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in js, Boolean('' && 0) will give you the same answer as bool('' and 0) in python.
if i code golf in python (like the article does in js), i'll also get weird-looking code and "unexpected" outputs.
valid python: 0*"string"or"other_string"
can you name a single officer of flannery assoc?
^ this is where the value is, which is what the $1.2m is intended to explore.
> It's not the kind of association that makes Mozilla look good to me.
they're probably ok with that. can't please em all.
Irving, NY - Chautauqua County - Trump
Fulton, NY - Oswego County - Trump
Ticonderoga, NY - Essex County - Clinton
Amsterdam, NY - Montgomery County - Trump
Sidney, NY - Delaware County - Trump
- https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programs-projects/rural-heal...
- https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/president
Voting against Medicare or Obamacare aren't the only ways to vote against healthcare reform, as OP states:
> Politics matters. Voters in rural areas (generally, of course) have consistently voted against policies that would help support health care in these rural locations
no it doesn't. it says that services can be denied based on moral objections. people are the ones that receive those services.
can you back this up? where in the bill text does it say this? i've read through it and nowhere does it make a differentiation between denying care based on "treatment" vs "person".
(g) “Health care service” means medical research, medical 98 procedures, or medical services, including, but not limited to, 99 testing; diagnosis; referral; dispensing or administering any 100 drug, medication, or device; psychological therapy or 101 counseling; research; therapy; recordmaking procedures; set up 102 or performance of a surgery or procedure; or any other care or 103 services performed or provided by any health care provider. 104 (h) “Participate” or “participation” means to pay for or 105 take part in any way in providing or facilitating any health 106 care service or any part of such service.
furthermore:
(5) IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.—A health care provider or 195 health care payor may not be held civilly liable solely for 196 declining to participate in or pay for a health care service on 197 the basis of a conscience-based objection.
meaning, a secretary in a doctor's office can prevent a gay person from making an appointment for any "procedure" at all because doing so would be facilitating a health care service that they personally object to.
here's the bill text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1580/BillText/er/.... it's quite short, you should read it.
"i have a persistent cough and need a check up."
"sorry, i'm going to deny you a routine check up based on my belief that homosexuality is a sin. providing this procedure to you would be tacit support of homosexuality."
Sure! I live in a small rural town with a poor public education system and no professional opportunities outside of manual labor. I had to leave high school to work to support my family. The most I can make is minimum wage, which means that I cannot afford basic necessities. What "better" jobs am I able to choose from? Or do I have to wait for "the government" to step in so my family doesn't starve?
Because the US has embargoed Cuba for decades to cause hunger and desperation:
> If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. - https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06...
Citation needed on all your other claims.
"Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/insuranc...
"A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-...
"Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/secret-n...
"A Chicago Cop Is Accused Of Framing 51 People For Murder. Now, The Fight For Justice." - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/detective...
"WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People" - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wid...
this is an extremely bad faith interpretation of librarians upholding the first amendment.
If you know where their source data comes from and why its so accurate, feel free to educate me. Their own site says this:
> Q. Why rank cities on safety even though the FBI cautions against it?
> A. This report and/or our data cannot and should not be used as a measure of the effectiveness of law enforcement due to the myriad factors that can contribute to crime in a community.
> And further: Once we have these complete set of reported crime data, along with millions of geocoded reported crime incidents using a GIS, we begin our crime data development process.
> The results are fine resolution, highly accurate crime data that are comparable nationally.
> Our approach provides you the ability to look at small areas effectively."
Can you explain to me what their methodology is? Because this is just marketing-speak and doesn't provide any facts about how or why their analysis is accurate.
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Edit: from their own site!
> Q. Why rank cities on safety even though the FBI cautions against it?
> A. This report and/or our data cannot and should not be used as a measure of the effectiveness of law enforcement due to the myriad factors that can contribute to crime in a community.
- https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/faq/top100dangerous#q9
This is literally taken from the FBI doc that I linked to earlier.
The FBI puts out one main source of crime stats - UCR. On the UCR site that I linked to: "The UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies." Those numbers aren't a coincidence.
UCR is the main data product that people use for (usually incorrect) analysis. The FBI itself says that the data is incomplete to the point that it should not be used as a way to determine the safety of a location.
Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place. UCR statistics include only jurisdictional population figures along with reported crime, clearance, or arrest data. Rankings ignore the uniqueness of each locale. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are:
• Population density and degree of urbanization.
• Variations in composition of the population, particularly youth concentration.
• Stability of the population with respect to residents; mobility, commuting patterns, and transient factors.
• Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability.
• Modes of transportation and highway systems.
• Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics.
• Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness.
• Climate.
• Effective strength of law enforcement agencies.
• Administrative and investigative emphases on law enforcement.
• Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial, correctional, and probational).
• Citizens’ attitudes toward crime.
• Crime reporting practices of the citizenry.
How do you even define a city in this case? You say those are normalized crime stats per 1k residents - how big are the metro areas? Are there any cities that also count a portion of their suburbs as part of the city? Does doing so reduce per-capita crime stats? etc...
My suggestion would be to thoroughly vet your sources before posting their conclusions as fact.
From the FBI itself:
> Pitfalls of Ranking
> UCR data are sometimes used to compile rankings of individual jurisdictions and institutions of higher learning. These incomplete analyses have often created misleading perceptions which adversely affect geographic entities and their residents. For this reason, the FBI has a long-‐ standing policy against ranking participating law enforcement agencies on the basis of crime data alone. Despite repeated warnings against these practices, some data users continue to challenge and misunderstand this position.