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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by lazyjones on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#23527370)
> We are concerned particularly about the tails.

That's not my impression when people are openly calling for defunding or disbanding police departments. Those who are concerned with the tails are the sane voices drowning in a sea of insanity these days.

I agree that the outliers are the problem, but how uncommon they are cannot be determined in this way.

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Re:George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter by lvs on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:38PM (#23530333)
Don't get too caught up on the definitions of words. What they are arguing is that many things have been attempted to rein in the tails, and they have all failed. An engineer has to look at a series of failures and find new solutions, not the same old ones that keep failing. Sometimes that means redesign from scratch.
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