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by baddox 6y ago
> I routinely see arguments of the type "Argument X is likely to increase prejudice against Trans/BIPOC/Undocumented people, which will lead to more of them being murdered" used against completely mainstream conservat
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by baddox 6y ago
A similar argument is "You could always claim that anyone is a murderer, and thus you could imprison anyone. Therefore there should be no legal consequences for murder." I disagree with this mode of argument that you should not su
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by baddox 6y ago
> Most people that support true free speech don't believe that all ideas are equally good. That's false. I don't think that most or even many people believe that all ideas are equally good, but there are absolutely many pe
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by baddox 6y ago
> The reason is that if you try to stop people from speaking freely, eventually over time the tables will turn against you, meaning you won't be able to speak freely. I think there are ways to "try to stop people from speaking
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't know that there's a way to distinguish "ideological purity" from just any beliefs or conventions around what types of speech are appropriate for work.
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by baddox 6y ago
We probably do disagree. I think that there is certain speech that justifies firing someone.
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by baddox 6y ago
But whether the root of two actually is an irrational number does not depend on whether you are free to say it is or isn't. In other words, freedom of speech does not mean that there is no way to make any discernments whatsoever betwee
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by baddox 6y ago
The problem I have is that so many people have come to think of “free speech” as meaning that all speech and all ideas are equally good/valid/desirable in any context, and that any criticism of speech or any attempt to establish c
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by baddox 6y ago
Sure, but then the argument is nothing more than “because our product isn’t good enough to just sell it like every other normal product in the world, we have to sell it at a loss and then extract as much value as we can from developers by e
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by baddox 6y ago
Apple sure sells a lot of iPhones at around the $1000 price point, and they’re not selling those at a loss. I don’t see any reason to think that the laws of the physics are such that it’s simply impossible to sell a gaming console the same
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by baddox 6y ago
Or, maybe don’t sell at a loss?
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by baddox 6y ago
There are millions of people in the world who would mock the extravagance of declaring a 2-bed apartment in a city to be an essential necessity of human life.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m not sure why that’s a contradiction. If you could buy a nice new private jet for $100,000 it would be reasonable to call that a good deal, even if it’s more than what most people make in a year.
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by baddox 6y ago
Huh? Presumably the suggestion is to make the market freer.
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by baddox 6y ago
Game theory is concerned with what will happen in interactions between actors with certain strategies and goals, so unintended consequences tends to come up a lot. Public choice theory and social choice theory are related disciplines which
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by baddox 6y ago
React is also well-suited for a single highly-interactive module on an otherwise non-React website. Of course, you still need to consider JS code size and loading performance, but it would often be completely reasonable to use React for, sa
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by baddox 6y ago
And there’s also some “inherent” value in spending less time traveling that is more difficult to quantify.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why do you consider this a shitshow? To me, it just looks like a thread of people discussing whether to change the name of the software project.
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by baddox 6y ago
Again, we have data on that. Police do not have to deal with violent or dangerous criminals very much, especially during traffic stops.
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by baddox 6y ago
The comment before mine mentions that people being stopped by police are permitted to have guns. That’s what I was addressing. Sure, there are also some people who violate gun laws. But those people could be a threat to everyone, not just c
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by baddox 6y ago
If you can’t find someone to fill a position as a police officer, I would suggest increasing the compensation or leaving the position unfilled before simply accepting anyone who might want to be a cop with no standards whatsoever. Similar l
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by baddox 6y ago
But we actually have data on this. Traffic stops are not particularly dangerous for police in the United States. There are laws in place about how legal gun owners must notify law enforcement during traffic stops. In fact, there is no short
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by baddox 6y ago
The comment mentioned fairness, which is different than simply what we would predict.
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by baddox 6y ago
Quite the opposite. The adversarial job should have higher standards of conduct, not lower.
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by baddox 6y ago
I didn’t mention opinions which are claimed to be factual matters. I mentioned factual matters. The fact that people can lie isn’t exactly new.
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s okay to take positions on factual matters even if a political party also happens to take that same position. If one party believes the Earth revolves around the Sun, and the other party disagrees, it’s not exactly “partisan” (at least
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by baddox 6y ago
The purpose is to inform interested people of the reason for the action (or lack thereof). That is the purpose of communication. Beyond that, you are only speculating about secret intentions, with absolutely no evidence.
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by baddox 6y ago
Whether Facebook has the legal right to fire him is not what is being discussed.
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by baddox 6y ago
There was no attack on a colleague (a public disagreement is not an attack). The person who was fired has less than a third the followers of the other person (and probably very significant overlap between the follower groups). There certain
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by baddox 6y ago
That is not coercion or appealing to community shaming. Those are both terms that have meanings. Telling people to consider the actions of the developers of a software project is not coercion or an appeal to community shaming.

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