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The problem isn’t tricky at all, actually. Just because the punishment for seeking mental health care is losing one’s entire career doesn’t make these problems disappear, it just m…

Law enforcement operates in a position where they “can’t lose” an encounter. This is a major cause of rapid and unnecessary escalation with LEOs and the civilians they’ve stopped.

I’m from Sacramento and I know of people who worked at Sircles. It’s comically mismanaged and run by a comic book villian.

Not every restaurant can handle the deferred payout either. Their business is based on receiving payment at the time of service. The restaurant model operates on razor thin margins…

From the perspective of the publications, it’s fear-mongering which makes clicks. Out of control AI is a common sci-fi trope because it’s a convenient allegory for the uncaring sys…

I didn’t get the impression that the author is advocating for removing spinners as a UI concept, rather it’s just being used a shorthand for, “you should not need to send and load …

Guilt by association, then? This is not how any sane legal system works.

The owner of the vehicle may not be the one driving it.

A motor vehicle cannot receive a citation. If law enforcement cannot ID the driver as a particular individual when the infraction or crime occurred, a citation should not be issued…

It’s not about Bitcoin, it’s about perception. Cash carries a great deal of trust and people buy things with it. It’s so much easier to separate the criminal from the means when yo…

They would need to remain around long enough for the privilege of failing due to unmaintainable systems.

Just because an SMS originates from a computer does not make it spam. I like to be notified that my drive up order is ready or for a link to check in at the doctor.

It’s funny, if you open a TV set it’s already super modular like computers were before we had standardized parts, ports, and form factors. It’s got the power supply which makes the…

I don’t think the reaction to everything we dislike should be “let’s make it illegal” because you’re going to end up with unintended harms. If companies are forced to retain public…

It’s regressive because banning a vice does not magically make harm from it disappear. The addiction issue needs to be addressed in a meaningful and direct way. The other problem i…

A good ADHD coach can be life-changing, as cheesy and corny as it sounds. As you’re likely aware (but for the benefit of everyone else), the ADHD brain is not extrinsically and int…

Amazon also has mastered the art of getting cities to bend over backwards for them, offering tax breaks and land because Amazon wants to bring X number of jobs that pay over $100K/…

I would argue these are still distinct meanings: one has speculative implications the other has tangible results. Announcing a marital engagement may be important, but the marriage…

> […] I was put off by the product due to the now-mandatory paired subscription ($200/yr with purchase, annually paired only, can cancel after) […] It is both confusing and fascina…

The rise of services like 23andMe and AncestryDNA have actually allowed people to discover information about their parentage that they would otherwise not have had access to, basic…

Depends on how you define helpful or how much of a requirement for content to actually be “helpful”. A strict definition might require content to have academic or intellectual valu…

Supposing the premise that these things were entirely unhelpful to society, I would argue that the obscenity specifically is not what makes these things unhelpful.

Yet humans have fared mostly fine as a whole with even a moderate level of those things, legal or not, consistently happening throughout history and cultures. The biggest problem w…

I am not sure how you got to this slippery slope that doesn’t have a good reason to exist. This movement is not about filling capsules with powdered ginger to treat something that …