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I don't think they are using significantly more force. Looking at the riots across the US, the police appear in general to be showing an almost saintly level of restraint, and bein…

This is one of the things the protesters did, and they bear responsibility for it. https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/watch-man-tries-to-help-...

You should start looking at the videos. I've seen a couple of unconscious people being kicked in the head this week by "protesters". These people are nothing like law-abiding.

To quote the movie: Gotta be rich in the first place to think like that.

The "targeted medical tents" part sounds rather dubious, but yes, "less lethal" most certainly does not mean "harmless". What would be better, though? How do you get people to obey…

> I think protestors should be able to be armed with whatever police are. That's insane. A fundamental tenet of (US) law is that using a weapon while committing a crime is itself a…

This sounds incisive, but I'm not really smart enough to follow it. Certainly narrative as "story-telling" seems crucially important. And probably like many, it's hard for me to se…

These charts point out a lot of issues, most real problems, in my opinion. It's far less clear that this is the result of "systemic racism", though. The idea that "poverty begets p…

No doubt, and at least anecdotally, that seems to be happening in real time. As to the larger question, I'm having a very hard time seeing adding knowledge and science as a bad thi…

You may well be right. As far as I can recall, though, as of the last time I was regularly using Prolog, trying to do serious work on a (say) 1000x1000 array was a recipe for disas…

I grew up in a very fundamentalist (Christian) area, so the lack of it feels very familiar.

What they want is everyone's butts back in their chairs, in the office. The rest sounds like pretext. It remains to be seen how that will play out at my job, but I am very seriousl…

Arguably in 2020, you should be very careful about expressing any opinion that is in any way unpopular. Or that even could be construed as such.

My impression is the reason is that there really isn't widespread agreement on the harmfulness of such communities, so they're sort of trying to split the middle. And perhaps also …

No, it's not. But there is a lot of such painting going on, and you can't solve one evil by committing a second.

In Prolog, backtracking is a fundamental feature of the language, and idiomatic code can do it places you might not think of. Part of writing efficient Prolog is doing things to av…

This is an almost meaningless question. About all we can add is that in light of current technology trends, it looks possible. Which may well mean that it is certain. What can we h…

This is all rather beside the point. If you can get a better offer elsewhere, take it. Ideally, develop two or three good offers and take the best.

Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language is not only a great book on architecture, but one of the best books on any subject I've ever read. Highly recommended. That said, once yo…

Even worse, what sort of conversation are you contemplating with a round trip on the order of 10K years?

Part of it is the American ethos of "the rules don't apply to me". That often works. But not with bridges.

Here's a 60s attempt: Prolog was (theoretically) a practical declarative programming language. You describe what you want done, and it "figures out" what to do, as opposed to imper…

You can't just hatch experienced law enforcement officers in a week (or a year). And putting inexperienced officers in early can make things far worse, from a police brutality pers…

Speaking just for myself, I often end up saying rather stupid things when thinking on my feet. On the other hand, yeah, the could simply have been a jackass. Greeks, though? Who do…

IMO, only real actions, like tutoring minority kids, matters. You can "advocate" up, down, left, and sideways, and it will make not one whit of difference. Want to change the world…