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by baddox 6y ago
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but it sounds similar Popper's standard response to the paradox: that we should reserve the right to use force to suppress intolerance, but it should be a last resort. And I agree. However, I&#x
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> neutrality is required in order to have justice. This seems like the opposite of the truth. Surely justice in most cases is looking at a dispute between two or more parties and deciding which party is right and which is wrong and to wh
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> In essence, the opinions of your opponents and enemies are just as valid as your opinions I think that this is not true and that society and individuals can and should reserve the right to suppress intolerant ideologies.
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Where in the rankings does the “leftover dinner from the night before” start?
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It doesn't strike me as much harder than drawing the line for more common reasons to fire someone, like incompetence or inappropriate workplace activity. Those are also continuums, and it's certainly not easy to know where to draw
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> I'd consider firing someone for belonging to a particular political party the exact moral equivalent of firing someone for belonging to a particular religious denomination or ethnic group. I support firing someone for supporting a
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> why do you even allow that person to run for the elections? What do you mean? Who among us gets to decide who is allowed on the ballot?
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What is your response to the paradox of tolerance?
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Note that we’re talking about material support for a cause, not merely speech. You may conflate the two, and some legal systems do as well, but I don’t.
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> Not true. “The Earth revolves around the sun” is not a political statement. “Climate change is real, and is caused by humans”, however is equally true but for some (really bad) reasons, it is a political statement. I disagree. Those ar
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Note however that one way to make a society appear to be less politically polarized is to silence the voice of groups who are not being served well by the current political status quo. When voices fighting for representation and fairness an
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Why would you hope for that? Do you think there is no way to distinguish any qualities of different political views and that they are all equivalent?
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> Holy shit. Am I reading this right? 53% of Americans would support firing someone based on a donation to a presidential campaign? Are you against this in principle, for all possible presidential candidates regardless of how bad their v
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Even for end-to-end internal projects, as soon as you stop using a built-in format and need to use thirdPartyEncode and thirdPartyDecode on both ends, you might as well just choose the absolute best third party library rather than choose so
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Well, no. What’s the problem they created?
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Listing some specific perceived flaws with JSON isn’t counter to the claim that it’s one of the greatest things to happen in software development.
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> But you don't have to be some privileged trust fund kid for your parents to give you a place to stay in the event of financial hardship. That's not rare I think the point is that it is rare for people who don't have
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Both of those sets seem to be no longer sold.
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Why do you think there is something wrong with responding to a petition?
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Maybe LEGO do care about what children’s toys represent and the consequences of that in the real world.
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Okay, so your argument goes like this: 1. US domestic surveillance is different than China’s because Americans can change things by electing different politicians. 2. Americans cannot actually in practice change things by electing different
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Okay, sure, but “we can fix it by fundamentally changing the entire way we attempt to have representation in government” is something China could do as well.
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> Imagine how ridiculous email would feel if you need a gmail account to email gmail peeps, a microsoft account to email outlook peeps, and another separate account to communicate with people in every mom and pop community. Maybe this is
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What strikes you as different about him? I can’t really articulate why exactly, but to me he’s right up there on the list of archetypical SV personalities.
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I think it’s already clear that a fake video isn’t necessary for people to believe something they already want to believe. You could just distribute a badly-compressed screenshot of an unrelated video with a caption explaining the fake stor
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Also, it doesn’t sound healthy to me to read news with the attitude that a lot of the bad stuff that happens is because you just didn’t research enough and vote hard enough. The point of democracy shouldn’t be to blame the people for bad go
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Humans don’t need AC power to operate either, but presumably these aren’t the kind of differences we’re interested in.
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Can you explain that more? Aren’t most of the complex modern tools specifically designed to automate provisioning servers and deploying code?
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It’s based on a tweet from tech reviewer MKBHD, the link is in the footer of the site.
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Ha yeah, very good point. I thought it was neat to have the entire state of the app in the URL and use the back button to demonstrate that, but yes, I should probably be replacing history instead of pushing.

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