Kednicma

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Fred's employer needs labor. Fred is doing labor which the employer doesn't know it should value. The employer needs to learn about the cost of maintaining code over time; everyone would love to be in a position to produce feature
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I'm arguing that colonialism has lasting negative pragmatic effects in the world. Further, I'm arguing that we should not practice colonialism, and that we should actively work to decolonize; this makes me one of the anti-colonial
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People are alive today who experienced apartheid, who cannot visit their family because of the India–Pakistan border, or who remember when the Ireland–Northern Ireland border was "troubled". (What an amazing euphemism for a horrif
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Sure, let's have some more nuance during our education. But let's also not let the UK off the hook; off the top of my head, during the same century, the UK starved their own people at home in Ireland [0], propped up the Raj while
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I've told upper management directly, in front of their employees, that they're breaking the law. That was a fun day; my director directly told me to not be a trouble-maker and to knock it off if I wanted to keep my job. Ultimately
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Thank you! This is the response I came to find/make. The sun's color, when observed by our eyeballs, is "pain" or "ow" or "I can't tell" or something like that, exactly. The sun's color is a
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Christianity is so very sticky; trying to clean it off just results in more of it getting gunked around. At this point, I've structured my thoughts around religions so that my default assumption is that all religious beliefs are delusi
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Great idea; let's have USPS administer it, like they used to do for money orders and wire transactions. No sense in replacing Mastercard with Google.
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It's a book! I was expecting a short paper along the lines of [0] or [1] but this is going to take a while to evaluate. Nonetheless I like the surface-level presentation and it seems like the author takes the time to carefully explain
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The NYT is bootlicking with this article; they entirely left out that Seattle did defund their police, cutting their budget by about half. So did Portland. But NYT would rather focus on how scared business owners feel, because that's
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Go compare the USA and its suicide, gun ownership, and veteran rates, as a composite metric, with Switzerland and Israel, which I'm choosing because they're rich democracies with mandatory military service and relatively high rate
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Languages in the Loglan family, notably Lojban, have an explicit audio-visual isomorphism which maps phonemes to/from letters. In theory, this should allow people to learn to read and write long after they have learned how to listen an
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Firearm owners are primarily a danger to themselves, followed by those close to them. Our long-standing epidemic of firearm-induced suicide could be tempered by better gun regulation.
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Surely you mean that if it were not on Amazon, then you would have written it off. The subjunctive mood is important when considering counterfactual possibilities.
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This sort of fundamental misunderstanding of engineer productivity is precisely why we're so tired. Our emotions and our ability to produce aren't simply under your control. We are fundamentally about maintaining systems, and prod
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I don't think that I've really retreated; I had started on UBI and copyright in my very top post. But let's get specific! (Also, just as a side note, please grok that UBI does not have qualifications; that's rather the p
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I wouldn't lump you with IP maximalists; I'd lump you with status-quo supporters. There is a way forward for our society, and your entire response is that I should read a book or two and think harder about my position. It's n
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The author is dangerously close to realizing that all property rights are incoherent! Just take the contrapositive of your current position, and then keep going. Economics still works fine. The funny thing, though, is that information doe
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The author is so very close to realizing that intellectual property is incoherent in the fact of information theory, and also that universal basic income is an essential component of a hyperwealthy neoliberal democracy. We could be a cult
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Of course; there are no good people, anywhere, at all; good is a fiction that we tell each other in order to justify our atrocities. In this particular instance, it can be the case that all of the Colombian, Venezuelan, and American gover
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It's a missing link in our modern sci-fi dystopia. This sort of tooling is how the drones know where to fly to hunt down the intentional community of rebels trying to take down the oppressive systems. The fact that we are using this to
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More SNARK work. I don't know how I feel about this; SNARKs are as simple as SAT solving and as prone to misexplanation as monads. Still, maybe they are the way forward; after all, anything which encrypts a TM efficiently offline is go
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To flesh out the sibling comment with formality: the periodic table of categories [0] gives the zero-dimensional objects as "trivial". This isn't to say that they're empty, or just points, even though those are both reas
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Are you in Portland right now? I don't know who in the city you've been talking to, but that is not the consensus that I am picking up from folks on the street. Folks are tagging buildings and infrastructure faster than it can be
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People have already been shot [0], so I'm not sure I see your point. I'm not sure why you've brought up CHAZ/CHOP other than as a non sequitur; people are not attempting to establish an autonomous zone downtown. Nonethel
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I know that people will complain about the news source, so here are local journalists covering the same phenomenon [0][1]. The past two nights have been marked by a withdrawal of federal and city police, and a corresponding drop in violence
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WaPo wasn't the only recipient of the leak. The other, Lawfare, covered this as well [0]. "I&A personnel are permitted to engage in physical surveillance, the use of mail covers, and the use of monitoring devices," as lon
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I wonder whether this will lead to some sort of passport system, where people traveling to Europe force Facebook to transfer account data from one continent to another, but without being allowed to link account activities across continents.
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My impression is that everybody in the Bronze and Iron Ages were more violent, and my aim is to advocate for less violence overall, including less religious violence. It happens that the religious violence is rooted in religion, and it also
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Because we have biological evidence for a sexuality which is richer than his socially-constructed binary sexuality. Specifically, we know about intersex [0] chromosomal arrangements, and we know that they don't just neatly fall into

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