simplulo

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by simplulo 10mo ago
Correct.
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by simplulo 10mo ago
I know what you mean, but this is actually as strong as a protection in Montana (and probably elsewhere) gets. The burden is high. Montana's RTC bill had strong and competent libertarian input.
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by simplulo 1y ago
Holy crap! I'd say that there is probably a job for you in policing or intelligence, but it will probably be replaced by AI. BTW, last night I watched the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity", and had no idea it was starring Bur
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by simplulo 1y ago
We ought to start a movement and push for a law requiring everyone to have their forehead barcoded. ;)
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by simplulo 1y ago
I didn't know that was a thing. ;)
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by simplulo 1y ago
I'm the author of the posted article, and I am currently reading Brian Sanderson's latest Stormlight novel and suffering from character/name overload (doesn't help that I read the previous book years ago). I also spent m
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by simplulo 1y ago
Crikey, you're right. Thanks for that.
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by simplulo 3y ago
Honeybees are the only other animal that votes! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democra... We could learn a thing or two from them.
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by simplulo 7y ago
Police commit 8% of US homicides. The problem is clearly not the police, or the Drug War, but guns. Well, maybe the police could use some more sensitivity training.
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by simplulo 8y ago
Ditto about Excedrin––I'm like the Johnny Appleseed of Excedrin in Europe. Most migraine sufferers here seem unaware of the treatment options, and often are unaware even that their headaches are migraines. Just suffering alone in silen
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by simplulo 11y ago
That's a nice start, but many members of a drug gang might not ever touch drugs, at least if I can believe The Wire's portrayal of drug organizations and their division of labor. I am also skeptical of the correlation between arre
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by simplulo 11y ago
Completely missing from the article is an estimate of the coupling between drug and non-drug crime (e.g. prostitution or robbery to finance a drug habit, violent conflict vertically and horizontally along the supply chain, tax avoidance, an
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by simplulo 11y ago
Three quarters of US murder victims are male, and more than half are black. The same goes for US murderers, to which we can add that more than half are under 30, and more than half use handguns (not an inexpensive tool). I suspect that the
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by simplulo 11y ago
The criminals have lots of violent disputes, not just over territory, and the users commit more than just property crime, e.g. robbery. People up and down the supply chain try to rip each other off. It seems that the author did not expend m
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by simplulo 11y ago
"Always"? Pretty sweeping, categorical assertion. Voters' politics is based on interest, identity, and values. The latter two often run counter to the first (e.g. poor whites in the Republican Party, blacks in the Democratic
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by simplulo 13y ago
Because the point of the article is not to convince bitcoin advocates but to point out Krugman's intellectual contortions and dishonesty, when bitcoin possesses features that should appeal to him. The NSA has to walk a tightrope, becau