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by chc 8y ago
In addition to that, "consideration" doesn't have to mean "money" — in fact, consideration usually won't be monetary on at least one side of the contract (e.g. if I offer you $5 to mow my lawn, the lawnmowing i
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by chc 8y ago
Are you suggesting the New Deal came about because the 1930s were so prosperous? I don't think that is a very common view of the Great Depression.
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by chc 8y ago
It's weird to me how we tend to talk about whether worker protections are harmful in hypothetical terms, when we can actually look at history and see that society improved as more protections for workers were implemented, and inequalit
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by chc 8y ago
Yes, he said that. He also said that leisure time shouldn't be a class privilege. He said both of those things. That was the entire point of my comment — he had a business justification, but he also expressed socially minded reasons fo
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by chc 8y ago
If I cheat on my wife, can I point to somebody else who's also cheating on their wife and that exempts me from criticism? Does somebody have to be doing a completely unique bad thing in order for people to be able to criticize them?
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think you can necessarily say that. He did have a business justification for the decisions, but he also expressed humanitarian reasons, such as the idea that leisure time should not be a privilege afforded only to the upper cla
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by chc 8y ago
That's odd. I usually see that argument employed the opposite way — to dismiss criticisms of companies by suggesting that there is no moral dimension to a corporation's actions, and thus it is unreasonable to ask a company to do a
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by chc 8y ago
> I mean, you do realize their goal isn't and shouldn't be to make the best content possible, but to make the content that the most people would want to watch and be willing to keep their subscription active for ? That "sh
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by chc 8y ago
But the comment I responded to didn't say that, so I don't know why you'd expect the comparison to address that. The comment said that failing to go after everyone at the same time as Google violates the prohibition on bills
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by chc 8y ago
What's being suggested here isn't even kind of similar to a bill of attainder, not even if you really squint. This is like saying, "You can't prosecute me for theft before you prosecute this other thief, because that&#x2
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by chc 8y ago
We tried a few very large instance types to see if that made any difference, and provisioned IOPS did help, but everything was still slower than the EC2 DB and it cost a lot more on top of that.
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by chc 8y ago
I've worked on a project that migrated from MySQL on EC2 to MySQL on RDS and then back to EC2 because the performance was massively worse — a process that took a few hours before now took days. We contacted Amazon support to try and re
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by chc 8y ago
Eh, I don't know how much of a say artists have either. Back in the '90s, Pearl Jam tried to get the price on their tickets down and ended up canceling the tour and pursuing antitrust charges against Ticketmaster.
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by chc 8y ago
> I don't think it in itself qualifies as unethical even - while uncomfortable to make money from the misfortune of others the alternatives are worse. Some of the alternatives are worse, not all. In fact, lots of people help all
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by chc 8y ago
This is a non sequitur unless you have a hidden assumption along the lines of "We currently have the best of all possible systems."
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by chc 8y ago
Maybe not, but having kids doesn't seem particularly more likely to sustain them, does it?
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by chc 8y ago
What are you proposing as the real-world alternative?
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by chc 8y ago
Read your own source. That's not a state matter.
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by chc 8y ago
> VERY high taxes (that are supposed to stop inequality, but it doesn't. Surprise) This isn't justified. There's a lot of inequality in California, but given the makeup of the state, it seems reasonably likely that it wo
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by chc 8y ago
The reason these exist is because these topics are big and somewhat inaccessible, but they are relevant to people who wouldn't learn them in the normal course of their lives. You wouldn't expect to see as many for something that i
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by chc 8y ago
> I think the individualist streak in American culture is better shown by people being unwilling to seek help from friends/family. I might call an unwillingness to help others (assuming one can afford to do so) selfishness -- not i
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by chc 8y ago
Do EVs really go through more tires due to torque? My impression was that the difference in torque was more than balanced out by the fact that EVs tend to brake more smoothly (due to regenerative braking).
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by chc 8y ago
They didn't say there are holes in Flask, but that the Flask version of an app is more likely to contain holes (presumably because you're less pushed into safe defaults).
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by chc 8y ago
Because morality does not revolve around the question "Will a megacorp lose some revenue?" There are many things companies and individuals could do that would make them money which they are nonetheless constrained from doing becau
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by chc 8y ago
There are more people who lack ID for one reason or another (e.g. over 600,000 registered voters in Texas lacked the necessary types of ID to vote under its voter-ID law in 2014) than there are fraudulent voters, so if you're going to
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by chc 8y ago
This thread is specifically talking about tax plans from Republicans in the US Congress.
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by chc 8y ago
I've tried this in Firefox and Chrome both for macOS and Android and it works in all cases.
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by chc 8y ago
I think you're creating a false dichotomy between "a real disease" and "a limitation of the body." Even for diseases that entirely result from external sources, our ability to survive them is a limitation of our bod
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by chc 8y ago
> Censors always start with the least popular ideas and speakers. They do that for a reason: they want to gauge what they can get away with and they want to shift the Overton window toward increasing support for censorship. Every time
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by chc 8y ago
I think most people would agree that there are indeed times and places when stealing is acceptable. It is never ideal, but sometimes the alternatives are worse. The bad sort of relativism is a weakness of principles, not the same set of pri

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