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If it's so difficult to report crimes, wouldn't that mean that the crimes that are reported represent the most egregious, since the people who reported them overcame the difficulty in reporting to report the crimes? And, therefore, current policing strategy should -- indeed -- focus on the reported crimes while making it easier to report them?

Your response is logically inconsistent.

>Reported crime [...] should not form the basis of a policing strategy.

and:

>When police cease to act on reports of crime, people have no incentive to report crime.

Logically, then, reported crime should form the basis of a policing strategy, since it creates an incentive to report crime.

Your perception of your own personal safety is not an objective measure of crime and should not form the basis of a policing strategy.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-new-york-manhattan-ny...

“crime across the five boroughs is nowhere near the levels seen in the 1990s, and while there was a rise in 2022, those figures are already trending down this year.”

The optics are also really, really bad. I recall putting my bags through a scanner and walking through a metal detector when I visited Beijing in 2018. My first thought was “wow, must suck to live in a police state like this, can’t even take transit without being searched.”

Uber and Lyft shareholders rejoice?

Tracking the ownership of your Chrome extensions sounds exhausting, especially if you're someone who just wants to surf the damn web and are not some kind of super nerd.

https://libro.fm. Every audiobook is DRM-free.

Are the alternative app stores hosted on Apple servers? Serious question.

None of those controls are commonly located on a touch screen, which is the topic of the article.

Wouldn’t it be safer to require all cars to have voice controls? Then the driver doesn’t have to move their hand off the wheel at all.

But more than a pound heavier than the current 13” MacBook Air

People were stuck inside, didn’t have money and sex is free. US has been below replacement rate since 2008, one blip isn’t going to rescue us.

No, COVID-19 is not a type of flu. COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while the flu (influenza) is caused by different types of influenza viruses. Although both illnesses can cause respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, and difficulty breathing, they are caused by distinct viruses with different genetic makeups and characteristics. Additionally, COVID-19 has been associated with more severe illness and a higher risk of complications compared to the flu in some cases.

Zoning restrictions on dense housing, car focussed sub/urban development, ignoring climate change, rampant low interest spending, and here we are. The middle class has no public infrastructure to fall back on. Transit is broken and not suitable for the aging population. Rents are rising faster than wages. Is it any wonder the birth rate is dropping?

It’s the first go-around for the jr devs who went to school during the pandemic :)

When I was in college, the city where my university was located had a requirement that a drinking establishment had to sell food to have a liquor license. This meant that the local bar, which was actually a hollowed out house, had a menu which consisted of $20 cans of soup and $50 hot pockets. I was drunk enough to buy the hot pocket once.

The post WWII peace structure was based on an agreement between the US and other countries: we pay you money, we patrol the shipping lanes with our navy which is the only one left, and you side with us against the Soviet Union.

Once the Soviet Union imploded, there was little reason for this to be maintained and, sure enough, here we are.

A war implies there is something at stake. There’s not. Log off. Go outside. Volunteer in your community. Hug your kids. Make love to your partner. And remember these two immutable facts:

(1) The terminally online will always be outraged about something.

(2) You have a finite amount of time on earth and then you’re dead.

“Culture War” is a dog whistle for any movie that includes women, gays, or blacks. Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account.

There is no culture war in America. There is only a group of people who feel threatened by the existence of content that isn’t targeted squarely at them. There is only a group of people who are terrified that, if they aren’t the majority voice in absolutely everything, they will end up being treated how they treat out-group members.

Hm. Doesn’t AI make it easier to crank out any kind of movie?

>They already ate the Japanese manufacturers' lunch.

Did they? https://www.statista.com/statistics/243595/vehicle-sales-of-...

The “teachers” in this app are guided meditation helpers. From the title I thought it was like public school teachers.

Facebook started at Harvard, not Stanford.

Zero rating, like when wireless carriers don’t charge for certain bandwidth but do for others.

You’re in luck, then, because the US hasn’t had a coherent foreign policy, or indeed any foreign policy at all, for more than three decades.

The American led global alliance brought about the most stable, most prosperous, most peaceful stretch in world history. It’s over.

> I think "here be dragons", and that over-relying on AI to do all your organization for you will very possibly (probably?) cause you to become worse at thinking.

Socrates said exactly this.

But when they came to writing, Theuth said: “O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom.” Thamus, however, replied: “O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”

Article doesn’t say anything new.

“ Nondeductible losses. A casualty loss isn’t deductible, even to the extent the loss doesn’t exceed your personal casualty gains, if the damage or destruction is caused by the following. Accidentally breaking articles such as glassware or china under normal conditions. A family pet (explained below).

A fire if you willfully set it, or pay someone else to set it.

A car accident if your willful negligence or willful act caused it. The same is true if the willful act or willful negligence of someone acting for you caused the accident. Progressive deterioration (explained below). However, see Special Procedure for Damage From Corrosive Drywall, later.”

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p547#en_US_2023_publink1000...

Easy to turn off after the federally mandated safety video plays. Oh, but what about that downtime before? The airlines already have the ability to disable the power button for the 90 second safety video, what if we changed the lockout to 120s instead? Or 180?

Remember, there didn’t used to be commercials before movies, either.

Doesn’t mean you won’t be:

https://www.imm-international.com/airline-partners-usa/delta...