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by claudiawerner 4y ago
It's funny to see a coin like this minted considering the Australian government's position on encryption and privacy (well, not just Australia - pretty much any other Commonwealth country too).
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
You're just restating your definition of what you define capital to be and my point is that some qualified people disagree on that definition. You can call your definition 'woogum', but the fact is that there's no book
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
The idea that capital is ahistorical (or at least, traces its origin to the concept of human property itself by being 'just' property) is not a claim to be made as though it were uncontroversial. In fact, many people proposing non
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I don't think that's true - science is a social process just as much as it is a method; it has institutions, funding, public relations, disputes on technical and non-technical points (article is case in point). As a social institu
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
It's really not a great point to use London, by far and wide the only and biggest exception the rest of the market in the UK, to compare salaries for tech workers. You can earn quite a lot more adjusted for conversion and taxes pretty
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I'm interested in whether the available statistics from law enforcement underestimate how frequently it happens - and how one could possibly find out.
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
"Learning to write kanji" is something completely separate from learning to recognize kanji. The book teaches you how to write kanji. The usefulness fo the book derives entirely from association with memory you already have. You&#
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>How many kanji can you read ? That's not the point of the book; the point of the book is to build symbolic recognition and memory by hooking into words you already know. It's not there to teach you vocab, which is how one do
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>One of the reasons Marx is so popular is that his writing is vague enough that people can read a very wide range of meaning into the words. I don't think this is true, and I say this as someone who's read Marx (almost) back to
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I'm currently using Heisig's RTK; it's been great. I wonder if you simply don't like the system or if you think the pedagogy is ineffective/inefficient.
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
How does one 'prove' that other than by appealing to a list of 'human rights', upon which you and the other commenter surely disagree? There is no fundamental philosophical principle beneath human rights in which it will
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
The "trained Marxist" phrase is so strange to me - how does one become 'trained' in Marxism? Trained in guerilla warfare, perhaps. But to be trained in Marxism has the same meaning as being "trained in Platonism&quo
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
Again, I make no claim as to the merit; however, to dismiss these claims out of hand without looking at the evidence first, even if the article contains hyperbole, does not do the claim justice. Suppose, for the sake of argument that the
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I have no particular horse in this race, but it's worth noting that quite a few legal scholars have designed proposals or at least theorized under what conditions pornography could be illegalized with a First Amendment friendly law[0].
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
It's interesting that most responses I see day to day in regards to cultural and social critiques is generally to fall back on a line similar to "at least it's not X" where the comparable features are oriented solely aro
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
In general I support that attitude, as someone who faced worse treatment for who I at home than at school, I wish I had a teacher or two to stick up for me.
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
It's interesting how "critical theory" is used as a prejorative not only going on a hunch, but also that the very use of it degrades the quality of any article without question. Personally I've come to enjoy quite a lot
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>I figured it was some probably-from-critical-theory-because-aren't-they-always liberal-artsism, but looks like it's just an unusual-bordering-on-archaic sense. I don't think that's correct (and the age of the diction
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
Firstly, why specify 'erect penis' as though that's where the line is crossed? Does the question only apply to parents of girls, since they're less likely to have seen a penis before? But yeah, I wouldn't mind all t
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I agree, but that's kind of what we do to resolve moral cognitive dissonance all the time, with varying results. Personally it's something I really struggle with, and the questions usually boil down to whether I would be fine livi
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I doubt it. I stopped using Tumblr around the time they removed adult content; not because I was there for porn, but because it just seemed so restrictive and I knew there would be chilling effects. You have to look over your shoulder with
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
Very much disagree on this point - I've both started threads there and contributed to threads there in response, and twice admins have locked my thread beacuse they claim I had no intention to change my mind in the first place - as f
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I had a feeling you'd bring up moral realism, and you're somewhat correct; it's not a necessary feature of moral realism, however, and most philosophers arguing for moral realism have stronger arguments than "that's
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Okay, say a philosopher makes an argument for why we should switch to socialism, or become vegans. These arguments would go something like: "Socialism is good because it's a more equitable distribution of resources, which leads
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>and then they want to say that the universe proves them right, even though it has zero connection to the real world. That's a failure of the argument, not a failure of philosophy. Everything from ethics to epistemology has philosop
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>They start with a conclusion that they want, such as dual-ism, or philosophy souls, or all sorts of things, and then they wrap themselves in obfuscating circles This is false; if you believe in a proposition, it entirely makes sense for
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
This is an uncharitable view of philosophy without much evidence to show for it, especially when it comes to the philosophy of consciousness and philosophy of computing. Not to mention, falsifiability being taken as the criterion for know
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I don't know how well they work (if at all) but there's quite a market for 'hangover cure' drinks in Japan[0], and I've heard of a tradition of drinking citrusy supplements or anything high in Vitamin C in Japan. It
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
Can you say which books you're talking about, and by which authors? I've also read my fair share of CRT, but mostly papers from the last 10 years rather than books, so I'm curious who you're referencing.
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
That's a very big 'if', yet no matter how small or big that potential/risk is, I'm still expected to pay the same amount for his potatoes just in case something goes wrong? And even then, many landlords will try a

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