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by Pils 6y ago
I'm not sure that the person you are responding to is making a dignity argument on the topic of government assistance versus private giving. On this topic, I usually come across these arguments: 1) in an economic downturn, one would ex
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Ultimately it boils down to an allocation problem. If you think that wealthy folks can better allocate surplus value into social programs than the government then you will support private donation schemes. If not, you support the "welf
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I assume the person you are responding to is referring to the charity “crowd out” effect. Google it if you want a bunch of questionable observational studies.
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> The Devil can indeed cite Scripture for his purposes. My point exactly. Aphorisms such as "Liberal consensus" don't exist in a vacuum, and are often used as an excuse for intervention rather than a protection against int
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by Pils 6y ago
Determining how discourse occurs, its rules and the dividing line correct and incorrect speech is built in to the democratic process, not some holy "rules of the game" handed down by God. Your misguided understanding of "libe
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by Pils 6y ago
>Is it really immoral to have immigration checkpoints, borders and laws... and corresponding enforcement of those laws? I think you are letting your subjective moral lens cloud your judgement. The fact of the matter is certain immigratio
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by Pils 6y ago
This article is weird. It was published in six months ago, but the author recently expanded on the argument in a piece for Palladium[0]. Palladium of course being the Thiel-funded long form magazine co-founded by alt-right anti-semite Jonah
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by Pils 6y ago
Malmab personnel interviewed at the end of the article: > But isn’t concealing documents based on footnotes in books an attempt to lock the barn door after the horses have bolted? > “I gave you an example that this needn’t be the case
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by Pils 6y ago
Someone posted this flowchart in a previous HN thread on Causal Inference frameworks: https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book (I picked up Counterfactuals and Causal Inference and Elements of Causal Inferen
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by Pils 6y ago
Funnily enough, the slatestarcodex thread on this article agrees with you. I found this one comment extremely illustrative of the dynamics in this current thread: >Overall, I’m pretty impressed by this article. It’s the sort of thing I c
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by Pils 6y ago
I'm unsure how the supposed bad behavior on Taylor's part reduces your confidence in the original Away article, which was written by a completely separate journalist, but I'm sure you have a good reason to make such an infere
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by Pils 6y ago
The Quora piece contains a lot of conjecture on the part of the author, who clearly has an ax to grind with the media. If you don't believe the conspiracy that "the Verge media outlet is specifically targeting female founders&quot
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by Pils 6y ago
I didn't really see that. For example, DHH was extremely critical of Balaji's shenanigans. It seemed like rationalist twitter (most likely due to the anti-NYT sentiment relating to the SSC drama) + some VCs vs the rest of Online T
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by Pils 6y ago
I'm agreeing with the parent comment about the chilling effect that radical political groups can have on moderate dissent. White Nationalism's relationship with Law Enforcement/military is pretty well documented, and is very
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by Pils 6y ago
In some ways this seems endemic to all organizations with >1000 or so people. It's crazy the extent that white nationalist orgs have infiltrated Law Enforcement/US military. That being said, in many ways companies/organiza
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by Pils 6y ago
The poster you are responding to is not making his argument in good faith. He is more than fine posting inflammatory political statements on HN: >The benefits of diversity is the Left’s pseudoscience...I want climate deniers and diversit
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by Pils 6y ago
>But the current fact-checking approach is flawed as it requires human judgment, which is hobbled by people's biases and potential lack of topical expertise. This is a true statement. >A better approach may be to offer a resource
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Semicolonless Java 1.1 is Turing-complete(github.com)
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> And let me state that I find it incredible that many people such as yourself believe that people (especially teenagers) can't be victims of indoctrination, can't possibly feel genuine remorse for their mistakes as teenagers,
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by Pils 6y ago
> [citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_and_the_death_pe... . There are quite a few under-18 cases. > "the pursuit of happiness" (one of the three inalienable rights upon which my
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by Pils 6y ago
You appear to have issues with my statement, but also don't seem willing to provide a coherent rebuttal. If you are willing to speak your mind plainly and clearly, feel free to edit your comment. Since you evoked concentration camps, I
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by Pils 6y ago
Lets be clear, he showed remorse once he was caught, but none before then. What dues did he pay? He appears to have moved on from that stage of his life fairly quickly, and appears to never have been rejected employment/housing via bac
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by Pils 6y ago
or, more simply, "I'm sorry I got caught" Look, the man participated in a drive-by shooting on a synagogue when he was a legal adult. It's disgusting that people on this site are defending a literal terrorist because &qu
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by Pils 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breas... > American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing language that called on governments to “protect, promote and suppor
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by Pils 6y ago
> In the US, voting is a state issue, for better or worse, and there are plenty of examples of states where voting is reasonable. 7 people got infected in Wisconsin due to voting: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news&
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by Pils 6y ago
If a country is unwilling to make reasonable accommodations for working people to vote, defending in-person protests during a global pandemic as necessary for said country's democracy is beyond parody.
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You literally made a new definition of "hoax" on the fly to fit your truth model. You steamrolled over a contradiction in your logic and then go accusing people of lying for not doing the same!
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"If the government can take away fundamental rights via executive fiat then we never had rights in the first place, we had permissions" I mean, isn't that the definition of rights? If the government can take away fundamental
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by Pils 7y ago
What does a factcheck of spliced Biden campaign video have to do with the issue at hand? The quotes I pulled were directly from the transcript.
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by Pils 7y ago
Here's the quote from the Snopes article: > Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They g

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