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by viridian 4y ago
Crime trends are well below the late 80's early 90's peak, but are significantly up since covid, which is a reversal of the trend downwards we have seen. People generally are uncomfortable with crime being up 50% in 3 years, even
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by viridian 4y ago
On the specific issue of policing, the left wing of American politics, takes an extremely strong stance on the minimalization of the role of police. Yes, this is in spite of generally being more economically right than most European countri
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by viridian 4y ago
I would advise not normalizing the sort of narrative pushed by the person you are replying to by ceding ground with relation to bad behavior. A lack of class, as pengaru uses it, doesn't seem to be a useful concept, and muddies the wat
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by viridian 4y ago
You can say "fuck". Not doing so just makes your comment less clear, and forces the reader to go "what's with the pluses, is it a keyboard issue? Oh wait, the commenter is just censoring the word 'fuck' here, w
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by viridian 4y ago
You are being sarcastic, but in reality, yes, many family businesses are absolutely multi-generational rent-seeking schemes that solely exist to extract capital from people. That said, your comparison to forced confiscation of retirement pl
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by viridian 4y ago
Couldn't say, they don't let me near the schools any more, not since I argued that sometimes breaking into the school with thermite could be justified. More seriously, as much of a bastion of progressivism as these hallowed halls
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by viridian 4y ago
I'm in academia, just underwent this sort of training this week. Not interested in risking self identifying so I'll only go so far as to say that the Sierra Club's language is fairly close to how we are expected to talk with
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by viridian 4y ago
> The outcome is the same, but to me, one person is thoughtful and the other person is a jerk. I have never thought that someone trying to be thoughtful with their words was patronizing me, but that's only my experience. I have the
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by viridian 4y ago
Isn't your argument essentially saying that a nation's sovereign body, no matter what their laws, are not only expected, but also justified and morally correct in enforcing those laws, without any regard to the nature of those law
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by viridian 4y ago
Maybe I'm reading this response wrong, but your comment doesn't seem to make much sense to me. The amount of freedom from surveillance the GP seeks is not something Apple hardware will offer to you at any price. Google makes it pa
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by viridian 4y ago
Can't say my experience matches that. I only ever really posted on the fitness board, /fit/, but it's honestly probably the most positive and evidence focused fitness community I've ever experienced. BB.net is almos
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by viridian 4y ago
being unable to fight the zeitgeist isn't really a moderator issue, and it's an explicit feature of reddit, and also Hacker News. The reality is that if your opinion, no matter what it is, is disliked enough to overcome the defaul
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by viridian 4y ago
It's federated real time chat, similar to IRC, with a lot of additional embedded functionality, akin to slack/teams/discord. You can either go to the largest matrix host, matrix.org, or any other website with open registratio
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by viridian 4y ago
Formerly IRC, now Matrix, discord, slack etc, with a small community that actually likes each other is pretty good, but that's a shitty answer to the question, because invitation into these circles is almost always friend-of-a-friend.
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by viridian 4y ago
Brave results look pretty similar to bing for me, and pretty dissimilar to Google. I've been using it for a while since it's now the Brave default, and I just doesn't seem to break ranks from DDG/Bing whenever I bother t
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by viridian 4y ago
> Reverse image search has been gimped, no longer performs as well as it used to, and even Yandex always returns better results. I'm actually finding that aside from programming related queries or searching for reddit threads, Yande
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by viridian 4y ago
It's worth noting that it's not just over minimum wage, your hourly can often be miles ahead of any other unskilled labor depending on how busy you are. Both of my sisters would frequently clear $400+ a night on weekends, amountin
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by viridian 4y ago
better to use a neural network than a traditional engine here. Analog chess doesn't benefit from a lot of the stuff traditional engines do, like table bases, centipawn loss weighted depth first search, mathematically solved endgames, e
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by viridian 4y ago
I was a part of the nosurf community at it's inception, for what little community there was (given that it was a group of people trying to convince themselves and one another to disengage from the online). I've seen a handful of c
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by viridian 4y ago
Assuming what you say is true, an apple provides you with about 1/27th the amount of carbs the FDA recommends in a day, and 1/12th the amount of fiber recommended in a day. I fail to see the harm. If I did feel wild one day and de
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by viridian 4y ago
Perhaps you live in a bubble (high income, high education) if you find it completely unbelievable that a quarter of the populace will engage in domestic violence at some point in their lives. I grew up in rural Appalachia, and I can tell yo
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by viridian 4y ago
Makes for a good cold open where you want to inform the reader of some detail that the book's characters aren't privy to.
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by viridian 4y ago
As someone who has worked on both sides of the coin in the finance world in consumer credit processing, I think the person you are replying to is more right than wrong, but it's also a matter of how you view the idea of complexity. I&#
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by viridian 4y ago
Having worked with a handful of terminal CLI purists I'm convinced most of the people who bang the drum hard for vi and emacs aren't nearly as productive as they think they are, and instead evangelize it largely for some mixture o
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by viridian 4y ago
It's a host DRM, and many games also integrate with steamworks, making it an embedded DRM that can prevent your games from launching without a connection even if they otherwise wouldn't need one. As others have said, this is infer
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by viridian 4y ago
Absurd. Gnosticism isn't some assumptive middle ground, it's a confidence interval. People can be agnostic about a countless number of gods, that doesn't mean they have some combined total belief in half the number of those g
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by viridian 4y ago
Spending an entire comment attempting to rebut what is clearly just misinterpretations of someone writing in a conversational tone is the most Hacker News thing I've seen all week.
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by viridian 4y ago
The professors the university cares about will get their just pay. I know of a professor who makes well in excess of a million USD yearly, and I've also known adjuncts getting paid 30-something thousand a year. The ironic thing is that
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by viridian 4y ago
Yes, this is literally the case from grade school all the way into college level technical writing courses. The first paragraph, or first section depending on the length of the work, should essentially be a high level summary of the entire
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by viridian 4y ago
> 5 minute read Either the author is some kind of reading savant, or this metric is way off. That's over 400 words a minute for a semi-technical persuasive essay, with multiple graphs. I know there are marketing analytics out there

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