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by csb6 7y ago
You’re right. It’s the Broken Window fallacy [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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And people have the gall to say we can’t afford universal healthcare. “Oh, but now that money is lost, and now we actually can’t afford to spend money on our own citizens,” say the next couple generations of warhawks as we spend $2.7 tr
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Or, to be more efficient, we could funnel the money going towards the F-35 to productive uses that would employ as many people and actually create value. Saying the F-35 is good because it creates jobs is an example of the Broken Window fal
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This reminds me a lot of Carboniferous[1], which is a project that was done recently by another team at a hackathon I went to. They just focused on the carbon footprint of travel, and how to minimalise the amount used in a trip using differ
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Capitalism optimizes for wealth accumulation, not for utility. If an entrepreneur can sell a false but appealing image for millions and move on, why would they spend their time inventing anything concrete or meaningful? It’s a lot easier to
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Does anyone know of any open source software that can help with filing/calculating taxes? Would be very useful to people who don’t want to be stuck with proprietary software
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Lots of things were/are found in many unrelated human societies, such as slavery, which was found all over the world for thousands of years and still exists in many places/forms today. Something being common isn’t an indication of
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Structural sexism is not perpetuated by infants. I mean come on. Children wanting to nurse is not the big issue; children grow up, and do not need nursing when they become toddlers. So why are women still expected to be caretakers of toddle
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Then let’s make an effort to expose and reform these sexist structures! That is the goal of people trying to reform the mindset of STEM institutions. These structures are not fixed, and so can be changed.
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Sure, many more women may choose to take the more active role, but it’s important to consider that these conscious choices are affected by implicit social pressures and expectations that are placed on men and women from childhood onwards, s
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Exactly. I think too many Americans assume that the U.S. government are the good guys and that they will always pick out bad guys to kill, ignoring the many ruthless the dictators and military coups the U.S. has backed in order to topple po
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by csb6 7y ago
The responses on HN to this facial recognition technology vs China’s facial recognition technology is mind-boggling. Commenters saw the Chinese tech as dystopian (rightly so), but yet see this technology as a way to “to make sure we're
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This is missing the point. Amazon is acting anti-competitively towards the sellers currently using its platform. That is the problem, not that businesses could potentially set up their own sites. The conflict of interest is the problem; Ama
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This is not what the parent is talking about. Amazon has a virtual monopoly over online buying and selling, with even other sellers having to sell their products on Amazon to reach customers. What does Amazon do with these third-party selle
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All else being equal, that is true. However, our economic system quite disproportionately rewards the wealthy; if you are born rich, it is extremely easy to pay a financial manager to invest your money and get huge returns - returns earned
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People online need to be more like you. I appreciate your thoughtful response to my comment, as well as your willingness to discuss this issue in good faith so far
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That’s a pretty low bar in a world where a handful of people have literally hundreds (if not more) of times the amount of wealth as you and I, and yet still a significant portion of Americans live below or near the poverty line. I contend,
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> I have a really hard time believing someone else's fortune means that I cannot also be fortunate I don’t. There is a limited amount of wealth in the economy at any given moment. There is also a limited amount of well-paying jobs,
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But do any of those metrics really have much to do with how good CEOs are at their job? The “multiplier” comes from the efforts of workers. CEOs don’t create business value - workers do and get paid a fraction of the value they create for t
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by csb6 7y ago
It is hard to be perfect at one’s job, and no one expects anyone to be flawless executives. But I think we underestimate how much more high-level executives are compensated in relation to their actual duties, and that even a severance packa
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by csb6 7y ago
> all societies before the late 19th were just a bunch of rapists and pedophiles I mean, yes? Not sure what you’re getting at. I understand that social norms change over time and remain relative, but if a man in a society of any time per
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> it seems logical and expected to have this kind of issues. Indeed, which is why we are discussing them. The resolution? Stop sexualizing teenage girls and pretending that they are anything other than children. That is my argument; call
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Indeed, sex between minors is clearly the exact same situation as sex between minors and older rich men gifting them as sex objects. /s
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See my reply to darklajid
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I agree morality isn’t absolute, but we’re talking about Epstein (an American and convicted U.S. felon) who as far as I know used only American children in his scheme. What I said is relevant to what stage of life the actual victims would l
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But surely most 35-year olds would say that they changed much less drastically from 25 to 35 than 16 to 25. I mean would you say it’s ok to have sex with 12 year olds since they “never stop maturing” and who’s to pick a number? I think we c
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But at least one 14-year-old was involved in his case, which lead to his initial imprisonment in 2008. Doubtlessly many of the girls in his employ were 14 or 15. And remember, he wasn’t always in MA. He was a serial exploiter of underage gi
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I think it’s wrong to absolve Minsky of responsibility, though. He would have had to be pretty clueless to not at least wonder why all of these teenaged girls were hanging around Epstein’s place. Whether he knew doesn’t mean he did not stil
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> why is the US your moral compass when clearly the age of consent differs throughout the world? Because the question is not “is it moral”, because the answer is obviously no to any decent person, regardless of age of consent. He used wo
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The wrong opinion? Stallman questions whether the victim, who he admits was coerced into sex, was actually sexually assaulted. This is an incredibly shameful take on the situation. If any politician or public figure said this statement in t

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