Dove

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by Dove 14y ago
Hypocracy implies no desire to change. The US did, eventually, deliver on its promises. That says to me that the ideals were aspirational, not hypocritical.
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't think this is a very strong piece. The essay proceeds in three broad sections. In the first, he unpacks the "I've got nothing to hide" argument into its strongest form, and does a fine job of it. In the second, he talks about priv
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by Dove 14y ago
This article says its 50 civilians killed for every targeted militant. If true, that's horrific, and I'll be the first to criticize it. But I'm going to need to see some methodology on that before I believe you. In particular, given that
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by Dove 14y ago
I think it's present, but not a dominant factor. Depends on culture and training. What Milgram measured was how inexperienced people react to a new ethical situation. If he had tested people who were familiar with the context--fellow scie
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by Dove 14y ago
Better weapons mean more civilian deaths. Counterintuitively, this isn't true. Suppose you need to take out a bridge. Are you more likely to kill civilians with a PGM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision-guided_munition ) or with a
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by Dove 14y ago
All right, but isn't categorizing anyone who isn't "a militant leader confirmed dead by two news sources" as a civilian . . . a little over the top? And anyway, disagreeing with the categorization of combatants is a separate question. They
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by Dove 14y ago
Not at all. I said that there are already soldiers in the situation where their targets are lights on a screen, and they already treat the situation with the appropriate gravity. I claimed that drones wouldn't change that. Milgram prove
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by Dove 14y ago
Soldiers, at least in our military, are also trained to counter this effect: they take an oath to obey lawful orders, and they know they have a duty to disobey unlawful orders. In fact, the modern soldier knows that if he obeys an illega
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by Dove 14y ago
This is a very serious charge. Whether it's with drones, artillery, rifles, or bare hands doesn't matter. If they have solid evidence of the military intentionally (or recklessly) targeting civilian first-responders, I'd think they should
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by Dove 14y ago
In fact, the collateral fatalities from drone attacks are one of the highest at 98%, according to some estimates [1]. I think you're confused. The relevant paragraph in your link says the collateral damage -- both civilians and unknown
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by Dove 14y ago
I think that's a rather silly fear. If the targets on your screen were real people, would you not take the situation seriously? Or, let's put it another way. Bombers don't interface with targets personally; they're on the screen. Fighte
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't think it's that simple. For starters, there's probably a very short list of people who own tacocopters, let alone people who own grenades. If it becomes a problem, I can think of countermeasures -- register the things, ban them in
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by Dove 14y ago
Scan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_... The crusades are probably smaller, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of world population, than you realized. I'm not sure how many of those events you can offi
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by Dove 14y ago
I will just say that if you believe in God and miracles then you don't need an alternative explanation for [anything] Not at all. Here's a crude thought experiment: suppose you believed in a God who performed confirmed miracles, but who
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by Dove 14y ago
I wonder if he'll ever collide with this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4906456
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by Dove 14y ago
you won't someday be promoted to manager of the cleaning staff Actually, that's exactly what will happen. You'll do the job. Then you'll learn how to do it well. Then your job will be to teach others to do it well. Then you'll become
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by Dove 14y ago
Correlation may not equal causation, but it does definitely count as empirical support. The slides I posted may not prove that minimum wage causes unemployment among the lower skilled, but they certainly support the idea. At a minimum
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by Dove 14y ago
That's the idealized assumption . . . I think the data supports it pretty well, too. Minimum wage is reasonably well correlated with unemployment among lower-educated workers. http://www.learnliberty.org/sites/default/files/Davies_0.pd
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by Dove 14y ago
Do you have any good pointers or references for Android dev in these kinds of environments? No, not really. I haven't really done much of it myself, just seen a lot of chatter about it. The specs I see, compared to the average smartphon
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by Dove 14y ago
I do Android freelancing, and I'm starting to see requests for apps that look more like traditional embedded software than smartphone apps. Controllers for industrial equipment, personal medical devices, props in simulations. Real Technol
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by Dove 14y ago
anti-health-care people have no such reasons If you think it's that one-sided, you need to spend more time listening to the opposition. Here are some good reasons to oppose public health care: - It will be more expensive due to governmen
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by Dove 14y ago
newer generations keep voting against their own interests. Yes, this is normal. People do not vote for their own interests. As a rule, they vote unselfishly, in a way that they believe reflects the community or national interests. [1] I
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by Dove 14y ago
Wow. About every three years I find out that zombo.com still exists, and am surprised and delighted all over again.
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by Dove 14y ago
I think that will happen to the extent that people want it to. It's happening now, in fact, with things like semi-retirement and freelancing and professional (but not rich) bloggers/web comic authors and so forth on the rise. You can liv
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by Dove 14y ago
Indeed. The out-of-work teenager doesn't necessarily need to start the business himself--someone will see the opportunity--but it is helpful if he can. I think it is a better mindset to try to be useful than to seek a job.
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by Dove 14y ago
It's 2020. Lots of teenagers don't have jobs and would like them. Someone starts a new business based on the available cheap labor. Dog poop scooping? Personal couriers? Game testing? Something we haven't thought of because the relevan
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by Dove 14y ago
Could someone post an example of a group preference configuration in which the group prefers (A over B) and (B over C) but (C over A)? Sure, that's easy to construct. Peter's preferences: A, B, C Paul's: B, C, A Mary's: C, A
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by Dove 14y ago
Day-UM! I am not charging enough for Android work.
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by Dove 14y ago
I agree, it's good to get in the habit of letting your accomplishments speak for themselves. Your work is stronger for it, and you don't feel like you've lost anything when you grow up and your age is no longer special.
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by Dove 14y ago
I suppose there's an exception to the rule: when I'm seeking out a product that I already intended to buy, I'm not above using the salesman as an expert on his own product line. That usually goes pretty well. But man, when the unwanted ups

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