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by ataggart 14y ago
Or alternately: people inclined to use taxis to facilitate rape are not really driving for a living anyway, and are likely not concerned about violating a licensing law.
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by ataggart 14y ago
It's not clear to me how government licensing would prevent an already illegal rape.
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by ataggart 14y ago
BTW, ClojureScript has proper lexical scope.
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by ataggart 14y ago
I can't blame the legislators either, they're just looking out for themselves the same as the rest of us do. I can blame the electorate. They're the ones granting the power and the legitimacy to the force wielded against us.
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by ataggart 14y ago
the subjective word "unreasonable" appears in the amendment alongside the objective word "warrant" entirely in order to give the courts leeway to make case-by-case decisions about authorizing searches. This looks like it agrees with my po
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by ataggart 14y ago
The word "reasonable" is not in the 4th Amendment, nor does it contain text granting the power to search without a warrant. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches a
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by ataggart 14y ago
The passivity of your analogy doesn't apply. If you're concerned about exposure, then avoid doing business with risky firms. It's entirely possible that a smaller firm is more risky than a larger firm; it's the risk that you choose to take
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by ataggart 14y ago
Stop propping up firms, and the sustainable sizes will emerge. "Too big to fail" is just an excuse for government to Do Something (be it break 'em up or bail 'em out); just stop.
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by ataggart 14y ago
Arguing from principle likely won't get you very far with people arguing from assumed utility.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>Do you want to see pseudoscience stem cell "therapies" sold on late night infomercials as a panacea? Mandatory FDA approval is orthogonal to over-the-counter sales. Surely you don't think the government should prohibit a medical decis
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by ataggart 14y ago
Counterfactuals are hard, but I wonder if anyone has studied whether or not the FDA is actually a net saver of lives. It seems to me that every time the FDA approves a new drug that will save X lives a year, it has necessarily cost X lives
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Uber car service under attack in Denver(reason.com)
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by ataggart 14y ago
Lower costs explain why child labor is in demand, but says nothing about supply, namely why parents send their children off to work in a factory, something parents in productive, wealthy economies are unlikely to do.
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by ataggart 14y ago
All of which is irrelevant to the fact that the best option for many children (again, revealed preference) is to work, and depriving them of that option is likely to lead to a net worse condition. But to your point, I'm quite certain that "
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by ataggart 14y ago
In a society with significant child labor, it's not clear to me how "just pay the parents more" is a serious response. When significant child labor exists, it does so for a reason. Given that parents would probably prefer their kids get an
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by ataggart 14y ago
>Towns are an interesting case where the free market system breaks. A curious conclusion given the the politicians, bureaucrats, urban planners, and general busybodies that wield government power as a club to impose Their Vision on ever
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by ataggart 14y ago
It's not clear to me how "bigness" matters. The article makes clear that small banks were exposed to disciplining market forces, but for large banks such forces were obviated by government protection. Worrying about size seems to miss the
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by ataggart 14y ago
Per the article, size is correlated with problems but not the cause of them. It happens that large banks are the ones who are more likely to get bailed out, thus they are incentivized to take more risk, so they do. It is the potential for
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by ataggart 14y ago
The point is what should not be the punishment, namely locking him up with actual violent criminals, thus in turn subject to actual violence, rape, etc.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>small institutions must submit to the rigors of the free market. >market discipline has worked to keep smaller institutions on the straight and narrow, it has been ineffective with megabanks >market participants have proved [in
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by ataggart 14y ago
I not clear on how incarceration is reasonable punishment for someone convicted of a non-violent crime and who is not a physical danger to anyone.
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by ataggart 14y ago
Why? He's not a physical danger to anyone. Surely you can think of more creative and productive forms of punishment.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>not to mention the ridiculousness of criminal sentences Perhaps if we didn't use incarceration as punishment for non-violent crimes, things would be a bit more civilized.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>NASA posted a raw, unprocessed version of the photo online on the Curiosity rover’s mission website Totally off-topic, but how many more years will it take before online news articles start consistently using that newfangled hyperlink
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by ataggart 14y ago
Few men want to be free; most just want fair masters.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>I dislike the fact that Clojure can, in a sense, be written forwards or backwards. If you're referring to the distinction between -> and ->>, it's not about direction preference, but rather that functions that conceptually
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by ataggart 14y ago
It's not clear to me how slaves not being considered part of "the people" implies the BOR's governmental prohibitions only apply to acts on U.S. soil.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>Why with respect to a certain class of people rather than everyone in the world? First, because the text suggests as much ("No person..."). I'm not clear on how "No person..." selects some subset of people with whom such government pro
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by ataggart 14y ago
Why do you choose to read the 5th amendment as granting protections to a class of people, instead of reading it as a declaration of prohibitions to government action?
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by ataggart 14y ago
>[Philosophy's real purpose] is to constantly search for deeper underlying truth. What "truth" has philosophy itself produced from that search which is well-defined, non-trivial, and correct?

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