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by aninhumer 8y ago
What people mean when they say the agency is "good-natured" is not that they're going to ignore non-compliance, but that the way they enforce it is not being completely hostile and pulling out a massive lawsuit the second th
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Yeah, I don't understand why so many people keep trying to write control-flow to FPGA compilers. The only way these things are going to be practical is if you understand how both FPGAs and the compiler work really well, and then write
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The US doesn't need to annex them, it just violently installs a capitalist government and then US companies buy everything.
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I don't think that's a fair criticism here. The parent didn't say "Don't you know this will kill people!?" they said "This will kill people".
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There is no such thing as a "real impartial read". Any communication of information will inevitably be limited, and the way that limitation manifests will be influenced by the subjectivity of the person communicating. The document
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>Wherein the web isn't censored in a heavy handed fashion we have the most reasonable answer to the fairness doctrine. Everyone can be heard but not everyone will find an audience that desires to listen. But is that really reasonabl
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Moreover, if someone makes a lot of predictions of people having "90% chance to win" and all of them win, that is a less accurate prediction than if roughly 10% of them lose.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>The socialist solution is some kind of collectively-funded watchdog organization that provides useful review information. That's more like the liberal social democrat solution. The Socialist solution is to abolish exchange based
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Firstly, I'm talking about big ticket economic injustice here. I'm not interested in small detail differences, and I'm definitely not talking about relationships (and honestly I find it kind distasteful to talk about them in
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>But they didn't, and their outcomes weren't equal. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and one choice wasn't necessarily 'suboptimal' either. It's easy to say their unequal outcomes are "not neces
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This dichotomy gets brought up a lot, but if you start thinking about the details here, the distinction isn't as clear as people make out. If everyone were given equal opportunity to achieve good outcomes for themselves, the only way w
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>Within the company, resources are shared and divided in a top-down approach, everyone working to a common goal, using the company's funds to do so. That's what they try to achieve, but they fail to do so, because the labour re
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by aninhumer 8y ago
You say the Manhattan and Apollo projects are the result of "competition", but I think, on an organisational level, they are the exact opposite. They are the result of the US abandoning market competition, and having the state giv
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>A lot of the alternatives to ad models aren't great (e.g. paywalls everywhere) Crowd-funding models don't necessarily require paywalls. Many creators release their primary content for free. >selling sponsorship opportunitie
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Personally I think my attention is a lot more valuable than my money, so I'd prefer to waste the latter.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>Olympic gold in most sports are based on excellence measured objectively. Just because something involves a measurement doesn't mean it's completely objective. All the medal tells you objectively is who ran fastest in that par
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Imagine the police had a device that could detect everyone's thoughts so they could detect people about to commit crimes, and teleporters so they could send police instantly to the scene, but currently they never abuse that power. Wo
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I don't think you can criticise Philosophy for not "determining if a claim is false" because it doesn't make claims in the same way science does. I see Philosophy more as an exploration of the shape of our thoughts. It i
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by aninhumer 8y ago
I think imposter syndrome is an inevitable consequence of a competitive labour environment. People like to call this kind of environment "meritocracy", but since "merit" is not something objective that can be measured ef
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>I don't believe for a second that you understand the word "coerce" to be limited only to situations of life and death. I don't think it's necessarily limited to that, but I do think all such situations are coerc
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It's only coercive when we're talking about the means to survive. If you offer someone a choice between death or some action, you are coercing them to act. And I don't think that "ceases to have a useful meaning". I
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I would argue it is coercive, but so is the property system underpinning the market in the first place. Adding a redistribution element to a system of private property doesn't introduce violent coercion, it merely changes how it is bei
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by aninhumer 8y ago
If you are able to help them, and you refuse to do so unless they do something for you (i.e. labour to earn money to pay your fees) then it is absolutely coercive.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
If only the United States had some kind of system of geographic administrative divisions similar to the countries that make up Europe...
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by aninhumer 8y ago
The point I usually see is that the US government healthcare spending per capita is comparable that of other developed countries with universal healthcare.
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No, but the fact that it results in demonstrably better outcomes in pretty much every case does.
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That's the etymology of "incel", but in practice it's not just a definition, it's a community identity with a lot of associated baggage. There are plenty of lonely young men who don't consider themselves "
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>Nothing about the gdpr solves the problems of companies having insecure systems It doesn't directly prevent insecure systems, but discouraging companies from storing information they don't need and transferring it on to third
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Not really? The paper statement is usually just a printout of the PDF.
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>Way outside of the norm. >It's a tiny minority who are truly bothered. I don't think women feeling harassed by men's advances is remotely "outside the norm", or a "tiny minority". It's very com

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