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Post by GuardianCaveman »

googlryas wrote: post #158
tacitusarc wrote: post #83

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In case this isn’t common knowledge, advertising you have a gun on premise makes you a more attractive target for burglaries

Is this actually true? It makes some kind of sense, but it is hard to guess at what percentage of thieves will be deterred, versus what percentage of thieves will be encouraged. Perhaps we have a natural experiment, since California recently accidentally leaked a bunch of details about gun owners in the state: https://www.newsweek.com/gun-owners-personal-info-leak-outra... Maybe in a year we can see if those owners e…

A buddy got pulled over by a cop who gave him a warning and then told him he recommended for him to remove his sigsauer sticker because people will walk through a parking lot looking for trucks typically with weapons manufacturer names and break in looking for a weapon to steal.

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Post by GuardianCaveman »

seoaeu wrote: post #246
exolymph wrote: post #225

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Stop valuing the acquisition of other people's stuff over your own safety and you won't have this problem :)

Stop valuing your stuff over other people’s lives and you won’t have this problem

This is an oversimplification. If someone is in your house and especially if you have kids you are going to do whatever you can to protect your kids not have a conversation with the burglar or warm him off with aiming a weapon. You don’t know if he’s armed and what he’s capable of, just that he’s in your house and potentially everyone’s life is in danger. I agree with you when someone steals a car from the front yard and the homeowner has legal basis to shoot that person over their car but in my home? It’s life or death.

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Post by brazed_blotch »

I used to walk home from school past a neighbour who had a similar system.

The speakers were quite pathetic, so we figured out it was a recording pretty quickly. And so we took to running past the house again and again, triggering the barking noise to our delight.

A few weeks later, the system was removed.

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Post by smsm42 »

andrewflnr wrote: post #300
dvtrn wrote: post #282

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Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever. How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?

Oh, I'm sure a squirrel outside is plenty to cause a problem. My dogs have historically not needed anything at all to actually be moving outside to trigger an endless barking spree.

Yep. Especially given big glass doors and squirrels that quickly realize barking dog behind the glass door poses no danger whatsoever, so it's ok to proceed with their business.

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Post by smsm42 »

dvtrn wrote: post #302
andrewflnr wrote: post #300

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Oh, I'm sure a squirrel outside is plenty to cause a problem. My dogs have historically not needed anything at all to actually be moving outside to trigger an endless barking spree.

The barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.

No I meant it is running around outside. Often literally around because there are fruit trees in the garden around the exit from the house, and there's a big glass door where the dog can see outside. The squirrels learn pretty quickly that we don't want the dog to actually catch the squirrel (who knows what it has eaten and what diseases it may have), but to the dog it's hard to see squirrel just going about its business right under his nose...

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Post by smsm42 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #312
dvtrn wrote: post #302

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The barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.

I think you're confusing some awkward phrasing from the poster. They were taking the meeting with the CEO in their home office, and the squirrel was running around presumably outside causing the dog to bark. But I can see how you read it as thet were having a meeting and the dog brought a squirrel into the home office and ran around.

That would be worse, but if we let the dog actually catch the squirrel it won't be running anymore... But we try very hard for that not to happen.

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Post by lmm »

Bluecobra wrote: post #295
lmm wrote: post #290

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Cities have a lot more for kids to do within a kilometer or two, IME. In a suburb you may have "space" but it's all just people's lawns and strips of grass next to the road.

Not all suburbs are set up like that. Mine has a nice “downtown” area in walking distance with plenty to do. There’s mid-rise buildings, shops, restaurants, bars, and a train station to the city if you get bored.

You need density for that kind of "downtown", which is in fundamental tension with this notion of "space". I used to live in Ealing, which calls itself "Queen of the suburbs", but I don't think that's the kind of place iakov was talking about.

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Post by dzhiurgis »

lmm wrote: post #290
iakov wrote: post #259

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In the ones that have an "outside" for the kids, sure. In my experience, most of the bigger cities in Europe just don't have the space for the kids to hang out. Sure there are parks with playgrounds here and there, but they are separated by kilometers of concrete and stone. At least suburbs have the spaces and the clean air.

Cities have a lot more for kids to do within a kilometer or two, IME. In a suburb you may have "space" but it's all just people's lawns and strips of grass next to the road.

To me it seems whole "urban culture" (graffiti and skateboards (i know i'm probably shallow by generalising it as such)) has developed from lack for playgrounds and green spaces (especially for older kids).

In Lithuania lots of soviet buildings actually had somewhat of a common yard, which in past 20 years has been replaced with a parking lot.

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Post by aussieshibe »

kolanos wrote: post #227
watwut wrote: post #201

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I don't know why this is downvoted. It is true.

I would assume people are tired of seeing this qualifier in every other HN thread? "It might be bad in the U.S., but in the rest of the world...." Especially when it is verifiably false. [0] Of the ten most populous countries in the world, only China (2.114) and Indonesia (1.783) have lower peace indexes than the United States (2.337). Of the next ten, only four have lower indexes. In other words, two thirds of the t…

My interpretation was that "the rest of the world" is meant to refer to "the rest of the countries in the world" not "the rest of the people in the world".

To say that the US has a worse peace index than the rest of the countries in the world is still hyperbole, but it's not so far off the truth.

The US has the 129th best peace index of 163 countries, right after Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Azerbaijan.

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Nextgrid wrote: post #260
bjt1234 wrote: post #135

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Dont over estimate how dumb they are. Installed security cameras, they still came onto the property. So, next I installed a sign "BEWARE OF THE SECURITY CAMERA", and didn't work, infact one guy broke into my car and simply just covered his face from the canera. So then I installed a cheap security light next to the sign that would light up when they entered. That worked.

Criminals have wisened up to the police's uselessness - in many places, video evidence of a crime even with a clear picture will no longer result in any police action. The light still works as a deterrent because the light makes them visible to a potential occupier. They'll fear real, immediate confrontation/violence, not some lazy policeman looking 5 minutes at the picture before moving onto something easier such as…

What amazes me that Facebook and Google has faces and identity of 99% population and could be solved in an instant. FB even used to auto-tag people for you if you upload their photos. Probably still do internally. Solving a crime is like one checkbox away. Yet "the privacy" of doing crime is more important.
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