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by zepto 5y ago
> it seems likely that the operations of consciousness are purely “classical” in the sense that the exact quantum state is not needed There really is no evidence for this.
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by zepto 5y ago
Nobody is ‘suppressing’ innovation. That frankly seems like just conspiracy thinking.
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by zepto 5y ago
> I said "compared to many of our peer nations". You are acting as if I said "compared to all our peer nations" This is where the misunderstanding arises. You are actually incorrect. I’m not acting as if you said c
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by zepto 5y ago
True, but that doesn’t change the calculus. The current large companies are in cutthroat competition with each other. If one of them slipped for any length of time, their lunch would be eaten. But also, new entrants haven’t had time to b
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by zepto 5y ago
Probably 3x more than it does with Facebook.
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by zepto 5y ago
> You don't seem to understand how the law works. The Federal offenses are not prosecuted. The State offenses are. My statement is true. It’s only true in a narrow technical sense. You were clearly trying to give the impression tha
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by zepto 5y ago
> It should have been obvious in context that I was referring to something along the lines of "western democracies" since I listed countries before ever using the word "peer". I already dealt with that in this respons
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by zepto 5y ago
> The reason prosecution is so low and doesn't include more violent offenders is because the federal government is lackadaisical and decides not to prosecute them. They instead allow the states to prosecute under state law. Wait, so
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by zepto 5y ago
In principle they don’t, but in practice they do. There is no fundamental technical reason we can’t have infrastructure and platforms that are as secure as Google, Apple, and Amazon provide. However this is in practice an unsolved problem.
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by zepto 5y ago
It depends what you mean by a firearm ‘offense’. For example, there are a large number of guns owned by people of color who didn’t buy them legally, not because they couldn’t, but because they either didn’t know they needed to, or they didn
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by zepto 5y ago
You also said this: > And the fact that the US is lacking in those two latter categories compared to many of our peer nations Which is still bullshit. As I said before, whether or not there are countries who have better ratings, any hone
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by zepto 5y ago
So you agree that social problems are independent of GDP and have no explanation for why you think America should be embarrassed? Seems like just baseless anti-Americanism.
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, I have been told that. Frankly I always forget to be quite so procedural about it, but I’m always polite and cooperative with police, and generally let them guide the interaction, so it has never been a problem.
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by zepto 5y ago
Why would you expect that?
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by zepto 5y ago
Why? Money doesn’t magically solve all cultural problems.
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by zepto 5y ago
Murder clearance rate by police has more to do with murder rate. You are much more likely to get away with murder in the US (where clearance rates are 60% at best) than you are in Japan or the UK (where clearance rates are above 90%).
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by zepto 5y ago
It’s not lackadaisical.
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by zepto 5y ago
Excellent information. Do you have a reliable source for that?
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you aren't going to acknowledge that we maybe have room for improvement This is a completely dishonest representation of what I have said. Here it is again: > The US is not lacking in either press or economic freedom compare
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by zepto 5y ago
I am not factually wrong. Here is what I said: “The US is not lacking in either press or economic freedom compared to ‘peer’ nations.” Whether or not there are countries who have better ratings, any honest reading of the list sees that the
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by zepto 5y ago
Renters are just as impacted by prop 13 as buyers, since landlords pass on the costs.
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by zepto 5y ago
What do you mean by “ production machines”?
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by zepto 5y ago
It’s not fair for poor people to be driven out of their houses when rich people choose to enter the neighborhood. That is the very essence of gentrification. If you want to destroy more communities of color in the Bay Area, this is how to
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled if circumstances have changed, unless you can read the leaders mind. Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstance
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you just try to judge a leader or organization based on how they acted in the past, you will be misled You might be. But I don’t really see how you know that about anyone but yourself. How someone actually makes decisions is obvious
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by zepto 5y ago
If you have reason to believe that the home invaders are their with the purpose of killing you, you may be right. The odds of that, vs just an armed burglary, are very small.
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by zepto 5y ago
You seem to be looking at the the rank order alone, which just means there are a lot of closely bunched countries near the US on the indices. If you look at the heat maps and the actual indices themselves, along with the countries with comp
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by zepto 5y ago
All we know is that you are certain that the CCP would have crushed the Uighurs no matter how well armed they were. That’s all well and good. My point is that a society which trusted all of its civilians to be armed would be very different
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by zepto 5y ago
Also vastly more retractions per year: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...
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by zepto 5y ago
Or maybe nothing would have happened because the CCP would have chosen not to use concentration camps on an armed population.

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