clawedjird

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by clawedjird 6y ago
In a hyper-connected world awash with data, holding such a perspective seems akin believing that the earth is flat.
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I don’t think many people are arguing that income inequality is the only variable in the crime equation. What factors do you think are generally underemphasized today?
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Is there evidence for your claim? My impression was that the impact of those approaches/policies was found to be non-existent to relatively small (in terms of reducing crime, that is - they probably had a significant negative impact on
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I wasn’t familiar with Judith Shklar before reading this article, but her insights seem both timely and worthy of further consideration.
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Why do you think mobsters or human traffickers are driven by malice? Those occupations, if you can call them that, have clear economic and political incentives supporting their existence. If you want to stop people from becoming mobsters or
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I’m probably missing something (and would gladly welcome correction), but this only seems to address a limited form of determinism. I’m not sure how the existence of randomness at the molecular level or the fact that psychological experienc
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Why not start by simply making prisons humane? I don't know if you've ever visited an American prison, but they're a vestige of 19th-century social mores (ie - norms from an era where slavery, then Jim Crow, seemed reasonable
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by clawedjird 6y ago
> I'm just trying to understand where it is that my family got lucky Really? Did you read the article? Raj Chetty's work on inter-generational mobility should make it obvious where your family got lucky. Your grandfather&#x27
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I agree. Lockdowns have undoubtedly saved lives, as have efforts to find better forms of treatment. While I don’t expect the present US gov’t to effectively act to mitigate the virus’ economic consequences for those most vulnerable, that re
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I agree, unfortunately.
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I guess I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. What are you suggesting?
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I agree with your statements when applied to situations that extend beyond the short-term. I was referring to the immediate threat of deaths resulting from present or nearly-present economic circumstances. My point was simply that we have m
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Well, we can't exactly prevent people from dying of a virus that's largely outside of our control. We can enact policies to prevent people from dying due to a lack of basic resources, however. Unfortunately, contrary to what man
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Try a browser extension like "Bypass Paywalls" on Firefox and Chrome. Link: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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by clawedjird 6y ago
You can't just dump money into citizens' pockets with no expectation of return. Giving an engine gas doesn't make the engine more efficient at using the gas Maybe the point isn't to generate a financial return or incre
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of political labels either. Regarding my skepticism - In the post-Gingrich era, it seems imprudent to assume that unsubstantiated political claims are being made in good faith. While I'd personally be delighted i
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by clawedjird 6y ago
I'm not the most informed person out there, but I haven't seen many conservatives arguing along the specific lines you've laid out here. The conservative perspectives I've personally experienced seem to coalesce around a
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by clawedjird 6y ago
Did he actually enjoy living that way? To me, that sounds like the result of having no real options and playing video games constantly to avoid facing that reality...
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by clawedjird 6y ago
That is true, however Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia. It is part of the U.A.E.
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by clawedjird 7y ago
What job security? If a drawn out recession develops and is truly “rough,” warehouse workers will simply be let go. There are few jobs with less job security than warehouse work.
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by clawedjird 7y ago
Some surely do, but his supporters, in general, are less likely to believe that Russia had a significant impact on the 2016 election than their more centrist counterparts in the Democratic Party (who were surprised that Hillary didn’t win b
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by clawedjird 7y ago
What about the XPS 15 or its enterprise counterpart (Precision 5500 series)? I ran Ubuntu on an older XPS 15 for years with few issues.
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by clawedjird 7y ago
The problem is that, almost 10 years ago, tourism was responsible for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, tourism has been increasing by around 4% annually - a growth trend that’s projected to continue into the future. The on
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by clawedjird 7y ago
In the US, conversations about poverty frequently appear to depict poverty as a choice , i.e. people bear moral responsibility for their poverty because their decisions ostensibly produced it. In this thread, multiple comments take this as
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by clawedjird 7y ago
Well, yeah, I meant actually justify it. Anyone can throw together a few vague, semi-plausible sentences in the name of damage control. I'm not even saying the pharma exec is wrong for what he did, but he clearly hired his employees an
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by clawedjird 7y ago
I agree with what you're saying here, but the OP seemed to be going further than you are. I may have misinterpreted their intentions, but it seemed like they were holding the pharma exec to a different standard than his detractors. The
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by clawedjird 7y ago
> I feel like people who find headlines like this repulsive have never dealt with complex moral issues or taken a moral philosophy class. As someone who’s taken a moral philosophy class, this sounded a bit like, “people who disagree with