SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Given the number of deaths caused by STDs, it is perhaps justifiable for such data to be shared in the same fashion as one's Covid-19 status, assuming the sharing of the latter is justified.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>This reminds me far too much of "mandatory overtime" in America. The big difference is the ability to consent and not consent. Yes, some places demand mandatory overtime or you will be terminated, but that is it. They won&#x
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
But it is more of a derived consequence. Maybe not all of their possessions, but enough that you don't enable people to engage in free trade and capitalism.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Property rights are meaningless if they aren't recognized and enforced legally. They can be enforced illegally as well. Now that can be viewed as a shadow state and a shadow legal system operating within the primary one, but under
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
I see a decent number, though I'm not sure I would call them millennials as they seem to be a bit younger. Many I've spoken with seem happy to compromise, and if you asked them further details they all seem to have quite a differ
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>And it is important that those days can overlap with others - what good is a day of fun if you can't do it with friends and family? Depends upon if those in charge of setting this up viewed family as a bad thing. From the article:
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>People who want to learn about a subject at depth are still helped by simple and accessible descriptions. I don't see this as being always true. For example, scientific papers are written in such a way that normally you need a gre
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Wouldn't this be what the simple version is for? One is to be informative to people who know nothing, the other is to be informative to the people who want to learn about it at depth.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Perchance this is related to a system where having wealth is rewarded far more than a reputation for common sense or civic responsibility? It seems like our society is wishful for behavior it refuses to incentivize.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Take toilet paper. There are shortages, so people are learning how to do more with less. Be it just being a bit less wasteful with the tp to ordering and installing a bidet. This creates long term changes that will result in an overall d
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
But then why criticize money if the issue is that people are not good enough with money to budget it? Either the suggestion will be that we provide people without enough money that even with poor budgeting and planning they will stay fed (
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>And people still don't care. How do we make them care? If one looks at an issue that would emotionally charge the population, the protection of children, and then looks back 150 years, you'll find that much of society didn&#x2
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>If the maintenance schedule is N days, then any news article pointing out how amusing it is that an airliner needs to be rebooted every <N days is at best sensationalism, at worst pure fearmongering. Why not treat it like security?
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
What happens when this logic is applied elsewhere? Lies for financial gain can become fraud. Is it acceptable to make it so lying for financial gain won't be a crime? What about lying for the sake of obtaining consent? Legal jurisdi
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Does it inform the user or otherwise stop functioning for telehealth once the signal is received? If not, then does that mean that someone is considered e2e encrypted if it in theory can support e2e encryption even if it isn't using i
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>We have pretty much all the answers, the problem is to align our power with our values. And the alignment has to be deeper in our society. A good example would be all the money spent trying to find a cure for baldness. Imagine if the
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
But by that logic, all laws by their existence and enforcement enables abusers. Even laws against abuse. Enforce the law against an abuser and send them to jail? Another abuser will use that to scare a victim of the same gender as the a
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Isn't that how our society works in general? Say you are the victim of a crime. You can't really do anything about it except appeal to the authorities. They will generally take pity on you and try to enforce the law, but often e
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>I think we saw a rise of the easy, anything-goes, screw-performance scripting languages. I think the next fashion seems to be in enforcing "correct" coding style. They all have their place. Having freedom to do what you want i
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>If you’re getting easily distracted by your messages, you’re not doing deep work. What about the possibility in differences in how attention works between people. In an extreme case you would have ADD/ADHD, but in less extreme cas
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
The problem is that these sorts of standards are selectively applied. We might as well call federal and state taxes a scam (in the US) because it is easy to pay more than you actually are legally obligated to pay. The tax system has been
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
I would say yes. The reason being is that exceptions will be abused, so it is better to enforce rules that everyone has to follow than to depend upon good behavior which the people we are trying to stop won't (almost by definition, be
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>It seems the implication is that labour should never be done voluntarily (even in a crisis situation) in a free economy. Because when those volunteers go to get something they want, such as buying a home or paying rent, it won't be
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Apologies. I meant the ongoing direct impacts like forcing you to get up in time for class, enforcing a curfew, consistently encouraging time to be spent studying. The impacts on the changes to a child, are another impact, and one that is
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>people buying 4 24 roll packs While these are very visible events, do they actually have a significant contribution on the shortage compared to all the other shoppers having a slight increase in desire to buy toilet paper. It is possib
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Because the shelves are empty, I'm guessing far more reasonable people are thinking to just pick up a single pack when they do see a store stocked. Just in case they miscounted the amount they have at home. But when you count the num
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Yes. They do. It's maybe not the answer you were looking for, but if you are better prepared, you'll do better at the task at hand. Seems fairly straightforward. I think you missed the point of the two questions, which is a qu
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Once they are in college, the impact of parents is quite minified. So if you have a stupid whose default academic potential is 10 but has a parental multiplier of 2 for having involved parents and another kid whose default academic potenti
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>But this is exactly what SAT is intended to measure, scholastic potential. But if you define the variable like this, you end up opening a can of worms. Do rich kids have more scholastic potential because they have better access to resou
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Students were able to indicate if they had prepared through the use of school courses, commercial courses, tutoring, or a variety of preparatory materials. In what follows, a coached student is defined as one that reported participating

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