Jiro

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by Jiro 4y ago
>Negligence means "failure to take proper care in doing something", which is often just called an accident. This is not true, because you're equivocating on the word "proper". An accident is failure to take prop
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by Jiro 4y ago
A cop killing an innocent civilian at a nonviolent traffic stop can pretty much happen only because of malice or negligence. We use the word "accident", but it's never really an accident. If a nurse accidentally kills someo
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by Jiro 4y ago
This fails to correct for how many fathers won't even ask for custody because there's such a low chance of getting it. If it was the 19th century and I observed that most women who took the bar exam passed the bar exam, would that
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by Jiro 4y ago
>That means that, in normal times, hotels go through ~3.3m bars of soap every day. ... >Every year, it has been estimated that the hospitality industry generates ~440B pounds of solid waste — much of it soap and bottled amenities. Inn
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by Jiro 4y ago
>The fuss is about the state deciding what Florida schools can and cannot do. The state decides what Florida schools do because the state runs Florida schools. My employer tells me to do things all the time.
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by Jiro 4y ago
Accomodating an individual X is essentially free. Having a policy of accommodating all the X's that turn up is not free because those small individual expenditures add up.
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by Jiro 4y ago
They should require banks to forgive loans, rather than forgiving Federally-backed loans. If you require banks to forgive loans (or if you allow loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy), you create an incentive for the banks to loan money
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by Jiro 4y ago
A document stating what the policy is does not address a complaint about a bad or loophole-filled policy.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I just checked ebay. Real ones sell for $100-200 US. There are also fakes, most of which admit in the description that they are fakes, and include extremely large numbers like 10^33. The highest number that you can get cheaply and that is
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Well, you quoted an exact phrasing and said it was routine. You're being overly literal in a way that's too common on the Internet. Whether the exact words are common is irrelevant. Things that are substantively like it are
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by Jiro 5y ago
The exact phrase appears few times, but similar things abound. The first one I tried is the Donald Trump article, which for obvious reasons I'd expect this sort of weaseling in. I wasn't disappointed. "Trump's election
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by Jiro 5y ago
Learning to manage money includes making correct decisions about whether a course of action is worth it. Forcing a child to save when he'd be better off not saving teaches the right lesson about what saving is, and the wrong lesson ab
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by Jiro 5y ago
"He was accused by many" is routine in other Wikipedia articles and is one of the ways experienced Wikipedians learn to sneak bias into articles.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Many of those things are the Wikipedia equivalent of legal fictions. They may not be true in any meaningful sense. News reports have very little accountability outside of cases where someone can sue the newspaper, and the "analysis&q
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by Jiro 5y ago
It's "working as intended" in the sense that its rules are being followed. The problem is that the rules are only there because we want Wikipedia to actually be useful as a source of knowledge, and the rules which demand rem
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by Jiro 5y ago
If you were an employer who fired someone in this situation for no reason other than having a panic attack without hurting anyone, you'd probably lie and say that the panic attack put you in fear that he'd hurt someone.
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by Jiro 5y ago
You're being sarcastic, but I can think of a number of cases where someone could have expressed that opinion seriously and been pretty much correct, including Jews under the Nazis, and the Ukrainians now. You can't reduce politics
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by Jiro 5y ago
There's the theory that the aliens are really demons and it's not water they're vulnerable to, but holy water .
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by Jiro 5y ago
>"The Nazis are evil" is also an overused trope and is hardly radical but by reusing it it helps protect us on a civilizational level from actual nazis. It's enabled people like Valdimir Putin, who managed to invade a coun
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by Jiro 5y ago
That link just says there was an embargo against arming that specific movement in Ukraine, not against arming Ukraine.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Libertarians oppose fraud. Software that deletes your files on purpose, in a context where people reasonably expect it not to delete your files on purpose, is fraud unless thete's a notice on it prominent enough to make the expectatio
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by Jiro 5y ago
Insurance shouldn't (but probably will anyway) go up when your brake pedal is discovered to be defective, because the insurance is there to pay for the financial loss caused by the defective pedal. The loss in the resale value of your
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by Jiro 5y ago
If Russia stopped bombing places with "children" written on them, Ukraine would just write "children" on important places that they didn't want to be bombed.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Generally, if you're asking person X to spend money they don't want to spend, claiming that it's in their own best interest, it probably isn't.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Flat minimalism (compared to using words) is popular because you don't need to have translations of square, circle, and triangle into foreign languages. (Square, circle, and triangle is also the old Electronic Arts logo, but that'
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by Jiro 5y ago
It's like asking why consumers go for low prices rather than good quality. Similar answer: Because it's easy for companies to hide poor quality, but impossible to hide high prices. (Although companies do their best to hide price
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by Jiro 5y ago
There's a persistent belief on the Internet that if something is literally true under some strained reading, it cannot be said to deceive. It can. To "make" roast chicken, unless it specifically says otherwise, implies coo
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by Jiro 5y ago
This has dozens of links in it, almost none of which (maybe exactly none of which) really support the point in a meaningful way other than to say "this thing exists" or "something that sounds the same, that may or may not be
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Popular Hollywood female villains, maybe. Well, this is about "modern movies".
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by Jiro 5y ago
Captain Marvel's reference to being too emotional is a specific feminist shibboleth ( https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/You%27re_being_emotiona ...), which is "not explicitly a gender thing" only becaus

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