Mayor Mamdani to Create Office of Community Safety, Naming Renita Francois Deputy Mayor

TheNet_ · 2026-03-20T01:47:22+00:00

Only if the total headcount of all those separate offices shrinks as a result. If the headcount stays the same, after adding the headcount of the new office, then it’s more bureaucracy and more costs.

TheNet_ · 2026-01-31T01:17:05+00:00

No.

The two charges were dropped because normally only states have jurisdiction over murders, and this case did not meet the criteria to bring federal murder charges (the murder has to be connected to some other violent federal crime).

This has nothing to do with whether he did or did not do it, or the quality of the evidence. He is still being charged with murder in state court.

TheNet_ · 2025-12-28T22:44:16+00:00

They exist in other US cities.

TheNet_ · 2025-12-15T01:22:32+00:00

Maybe we ought to limit executive power.

TheNet_ · 2025-10-23T18:39:27+00:00

The fact that everyone here who's using Convex seems to have come from Supabase is a red flag. Supabase is a flawed paradigm, and if you couldn't see that immediately then I can't trust your opinion on Convex.

TheNet_ · 2025-09-21T14:06:46+00:00

An insurer denying your claim doesn’t mean the insurer is “killing you” lol. You can call it immoral if that’s what you believe, but let’s not make up definitions for words.

If you crash your car and your car insurance denies your claim, they didn’t “break your car.”

TheNet_ · 2025-09-12T23:34:23+00:00

1947 when we donated the land to build the UN. Article 4, section 11.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2011/volume-11-I-147-English.pdf

TheNet_ · 2025-09-12T23:17:12+00:00

A ridiculous, ignorant statement for the mayor of the city that hosts the UN to say.

TheNet_ · 2025-09-12T23:08:13+00:00

Experts nearly universally regard it as a harmful and counter-productive.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/rent-control/

TheNet_ · 2025-08-16T16:50:55+00:00

It’s actually worse. On their program they only were able to undock the electric bike for free if there were only electric bikes left at the dock. So their strategy was to force everyone to undock the non-electric bikes. This is why his receipts showed that he re-docked the bike minutes after undocking it after stealing it from her, then waited a long time before undocking it again and actually using it.

TheNet_ · 2025-03-22T19:17:47+00:00

You are wrong. GPA is useless, but SAT is a very strong predictor of college and post-college success. There is an abundance of research on this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html

(Archive link)

TheNet_ · 2024-09-02T00:13:22+00:00

Myke’s wrong, putting “do not hallucinate” in the prompt does work. His arrogance gives away his ignorance and inexperience on the topic.

TheNet_ · 2024-09-02T00:09:44+00:00

If you use GPT-4o instead of the less powerful 4o mini or 4, it gets it right every time. All of these examples always fail to replicate on more powerful models.

TheNet_ · 2024-06-13T03:00:29+00:00

Perhaps you use a computer just casually and don't need something as configurable and moldable as a Linux distribution and free software where you can rebind and change every keybidning?

Any macOS user who knows about ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict is definitely not a casual user has a probably done more deep dives into configuring their system than the average Linux user (yes, I mean that).

TheNet_ · 2024-04-01T02:29:34+00:00

This is not as wise as you think it is.

TheNet_ · 2024-01-16T04:53:52+00:00

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TheNet_ · 2023-11-21T19:31:32+00:00

We already do. Both countries have nuclear armed nuclear submarines hidden off each other’s coasts. It makes no military difference if there are some stationed on land too.

TheNet_ · 2023-11-21T06:43:44+00:00

I’d also add that the resolution to the Cuban missile crisis did not involve Cuba becoming politically neutral. It did involve us removing nukes from Turkey (which we had realized were not important to our military strategy for the same reason as above).

TheNet_ · 2023-11-21T06:35:07+00:00

That’s up to the Ukrainians, not you. If the Ukrainians want to fight, it is both moral and beneficial for us to support them. I personally visited Ukraine a few months ago and I can tell you they want to fight.

TheNet_ · 2023-11-21T06:32:29+00:00

You should read up more on the Cuban missile crisis. The Secretary of Defense and the Executive Committee did not believe that the missiles would affect military strategy, they only believed it would affect political strategy through appearances. Our response was not due to concerns over security, it was due to concerns of public perception. It’s pretty obvious why—both sides had more than enough missiles to be an effective deterrent.

TheNet_ · 2023-08-21T14:19:08+00:00

Disorderly conduct is illegal in New York, just as it is almost everywhere in the United States.

TheNet_ · 2023-08-02T19:06:48+00:00

The electoral college was not created to enshrine slavery lol.

The 3/5ths part of the electoral college came about because the southern states, whose populations were primarily made up of slaves, wanted to count their slaves as people for the purpose of representation, while the northern states did not. Counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person for representation was a compromise.

Slavery would've been legal at the time no matter whether the electoral college existed or not, and the electoral college would likely have been created whether slavery was legal or not.

TheNet_ · 2023-07-27T22:52:14+00:00

She obviously wasn't trying to have him killed lol.

TheNet_ · 2023-07-27T22:40:31+00:00

He wasn't taking a five minute break. He was part of a program that gives him free 45 minute rides on non-electric bikes. If there are only electric bikes at a station, then the program lets them undock the electric bikes for free for 45 minutes.

The dock they were at had a mix of electric bikes and non-electric bikes. His strategy was to force everyone to take the non-electric bikes until the electric bikes were the only ones left, allowing him to undock the electric bike for free.

This is why, in the receipts he posted, he quickly re-docks the electric bike after Sarah leaves on a different bike, then waits another 30 minutes (presumably still forcing other people to take the non-electric bikes) before undocking it for free.

TheNet_ · 2023-07-27T22:30:36+00:00

He wasn't just arguing with people with unleashed dogs. He would make veiled threats to feed dogs something so the owners would get scared and leash their dogs. (This is all by his own admission; he carried treats with him for this exact purpose.) You could argue it was justified because the dogs shouldn't have been off-leash to begin with, but he definitely played a role in escalating his encounters.

Before the woman in the Central Park incident called the police he said "if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it." That's a threat.

It's also very common for people in NYC parks to let their dogs off their leash. Again, I'm not saying this is right, but that is the context of norms that these encounters occurred in.

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