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by baddox 6y ago
If you are not liable for failing to do some thing then by definition you are not responsible for doing that thing.
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by baddox 6y ago
The fact that the view leads you to ask “why do it?” does not mean that it is an overly simplistic view.
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s exactly what I’m saying. To actually get free trade a country has to refuse to reciprocate in trade restrictions. This is my point, it’s not “free trade” for one country to match other countries’ restrictions on trade.
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by baddox 6y ago
Lots of people seem to conflate how bad someone's speech is with how "free" it is.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't agree that the validity of his claim depends in any way on his character, reputation, or personal political views. The validity of a claim is independent of any attribute of the person making the claim. The only way to make any
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by baddox 6y ago
Most likely, he always had these beliefs, but he knew they were socially unacceptable so he kept them to himself. When a massive and lucrative potential audience developed on YouTube, of course he's going to be there to go after those
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by baddox 6y ago
> For example, if I told you that one party in the US generally favors higher taxes and higher services, and one party generally favors lower taxes and lower services, could you match the party labels to the descriptions, imperfect as th
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by baddox 6y ago
Then the outcome is that a country can claim to support free trade while deliberately not supporting free trade, since "it's the other countries' fault."
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by baddox 6y ago
Just to be clear, Molyneux had long been an anarcho-capitalist, which is already an extreme take on free market economics. I wouldn’t look too far into it, and I certainly wouldn’t conclude that white nationalism is the logical conclusion o
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't understand that argument. It sounds like you're saying that the way to get freer trade is for all parties to restrict trade, since "free trade has to work both ways."
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by baddox 6y ago
> This might be a shock to most people in the western world, but if you go on almost ANY news website in china, the headline news is dedicated to government propaganda. Those people would be even more shocked by the extent to which this
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by baddox 6y ago
No, all the other nations have that property as well.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think anyone expects that to be done atomically. Most of the advocacy I have seen is directed at individual police departments, with some organization between the efforts and some advocacy for nationwide criminal justice and policin
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think it even necessarily matters whether the chicken is sufficiently conscious. If we asked “why does the chicken have a red comb?” it would be clear we weren’t asking for an explanation of the chicken’s conscious choices.
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by baddox 6y ago
> "why" assumes that the chicken had some reason for taking the action "cross the road". I don’t think so. It’s pretty normal to ask “why” questions about non-conscious entities. “Why does my stomach hurt?” “Why is th
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by baddox 6y ago
> let people follow their greed and ambition, but surround them with legal fences It’s a shame they didn’t think of the obvious loophole that some people get so wealthy that they can use their wealth to influence those “fences.”
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by baddox 6y ago
Couldn’t it just be a coincidence that the most recent wealthy societies are the wealthiest societies in history, and they also tend to claim to adhere to “free markets” ideas? The wealth could actually be caused by compounding benefits of
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by baddox 6y ago
And note that market price is an indicator not of how much people value something, but rather their willingness to pay , which is obviously limited by each person’s ability to pay.
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by baddox 6y ago
How can we do journalism about things people say to journalists that aren’t even recorded?
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by baddox 6y ago
The fact that making certain decisions can be hard in some cases is not a good reason for simply refusing to make those decisions at all. It’s hard in some cases to determine whether someone murdered someone, or stole from someone, or commi
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by baddox 6y ago
If the mayor of a small town threatens on Facebook to murder people, should that be left alone, since, after all, violence is what government does?
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by baddox 6y ago
> Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? No, I'm not, and I didn't say anything remotely suggesting that.
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by baddox 6y ago
But how does the level of policing in an area affect murder rates? I don't know the answer, but from statistics I've seen, it seems pretty clear that police are not exactly great at solving murders.
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by baddox 6y ago
Note that even you only mentioned whether answers are socially acceptable (in your view), not which one is true.
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by baddox 6y ago
If fire departments were carrying out the same injustices as police, then it would be pretty reasonable to push for the same massive changes in fire departments.
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by baddox 6y ago
When I search in iPhone Safari for “sketch” I get a dictionary definition for the word as the top suggested result. Pressing “go” does a Google search for “sketch”.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m a long time Apple user (and professional Android developer/user up until about 3 years ago). My answer is that I use Apple mobile products because they seem to still be better than all alternatives. That said, I haven’t looked earn
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by baddox 6y ago
And thus you would need to trust those people.
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by baddox 6y ago
But the parking lot can just require the app. That’s the point. They do not need to worry about adoption of the app because you need the app to use the parking lot.
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by baddox 6y ago
But as mentioned, the audience is captive. If there was another parking option around the corner they would have used that. I don't think parking lots care how long it takes you to download their app and pay.

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