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> Each individual has an obligation to be unobtrusive to those around them. Maybe society will reciprocate and provide support to the individual in return—the US certainly gives poor people more than poor people give society. But the ob
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> Being poor does not cause dysfunctional behavior. "Being poor" isn't an activity, it's a lack of life resources, and that can certainly be a contributing factor. Analogously, lack of exercise doesn't "ca
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If time travel is invented in your lifetime, you should go back a thousand years or so and have a talk with King Cnut — he of the legend of showing his courtiers just how much control he had over the tide [0] — about your views on immigrati
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Thank you! I looked at the Wayback Machine but was unsuccessful at finding it; I guess I didn't look hard enough.
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> Name a single developed country in the last 70 years where high immigration from the developing world has improved quality of life and the social and political order? OK: The developed country you live in — and to which your own fami
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> It's not like Japanese ancestors from 1800s would recognize today's Japan, anyway. In 2003 I read an essay that said in part, "It was fascinating to learn that the Chinese were visiting [Chinatown in] San Francisco t
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(Reposted from below): I skimmed through your last cite about myo/pericardiotis, a meta-study in BMJ. There's an interesting sentence in the discussion part: "Thus, while the risk of myo/pericarditis is higher in the vac
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Moving the goalposts? I don't think so. Look, friend: I don't have infinite time to go digging into all the cites you provided. For all I know, you're doing the Steve Bannon "flood the zone with shit" trick — I don
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We're getting off topic here. This discussion is about Rawls and whether it's OK for majorities to tell minorities that suffer misfortune, yeah, it sucks to be you, but that's not our problem. But since you're going th
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> Masking does nothing to stop the spread of viruses. Neither does social distancing. Look it up. You’re going against what’s been widely publicized as the overwhelming scientific consensus, so it’d be useful if you’d cite some evidenc
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> * So your knowledge of other people is better than their knowledge of themselves? And you get to make choices for them?* I don’t understand: Neither of your statements follows from mine. Oh, and sometimes — not always by any means, b
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> But that’s just another type of catering to the minority at the expense of the majority. Rawls's original position (a.k.a. veil of ignorance) is, in essence, "There, but for the grace of God, go I or my loved ones — so let&
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> The idea of "yourself" having no knowledge of yourself is an absurdity. But your knowledge of "yourself" is likely to be flawed, and/or to evolve as time goes on. As Mark Twain famously said, " It ain&#x
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> the utility of public transit or public parks goes down for 90% of the population in order to avoid draconian enforcement against 1-2% of the population that’s homeless, mentally unwell, or drug users. It's possible to provide a
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> The formulation of Rawls’ question is designed to get people to focus on statistically unlikely scenarios at the expense of probable ones. As an engineer and an Asian I find it incomprehensible that Rawls has so much purchase. We saw
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> One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers. And there's little or no downside for freelancing plaintiffs' lawyers to file questionable lawsuits in the hope of extracting a nuisance-value settle
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This is a motorcycle-focused Web site. FTA: "But perhaps the best part is that Samsung’s solid-state battery tech has around 500 watt-hours per kilogram. That’s nearly double the energy density of the batteries found in most EVs today.
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> hull damage being caused or not caused by a rifle being fired from the flight deck of a ship How did that happen? Our MarDet would occasionally do live-fire training off the flight deck (CVN-65); they naturally pointed their weapon
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> What most people want is an orderly, well-functioning society with a government that serves their needs. Most people also want vigorous good health, satisfying work, plenty of income, and rewarding personal relationships. They'd
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French, too: Avez-vous de la laine?
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> exceptions are when they're covered by copyright or patent And when there's (A) an enforceable confidentiality agreement (written or, sometimes, oral), and/or (B) an implied obligation of confidence, e.g., for employ
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> Peradventure is a good word. Do you have to be a lawyer to know it? Agreed that it's a good word. I'd never heard or seen it myself until I was a mid-level partner at my then-law firm, and our senior partner used the phrase
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> America is in shambles in terms of order, governance, rule of law Or we could try another perspective: America is, beyond peradventure, the most successful continent-wide, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith society in the hist
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> The country was supposed to look more like New Hampshire than New York. Really? Where is that written, and by whom? New Hampshire as of 1491?
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> it contained classified information. Is that like the way that, in the days of typewriters, government people typing highly-sensitive information would sometimes burn the typewriter ribbon?
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In the 1990s I loved the macro feature of WP 5.1. Macros and Reveal Codes let me write a basic Emacs keyboard emulator to accommodate my fingers' muscle memory. When Windows got to be a thing, my law firm considered switching to WP for
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> What does “democracy” mean to you? A country where people vote, but unelected bureaucrats and lawyers actually run things and will do what they think is best? "People" generally don't have the expertise to run things i
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> If Project 2025 succeeds behind its wildest dreams, it won’t even come close to even balancing things out. You're pretty optimistic about that. Trump has amply demonstrated that he can be ruthless. And he'll bring on people
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> This kind of indefinite benefit of the doubt is just class solidarity within the upper middle class. Could be, but I've gradually learned that I need to try to follow Hanlon's Razor for everyone — difficult as that can be s
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> That guy is an enthusiastic cheerleader for a fascist political movement I agree with Rayiner about precious little, but he seems to want the best for everyone, not just for himself, and he's a very-smart lawyer and engineer,

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