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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:03AM (#18118939)
I am pretty sure thing are the way they are for a good reason that you and I have no insight to. Otherwise they wouldn’t be this way. Cops are not stupid and neither are the people running those teams. I doubt it gives them any pleasure responding to potentially deadly situations and putting their own lives at risk. Cops have families too. Perhaps we need to ask someone who knows better instead of speculating.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by samontar on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:31AM (#18119256)
Turns out some times the authorities are morons, dude. Once upon a time we dumped radioactive material off the coast of SF and shot holes in the barrels to make them sink. I’m sure there was someone running around saying “there’s probably a good reason”. That dude would have been wrong.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:39AM (#18119770)
I wouldn’t disagree with your first statement but HN tends to skew to a bunch of I’m a know it all attitudes. I’m just saying, things are not always as simple as they appear and while you can have an opinion on the matter does not make you authority on the subject. I forget the term for this concept but the news is always wrong depending on who is reading it.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by iamnothere on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:50PM (#18127308)
You're referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by adamsea on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:17AM (#18118996)
There are stupid people in all walks of life. Or, people who do things because that’s how they’ve been done and they don’t want to rock the boat and that’s what their paycheck depends on.
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Re:Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our a... by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:40AM (#18119777)
Of course, but a fact does not make the opposit case.
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