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by chiaro 11y ago
It remains though that defaulting to seeking forgiveness from a third party, rather than the aggrieved, was one of the revolutionary ideas that allowed Christianity to spread very quickly from its inception.
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by chiaro 11y ago
There are many laws and rules we have created in the past that seek to be universally applicable. The golden rule, Kant's categorical imperative, the non-aggression principle are all attempts at this, and each one has accumulated an ex
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by chiaro 11y ago
You do understand what mercantilism is, right? Less free trade is a central part of it.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Yep, in regards to the parent comment, categories like "Algebra 2" don't really have much significance outside the US.
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by chiaro 11y ago
This video series does a pretty amazing job in describing those two groups and their motivations (the harassers, and those caught up with them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&list=PLJA_jUddXv...
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by chiaro 11y ago
Haha. But really, it's hard for that group to claim to be the silent, persecuted majority when nearly every major figure in the industry who has spoken about it and nearly every news outlet that has covered it has completely condemned
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by chiaro 11y ago
It's a mistake to think of it as "sides" rather than a small group of people with a persecution complex, and everyone else wishing they'd broaden their perspective a bit.
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by chiaro 11y ago
It's strange. I'd echo the sentiments expressed in the parent about the UK when it comes to Australia, too. Seems like people identify with their race before their nationality in the US. We don't have "African-Australian
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by chiaro 11y ago
Seems like no one's read any kind of literary criticism. It's not that bad, and moreover, it's a pretty positive indicator that the medium is being taken more seriously. You may disagree with how successful the endeavour was,
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Getting to Profitability Without Running Out of Money: A Free Spreadsheet(tompisel.com)
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by chiaro 11y ago
You're fixating on something which wasn't the core thrust of the thread, and using it as a point to derail the conversation. The original post was essentially about his daughter having a shitty experience. I don't think there
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by chiaro 11y ago
You may think you're being clever false flagging like this but you actually have to understand a position before you can parody it.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Don't take this too critically, but what you wrote gives the impression that you aren't familiar with feminism as it extends beyond the tech sphere. HN is a tech news site, not a feminism one, so the posts you see about feminism h
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by chiaro 11y ago
It was "actually technical" as quoted in the post, as in "really? You?"
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by chiaro 11y ago
Actually I think I sent maybe 4 texts last month. That's been entirely subsumed by Facebook messenger and whatsapp.
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by chiaro 11y ago
No need to be curt. He's simply saying that if Amsterdam is a much safer and convenient city for cyclists, one would expect both higher participation and lower incidence of injuries. A comparison of these metrics across these two citie
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by chiaro 11y ago
I mean this kindly: the tone in which you read comments on the internet can be very dependent on your own mood.
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by chiaro 11y ago
It's not taking anything away--both definitions are valid and commonly used. It's just up to the pair of you to realize you're talking past each other. She'd probably have no trouble agreeing that white people can be the
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by chiaro 11y ago
That's just a misunderstanding over the definition. Racism as a subject of study in the humanities refers to these societal power structures, and it was this definition and usage she was probably cleaving to. The world would definitely
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by chiaro 11y ago
Capitalism is just a system where the owners of capital are the marginal claimants of revenues. Everything beyond that is ideology.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Not as entertaining as the other conspiracy theory I'm afraid , the one where Trump intends to lose the primary, run as an independent and ensure a democrat victory by splitting the republican vote. I'll take the possibility of hi
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by chiaro 11y ago
Not sure what you mean by grievance studies but most of those, besides being quite important, fit under the humanities label. Mathematics on the other hand, probably not.
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by chiaro 11y ago
soft skills != the soft sciences.
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by chiaro 11y ago
Agreed. STEM has proved incalculably valuable in servicing the lowest (most essential) tiers of Maslow's pyramid, but the higher ones (love through to self-actualization) require more nuanced investigation. As society progresses, peopl
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by chiaro 11y ago
What kind of degree are you talking about when you say "social studies"?
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by chiaro 11y ago
>I would prefer studies oriented around the humanities. You don't consider sociologists to be the least bit concerned about human cultures and experiences?
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by chiaro 11y ago
Or than more homeless people, drug addicts, single parents struggling to feed their families. But yeah, bureaucrats too.
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by chiaro 11y ago
The general libertarian argument for a UBI (or NIT, which I favor) is that a sufficient guaranteed supplementary income allows for government programs like the pension and unemployment benefits to be replaced, removing the need for large ad
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by chiaro 11y ago
By what mechanism? Increased disposable income would indeed raise demand, and therefore increase the prices of most goods by some degree, but it's not necessarily true that this will be absorbed wholesale by rentiers.
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by chiaro 11y ago
I think the system we have here in Australia, is terrific. Students accrue a debt to the government, covering tuition, but no payments are necessary on this until you attain a certain income threshold. Right now, that's A$53000 of whic

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