coffeemaniac

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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
15% of the US prison population is a huge number of people.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
This is addressed in the FAQ[1]. > That three millisecond time doesn't make sense as the timeout for a connect() call. > Yes, I know. And it wasn't the timeout, actually. In the story, I make it sound like it took all of ten
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
This is a dangerous game. Be aware that just because it might not seem like anyone is using these data against you right now, doesn't mean they won't in the future.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I'm so sorry that happened, were you able to find something else in that range quickly?
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
If you don't need a database at all I kinda understand not wanting to "sandblast a soupcracker" as the saying goes.. but I've definitely seen a very similar trend with Flask apps! To be frank django has been my go-to for
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
In my experiences the vast majority of websites allow it -- a select few disallow. Although that group will expand. One trick I've found is to register the 2FA with a "real" number, and then port that number to a voip servic
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
It's not a perfect "solution" but I've had so many instances of services requiring phone numbers for 2FA that I've dedicated a voip number for it.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
> Almost everyone, deep into trad Republican groups, agree that the Floyd killing was a sickening murder, a symptom of a broken system, and Something Needs To Be Done. I need you to know that this is not the case. A not insignificant po
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
This might not change in the way it sounds like you're expecting..
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
They specified no career benefit. I'm almost certain they view increased trust from their patients as a benefit, and the extra confidence you gain from keeping up with the latest clinical science is hard to measure in terms of persona
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I recommend setting up an aliasing service no matter which provider you ultimately use. Blur or Anonaddy (sure there are others..) will give you a burner email unique for each new service you sign up for which forwards to your real email,
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Historically, people of color arming themselves has been the biggest catalyst for gun control measures. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that's going to be a priority for the next administration. As usual, these measures
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Assertion 1: deleting his blog is a meaningful way of hiding his surname, by way of adding an extra step to anyone who wants to search for it. Assertion 2: deleting his blog is NOT a meaningful way of hiding gross and reactionary discussion
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Crime has decreased everywhere since then (not just NYC) while the US prison population has increased 500% over the past 40 years. > Certainly we can decrease brutality by sending police into areas with no conflicts but that defeats the
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
> Unarmed martial arts such as BJJ, with mandatory minimum qualifications, recertifying every few months. The ability to subdue and control an assailant, without using a weapon and without injury to the attacker, should be made a cultura
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Correct, and this has been the story with every piece of technology or tool we've ever given to police. We give them body cameras and they're turned off or used to create FPS-style snuff films of gunned down citizens. Give them r
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I agree that he does not fit the common stereotypes of reactionaries. But that's really beside my point, I'm referring to his ideas and writing, not his ethnic or religious groups etc.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Oh yes it is. His blogroll is absolutely full of neoreactionaries, and the comments sections are a cesspit of racism and sexism (echoing many of his own views in more crude terms), even before you account for many articles he's written
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
The modern left is constantly diving into the statistics of these topics, and if you think they're not it probably signals more that you're just not a part of that discussion. If you've let your conclusions be influenced by S
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Yep exactly. In America we used to have SWAT teams who would fulfill this latter role, for situations when violence of action was urgently needed. The first letter in the acronym stands for "special." These days it's not ab
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I am unclear what statistics you're interested in, but would be happy to look into it if you can clarify which claim I made that you dispute.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Well, when you're witnessing multiple instances of officers willingly and enthusiastically assaulting defenseless and innocent citizens/journalists on the street every day, you're past the point of "bias" correction
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Good, and their word can be treated exactly like we treat the word of any other agency full of non-experts that roll their own analyses with excel. No need to lend them the legitimacy of established mathematicians and other academics.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
So you have the option to leave an institution, which distinguishes it from a population. When you generalize about a population of people, you're unfairly attributing characteristics to them which weren't decided upon by them (an
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
> Drug addicts will continue to be drug addicts, and will do crazy things while they're high, and crazy things in order to get money to get high. Such people will continue to interact with non-criminal non-addict people, who will fe
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I appreciate your honesty but I am not willing to pursue this as I feel it directly perpetuates a lot of historic inequality.
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
Thank you, I'll google around for bootstrapping techniques going forward. Seems like one of those things where you need to know the right words to ask about or you have to really clumsily search around until someone tells you! Of all
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
I'm not exactly late in my career but having been doing this for ~7 years I'm not clear how people are able to accumulate the capital to start a business and have enough cash to live on until it makes money. It's something th
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
> Tax money could be used for better things But now the police department will buy 2 more cars. Police departments around the country are being downsized, kicked out of their unions, and in some cases defunded entirely. That's good
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by coffeemaniac 6y ago
How would you feel if someone set your car on fire? Probably like someone doesn't appreciate you very much, right? Well this is how they want the city to feel about their police force. It also demonstrates that by and large, police d

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