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Difficult, but not zero. Social Security got passed, for example. A crisis makes radical solutions easier. And if Yang is right about what is going to happen to the economy over the next couple of decades, crisis is what we'll have. An
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Detailed policy positions won't survive the hard reality of the legislative process anyway. That's why in software, we think agile is better than waterfall.
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Have you read his book? Or are you going off of news articles?
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Even here, on an American-centric discussion full of grossly privileged white American men, you'll find most agree on some regulation of speech. It's just a question of degree.
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Words inspire action. That's why it matters. To paraphrase the Supreme Court, the problem with shouting fire in a crowded theater isn't the shout, it's the dangerous stampede that follows. And those who deliberately inspire v
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Ah, but does it? China is currently going through a period of peace and incredible growth (per capita income has grown about 130x since 1960, in constant dollars). The people are safe, secure, and enjoying opportunities their grandparents c
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And you're still dodging the fundamental questions I asked you a while back. You're just playing devil's advocate in the details. It's a lame and boring argument.
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Our representatives. Our judicial system. Our public institutions. Our private businesses. You're WAY too hung up on this "who decides?" question, ignoring the reality that either someone has to decide, or that no one shoul
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And when Richard Spencer asks if we should maybe just send every black person to Africa and create an all-white America, he's being civil and nonviolent. Which is the problem.
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And observational data suggests that American society (and global society) has gotten better, not worse, at this judgment. When we started this game, we had slaves, who were defined as three fifths of a human being for purposes of political
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I don't think you understand the concept of "privilege" very well. Privilege is basically the logical inverse of discrimination. If driving while black means getting pulled over more (discrimination), then driving while white
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I don't buy the "essential to modern life" part. I've quit FB cold turkey, because I concluded that it was making my life worse . And I seem so far to be happier for it, and to have lost very little.
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Morally, FB is completely right. They only become wrong by running down your slippery slope. They're not banning Christian speech, or Republican speech, or whatever. The existence of a slippery slope does not demonstrate that everythin
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Except by the standards of the mainstream media, the economy is ROCKING. Even Twitler himself says so! So if the economy is actually bad, that points to a problem with how we're even discussing the economy. (I'm not saying it&#x27
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That's a disingenuous question. Let me come back with some questions about your question. Are you proposing that nobody can decide what speech is dangerous? Are you suggesting there is no such thing as dangerous speech? Are you sugge
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That's not what is meant by white supremacy and you damn well know it. Stop making bad imaginary corner cases and stick to the actual problem.
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I am no longer a free speech absolutist. And the reason I am not is the sort of abstract, angels-on-a-pinhead bullshit arguments that fill the responses to the parent post. The more it can be abstracted to "free speech", the less
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I'm guessing not.
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I spent part of the mid-1990s hacking a proprietary data streaming protocol written in lexx and yacc. It was what we had back then.
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Yeah. Similar routine in the morning, or on the weekend. Sitting there means goofing off, eating junk food and surfing the web. Which is bad when it also gets used for doing actual work on the computer, like coding. So there are conflicting
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Why do you think that?
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It's a different thing... it's a change of habit . When I sit in that spot, I tend to get a snack for it. It doesn't matter whether I'm hungry or not... it's just a thing I do. Eating less snacks is a desirable goa
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Well, we tend to review what's new, not something from decades ago. Different process. It's unsurprising that there are more software-countable reviews of contemporary movies. Black Panther, to use the example some are protesting
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I think of it more in terms of deliberately addictive behavior. HN is fun, but it doesn't have basic functions like infinite scrolling. The closest it has to addictive social media behavior is the upvote/downvote buttons. (See Cal
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It is, but that's why I said " certain social media". Not trying to do it all. If HN started substituting for Facebook, I'd be worried, but that doesn't seem to be happening.
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It's not so much a function of character as a function of habit. Change your habit triggers to change your behavior. I'm currently going cold turkey on certain social media (Facebook, Twitter). It's hard, because they're
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The thing is, what we compulsively do doesn't necessarily make us feel better. We do it because we have a habit, or an instinct.
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Right. "Self-control" is a process , a system of habits and procedures for handling various situations. But our language of self-control is about morality, and "lack of self-control" is seen as a character flaw , not a
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This makes me think of the book Atomic Habits , which is all about how to form good habits and break bad ones. Procrastination can be seen in many cases as a lack of habit triggers to start down the path to work. Keeping a daily to-do list
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I don't think there's any lack of calm, balanced, quality journalism. Rather, there's a lot of politicized rejection of calm, balanced, quality news. You don't have to look too far to find people who think AP (much less

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