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by downerending 6y ago
I don't think they are using significantly more force. Looking at the riots across the US, the police appear in general to be showing an almost saintly level of restraint, and being killed and severely injured as a result. This is s
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by downerending 6y ago
This is one of the things the protesters did, and they bear responsibility for it. https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/watch-man-tries-to-help-...
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by downerending 6y ago
You should start looking at the videos. I've seen a couple of unconscious people being kicked in the head this week by "protesters". These people are nothing like law-abiding.
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by downerending 6y ago
To quote the movie: Gotta be rich in the first place to think like that.
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by downerending 6y ago
The "targeted medical tents" part sounds rather dubious, but yes, "less lethal" most certainly does not mean "harmless". What would be better, though? How do you get people to obey the law, in a way that is sa
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by downerending 6y ago
> I think protestors should be able to be armed with whatever police are. That's insane. A fundamental tenet of (US) law is that using a weapon while committing a crime is itself a crime. We're not at war. There are a lot of
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by downerending 6y ago
This sounds incisive, but I'm not really smart enough to follow it. Certainly narrative as "story-telling" seems crucially important. And probably like many, it's hard for me to see a really satisfying story coming out
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by downerending 6y ago
These charts point out a lot of issues, most real problems, in my opinion. It's far less clear that this is the result of "systemic racism", though. The idea that "poverty begets poverty" could explain a lot of it
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by downerending 6y ago
No doubt, and at least anecdotally, that seems to be happening in real time. As to the larger question, I'm having a very hard time seeing adding knowledge and science as a bad thing. Without those, any proposed improvement to polic
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by downerending 6y ago
You may well be right. As far as I can recall, though, as of the last time I was regularly using Prolog, trying to do serious work on a (say) 1000x1000 array was a recipe for disaster. The exception would be Turbo Prolog, but it was a rath
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by downerending 6y ago
I grew up in a very fundamentalist (Christian) area, so the lack of it feels very familiar.
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by downerending 6y ago
What they want is everyone's butts back in their chairs, in the office. The rest sounds like pretext. It remains to be seen how that will play out at my job, but I am very seriously considering a "100% remote" policy mysel
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by downerending 6y ago
Arguably in 2020, you should be very careful about expressing any opinion that is in any way unpopular. Or that even could be construed as such.
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by downerending 6y ago
My impression is the reason is that there really isn't widespread agreement on the harmfulness of such communities, so they're sort of trying to split the middle. And perhaps also to advocate for seeing them as awful, per corpo
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by downerending 6y ago
No, it's not. But there is a lot of such painting going on, and you can't solve one evil by committing a second.
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by downerending 6y ago
In Prolog, backtracking is a fundamental feature of the language, and idiomatic code can do it places you might not think of. Part of writing efficient Prolog is doing things to avoid such backtracking (by adding cuts or rearranging code).
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by downerending 6y ago
This is an almost meaningless question. About all we can add is that in light of current technology trends, it looks possible. Which may well mean that it is certain. What can we hope for? I dream of an endless dreamless sleep, soon. Ev
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by downerending 6y ago
This is all rather beside the point. If you can get a better offer elsewhere, take it. Ideally, develop two or three good offers and take the best.
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by downerending 6y ago
Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language is not only a great book on architecture, but one of the best books on any subject I've ever read. Highly recommended. That said, once you've read it, you will forever find the fl
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by downerending 6y ago
Even worse, what sort of conversation are you contemplating with a round trip on the order of 10K years?
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by downerending 6y ago
Part of it is the American ethos of "the rules don't apply to me". That often works. But not with bridges.
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by downerending 6y ago
Here's a 60s attempt: Prolog was (theoretically) a practical declarative programming language. You describe what you want done, and it "figures out" what to do, as opposed to imperative, where you simply tell the computer ea
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by downerending 6y ago
You can't just hatch experienced law enforcement officers in a week (or a year). And putting inexperienced officers in early can make things far worse, from a police brutality perspective. Beyond that, though, painting an entire p
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by downerending 6y ago
Speaking just for myself, I often end up saying rather stupid things when thinking on my feet. On the other hand, yeah, the could simply have been a jackass. Greeks, though? Who doesn't love the Greeks? The Turks, I guess, but in Am
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by downerending 6y ago
IMO, only real actions, like tutoring minority kids, matters. You can "advocate" up, down, left, and sideways, and it will make not one whit of difference. Want to change the world? Do the work.
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by downerending 6y ago
So, like abortion?
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by downerending 6y ago
This is an important point. Pushing trivia like this uses up the attention and good will that people have to spend on the larger issues. If you want to change the world, lead with what actually matters.
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by downerending 6y ago
Someone (maybe the Russians?) had a folk saying: May the gods please save us from those who are only trying to help.
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by downerending 6y ago
> I don't think this has any racist connotations I have a really hard time making sense of this sentiment. You're stipulating that the words have truly no ill intent whatsoever, and yet you're happy that they're bein
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by downerending 6y ago
Pretty much. Tutoring a minority kid would actually make a difference, but oh so much work. Much easier to change my FB background image to something trendy and downvote the "racists" who don't instead.

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