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by bhpm 3y ago
If it's so difficult to report crimes, wouldn't that mean that the crimes that are reported represent the most egregious, since the people who reported them overcame the difficulty in reporting to report the crimes? And, therefore
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by bhpm 3y ago
Your response is logically inconsistent. >Reported crime [...] should not form the basis of a policing strategy. and: >When police cease to act on reports of crime, people have no incentive to report crime. Logically, then, reported c
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by bhpm 3y ago
Your perception of your own personal safety is not an objective measure of crime and should not form the basis of a policing strategy. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-new-york-manhattan-ny... “crime across the f
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by bhpm 3y ago
The optics are also really, really bad. I recall putting my bags through a scanner and walking through a metal detector when I visited Beijing in 2018. My first thought was “wow, must suck to live in a police state like this, can’t even tak
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by bhpm 3y ago
Uber and Lyft shareholders rejoice?
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by bhpm 3y ago
Tracking the ownership of your Chrome extensions sounds exhausting, especially if you're someone who just wants to surf the damn web and are not some kind of super nerd.
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by bhpm 3y ago
https://libro.fm . Every audiobook is DRM-free.
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by bhpm 3y ago
Are the alternative app stores hosted on Apple servers? Serious question.
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by bhpm 3y ago
None of those controls are commonly located on a touch screen, which is the topic of the article.
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by bhpm 3y ago
Wouldn’t it be safer to require all cars to have voice controls? Then the driver doesn’t have to move their hand off the wheel at all.
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by bhpm 3y ago
But more than a pound heavier than the current 13” MacBook Air
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by bhpm 3y ago
People were stuck inside, didn’t have money and sex is free. US has been below replacement rate since 2008, one blip isn’t going to rescue us.
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by bhpm 3y ago
No, COVID-19 is not a type of flu. COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while the flu (influenza) is caused by different types of influenza viruses. Although both illnesses can cause respiratory symptoms such as fever, co
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by bhpm 3y ago
Zoning restrictions on dense housing, car focussed sub/urban development, ignoring climate change, rampant low interest spending, and here we are. The middle class has no public infrastructure to fall back on. Transit is broken and not
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by bhpm 3y ago
It’s the first go-around for the jr devs who went to school during the pandemic :)
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by bhpm 3y ago
When I was in college, the city where my university was located had a requirement that a drinking establishment had to sell food to have a liquor license. This meant that the local bar, which was actually a hollowed out house, had a menu wh
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by bhpm 3y ago
The post WWII peace structure was based on an agreement between the US and other countries: we pay you money, we patrol the shipping lanes with our navy which is the only one left, and you side with us against the Soviet Union. Once the Sov
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by bhpm 3y ago
A war implies there is something at stake. There’s not. Log off. Go outside. Volunteer in your community. Hug your kids. Make love to your partner. And remember these two immutable facts: (1) The terminally online will always be outraged ab
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by bhpm 3y ago
“Culture War” is a dog whistle for any movie that includes women, gays, or blacks. Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account. There is no culture war in America. There is only a group of people who feel threat
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by bhpm 3y ago
Hm. Doesn’t AI make it easier to crank out any kind of movie?
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by bhpm 3y ago
>They already ate the Japanese manufacturers' lunch. Did they? https://www.statista.com/statistics/243595/vehicle-sales-of-...
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by bhpm 3y ago
The “teachers” in this app are guided meditation helpers. From the title I thought it was like public school teachers.
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by bhpm 3y ago
Facebook started at Harvard, not Stanford.
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by bhpm 3y ago
Zero rating, like when wireless carriers don’t charge for certain bandwidth but do for others.
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by bhpm 3y ago
You’re in luck, then, because the US hasn’t had a coherent foreign policy, or indeed any foreign policy at all, for more than three decades. The American led global alliance brought about the most stable, most prosperous, most peaceful stre
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by bhpm 3y ago
> I think "here be dragons", and that over-relying on AI to do all your organization for you will very possibly (probably?) cause you to become worse at thinking. Socrates said exactly this. But when they came to writing, Theut
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by bhpm 3y ago
Article doesn’t say anything new.
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by bhpm 3y ago
“ Nondeductible losses. A casualty loss isn’t deductible, even to the extent the loss doesn’t exceed your personal casualty gains, if the damage or destruction is caused by the following. Accidentally breaking articles such as glassware or
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by bhpm 3y ago
Easy to turn off after the federally mandated safety video plays. Oh, but what about that downtime before? The airlines already have the ability to disable the power button for the 90 second safety video, what if we changed the lockout to
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by bhpm 3y ago
Doesn’t mean you won’t be: https://www.imm-international.com/airline-partners-usa/delta...

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