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by Hasu 4y ago
The value is in training your ethical understanding so you can make better choices in real world scenarios. If you can't answer trolley problems and other thought experiments in a way that is ethically consistent, how can you hope to m
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> How do you know how they got there? That implies so much prior knowledge and background that isn't really considered in the oversimplified "choices" in the website. Maybe they were forced to tie themselves to the railroa
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While I mostly agree, The Lord of the Rings still stands head and shoulders above anything else in the fantasy genre. I recently reread them and I'd forgotten how much better they are than anything else in fantasy.
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Socrates is famous for trolling Athens so hard they made him drink poison.
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The SEC didn't find any evidence of naked shorts in the GameStop debacle. Some people confuse naked shorts - which are currently illegal - with the simple finance fact that the same stock can be shorted more than once. Let's say A
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Which "argument method", asking questions to gain a further understanding of a position both for yourself and the person you're asking? I'm pretty sure that it came from Socrates.
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A million people can't claim to have written The Lord of the Rings and sell copies of it for profit, not without greatly harming J.R.R. Tolkien, who actually did write it. > Animals have been guarding the kills for millions of yea
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by Hasu 4y ago
I'm not talking about current IP laws, exactly. The parent's claim was that physical property laws are "natural" and IP laws are not. I'm saying the concept of property is not natural and some ideas and information
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> So just to be clear, are you arguing for an massive expansion of intellectual property rights to all secrets? No, I'm saying all property rights are constructed and enforced by the state and they're all figments of our collec
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I'd make the distinction that you're describing great managers , not great leaders .
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I disagree strongly. Most people, if they're told their work is "rubbish", or trash, or garbage, or just bad, will react defensively and attempt to justify themselves and validate their work. "I was under time pressure&q
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> So the "leader" instead of giving constructive feedback just says it's garbage and dismisses it? The person being dismissive is not the leader in this example. The person who does a judo move accepting the criticism and
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I'm still not seeing the distinction on a fundamental ontological level. Physical property rights are also just privileges handed out at the whim of the state. There are plenty of examples of ideas that are less useful when they'r
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That's true, and there's going to be a spectrum of measurement, from very measurable roles to roles that are almost impossible to measure. I'd say even in the sales case, something that isn't getting measured is how much
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If the aggregate across all employees is negative, the company is losing money. If the aggregate over all employees is positive, you have profit. It's like that old joke about marketing budgets: half is wasted, but it's impossible
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> Every price has some elasticity, but the fact is that if a worker earns an employer $8 an hour in revenue, they're not going to pay that worker $9 an hour, and if the minimum wage was greater than $8 an hour, then that worker woul
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by Hasu 4y ago
> If the worker has swastikas on his FB page fire him immediately and inform the FBI. In the United States, it isn't illegal to be a Nazi, so I don't know why you would contact the FBI or what you expect they would do about it.
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Microsoft's BASIC evolved into Visual Basic and still exists as the .NET platform. Amazon still sells books. Netflix still operates their mail order DVD company. All three do a bunch of other things now, but those products allowed the
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by Hasu 4y ago
This is entirely off topic, but how are Elixir or Kotlin "modern C replacements"? Elixir is built off of Erlang and has influences from Ruby and Clojure, and Kotlin is a replacement for Java. Rust, Nim, Zig, and Go are all fair ga
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by Hasu 4y ago
Bryan Caplan didn't even write the article, Caplan just posted it. The article is by David Edwards, who is a mathematics professor. This is literally the first line of the posted link. EDIT: I would add that Caplan is a working researc
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Not the same elections. There are people running for state positions now who say that in future elections, they will overturn the results in favor of their party's side if the future election doesn't go their way. The coup isn&#x2
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I don't think it's easily fixable, but I don't think the author's advice to embrace office politics is very good advice for most people, because it isn't easily fixable, and if you're low on the org chart and
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I don't think this is useful for most employees. The writer has the perspective of an executive - someone making the decisions. Politics at that level is high stakes and about managing relationships. In my experience, politics get more
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> But if you are going to claim its an actual genre, like I've seen many do, then you will need to provide a description of the style that manages to include what people generally consider pop while excluding what they don't. A
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I can't reply to your other comment, so I'll do it here, and this will likely be my last comment in this thread, because I don't think you're being a very good discussion partner. I explicitly noted that there are probab
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I never claimed that.
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There isn't good evidence suggesting anything is "100% completely safe", but yes, the vast majority of meditation research shows mild positive benefits for practitioners, and the medical consensus is that meditation is perfec
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There's even more tons of research showing positive effects from meditation. Meditation research generally is low quality, as is suffers from lack of defined methodology, lack of a consensus definition of what meditation is, and the ge
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Sure, it's a coarse and crude method that isn't perfect, but the point is that almost no one that practices "secular meditation" has any problems whatsoever - there is simply no good evidence supporting that meditation p
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I can use Google, and found this [1] article claiming over 4 million DAUs for Calm in June of 2020, with trendlines going up and to the right. So the lower bound of your estimate gives us ~200,000 people who would be adversely affected. Loo

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