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Err, I was using the term "Violation of a woman's integrity". According to you, both 1 and 2 can be described that way. Listen you are right in part. Like when people talk about drugs being ba-a-a-a-d. Is cocaine bad? Yes Is
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
So... you think it is fair to the woman in example 1 to have the same term applied to example 2? 1- The first woman's gang rape where she spent months in the hospital recuperating. 2- An upper middle class woman getting told in a loud
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I'd say there are other factors. One big one for me is confounding: "Sex predator/Abuser" will be the label placed on a guy who violently rapes a woman, just as it will be applied to the guy who said something PERCEIVED
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
IMO, never. Rule #1: Perfection is attainable Rule #2: The universe is not constant: Screen sizes change, browsers, screen types, technology, new competitors come up changing people's expectations, people's tastes change, you expa
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
This seems like a prevailing attitude, but I think it is based on a debunked thought processes. People used to think that heroin or other substances were inherently addictive in and of themselves. This was because of experiments on mice in
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Yeap, the article has a very heavy handed one side to it. I mean, it sounds like "Silly users don't like my smart product that no one uses" without considering, maybe, just maybe, the product wasn't good? The author did
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
The Boston Globe is owned by John W Henry. The man operates algorithm trading systems; it's the reason he is a billionaire. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that I read algorithm positive news stories in his newspaper. Shocked!
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Spies who become journalists are still spies. You could have a journalist suspect of spying. But that is not the same as going after legitimate journalists when there is no suspicion of spying. The article is very clear about this being dir
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I would argue this is more to do with Portland culture of nice than anything. I love riding, but I have been run over. No thank you. I will bike for transportation the day we implement Dutch style separated bike lanes (i.e. by an actual phy
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
It's like the Gell-man amnesia effect for news, but with authority in general (it doesn't even have to be gov, it could be NGOs, news, religion, expert establishment, etc)
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
I had never thought of it. But with the decline of religion, it seems faith is now directed at authority, mostly of the political but also the 'scientific' kind. Great point, thank you.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Reminds me of all those people saying how well electricians/plumbers and other tradesmen earn. Most of the time they are looking at someone with their own PLUMBING BUSINESS and saying how easy it is to make money. Sorry, owning a busin
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Why do we always assume little people do things for their self benefit with no regard for their 'reasoning/explanations', but when it comes to big guys we instantly assuming their stated reasons have no ulterior motives? The
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Actually, IIRC from my history classes, guns were called the 'great equalizer' because all of a sudden a child could kill a full grown swordsmen with the same easy as a highly trained warrior.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
They are the people who own the country. They are the people who are invited to the Bilderberg meetings. They are those who fund think tanks. They are the people whose kids are guaranteed a seat in an Ivy league school, regardless of merit.
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Because we live in an era of increased authoritarianism. And the reality for those of us that don't like it is that authoritarianism doesn't appear from nowhere. It appears because of the prevailing attitude of large segments of t
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Or you could argue that the current climate of world peace was brought on by multiple currents including: 1- An acceleration of technology development that changed the sharing of resources to go from zero sum to a positive sum situation. 2-
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
Unless of course there would exist a revolving door between SEC and the companies they are supposed to enforce action on. http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/sec-revolving-door.html
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by towelr34dy 8y ago
> This doesn't look good for him. Can I ask what you mean by this? Will the SEC arrest him? Ban him from being a Director of a public company? I keep hearing about him 'getting in big trouble'. But I don't get it. Don