alehul

11 ms·

1.
by alehul 6y ago
> A third option would be to increase demand response at the industrial and customer level. Meaning, power isn't generally expected to be 100% available in that scenario. If there isn't enough generation capacity, those that ar
2.
by alehul 6y ago
We should reduce it as much as we can, but this is a country of >300,000,000 with >6,000,000 crimes occurring each year. Of the percent I cited, >90% of that lethal force is against an armed individual. I don't know what senso
3.
by alehul 6y ago
Seeing a high crime rate doesn't automatically call for radical reform — and in a way abolition — of the status quo of law enforcement. Why is the crime rate high? Is it really because of police, or do they help? How will some radical
4.
by alehul 6y ago
They may not have the obligation to enforce a restraining order, but I imagine >99% of the time they do, and they have for me. Wasn't an open warrant for violating a restraining order what led to the Jacob Blake alteraction?
5.
by alehul 6y ago
General crime rate will decrease as you legalize recreational drug use, but there's no reason to believe that will resolve the many issues that lead to homicide in the United States. It will reduce the profitability of the drug trade,
6.
by alehul 6y ago
It's a good distinction, so I asked what would happen in each of the three cases. I think that's one of the trickiest parts of this concept. In a country as armed and violent as the United States, escalation happens quickly and da
7.
by alehul 6y ago
Total U.S. police spending is around $100 billion, which is around $285/person/year. Considering over 240 million 911 calls are placed in a given year, at a surface level this feels extremely efficient — certainly more so than oth
8.
by alehul 6y ago
> omnipurpose paramilitary law enforcement U.S. civilians own nearly 400 million firearms, which is larger than the country's population. The intentional homicide rate is comparable to Kenya, Pakistan, Ecuador, or Argentina (5x high
9.
by alehul 6y ago
One of the most interesting points here is that people are looking at the United States, comparing it to Western Europe, and saying "we need to defund police" or "we need to disarm police." The metric we should look at i
10.
by alehul 6y ago
Buzzfeed has been deemed left, which is a category beyond left-leaning, by an objective fact-checker [1]. As one example of why: > In June 2016, the left-leaning media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 BuzzFee
11.
by alehul 6y ago
I have, maybe naively, always believed that the U.S. operates at a level of secrecy and complexity where dozens of terrorist attacks are thwarted every year, and that this surveillance plays a hand in it (but to admit that would hinder its
12.
by alehul 6y ago
After reading, I’m convinced that this must be a draft mistakenly published. Wow.
13.
by alehul 6y ago
> Did you know that other countries have grocery stores too? In the countries destroying the rich in revolution, grocery stores are empty. > how are welfare and immigration related? Welfare and immigration are related because increasi
14.
by alehul 6y ago
> There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. As someone who grew up poor in America, these talks about “revolution” have always perplexed me. We have one of the highest median incomes in the world, and we live
15.
by alehul 6y ago
Please don't use a term like "anti-racist" for someone who says "Whites are $NegativeAdjective." It's really disingenuous rhetoric.
16.
by alehul 6y ago
The link is still a 404, so I'm not sure you can say that yet as we don't know what the features are. Watching the event, it may only be the Series 6 that functions with Fitness+, so that's a huge differentiator. It also meas
17.
by alehul 6y ago
> I wish there was some way to note books that I don’t want to read. Minor point but there is a "Not interested" button in the screenshot shown above this paragraph. While Goodreads' initial suggestions were off-the-mark,
18.
by alehul 6y ago
> It is absolutely dangerous to speak Dangerous for who, though? It was the founders who were supposedly acting against the Belarusian government, and the employees who are paying the price. The founders are safe in San Francisco. My out
19.
by alehul 6y ago
I should’ve only quoted the first part of the sentence as relevant to me, but: Better for whom? I agree it could result in better average returns for the firm, but it likely isn’t better for moving society forward as a whole.
20.
by alehul 6y ago
I lost the domain of the email address a while back so I can’t even see it anymore... Will try to guess his email address to send a thank-you later today; better late than never even if very late? One of those funny situations of “ah, yes,
21.
by alehul 6y ago
> East Coast VCs are much more conservative, which is ultimately bad because it results in less moonshots succeeding. This is really accurate, at least from my experience as someone of a similar age working on my first startup at the tim
22.
by alehul 6y ago
That's the thing - the livable wage is changing in San Francisco. SF is seeing a steep reduction in cost-of-living, yet these extremely high salaries won't decrease accordingly. Also, the herds of people moving out and companies s
23.
by alehul 6y ago
Does China include its secret camps in its prison numbers?
24.
by alehul 6y ago
The community here is understandably very anti-surveillance, but you're right about the purpose of intelligence. When we talk about intelligence and counter-terrorism, it's more about preventing terrorist attacks than reacting to
25.
by alehul 6y ago
The more simple your MVP can be, the more indicative it is that you have a market. If you need to build for years to release something [1], it's less likely that you're addressing a real need. The best products can start dead simp
26.
by alehul 6y ago
Hey Anton, love the product - wanted to chime in on the A/B test pricing model. I was PM for a company that grew to $2.5m ARR using an A/B test to prove our value and charging on the delta. (We also had the same technical executio
27.
by alehul 6y ago
While your points are reasonable and I’d normally agree with them, Palmer as a person seems to be the opposite of this. Look at his exit from FB and his funding of Trump groups in 2016. His life, in its successes and failures, has often bee
28.
by alehul 6y ago
> It's not the job of non profits to figure out how to feed endless amounts of humans It's the job of governments to not create regulations that starve them.
29.
by alehul 6y ago
> why Google continues to try to use algorithmic solutions for content moderation When people assume malice so often as you mentioned, it, at least intuitively, feels easier to fault human moderation than algorithms. Algorithms offer a b
30.
by alehul 6y ago
Here's a Euler diagram on planets, dwarf planets, minor planets, so on and so forth from Wikipedia [1]. Alan Stern, who coined the term "dwarf planet," initially wanted it to be under the umbrella of planet as a distinct subt

More ›