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@ Bob @midwest.social

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  • Yet Another Study Shows ShotSpotter Can’t Fight Crime Or Get Help To Shooting Victims Faster

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  • The technology can detect gunshots, yes, but it can't detect it they're meaningful in any way that would require a response. That means responders are showing up to areas with nothing more than the knowledge that a gun was discharged, which leaves them fewer resources to allocate to actual problems.

  • Cyclists Attacked By Driver And Passenger Who Opened Fire During Group Ride In Uptown, Video Shows

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  • No one would ever try to drive through a large group of cars going past, why force your way into bikes?

  • I hope they both croak tbh

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  • Probably the first time I've ever looked at a presidential lineup and simply hoped the two front-runners fall over dead as soon as possible.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Bob @midwest.social

    Framework: Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

    frame.work /blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • I mean, yeah, 1000 people is enough assuming there's no sampling bias. But if you've got sampling bias, increasing the sampling size won't actually help you. The issue you're talking about is unrelated to how many people you talk to.

    Your own suggestion of splitting up the respondents by state would itself introduce sampling bias, way over sampling low population states and way under sampling high population states. The survey was interested in the opinions of the nation as a whole, so arbitrary binning by states would be a big mistake. You want your sampling procedure to have equal change of returning a response from any random person in the nation. With a sample size of 1000, you're not going to have much random-induced bias for one location or another, aside from population density, which is fine because the survey is about USA people and not people in sub-USA locations.

  • Price gouging

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  • The oil companies reconglomerated, in part, because we stopped enforcing anti-trust nearly as much as originally intended when we started using the stupid-ass Chicago school of thought from the 1970s onwards. It's only in the last ten years or so that's it's become legally reasonable to say "hey actually the Chicago school of though kinda sucks." Standard Oil in particular is a bad anti-trust example because Rockefeller was such a personality cult that everyone around him was completely wrapped around his finger. In any case, you can still punish companies for price fixing if you've force them to be legally separate, which you can't do if it's all one legal organization.

    The telecom industry is another example where anti-trust break-ups didn't lead to more competition, for somewhat similar reasons. They were broken up by geographic regions and each region made gentlemen's agreements not to expand into each other's territory. When we stopped enforcing anti-trust as much, they bought each other out.

    In general, however, breaking up monopolies is effective, so long as doing so actually creates competition in the marketplace. This is most effective in markets with low barriers to entry or ones where there's already a large number of smaller companies that are simply too small for meaningful competition with mega-corp. It's least effective in markets with extremely high barriers to entry or ones where it's easy to collude and get away with it. In any case, it's still worth it to break up monopolistic companies because it still reduces their power, even if it does so more effectively in some markets than others. Among other benefits, it makes it easier for new competitors to establish themselves in the market, since their competitors have a harder time utilizing unfair practices the smaller they are.

  • Price gouging

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  • I mean, just break up the massive corporations. Capitalism requires seller competition in the marketplace in order to provide an incentive to drive down prices. If there are too few players, they can easily make unspoken agreements to fuck over consumers.

  • Eventually you outgrow him

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  • I very much wouldn't. I'm not interested in the kinds of things a young trophy wife is going to offer. I think being a rich megastar would be bad for my dating game, because it would attract all the wrong people.

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • The way statistical sampling works, 1000 people in a population of 300,000,000 is actually good enough for most things. You can play around with numbers here to convince yourself, but at 95% confidence 1000 people will give an answer to within 3% of the true answer for the 300,000,000 population.

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • Suddenly trying to convince all my friends and family I'm from France.

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • YMYDYMYD

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • Lol, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for speculating about improving weights and measures in a thread about wanting better weights and measures.

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • I kinda thought the title made it clear I was an American.

  • Everyday, as an American

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  • DST is good actually. Fite me.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Everyday, as an American

  • One bomb

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  • A million percent AI.

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah

    abcnews.go.com /Politics/biden-administration-pauses-ammunition-shipments-israel-us-officials/story

  • Anon has nerdy hobbies

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  • What is it about role-playing that's strictly masculine? Like, why does the group have to be gendered?

  • lipids

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  • I just fucking tried to look up cholegolasterol.

  • Bob-onic plague

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  • Don't pin this shit on me.

  • The Onion @midwest.social
    Bob @midwest.social

    Area Man Unsure If He's Male-Bonding Or Being Bullied

  • AI generated yearbook

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  • Whiter than... Something really white.

  • God has allowed me to live another day, and I'm going to make it everyone's problem

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  • Put some soles on these and make thieves wear them instead of throwing them in jail.

  • Android @lemdro.id
    Bob @midwest.social

    Remember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?

  • Ohio @midwest.social
    Bob @midwest.social

    Pre- and Post-Outcomes: Ohio's Permitless Carry Law

    www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov /Files/Briefing-Room/News-Releases/2023-Pre-and-Post-Outcomes-Ohio%E2%80%99s-Permitless-Carry.aspx
  • aww @lemmy.world
    Bob @midwest.social

    A Dog and His Domain

  • Canning & Food Preservation @midwest.social
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    non-standard recipes

  • Sport Wrestling @lemmy.world
    Bob @midwest.social
    FRE

    Women's Freestyle U20 World Championship Playlist

    youtube.com /playlist
  • Reddit @lemmy.ml
    Bob @midwest.social

    I Just Discovered Reddit Has Subscribed Me too Subreddits I Never Joined. Hell, Some of These I've Never Visited

  • Missouri | The Show-Me State @midwest.social
    Bob @midwest.social

    Missouri Agrees Fundraising Campaign To Switch the State to Freedom Voting

    actionnetwork.org /groups/show-me-integrity-action-fund
  • Sport Wrestling @lemmy.world
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    FRE

    Senior World Team Members Elor, Kilty Among Stars On Women’s Freestyle U23 World Team Set To Compete In Finland

    www.teamusa.org /USA-Wrestling/Features/2023/June/28/Elor-Kilty-among-stars-on-womens-freestyle-U23-World-Team
  • Sport Wrestling @lemmy.world
    Bob @midwest.social
    FRE

    Senior World Team Members Elor, Kilty Among Stars On Women’s Freestyle U23 World Team Set To Compete In Finland

    www.teamusa.org /USA-Wrestling/Features/2023/June/28/Elor-Kilty-among-stars-on-womens-freestyle-U23-World-Team
  • Ask the Midwest @midwest.social
    Bob @midwest.social

    If We Had to Turn One Midwest State Into a National Park, Which Would You Choose and Why?