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by potato3732842 8mo ago
The point is that they implicitly expect private entities/individuals to be able to own and deploy "go toe to toe with the the state equivilent" quality units (though I don't think they expected the same quantity at that
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>they'd just take a bit longer to have identified the members of the insurrection They'd have had to enjoin more parties, probably to include state agencies. Any party can push back, stall or blow the whistle if they feel some
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
It was mostly a joke, since these sorts of groups have always, like going back 40+yr, been magnets for law enforcement who always seem to push them to do illegal things. Second, the incident I'm referencing is well documented. You sho
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
> I’m not sure the expense has been worth simply delaying the inevitable. Now that I'm jaded I ask myself how many government and private sector jobs were "created" (in sarcasm quotes because broken windows fallacy) washin
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
Literally every industry is like this. Academia is basically a reputation laundering industry. If the cigarette people said smokes good or the oil people you'd never believe them. But they and their competitors fund labs at universit
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
> where are the well regulated militias? They keep getting arrested because some fed informants show up and convince them to kidnap a governor of whatever before they can become "Well regulated".
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>What I find confusing about this comment is that to me, authoritarian and libertarian are opposites, but have only to do with individual freedoms, not the political system. "Do whatever the F you want as long as you don't chal
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
A landlord insulates the tenant from price volatility. A tenant will never have to just eat a $20k roof one month. Ain't no different than leasing bajillion dollar process equipment.
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>I don't see any difference between individuals and monopolies on violence ("states") doing this, as long as they both have sufficient levels of certainty. This peasant is faulty. He's not indoctrinated enough. Some
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
You need "a little bit" of politician/judge/enforcer lynching to keep the government in line the same way they make a big show of "a little bit" of kicking in people's doors at 4am to keep the peasants in
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>hey needed just ten minutes to inflate the balloon and an additional three minutes to heat the air. That's faster than most professionals by a substantial margin. I guess when it matters you make it work.
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
Once again this is a take predicated on bad assumptions. If you're just doing something and intend to meet or exceed the rules then dealing with government enforcement apparatus is pure overhead. You were always gonna do the right thi
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
People who conflate "not actively regulated and inspected with government permission being given before stuff even happens" with "sub par" as if that's not reductive at best is exactly how we got here.
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
In "communism works because the cows are spherical, friction is 0 and gravity is 10" example land sure. In reality building code is how a huge amount of back handed regulation is done. When the powers that be can't make a pa
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>Individual regulations, each reasonable in isolation... Every single one of these rules that amounts to death by a thousand cuts preventing these sorts of businesses (as well as many others) will be rabidly defended by many/most if
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>I owned a machine shop, and I'm the founder of a mid sized CNC gear factory. I think I know my way around bearings, lubrication, press fits and other such bits & pieces. Then you have no excuse for having such a nuance free opi
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>I wonder on what basis Boeing thought that damage to a load-bearing part could be safely ignored? Usually this is because the design constraints are complex and in satisfying one you wind up having orders of magnitude more overkill than
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
You can't in good conscience advertise a complex assembly as fit for some purpose without knowing how close the component widgets are to their various modes of failure.
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
That's 20+yr later and an entirely different generation of politicians though, a far cry from the "we'll just slip this in here so we can harass the red man" that the person above is alleging. And it was done with state
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
Framing this as "literally anyone who works" vs "everyone above that" is a dishonest slight of hand to distract from the fact that the top slice of that category spent decades peddling policy that made things worse for t
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>I would bet that's true just on a statistical level - but my point is that plenty of people still feel that way, or at least have felt that way recently enough about the underlying problem that won't cause them to riot. Exactl
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>The point of the second amendment was, in no small part, so that the central government wouldn't deny the states the means to commit genocide against the indigenous population on their own, What kind of revisionist history is this?
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>Yes, this tends to be really effective, especially when you're fighting the upper-class, which is more or less what's happening here as far as I can tell. You're not fighting the upper class. It's the blue collar wo
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
You've got three groups here. Federal cops, undocumented immigrants and the kind of people who turn out to protest the former acting against the latter. Very few people in this country finds any one of these groups particularly sympa
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
I read that as people support science, but not so much that they're willing to support academia along the way.
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>If I lived in the mountains of Colorado and servicing ranches or something of course I'd be buying for those conditions. But a standard city in the northern US or Canada? Meh. Total waste of money for a fleet vehicle. These sorts o
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>Uh, it should be? The ability to confidently stop is far more important than to go First off, this is the principal skinner "everyone else is wrong" take. Second, it's just not how things work in practice. In practice wh
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
It's almost always the engineers, analysts and MBA spreadsheet pushers and other people removed from the physical consequences outputting these mistakes because it's way easier to not notice a misplaced decimal or incorrect value
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
>The F-series is the best selling car family in the US. Some of them are using it for its intended purpose sure, the majority are just using it as parent said, a luxobarge. A F550 box truck and a crew cab shortbed F150 are both F-series
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by potato3732842 8mo ago
If you look at the cybertruck's architecture it basically is the "top end" of that line. It's a big car platform with a bed. It's the "top of the line" for "car based" pickups like the old Subar

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