cwmoore's comments

On: The Disappearance of the Public Bench

[cwmoore]

This is a textbook example of a biased observation. The conversation on this topic is so basic.

On: The Disappearance of the Public Bench

[cwmoore]

Rather have people hauled away on suspicion then? You know, before something happens? The people in the public places are the public. It’s likely that random stabbers have already been hauled away before for something else. You’re talking about running a training program for reinforcing the antisocial tendencies, and pensions for their paid captors.

On: The Disappearance of the Public Bench

[cwmoore]

Nothing unusual or cruel about living locked in a concrete box overcrowded with unemployable men for weeks, months, or years, or is there?

Prison is as medieval an institution as the mindsets of those that see it to be appropriate.

On: The Disappearance of the Public Bench

[cwmoore]

Breathing problems? Stop the breathing. Solved, by definition.

[hn_throwaway_99 → cwmoore]

That is a completely irrelevant analogy. I wasn't advocating for the Soylent Green solution.

[cwmoore → hn_throwaway_99]

You seem to have missed my meaning entirely. Making a problem invisible makes two problems. Soylent Green is the opposite of the direction I would advocate.

On: Looking at the data behind prediction markets

[cwmoore]

“More is different.” - Nobel laureate Phillip W. Anderson

https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...

On: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence

[cwmoore]

It’s not so much the money that gives the protection as it is the industry they operated in, and it’s power and influence. Assets can be seized or frozen.

On: Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

[cwmoore]

Not careful enough

On: Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

[cwmoore]

Why deal with problem systems when we can punish someone we caught?

That is your thought process?

[hrimfaxi → cwmoore]

Is it possible that grocery stores are reducing positions to save money? Is it not possible that it is a feedback loop? Why are we blaming the grocery store for replacing labor with machines? Why don't we decry the grocery that hires only 2 people instead of 3?

And since when is stealing a prank?

[ryandrake → hrimfaxi]

It's entirely possible that both can be wrong. Shoplifting is bad, but "big corporations pocketing the saved money after understaffing and passing their labor off to the customer" is also bad. We should decry the grocery that hires 2 people instead of 3 just to profit more.

[Shalomboy → hrimfaxi]

It sounds like you've never done a prank or been hungry, so I can't imagine what standing you feel you have to weigh in on this.

[wanderer2323 → Shalomboy]

Funny how the “pranks” are always “ring steak as bananas” and never “ring bananas as steaks”?

On: Air is full of DNA

[cwmoore]

This is a fun-to-think-about variant HN comment thread, thanks Dan.

On: Air is full of DNA

[cwmoore]

Sibling comments seem motivated to misreading parent here.

DNA is a molecule, not a microorganism or virus.