@masonic_tweets Not yet; was recently legalized in North Dakota.
Currently taking bets on how long it will be before hackers take control of armed police drones and turn them against the operators.
@kristovatlas @alansilbert Sir, do you have a license to operate that computer?
@jgarzik It would be quite helpful to update the BIP with the logic behind the 20th percentile choice and its implications.
@kristovatlas @alansilbert @MrHodl Maybe if we just give guns to our enemies, they’ll kill each other for us ;-)
@kristovatlas @alansilbert There also a “freedom vs safety” debate floating around here somewhere…
@alansilbert Perhaps we should be asking why Switzerland, which has extremely high gun ownership rates, doesn’t have same problems.
@alansilbert Very hard to compare US to other countries when there are so many variables; can’t really have a control group to isolate them.
@alansilbert I think such debates should differentiate between rational and irrational actors, though.
@alansilbert It was meant to be ridiculous; IMO the root problems are psychological and sociological.
@alansilbert If the problem is ease of mass destruction, I guess we should have stricter regulation on pressure cookers too…
@alansilbert Firearm vs bladed weapons vs blunt weapons. You might be surprised by how many people are murdered with hammers.
@alansilbert Of course more guns == more events happen w/guns. I wish such reports would do side-by-side with other weapons.
Still scratching my head over why @jgarzik chose to use the 20th percentile of block size votes in BIP100 rather than median or mean.