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The Stoics and Minding Your Own Business (2014)(youtube.com)
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Fools Put Faith in Data Alone (2006)(mises.org)
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by danielam 9y ago
It is involuntary (all punishment is!), but it's not servitude in the same sense that slavery is. If you want to call that "slavery" nonetheless, that's up to you, but you'd be equivocating. There is a difference be
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by danielam 9y ago
The threat a person poses is only one consideration. Justice requires punishment (btw, mercy only makes sense in light of punishment as justly deserved; you can only be merciful to someone who deserves punishment). If the crime committed is
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by danielam 9y ago
You're confusing things. There is a difference between forced hard labor as just (and thus commensurate) punishment for a crime and actual, particular abuses committed by the justice system. There is nothing wrong with forced hard labo
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by danielam 9y ago
If hard labor is the punishment, and the punishment is commensurate with the crime, then no, it's not slavery. Slavery obtains under different conditions.
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Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin (2016)(sciencemag.org)
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by danielam 9y ago
"An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure" by J. Franklin.
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by danielam 9y ago
Indeed. To make such a claim demonstrates a misunderstanding of what formalism is. When human beings develop formalisms, they do so on the basis of semantics. If I wish to formalize something, I must first have a relevant understanding of t
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by danielam 9y ago
There's a body of research that corroborates the opposite claim, i.e., that past a certain point, working more hours does not correlate with -- or correlates negatively with -- effectiveness. So if Europe is less "innovative"
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EthOn – introducing semantic Ethereum(media.consensys.net)
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SafeMarket, a P2P trade system(safemarket.github.io)
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How Franz Liszt Became the World's First Rock Star (2011)(npr.org)
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The Raft Consensus Algorithm(raft.github.io)
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The Order of Lenin: ‘Find Some Truly Hard People’(nytimes.com)
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Behold President Trump and the mysterious glowing orb(washingtonpost.com)
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On the Plurality of Civilisations(scribd.com)
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Joe Armstrong and Simon Peyton Jones Discuss Erlang and Haskell (2009)(infoq.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
There's an analogy here vis-a-vis tradition/progress. In order to be reasonably sure that a change is an improvement, you must understand what you're changing and how. To borrow a Chestertonian example, if you encounter a fen
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by danielam 9y ago
Re: incandescent light bulbs... http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bul...
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Who was the first modern philosopher?(the-tls.co.uk)
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When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike(aeon.co)
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Why Only Us: Language and Evolution(firstthings.com)
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Campuses must combat growing zeal for censorship(city-journal.org)
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Heisenberg on act and potency (2009)(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
Interesting article. One note... "[...] the whole structure of astronomical mechanical complications – whether in the Strasbourg cathedral clock, or in watches like Caliber 89 – is a manifestation of a world view." The idea of a &
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The Problem with the March for Science(slate.com)
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Attack of the Offendotrons: Tyranny of the Flash Mob(quillette.com)
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Was Francis Fukuyama the first man to see Trump coming?(aeon.co)
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Materialism alone cannot explain the riddle of consciousness(aeon.co)
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