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#422Top comment might be inaccurate now - it seems that the site is showing recent data again (as recent as 24 minutes ago).
+1 working again
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm being downvoted by being anything less then apologetically polite while expressing a viewpoint that isn't pro whatever the lowest common denominator wants. That's just how comment sections that keep "rightthink score" are.
I couldn't downvote your direct reply to me, but if I could have I would have because you're being an ass. Calling me "perverted" because I don't think people should block bike lanes says way more about you than me.
Not wanting the bike lanes blocked is fine. The problem is that you want, as a means to this end, 100% enforcement of laws that were never written nor were their punishments apportioned with the expectation of such with zero regard for the consequences. That is a bad thing to be advocating for over such a mundane issue and I think it's belies a lack of moral character you often see in this subject of discussion (though you do see it in others and it's bad there too) wherein people want their preferred class of traffic prioritized using state force to the determent of all the others.
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#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm being downvoted by being anything less then apologetically polite while expressing a viewpoint that isn't pro whatever the lowest common denominator wants. That's just how comment sections that keep "rightthink score" are.
You might be downvoted regardless, as you suggest, but the guidelines are still the social contract of HN. What you call "less than apologetically polite" I would call "not kind" and "snarky." Did you feel kindness toward the gp when you replied? If you think you're actually following the guidelines, then you must carry on.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm being downvoted by being anything less then apologetically polite while expressing a viewpoint that isn't pro whatever the lowest common denominator wants. That's just how comment sections that keep "rightthink score" are.
You might be downvoted regardless, as you suggest, but the guidelines are still the social contract of HN. What you call "less than apologetically polite" I would call "not kind" and "snarky." Did you feel kindness toward the gp when you replied? If you think you're actually following the guidelines, then you must carry on.
There is no social contract in scored internet comment sections. The herd will do what makes the number go up. If a large number of people showed up and upvoted every racist comment to the moon the verbiage in here would pivot almost overnight. Mobs don't have self awareness or free will.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
They keep that data for themselves, they don’t even tell you how much data they have on you. Why is it unfair that they also be tracked?
It might be fair, but is it a good idea? What you are doing is justifying something you wouldn't agree with because it targets people belonging to an organization doing the thing you don't agree with. That is can be problematic because 1. They now can say 'well it is done to us why can't we do it to others' instead of engaging with real arguments about using ALPR flock cameras to track people 2. You assume that a per…
The police as an organization do not care about engaging with you in good faith and are far past a race to the bottom regarding surveillance.
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't downvote your direct reply to me, but if I could have I would have because you're being an ass. Calling me "perverted" because I don't think people should block bike lanes says way more about you than me.
Not wanting the bike lanes blocked is fine. The problem is that you want, as a means to this end, 100% enforcement of laws that were never written nor were their punishments apportioned with the expectation of such with zero regard for the consequences. That is a bad thing to be advocating for over such a mundane issue and I think it's belies a lack of moral character you often see in this subject of discussion (thou…
On the contrary, it is not a mundane issue. Traffic infractions and parking violations such as blocking bike lanes or crosswalks directly contribute to a less safe environment for everyone on the street. Traffic fatality is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. It is the cavalier attitudes of people who think they should be able to whatever they want, whenever they want with their cars that belies a lack of moral character.
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#429Incredible work. I'm disappointed to see so many of the leaderboard items are street cleaning tickets. I get it - street cleaning are "easy" tickets to write in bulk, and therefore efficient ROI for PCO time, but they're not the most important violations to cite compared to safety-critical things like blocked bike lanes (which SFMTA has an official policy to completely ignore citizen reports thereof), double-parking,…
Your mistake is thinking parking tickets exist to benefit the people and create a better city. But in reality they mostly exist as an easy revenue stream for cops and courts. The fact that it incidentally helps once in awhile is just the excuse needed to keep the revenue stream alive.
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#430I would pay ~$10/month for email alerts when an officer is within a geofence of my car.
Then someone will know where your car is at all times, and probably who you are... and that is monetizable (not from you).
Someone probably already does. Every car sold within the last 20 years has tracking electronics and can be remotely crippled or shut down.