diogenes4

Really, this has no bearing on the comment, it's just asinine.

Not going to happen when Google (or other similar tech giants) can just buy out (and potentially shut down) their potential competition.

There are many reasons why police serve the role they do in society. Neglecting other reasons other than blatant racketeering—the role they play in preserving the institution of private property, the role they play in filling prisons, the role they play in preserving the illusion of justice—serves nobody.

You don't have to believe anything, but if you don't see the racism that pervades our society you're utterly blind.

> you'll reliably get a lot more NIMBY response from "set up a nuclear power plant in the neighbourhood" vs. "set up a gas power plant in the neighbourhood"

I don't associate the term "NIMBY" with either scenarios, just housing. I don't think there's much value to overloading it. It's not like anyone's trying to put a nuclear power plant in the middle of Boston to begin with.

> Well, here is X trying to make a product you pay for.

I think they still show ads if you pay for it, so it's really just adding insult to injury.

Please do not conflate people concerned about epidemics with narcissistic assholes.

Neither party is obligated to the interests of the people living in this country. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad advice but there are some problems that require actual citizens to do something aside from vote.

I'm not one to ever defend the institution of policing or the court system that feeds and protects it, but cops do not have general immunity. They have qualified immunity from civil cases in some places. The primary friction from prosecuting police for criminal behavior has been and will continue to be DAs unwilling to prosecute (for various reasons, some reasonable, and some nefarious).

1. Most people don't have anything interesting to say.

2. People who do have interesting things to say deserve to get paid for their work.

3. Other platforms (e.g. TikTok) provide a more natural medium for interaction and response.

4. If you're just aiming to write, there's always journals. I journal and I find it very satisfying.

5. Obviously, people still blog, even if the scene is dominated by capital's obsession with SEO.

I've always felt that "sum" was sufficient and self-evident. I see no reason to drag "cogito" into the conversation, let alone "ergo".

This site claims $129 billion: https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...

Sure, you can adjust per capita. I still think it's a fairly shocking statistic—we certainly don't get that value back except as a jobs program.

Hell i'm not even sure you or I think. This is the problem with referring to subjective perception when we can't be sure we're even referring to the same thing. A "thought" might just be a linguistic quirk of two meats exchanging information.

Spacetime (might be) infinitely large, but that doesn't imply that there is infinite matter or energy.

That said, this is kind of a dumb argument because far lower k values have lower BB(k) values already exceed the apparent information value of the universe at any given instant. Maybe there is infinite energy and matter, but that's also irrelevant if we can't perceive more than a finite subset of it.

Edit: well, i guess what would matter would be the information value of time, multiplied by enough bits to store the machine—I'm not sure i'm literate enough in the area to compute that. But, assuming that the heat death of the universe reaches a single (possibly compressed) end-state, it should still be finite—it's seeming quantized, anyway.

> I'm "convinced" that the "defund the police" was planted to discredit the movement to reform the police.

"Reform"? You mean spend billions more on training so they can ignore all the criticisms levied at the institution? By any metric defund" is bad, reform is worse. Unless the goal is to change nothing of course, in which case "reform" is clearly preferable.

God forbid we agree on any kind of concrete, measurable policy goal....

> We don't need less funds

We spend more on our police force than each country in the world spends on its military, except for ourselves and china. We need less funds.

> Nothing inherent to crypto makes it more unequal any more than capitalism itself.

Well aside from the fact that most people don't own crypto....

Oh man i had no idea we could enumerate the totality of chemical effects in the human body, my b

> you’re just left with people doing what they want.

God forbid

There are known methods to retrieve power from the jaws of capital.

Glyphosate kills far more than just weeds (whatever those are).

Integers are an abstraction on top of words; words are perfectly safe.

I don't understand the fear—we have always lived in a society where truth exists in terms of degrees of certainty, and virtually any statement about the world can only be true with less than perfect certainty. Vagueness and ambiguity, floating signifiers, and the difficult-to-articulate impact of connotation ensure that we live in a state of constant uncertainty.

And, of course, there are always self-motivated incentives to directly mislead people about the world. If we really want to minimize the uncertainty that comes with relaying statements about the world around us to each other, we need to minimize the personal gain that can come from obscuring reality from each other. As I see it, this is inherently at-odds with the inherently narcissistic nature of market economics—there's nothing inherently special about that but being the primary mechanism of power in this world.

Being based on crypto, which is even more wildly unequally distributed than fiat currency, makes this idea a non-starter.

Better than tomorrow!

I love this, but a corporate site is probably not the best place for this.

The expectation of privacy is changing with technology, and the police are actively pushing these boundaries. For instance, see: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-york-police-drones-m...

Right, I guess I'm asking why anyone puts up with the idea of a state standard to begin with when it only benefits the state.

Presumably that's the aspect that needs fixing.

There's always tree-style tabs, eg https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...