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by vundercind 2y ago
> Density is even more important when considering random crime because you have even more people who will be potential victims when someone is targeting an area. This is true—it's why rural towns and small cities are often really da
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by vundercind 2y ago
... but per-capita is 100% of what matters when assessing risk...? [EDIT] Assessing risk based on course crime stats, I mean. Of course individual context and situations matter a lot, too.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Also large amounts of crime in NY goes unreported because people mind their business and/or don't trust the cops. Yes, crime stats are a mess for a bunch of reasons. The most-reliable are murder stats, because they rarely go
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by vundercind 2y ago
There's a long-running genre of clickbaity story (that's been around since before "clickbait") that runs something like "America's five most dangerous cities!" and reads like the list of places many people
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by vundercind 2y ago
Check the crime stats. You might be surprised. Exceptions exist, but... they're exceptions. My 5x-Manahattan's-violent-crime-rate former home county pretty well fit that description, and many locals believed it was quite safe. T
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by vundercind 2y ago
Their moderation challenge is one of centralization and insistence on taking control of promoting videos. Nobody needs to, or does, police my email to make sure I haven't subscribed to any naughty newsletters. (you know, aside from f
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by vundercind 2y ago
If Google'd rather do that than not harm users with no human recourse unless you get the media involved, yes, that would be a more ethical choice than what they're doing now. They could also just stop being bad at the role they&
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by vundercind 2y ago
I think to some degree the problem is a combo of some overestimating among part of the population (driven in part by recall of actual historical crime rates, and by anti-"blue"-city news media) of how dangerous big cities are, but
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by vundercind 2y ago
There's an ongoing "all the big liberal cities are scary" vibe in much media that's been internalized by a large proportion of the population. I know multiple people (and have myself experienced this) who've been
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by vundercind 2y ago
Even the Secret Service doesn't have a great track record for preventing attempts. Their presence puts some stress on the perpetrators, which does help, and they are good at preventing quick wide-open follow-ups to a miss or partial su
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by vundercind 2y ago
> I wonder if the original commenter would have put the same comment if the article were "man shoots his wife and her lover on discovery of adultery" Why wonder if someone would make the same comment in entirely different circu
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by vundercind 2y ago
There was even a recent high-profile Supreme Court case that eliminated the historically-common (the majority opinion was simply wrong about the history, just, straight-up factually not correct) practice of sharply limiting carry of firea
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by vundercind 2y ago
I don't think the vacuum left by Google exiting free video hosting would last long. There are lots of potential solutions to the problem, that aren't all very-expensive centralized services, but YouTube existing takes up all the o
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by vundercind 2y ago
I'm saying if you provide a service you can't support, stop and make room for someone else to try. Of course they'd rather provide abusive service to hold on to user-share. That's a choice they're making and I'
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by vundercind 2y ago
> However, I'd like to prompt Hacker News with how would you handle receiving support requests from a product that has >2.7B users. Almost all of which are non-directly revenue generating, across hundreds of different languages,
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by vundercind 2y ago
> But a knock on effect is there will be a market for farming fake accounts for later sale to said manipulators. We'll lift millions in the "global south" out of poverty by providing the tools to criminals and foreign adve
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by vundercind 2y ago
My spouse and I both work on different ends of AI work (spouse, content production, editing, and prompt-library building; me, feeding the things with data). No, not really. They're useful but not revolutionary for actual productive w
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by vundercind 2y ago
> while the solid wood used for the steps between levels began showing visible wear only a few months after installation. The wood used matters, and the way it's finished matters a lot , with hardwood floors. You can get anything b
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Does everything need to be political? Does an article about regulation of a toxic chemical that would dead-certain already be far more heavily regulated if not for industry lobbying need to be political? Is that the question?
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by vundercind 2y ago
> usual mistake of implying that disabling NAT results in "exposed" LAN devices (NAT has nothing to do with it, that's the firewall's job) However technically correct from a certain point of view you may be, I was sup
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by vundercind 2y ago
Given significant foreign support, sure.
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by vundercind 2y ago
My spouse loved teaching. The problem is that teaching is a small part of the job, and has been steadily shrinking for years. Almost every other part is terrible . My spouse is no longer a teacher.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Surely this is some marked up price for insurance? Maybe. But they’ll absolutely try to get you to pay the full price. They might also demand payment up front. In either case you might be able to pay less if you negotiate, but maybe
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by vundercind 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_... TL;DR the Sixth's right to jury trial doesn't apply for criminal charges carrying less than sixth months maximum sentence—even if there are mul
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by vundercind 2y ago
> You are misunderstanding. 1080p, 1440p, 2160p refer to the number of rows of pixels > (the p is progressive, vs i for interlaced) > 4k, 2k refer to the number of columns of pixels > 2560×1440 is both 2.5k and 1440p, and 3840×2
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by vundercind 2y ago
Part of what makes this so obviously a fucked-up decision is that now some poor E-3 can easily be prosecuted for egregiously-illegal horse-shit while the "buck stops here" fucking President who ordered it is untouchable. Like,
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by vundercind 2y ago
Declaration of martial law isn't necessarily a coup attempt, in the same way that walking into the parliament building—hell, maybe even walking in armed —isn't necessarily a coup attempt. On the other hand, declaration of martial
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There are all kinds of stories we can come up with to get countries out of economic trouble that's basically fictional to begin with, as long as enough other states agree to believe the new stories. The actual value held by a country i
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yeah, a non-divided military + police usually means a very short and decisive civil war, in observable modern cases. The exceptions tend to involve a divided armed forces, or extensive foreign interference on behalf of the rebels (see: Syri
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by vundercind 2y ago
> Heller draws it's decision from historical reality and originalist philosophy The "reality" in this sentence here is pretty solidly not accurate. The majority opinion in Heller asserted truths about the past that aren&#x

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