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by bhupy 6y ago
A lot of it enabled by Defense projects too! (Internet, GPS) I don’t have a fully formed opinion around how I feel about defense spending, but it’s definitely complicated.
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Maybe flying cars just don’t make sense? I think it's just a placeholder metaphor to represent <hypothetical futuristic "thing" that increases our quality of life as a society>
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by bhupy 6y ago
But that was only in the context of radio broadcasting, where there is a scarcity of frequencies. Even while it was active, the Fairness Doctrine never applied to cable television: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rona
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by bhupy 6y ago
> which means that you're advocating for the status quo I’m actually not advocating for anything. I'm using this conversation to understand what you're advocating for so that I can form my own opinion about what I should b
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> You keep asserting that organizations are no different from individuals, while completely ignoring every way I've pointed out how organizations differ from individuals. I'm asserting that organizations are no different from i
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by bhupy 6y ago
> The Chinese room argument says otherwise, and it behooves us as homo sapiens to pay attention. I'm not sure what this sentence means. > > How many individual reporters at the NYT wanted to give support the Iraq war? And yet
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by bhupy 6y ago
My wife has never been forced to publish anything against her will. That being said, she has disagreed with the editorial decisions of the paper on a number of occasions. This is not at odds with the freedom of association; every single org
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by bhupy 6y ago
New York Times employees are employed at-will. We're not talking about minimum wage workers publishing content under duress here, we're talking about journalists and editors who generally join organizations they believe in. Tucker
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by bhupy 6y ago
> It's fallacious to characterize it as just some ad-hoc "group" of individuals joining together to individually exercise their rights. Nobody is arguing that the New York Times is some ad-hoc group of individuals; it cert
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> The Constitution may not differentiate between individuals and other entities, but the courts have differentiated between them. When? To my knowledge, there are no major landmark decisions which hold that an association of individuals
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The New York Times vs Sullivan precedent pretty specifically addressed that issue: organizations (like the NYT) are protected by the First Amendment. Also, just taking a step back, the Constitution makes no mention of a difference between i
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> In this case, is the misinformation present directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action? We have several Supreme Court decisions that can help answer this question. First of
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> To me, it could also be the modern day version of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, and I think it hinges on how people reacted to the misinformation. That legal argument has been overturned precisely because it has no re
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Well they sure didn't fight against it It was fairly well documented that the Founding Fathers were pretty much all opposed to slavery, but saw it as a huge political shit sandwich that would jeopardize Federalization. The United
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by bhupy 6y ago
> Well, they also fought for slavery, they weren't perfect people. They did not, under any reasonable interpretation of US history, “fight for slavery”.
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by bhupy 6y ago
> high minimum wage (up to 25$/hr in some areas) "some areas" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence of yours. First of all, there is no Federal minimum wage, it is Cantonal. Second of all, the minimum wage of 20
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by bhupy 6y ago
Yeah, I don't disagree. My question was targeted more at folks that specifically find the WSJ Op-Ed to be objectionable; in my experience those same people tend to consider the NYT's Op-Ed to be less objectionable (caveat: I'
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by bhupy 6y ago
Isn't that the point of Op-Ed sections, at the end of the day? It's always been a way for newspapers to host what's effectively a glorified collection of Medium posts. Even the New York Times' Opinion page is consistentl
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by bhupy 6y ago
> This argument, whenever it shows up, is usually a thinly veiled attack on affirmative action, which is aimed increasing the equality of opportunity - university education being far more an opportunity than an outcome. First of all, I’m
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> "Equality of outcome" is a popular straw man for many who take the highly incredulous position that equality of opportunity exists today. I think this is itself a straw man, because it ascribes onto any criticism of “equality
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by bhupy 6y ago
> he amount of lip service paid to MLK in particular is astounding, especially by politicians who actively undermine his movement for racial and economic justice. I half agree with you, but I think it's the side of the aisle you&#x2
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by bhupy 6y ago
Until the mid-2010's the US's creedal flavor of "nationalism" was arguably the most principles-based in the world; something I take great pride in as a brown American son of immigrants. It was a paragon of what nationali
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by bhupy 6y ago
Presented without comment: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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I was referring to the more generous Zell-Miller scholarship. You get HOPE if you can maintain a GPA > 3.0.
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You'll have to provide some citations. Here's one study, reviewed jointly by Dr. Henrique Schneider, professor of economics at Nordakademie University in Germany and the chief economist of the Swiss Federation of Small and Medium-
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No, they do not. Norway is the only Nordic country that has a higher median adult income, and it's not by a whole lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c... These numbers are after taxe
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by bhupy 6y ago
Nobody doubts that Nordic countries have generous social safety nets, but I think rayiner is scoffing at the notion that the US's social safety net is "non-existent", which is laughable. The US spends close to 80% of its Fede
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Swiss Canton of Zug Has Started Accepting Bitcoin, Ether for Tax Payments(coindesk.com)
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Privacy.com is awesome, but I recently tried using this for Bloomberg, and their e-commerce platform seemed to know that I was using a prepaid card and declined the authorization.
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I haven't read the full contract yet, but I think it just automatically converts the collateral to the right amount of the coin that's being lent. If you open the markets, you'll see that you earn the highest APY by lending U

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