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by splitrocket 8y ago
Incorrect. https://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap...
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by splitrocket 8y ago
this is my surprised face.
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by splitrocket 8y ago
Firearms alone do not a civilization make. If you are investing some portion of your income/wealth to individualistic self-preservation in the event of societal breakdown, one should, from a purely rational perspective invest in the pr
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by splitrocket 8y ago
This only makes sense if they are willing to expend a similar, if not greater resources into pro-social, civilization strengthening activity. Otherwise it's barbaric. Literally a bet against civilization and your fellow human.
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by splitrocket 8y ago
This is the future I want.
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by splitrocket 8y ago
“Inner space is no longer a neat literary metaphor for alienation. Thanks to mobile technology, it has become virtual real estate” https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100074-mall-tales-an-a...
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by splitrocket 8y ago
The overwhelming majority of folks don't donate enough to charity to hit the tax write-off level. Countries with sane tax collection systems make it easy for you to add those deductions, either on paper or with a web service run by the
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by splitrocket 8y ago
America, one of the few developed nations where doing your taxes involves paying a third party to help you tell the government what it already knows. TurboTax and HR block lobby considerably to prevent the government from making the process
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Ian M. Banks: "Money Implies Poverty"
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Ahh, the good old days of “embrace and extend” are back. Delightful.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
This. The hard part of hosting your own mail is emphatically dns and deliverability. Mail-in-a-box does all of the dns magic to ensure folks get your email. The rest is gravy.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
http://www.swiftcertainfair.com Been studied, replicated, and thoroughly tested. It’s just one option as well. There are many many more.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
So are you saying that the solution is to lock up these people for life? Because I hope that’s not what you are saying.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Yes, true. So, in order to improve the system and reduce crime, you need to understand those who are currently not effectively deterred. More of the same is not going to work if you hope to improve outcomes.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
This study indicates that incarceration, at least as it is currently implemented, is emphatically not a deterrent for repeat violent offenders. As for the public safety element, yes, but these people mostly weren’t locked up for life. What
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Studies that don’t take into account socio-economics are, in fact, racist. When you control for income and wealth, particularly intergeneraltional, racial differences disappear.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Let me put it this way: the current “standard” criminal justice system is exceedingly effective at dissuading the sort of people who designed and operate the system from committing crime, but those folks are not the population that in fact
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by splitrocket 9y ago
What does ethnic homogeneity have to do with this?
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by splitrocket 9y ago
And perhaps divest ourselves of the idea that putting one time violent offenders in a building full of other violent offenders will somehow reduce the likelihood of future offense.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Humans consistently make the same mistake about understand the motivations, the inhibiting and promoting pressures of other people. We assume that everyone else is exactly like us. Therefore, when we build systems and institutions that atte
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Paid Fellowship to build tech to fight poverty(labs.robinhood.org)
1 points by splitrocket 9y ago|0 comments
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Strange, is the government somehow not made up of people? This line of reasoning is so strange, like government is some sort of alien being, not an institution of the people, for the people. Taxes are how you buy civilization. Voting is how
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by splitrocket 9y ago
They save people money on their groceries. They save people time looking up their balance (previously it was a phone call). How are either of those things exploitative?
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by splitrocket 9y ago
For profit. FreshEBT raised a round from A16Z.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
What leads you to believe that this would affect anyone other than Ajit Pai? I think, though, a more effective strategy would be to throttle the entire congressional netblock.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
I've never quite understood this argument. Why does ethnic homogeny matter?
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Is there enough food for everyone? http://isthereenoughfoodforeveryone.com
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Likely reducing torque response curve, reducing performance. And/or potentially allowing the Lipoly battery to expend more charge than optimal for it's lifecycle. Increasing the recharge rate of the breaks to make them a bit more
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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Social Tech Incubator: $50k grant for tech that fights poverty in NYC(labs.robinhood.org)
1 points by splitrocket 9y ago|0 comments

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