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I am a happy end user of Apple, and I vastly prefer the walled garden. When I was younger, I preferred a Windows to a Mac as I liked to customize everything and make it look fun an…

> A third option would be to increase demand response at the industrial and customer level. Meaning, power isn't generally expected to be 100% available in that scenario. If there …

We should reduce it as much as we can, but this is a country of >300,000,000 with >6,000,000 crimes occurring each year. Of the percent I cited, >90% of that lethal force is agains…

Seeing a high crime rate doesn't automatically call for radical reform — and in a way abolition — of the status quo of law enforcement. Why is the crime rate high? Is it really bec…

They may not have the obligation to enforce a restraining order, but I imagine >99% of the time they do, and they have for me. Wasn't an open warrant for violating a restraining or…

General crime rate will decrease as you legalize recreational drug use, but there's no reason to believe that will resolve the many issues that lead to homicide in the United State…

It's a good distinction, so I asked what would happen in each of the three cases. I think that's one of the trickiest parts of this concept. In a country as armed and violent as th…

Total U.S. police spending is around $100 billion, which is around $285/person/year. Considering over 240 million 911 calls are placed in a given year, at a surface level this feel…

> omnipurpose paramilitary law enforcement U.S. civilians own nearly 400 million firearms, which is larger than the country's population. The intentional homicide rate is comparabl…

One of the most interesting points here is that people are looking at the United States, comparing it to Western Europe, and saying "we need to defund police" or "we need to disarm…

Buzzfeed has been deemed left, which is a category beyond left-leaning, by an objective fact-checker [1]. As one example of why: > In June 2016, the left-leaning media watchdog Fai…

I have, maybe naively, always believed that the U.S. operates at a level of secrecy and complexity where dozens of terrorist attacks are thwarted every year, and that this surveill…

After reading, I’m convinced that this must be a draft mistakenly published. Wow.

> Did you know that other countries have grocery stores too? In the countries destroying the rich in revolution, grocery stores are empty. > how are welfare and immigration related…

> There is no way they'll be able to stop the upcoming revolution. As someone who grew up poor in America, these talks about “revolution” have always perplexed me. We have one of t…

Please don't use a term like "anti-racist" for someone who says "Whites are $NegativeAdjective." It's really disingenuous rhetoric.

The link is still a 404, so I'm not sure you can say that yet as we don't know what the features are. Watching the event, it may only be the Series 6 that functions with Fitness+, …

> I wish there was some way to note books that I don’t want to read. Minor point but there is a "Not interested" button in the screenshot shown above this paragraph. While Goodread…

> It is absolutely dangerous to speak Dangerous for who, though? It was the founders who were supposedly acting against the Belarusian government, and the employees who are paying …

I should’ve only quoted the first part of the sentence as relevant to me, but: Better for whom? I agree it could result in better average returns for the firm, but it likely isn’t …

I lost the domain of the email address a while back so I can’t even see it anymore... Will try to guess his email address to send a thank-you later today; better late than never ev…

> East Coast VCs are much more conservative, which is ultimately bad because it results in less moonshots succeeding. This is really accurate, at least from my experience as someon…

That's the thing - the livable wage is changing in San Francisco. SF is seeing a steep reduction in cost-of-living, yet these extremely high salaries won't decrease accordingly. Al…

Does China include its secret camps in its prison numbers?