Buldak

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by Buldak 8y ago
To the extent that regulatory capture is itself an inevitable outcome of capitalism, maybe.
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This seems like a common refrain for most bad things these days, but I doubt it's true in the case of police killings. At the very least, it seems inarguable that related trends like police militarization have drastically increased.
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I don't think civil forfeiture is what people concerned to record police encounters have in mind. That is, I don't expect that video evidence is likely to decide such cases. What, exactly, would you be looking for? In the example
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by Buldak 8y ago
I can see it working the other way. That is, parents who are not college-educated (who are immigrants, poorer etc.) are more likely to view education in practical terms. You need a certain level of affluence to view college as a more purely
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by Buldak 8y ago
Considering how weak labor unions are in the United States, the notion of an effective student union seems positively quaint. Oddly, in my experience the phrase "student union" usually refers to a campus center, not an actual unio
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by Buldak 8y ago
The first result in my Google search: https://www.ucsusa.org/publications/ask/2012/NC-sea-level.ht...
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by Buldak 8y ago
Despite completing degrees in philosophy, I've never experienced the sort of "Socratic" method that is apparently practiced in law schools. I gather that the harm consists, not in the general method of posing questions, but t
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by Buldak 8y ago
The fact that scooters can be used in such ways is not a compelling case that they're more dangerous than cars. If anything, what strikes me is that a scooter on the sidewalk seems outrageous to some people, by contrast, largely becaus
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by Buldak 8y ago
>According to the protesters, cheating is endemic in China, so being forced to sit the exams without help put their children at a disadvantage. As absurd as this sounds, my sense is that there's a similar impulse behind more banal g
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by Buldak 8y ago
We like the idea of technological solutions that don't require us to change our lifestyle or make hard choices. Driverless cars are appealing because they would allow us to largely maintain the status quo (as opposed to, say, reorienti
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by Buldak 8y ago
I have difficulty seeing the Iraq War (or Vietnam, or really any war since WW2) as a source of unity among Americans.
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>This used to be much more common in the past. Source?
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>eat anything but rice and beans ... This reads like a descent into satire.
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Presumably the difference is that Amazon is much more likely to punish you for it. I worked at a grocery store in college (Roundy's) and I was never "terrified" about failing to push memberships.
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I guess I don't see having a loving relationship with one's kids as a matter of "tactics."
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by Buldak 8y ago
Where do you get the impression that the "modern left" values equality of outcomes tout court ? In my experience, the argument is rather that inequality of outcomes is evidence of inequality of opportunity, or other injustices. Y
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by Buldak 8y ago
"Understand" to what extent? Knowing the plot? The morals in broad strokes?
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I would have thought that we've lived in a car-centric culture for generations now, though. How would cars explain why loneliness and isolation have risen just recently?
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People are thoroughly capable of believing this about other people, never mind non-human animals.
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I haven't seen much to suggest that this is the sort of issue that animates second amendment sort of people.
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I gather Popper criticized those theories himself, so you could read this as simply a description of his arguments, rather than an endorsement.
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by Buldak 8y ago
I remember reading about this topic in philosophy class, namely, the Pessimistic Induction [1]. I've wondered if a similar argument could be made for moral progress. Certainly, many people are quick to make similarly skeptical argument
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Why is that a problem principally a problem of globalism rather than capitalism?
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My sense is that "baby" is a term of endearment that is typically addressed to someone in particular. Similarly, you might express affection for someone by calling them "dear" or "honey," but it would be weird
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I can imagine Thiel being perturbed by that verbiage.
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>Defenestrations, torches and pitchforks have been traditional solutions to rulers not acting in the interest of the populace. I'd guess the people involved in those rebellions felt the effects of bad governance much more acutely an
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by Buldak 8y ago
Is that a good comparison? How often does the average person actually see either of those things? The reason it's surprising that people struggle to draw bikes from memory is that most of us see them all the time.
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by Buldak 8y ago
Fiction as in "Hunger Games," maybe. But I think that literary fiction can be more more demanding and more edifying than almost any non-fiction or technical writing. I tend to be suspicious of people whose reading lists just look
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by Buldak 8y ago
This reminds me of the observation you often see that when men get into bodybuilding or grow their beards it's often not women, but other men, who seem most impressed.
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I could be more easily convinced that loss of endangered species is trivial than that enterprises like mining constitute "human progress."

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