ImSkeptical

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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If you are curious, I suggest you read my comments in this chain.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The scenario I'm describing doesn't involve any sort of violence or torture, which again, makes me think you're missing my point or conflating my position with something else.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Lines have to be drawn frequently. It's okay to use a tazer or even a gun in some circumstances, others, not. With the torture case, we'd have to see that the benefit vastly exceeds the harm, and that reasonable measures were exha
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think you're confusing my position, and the contents of my comments, with something else.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I hope my scenario has never happened, but nothing about it is implausible. The point though is to illustrate that there are moments where pragmatism must trump laws and values. If you look, there are many times throughout history where suc
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think that's a bit extreme and a black and white way of thinking. For example, suppose you're heading an FBI group, and you've got a suicidal terrorist in custody who is part of a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in LA. You
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
This is the great strength of capitalism. We might hear about the plot of South African and mourn their descent into dehydration as a dark future that awaits many. Or, the capitalists among us might realize that there is money to be made in
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Thanks for putting this together and sharing it. Really interesting read. I know it's a bit personal, but would you mind attaching numbers to the notion of small scale profitability?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'm surprised at the good reviews of the Roomba here. I got one a few years, and found it basically worthless. Everyday I'd come home and find the inventive way my Roomba had discovered to fail. Somedays it would get stuck on a ch
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The consequences of the error matter to the extent that the consequences of the error are predictably extreme. I'll give an example. I work in an office building with many floors that have exact same layout. One day I was on a floor
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think a series of false alarms would have the effect you describe. However, based on some of the reactions I'm seeing online, I wonder if a one-off false alarm will cause a lot of people to figure out what they should be doing if th
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'd say we just don't have enough information. It's possible someone deserves to be fired for this - e.g. if the alarm was intentional or negligent. It's also possible it was a misclick, confusing UI, etc, in which the
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
He's on tape saying that women will let you do anything when you're rich and famous. That's certainly a crude thing to say, and an unhelpful attitude toward women. However, you may not be aware of this, but both the Nazis an
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Are you suggesting Trump is like Nazis or ISIS? Can you point out Trump's most Nazi/ISIS like action?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Have you read his memo? It seemed very mild and grounded in reason to me. Your claim that it was secretly anti-diversity is a bit infuriating as Damore goes to great pains to state he is in favor of diversity, and part of his memo is about
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
>in the summer of 1970, Newsweek ran a cover story titled “Is Privacy Dead?” detailing the “massive flanking attack” of computers on modern society. Growing awareness of that threat led to broad appeals that echo modern proposals to regu
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'm not sure why. My sister has an Instagram where she takes a couple of pictures of her kids a day, and has for the past five or six years, and I quite enjoy it. I know many of my family members do too. I visit a URL that just shows m
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think people have a tendency to find meaning in things they've done after the fact. In this way, waiting on a boring conversation becomes a lesson in the difficulties of life. This is the root of "character building" activi
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'm fairly sure that feature already exists. On Amazon tablets (and phone) it's called Free Time or child profiles. I'm confident there's an Android equivalent. If not, on a rooted Android phone you could just run your o
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
No problem. Thanks for clarifying. I fully agree that any instance where a refusal is not respected is a problem.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Their stock price was temporarily damaged, and they had to have an awkward hearing in front of congress - that seems light when compared to their negligence which handed over financial and personal information for most of the country to hac
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I can see how it would in some situations. From the article's description though it sounded like a lot of the women at the parties worked in different fields. So, while I fully agree it would be a problem for the CEO to be hitting on i
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'm fairly confident that consent is an adequate defense against the charge of rape. I completely agree that consent can be revoked or modified and that nobody should be passed around like a joint against their will. That's not wh
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Can you explain further, please? Which events reported in the article were not consensual?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I agree that sex without consent is bad, a crime, rape, etc. I hope nothing I've written would ever be construed otherwise. My point here is that there seems to be affirmative consent, as you say. The example with the young woman who m
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think if you consent to go to the sex party, you consent to physical romantic activity, you consent to taking the drug knowing your context and what the drug will do, and then you consent to sex throughout the experience, it's hard t
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think the part that is keeping women down is the expectation that women will exercise this option you're describing.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
This article makes me wonder, what, exactly, is wrong and what is supposed to be done about this. I get that it seems exploitative and probably does have consequences for social attitudes at work, but what I don't understand is what&#x
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
>Sure, you can't publish your Harry Potter fanfiction There is an enormous amount of Harry Potter fanfiction. You're restricted from selling it though. But, as an author of twilight fanfiction proved, when you're ready to
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Buffet's comments are just nonsense though. He doesn't pay a lower rate on capital gains tax than his secretary does. Buffet is comparing federal income tax rate to capital gains tax, that's comparing two different things,

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