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by whakim 5y ago
> It's no wonder people think violence has increased... as you yourself said, there are more murders! Well, no. People think crime has increased because that's what people always seem to think. Why is that the case? I don&#x2
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> So these same people are going to become even more concerned, spooked, and make choices respecting that. That's exactly what I'm arguing against - where is the evidence that people are "more concerned"? The evidence
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But this isn't how people actually perceive crime: Pew has been polling Americans for decades about it [1], and Americans have consistently said that crime is rising even though that's almost never been the case. So as "mea
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> As a conservative minded urbanist, it is disheartening to see people leave cities because many american cities are descending into chaos and many people are not as dedicated to urban living as I am. Total crime rates as well as violent
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What's considered "truly independent"? Aren't scientists at the various drug companies "independent" from each other, given that vaccines are mostly zero-sum and so drug companies have strong financial incentiv
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I think you've fundamentally missed GP's point which is that when governments lie, they do it because they're self-interested. When a politician tells you something that isn't true, they're lying to make themself se
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Yes - hominims lost their fur before homo neanderthalis/homo sapiens. (Also it's probably more than a single mutation - more like a series of them.)
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The fur thing just isn't compelling. Hominims lost their fur prior to developing tools in order to develop sweat glands all over their body, allowing them to expel heat better than their prey (and so hunt by literally chasing an animal
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If you're asking for an email address in exchange for some piece of content (e.g. a soft paywall), I find that it's reasonably sensible to filter out the absolute spammiest-looking of email addresses in order to collect more real
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> But they might start with Freud and end up at the replication crisis, while pointing out there's too much focus on W.E.I.R.D people[0]. They could even point out some of the 60s research was obviously more meant to prove a point t
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> Gibbon is a pretty famous example which most readers would be familiar with. His Catholic counterparts were less famous but not better... But when people criticize bad psychology research, they don't mention Freud or Jung (even th
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> “Programming fundamentals” isn’t the same from language to language. It’s inconceivable that a student who learned to program with python would develop the same type of fundamental understanding as a student who used C (to develop an u
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> e.g. Gibbon attributing it to Christianity nevermind the 'barbarians' had also converted by that time, or the histories arguing for an ecological collapse (apparently contradicted by digs). I don't really understand the
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> randomly Google things and pick the first link that looks like it agrees with you The entire first page of Google agrees with me, which seems a reasonable proxy for the prevailing wisdom. I don't have a particularly strongly-held
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It's just not that simple. I'm not making a value judgment on the book (I haven't read it), but a person can say two things in the same sentence and the broader context can make it clear that they're just covering their
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I actually find this post/ad for Redis pretty ironic, because Redis is actually a really great solution for storing revoked tokens (since you can just store the token with an expireat equal to the token's expiry timestamp). I do t
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> That is nothing like a reliable source. It's an opinion piece from a far-right ideologue with an ax to grind. It contains not one word from Ford himself. I simply picked it as one of the many long list of sites that you'll fi
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[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-stor... I actually agree with you that as a person he wasn't "only in it for the money" - I am only arguing that his wage-s
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This isn't actually true because the growth of Gross National Income is proportional to the size of the working population. I'm also not talking about wages in absolute terms, I'm talking about the wage share (the percentage
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> You are also getting paid (hopefully - if you aren't, then you're really screwed). It's not a lot, but enough to live on as a single person. Depends on where you're located. At Stanford, for example, I'm not su
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Where "the equilibrium" ends up changes over time though. Over the past 40-50 years in most developed countries, capital's (i.e. businesses') share of gross national income has been rising and labor's has been falli
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I understand Ford asked "what if we treated people well?", but he did it in the context of "useless extra billions" (to use your language) - he paid people a little bit better than his competitors in order to enable a co
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> Even sticking with industrial titans, look at Henry Ford, who insisted on paying his workers a living wage. That was revolutionary at the time, and put America on the road to having a significant middle class. Henry Ford didn't pa
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This is a very myopic way of looking at things. There are plenty of family businesses that aren't only interested in capturing an ever greater share of profits.
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> It requires significantly less political capital to create a new tax cut or subsidy than to raise taxes or allocate new spending directly. This is an incredibly important point, and one that I wish would come up more often. The reason
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In our case, Sendgrid will send a certain webhook when you attempt to send to one of these email addresses.
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I did something very similar in my current job during my first few weeks. We had an "engineering test" script that monkeypatched the definition of "all users" (so that it returned the emails of the engineering team rathe
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I stand corrected. Thanks for this.
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China and Middle Eastern countries are one-party states, not peer countries with comparable independent systems of criminal justice. Yes, many drugs are illegal in other peer countries (the UK, France, Canada, etc.). But the percentage of t
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Not only this, but in many cases felons permanently lose their right to vote, even after they serve their sentence. Edit: I stand corrected, this is true in some states but not others.

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