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by alex-g 13y ago
You appear to be something of a newcomer to this issue. I can tell you that everything you raise as a concern has been very extensively discussed - certainly in those places which afford legal recognition to gender transition, discriminatio
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by alex-g 13y ago
But scepticism about libertarian technofetishism has been a bit of a theme in his writing for... a while now. The Vile Offspring in Accelerando are a scarcely-veiled example.
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by alex-g 13y ago
That is what I and the parent comment were saying - that they ought to do this.
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by alex-g 13y ago
I agree. There are good reasons to want to live on a street that doesn't have a lot of traffic. (That doesn't equate to a cul-de-sac, although they trivially fit the pattern because there is only one end.) One of the problems with
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Why you should never have taken that prestigious internship(policymic.com)
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by alex-g 13y ago
"A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft is already listed under "modern philosophy", as is "The Subjection of Women" by Mill, and Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" is under
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by alex-g 13y ago
Some more: 4) Every nation has some defined set of borders. (The Yemen-Saudi Arabia border was only recently agreed, and was previously left deliberately ambiguous.) 5) Countries do not overlap. (Counterexample: France and Spain agree the
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by alex-g 13y ago
There's a big difference, of course, which is that Canada already has a monarchy (of a very limited kind) on top of a democratic system, with stable institutions, a high level of general prosperity, and the rule of law. Being in favour
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by alex-g 13y ago
> some sort of jelly fish monster, a lighthouse, Tom Baker This must be Horror of Fang Rock , from 1977, written by Terrance Dicks under Robert Holmes as script editor. In 1974, when they held the opposite jobs, Dicks asked Holmes to gi
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by alex-g 13y ago
Mark Jason Dominus did a quick-and-dirty survey on where usage messages should go: http://blog.plover.com/Unix/usage.html Most people think stderr (so as not to muck up pipelines when you get the invocation syntax wron
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by alex-g 13y ago
Perhaps we agree more than you expected. I certainly agree that it is too simplistic to say that poor people are suffering because rich people have the money (and that therefore, if we take from the rich and give to the poor, the problem is
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by alex-g 13y ago
I don't care about inequality (of outcome). I care about suffering. Automation may increase inequality between those who are able to take advantage of it, and those who aren't - but it is better to say that increased automation e
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by alex-g 13y ago
With regard to the Second Amendment, it is undeniable that some of the material facts of "weapons in America" and "how society works" have changed since 1791. The text is also poorly written. What we ought to do is to de
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by alex-g 13y ago
In my view, the US Constitution has been too successful. If it were more definitively broken, it could be repaired more easily. But there is no political will right now to make any amendments at all, outside of noodling on the Internet an
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by alex-g 13y ago
The author suggests that we need "future doctors who are less Spock and more Kirk". I ask: "What about Bones?" In addition to actually being a doctor, McCoy has conscience, dedication, loyalty to his patients, and techni
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by alex-g 13y ago
I was thinking of "Far Centaurus" by A. E. van Vogt, but I'll look up the Heinlein as well now.
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by alex-g 13y ago
So after a few subjective years, you will be overtaken by newer and faster ships, and when you arrive, there will be a flourishing civilization already there to greet you.
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by alex-g 13y ago
Versioning. The 4 says it is "version 4" in the RFC 4122 taxonomy, and the fact that the first two bits of y are "10" is meant to indicate that this is a UUID following that standard. Certain Microsoft GUIDs start with &
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by alex-g 13y ago
My understanding was that there were legal and technical barriers to prioritizing payments. I wouldn't count on this happening, if it requires new law to be passed or ancient computer systems to be overhauled within the next week or so
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by alex-g 13y ago
It's almost as if reddit karma is totally meaningless!
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by alex-g 13y ago
It would be handy for me if the little stub had some more information: when the plane is scheduled to land. When I have connecting flights there's usually a point when I'm in the air thinking about whether I have time to do such-a
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by alex-g 13y ago
The prison gang system is also supported by (some of) the warders, because it makes their job easier. Not just because some of them may receive bribes, but also because they come to rely on gang authority to keep any kind of order.
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by alex-g 13y ago
One of the Peelian principles for the police force is: "The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it." Incentives matter, and in the same way we s
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by alex-g 13y ago
With receipts under $50k they could do a 990N, which is pretty much "what is your name?" and job done. (Their 2012 status report said they were spending $20-30k per year from a roughly $200k pot, with little attempt at raising mor
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by alex-g 13y ago
Where I live (Philadelphia) I see a lot of advertisements for hospitals, and for treatments for serious conditions like cancer. Not so much "we'll do it for $whatever", but certainly language like "we are the best hospit
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by alex-g 13y ago
No, the author's argument is that this kind of negotiation is what ought to happen all the time; his example of brokenness is that insurance rules distort the marketplace and drive up prices. Far from objecting to haggling, he thinks i
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by alex-g 13y ago
Otherwise the break has nothing to break out of.
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by alex-g 13y ago
September 21, 2012: Grasshopper hops 2m ( http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/02/08/grasshopper-takes-its-... ) June 14, 2013: Grasshopper flies 325m straight up and down ( http://www.spacex.com&#x2F
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by alex-g 13y ago
I suppose that's true, though I don't know if that's a real difference compared to building other very long things that are the same all the way along, like roads and railways and the Great Wall of China. It's just fasci
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by alex-g 13y ago
It's interesting that the biggest line item in the costing is not the tube, nor the capsules, nor the vacuum pumps, nor the solar panels, nor the land, but the concrete pylons that support the tube - about two-fifths of the total. The

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