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by wfo 10y ago
Actually, worse: they seize your assets so that you cannot afford to mount a solid defense at your trial. It's a lot easier to convince someone to take a plea (i.e. confess falsely under duress) if they are bankrupt and destitute and c
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They don't mention the number of arrests or lives of casual marijuana smokers destroyed for no reason before and after the law was passed -- if it saved a single person from having a criminal record, being locked in a cage, or having t
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by wfo 10y ago
Those words, except for the references to the Perron Frobenius theorem are fairly basic mathematical literacy, and should already be well known to anyone who is doing math or CS or programming or engineering or reading the blog in question.
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I absolutely agree. But nearly half of Amazon reviews these days are paid advertisements by the seller in my experience. And while I think you should never write a review for a product you've never used, if you've: 1. Supported or
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His stance on immigration, his war on PC culture, the racism, sexism, his war against Islam, even his slogan "make American great again" is exactly the definition of culture war. His subslogan "take our country back" is
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Yes, the inscrutable puzzling Europeans riot when their way of life is being destroyed so wealthy shareholders can reap more profits, why can't they be sensible like us Americans and be silent in the above case, instead rioting after s
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by wfo 10y ago
He didn't interfere (he asked some questions as a certified medical professional) and he didn't make the situation worse. The officers made the situation worse, and he probably made things better for the guy in question -- would y
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I think the tacit claim made by the article was that the entire interaction was almost entirely race-driven, suggesting that: 1) The person he tried to help would not have been accosted by police if he were white 2) The author would not hav
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"Common sense" is only common to the people who know it already. There are plenty of people who think the vast majority of the police are public servants trying to do their job, serve and protect. Maybe they're right. Some ar
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>Is the author really advocating that ISPs should be allowed to sell ads on traffic they see? What? It is blatantly obvious from both the tone and content of the article that the author is advocating that google and the like be banned fr
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by wfo 10y ago
Many people learn Haskell (or FP in general) at university and then wash their hands of it and refuse to ever touch it again. Perhaps consider it could be a matter of preference or right-tool-for-the-job rather than the fact that the unwash
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How is this relevant here? Also, in response to this article is perhaps the worst place to post this generally true but tired and boring maxim we see on every HN thread that even touches politics -- on criminal justice reform they are actua
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I didn't know that, but that actually makes my case stronger.
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Apple has been very good at predicting (or perhaps directly causing) the demise of certain technologies: the disk drive, the CD drive, the ethernet port. They removed them much to the chagrin of many a loyal customer, and a few years later
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The law isn't obscure at all, it's a fundamental part of employment law that separates California from many other states. And saying it's due to tech VC is saying there's a lot of tech success due to the overabundance of
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by wfo 10y ago
If you manage to renegotiate your contract/EULA with Apple or Facebook or Google because of your impressive ability to read and understand them, let me know. In reality, the power these companies have means there is no negotiation. The
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I don't think this really effects people's choices. Anecdotal, but I have not once ever heard of any man in real life stating any real concern this could happen, much less describing it as a reason to avoid sex. It's an incre
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This analogy is not a good one. None of the alcohol-related effects fall into "tragedy of the commons" territory the way creating antibiotic-resistant super germs does. Liver damage is a person harming themselves by their own choi
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by wfo 10y ago
There's something to be said for simply polling high enough to get into the debates. Debates where a candidate could, for example, offer an alternative view on drug policy. If a third party gets 15%, they get a third podium on that sta
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According to what I understood from the article, a trial is not even relevant. Lawyers are barely relevant. A prosecutor threatens someone with a life-destroying extreme sentence, and they take the short plea term. Confess to this crime you
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It is inextricably linked to social (and therefore normative) values however, that's why it sits firmly as a social science and not a hard one. Everything about economics is a normative value judgment. It is in fact a normative value j
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This is the general libertarian economist's retort to any suggestion that things might be better if they were different in my experience and it is uninteresting as it is evasive and unsatisfactory.
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Internet is a public good -> regulatory powers are voted on and enacted by public bodies who are transparent and can be voted out. Internet is a private good -> a tiny group of unelectable, unaccountable corporate leaders decide in se
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Sure, I'd characterize the creation of the internet as a "waste" as well, I say while typing a message on it. Similarly the social security and medicare that allows our grandparents to continue to live without bankrupting us,
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You don't get to tell the world what they are allowed to find important or valuable.
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First of all, the top 10% is nobody's definition of "the wealthy" -- that's what, ~100k? That's a single professional salary of someone who is doing well. That's a double-income family, where both parents have
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Yet first order logic encompasses 99.9% of the mathematics anyone ever does, even professional mathematicians. The only people who consider anything but first order logic are people who have gone out of their way to make a point to study it
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If a person cannot read a piece of literature without having a panic attack then perhaps they are not physically able to take a course in, say, English. It is up to the university to decide what it does with this kind of student: do they ch
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Many people take another mind-altering drug, caffeine, daily to get them through the work day. You are arguing taking acid is not good because you have already assumed that taking it is bad. IMO there is not enough information to draw any c
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Your response is loaded as well: you describe maximizing profits, but you don't describe the scenario required for this to be a good heuristic: a functioning market made up of primarily rational consumers who choose the best product ba

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