Rioters committing murder is not related to cops committing domestic abuse.

It’s not, because it was debunked ages ago.

Please don't do this here

> Please don't do this here

Call someone out for using a fake story about killing another human being just to further a point?

To anyone experienced or knowledgeable about defensive shootings and home invasions - the story above reads like the author watched too many action movies.

Positively ID'ed an armed intruder and then proceeded to have a complete conversation with said armed intruder in the middle of the night? Asked the armed intruder to allow him to "ziptie" their hands? The armed intruder doesn't run away at first signs that someone is home or awake, and still doesn't run when the occupant reveals themselves to be armed? Then proceeded to have a shootout with the intruder and somehow placed two accurate shots on target from across a room or hallway? All with adrenaline and a cocktail of other mind-altering, body trembling, dexterity-inhibiting chemicals surging through their body? Total BS.

Then went to jail for a week and couldn't apparently afford bail even though they then spent hundreds of thousands on an apparent criminal investigation for suspected murder (says they might still be in jail to this day) even though there's an armed dead intruder lying in the room after a forced entry? In a "Castle Doctrine State"? Ya, that doesn't happen either.

Most people can't speak coherently with all that going on, let alone fire accurate shots either. It's a myth "you can't miss" with a shotgun. At average room or hallway distances, the spread is about 5 inches or less with 00 Buck, and usually those shots are fired from the low-ready or hip positions due to the immediacy of the situation. It's pretty darn easy to miss in a situation like that.

The entire story is either grossly exaggerated, or completely made up. All for what? To appear to be arguing from some position of authority and make people accept OP's argument as fact? That's appalling, and it's things like this that make responsible gun owners look bad.

The people flagging you know jack shit about guns and gun laws.

It's more likely that the people flagging know HN guidelines, and have varying degrees of knowledge regarding guns and gun laws.

This website really isn't for me if the average user can't tell the difference between chocolate and bullshit...

> Photos by the author except where noted. The author owns shares in Workhorse.

Maybe they should disclose this at the top of the article, not the bottom.

There's this same argument with recycling, reuse, etc. I.E how many times do I have to use my cloth bag before the resources it took is less than that of a normal paper bag. Recycling is the same way, IIRC, aluminum is the only thing that's cheaper to recycle, energy wise.

I really wish more studies would look into the Energy per Ton for creating our consumer products.

That's one thing to consider, but it's ignoring a major aspect - biodegradability. Yes, a plastic bag is in some ways more efficient per ton than a cloth bag but doesn't decompose safely and fast, cloth usually does.

What's worse, adding some inert foreign molecules to the environment, or adding some CO2, excess nitrates, and excess phosphorous, taking down a bit of native vegetation, and revolving some more soil?

I really don't know the answer, but I bet everybody on the anti-plastic crusade doesn't know either. I would really like if somebody cared to do some unbiased studies on this (not the ones full of flaws reinforcing the author desired answer - whatever that it).

You mean, is natural gas extraction and processing more harmful than agriculture and recycling?

It seems plausible that a cloth bag requires a comparable amount of petrochemicals to make than a plastic bag, agriculture is quite fuel intensive and uses a bunch of other nasty chemicals in large amounts, while a few grams of plastic require just a few grams of oil - for me it's hard to tell whether growing sufficient cotton for a single bag (which is quite a bunch of cotton plants) can be done with a few grams of fuel.

Thankfully, this is studied by experts for their entire lives and we don’t have to learn the answers by speculating on Hacker News.

I’ll note that what you’re comparing petroleum based manufacturing to is the most pointlessly intensively harmful and wasteful form of agriculture – growing conventional cotton.

Even without considering the amount of mining required by agriculture, the answer is still non-obvious.

I agree.

Do they become reactive inside of living beings? Or just outside due to UV catalyzed hydrolyze?

The molecules I'm speaking of are already reactive. Again it's not just the bulk polymer, there are a bunch of "special ingredients" added to most plastics, plus contaminants introduced during recycling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Plastics_additives

On the bright side, because it doesn't easily biodegrade, it is a form of carbon capture. If you ignore all of its other bad effects.

Taking oil out of the ground and burning part of it to create plastic out of the other part, and then throwing it away or incinerating it, isn't carbon capture :)

In high school I wanted to make a Twitter bot that tweeted about the weather everyday. I had an easy time with Python's Libraries / Ecosystem.

I thought this exactly, I'm guessing OP was just steamrolling her because she was asking a basic question

Considering OP could have spent part of that 3 day retreat looking up what new grad salaries are at IBM.

Don't discount your mod because it's made for Minecraft, this looks like a lot of fun!

As someone from Kansas, absolutely an issue. It's probably 90% white, there's no culture in Kansas City, just a bunch of hipsters with clear framed glasses. When I interned for Garmin a few years back, they had intern events to hype us up about living in Kansas City.

It's essentially a cultural wasteland, and tech jobs are few and far between. The startup scene there is a joke too, they suck up new college grads too stupid to realize they can work elsewhere and pay them below market.

There's plenty of culture in Kansas, just like everywhere else in the world. The problem is homogeneity of culture, not the lack of it.

Picking nits, but yes

I seriously think people shouldn't be able to comment / see comments on HN unless they've at least clicked on the darn link. I took one look at the "keylogger" source code and recognized it.