berryjerry (u/berryjerry)

berryjerry commented on San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us... · Posted by u/tagawa

JI00912 · 5 years ago

> invariably all of them have figured out non-punitive methods of crime reduction that are far more effective than jail

Well.. large segments of our populations commit very little crime. But when crime is committed, the police and the justice system are useless. Convicted for the 350th burglary? They'll be let out again and maybe be back tomorrow, if the prosecutor even bothers prosecuting them since it's pointless.

So DO look at us for crime prevention but NOT for managing crime when it happens.

berryjerry · 5 years ago

Personally I think there should be escalating punishments for crimes to avoid the "350th burglary" and I thought often history was taken into account but I don't know California or San Francisco's laws. So, first time caught shoplifting should be a fine, second should be community service, third some jail, fourth could be more jail, etc. That doesn't really address the danger involved in actually catching a shoplifter. You really just need more police or a way to recognize shoplifters (facial recognition?) at that point so that regular individuals don't have to become enforcers of the laws. It seems most of the tools that could be most effective are being banned or defunded in certain areas of the US. There should be ways to account for false positives, such as confirming a facial recognition software's results, that the person actually was in the area etc.

berryjerry commented on TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M twitter.com/TikTokInvesto... · Posted by u/doener

airhead969 · 5 years ago

I wonder if NFTs are instead facilitating wealth concealment, money laundering, or rich people are throwing money at it for sport rather than deliberate speculation. Or, is there so much irrational speculation occurring as a foreshadowing harbinger of another full Great Depression (rather than the under-recognized pandemic economic pause).

berryjerry · 5 years ago

NFTs are mostly manipulated markets. No that picture of a bitcoin symbol did not sell copies to 300 people for $1000 each, netting them $300,000. It sold to the same person who made the picture 299 times and 1 person who got scammed into thinking there is a market for $1000 images on the internet, netting the owner $1000.

berryjerry commented on Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government thewire.in/tech/as-covid-... · Posted by u/maheshs

esperent · 5 years ago

Twitter waited until a couple of days before the president left office to do that, after waiting through years of flagrant rule violation, and until they were extremely certain of the way public opinion had swung. That was no act of courage from them, it was purely to try and manage public opinion.

berryjerry · 5 years ago

No they banned him from posting while he was still in office.

berryjerry commented on Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government thewire.in/tech/as-covid-... · Posted by u/maheshs

berryjerry · 5 years ago

Twitter will ban the American President but is afraid not to listen to the Indian government. I guess they choose what political parties they want to support.

berryjerry commented on The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go reallifemag.com/money-for... · Posted by u/RuffleGordon

api · 5 years ago

The last part is why so much money is in it. Everyone remembers how everyone said dot.com was over in 2002 when the biggest dot.coms were yet to come. Everyone remembers when everyone laughed at Tesla and SpaceX. Everyone remembers Bitcoin at $1.

There is a hell of a lot of FOMO around.

There are also record low interest rates not just in the USA but globally, and that is inflating every asset at once.

If there is a crash I don’t think it will just be cryptocurrency. It will be broad and deep.

berryjerry · 5 years ago

I see this too. Almost every asset class is moving together. When interest rates can't be dropped further then the real problems will begin. Banks have built floors into their loans so that variable rates can't drop below zero already. At the point when interest rates drop below zero, lower interest rates will actually harm the economy rather than help it and then we'll see everything come crashing down.

berryjerry commented on Brave disables Chromium FLoC features github.com/brave/brave-co... · Posted by u/brunoluiz

londons_explore · 5 years ago

If I must have ads, I'd prefer not be tracked by hundreds of untrustworthy companies, and I'd also prefer not see irrelevant ads... This therefore seems like the best bad option...

berryjerry · 5 years ago

I don't think there is a time in the last decade where I received a "relevant" ad. The most relevant they have been is spamming adverts for products I already purchased.

berryjerry commented on Why inflation is not a threat taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2... · Posted by u/midasuni

coryrc · 5 years ago

    the only market mechanism to force money back into the rest of the system is for interest rates to rise

Or a wealth tax.

berryjerry · 5 years ago

We have wealth taxes. They are called property taxes and inheritance taxes.

berryjerry commented on Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants superwuster.medium.com/li... · Posted by u/spzx

RandallBrown · 5 years ago

> What you see here depends on what time things get posted and how many up-votes posts get.

Is that not a large part of how most social media algorithms work?

berryjerry · 5 years ago

It appears sites regularly add or remove items from their trending lists, both by manual review as well algorithms which are essentially automated manual review by the person who wrote the algorithm. That kind of control is the same as a Newspaper determining what headlines you read and what stories get the most attention, basically controlling the conversation and making editorial decisions.

berryjerry commented on L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash latimes.com/food/story/20... · Posted by u/hbcondo714

whymauri · 5 years ago

>And Uber has gotten legitimately expensive enough that it’s cheaper for me to buy a new Corolla and pay for insurance and gas.

Uh, is this hyperbole?

berryjerry · 5 years ago

Depends how much is being ordered. Some people live off of delivered food now. 3 meals a day at probably a minimum of $10 per order in delivery or 'surcharges', same thing. That's 900 a month.

berryjerry commented on L.A. restaurants struggle with a new form of dine-and-dash latimes.com/food/story/20... · Posted by u/hbcondo714

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK · 5 years ago

Could be easily avoided with cash or crypto payments, in exchange for a discount. But credit card companies forbid cash discounts, which I'm convinced is a fraudulent tactics and should be addressed through legislation.

berryjerry · 5 years ago

This is a real issue. I didn't think it was actually forbidden though but maybe that changed. For years Arco gas station had discounts for using cash.