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by defen 6y ago
"Judges can order people to be put to death." That's a true statement, and in my opinion not deceptive, because capital punishment is widely understood as a thing that exists , and that it is treated as a punishment for cert
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by defen 6y ago
So in your opinion, if I petition a court for permission to kill my neighbor "because he's really annoying", and for some reason the judge says yes, he won't be held liable? Because I disagree. Judges do not have the abi
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by defen 6y ago
That's a sensationalized way of describing it. Judges can't just decide to have random people sterilized. The mother petitioned the court to have her minor daughter sterilized. The judge made a large number of procedural mistakes
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by defen 6y ago
I have aphantasia. When reading I also don't "hear" the words (although I am capable, if I choose, of mentally simulating auditory input in a way for which I have no corresponding capability for visual input). I think I read
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by defen 6y ago
Because in that phrase, "tolerance" is not actually defined, or is defined in a way that does not match the common-sense usage of the phrase. It's kind of like how "racism" had to be redefined so that white people c
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by defen 6y ago
Yes, but if you have a large existing codebase that throws exceptions from constructors you can't just use it unchanged.
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by defen 6y ago
I was responsible for porting a fairly large C++ app to Symbian (this was like 15 years ago, so memory is hazy). The big problems were that exceptions were weird and non-standard, and you couldn't throw them from constructors, so anyth
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by defen 6y ago
If you went purely by merit / contributions to the space program you'd probably have to name it after a literal Nazi who employed slave labor. If that's not acceptable, then you have to admit that pure merit is not the right
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by defen 6y ago
I don't have exact answers to your questions, but it basically comes down to the endowment. For example Princeton has an endowment of 29 billion dollars. There are 8,623 undergrads, and if you assume the full sticker price for tuition,
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by defen 6y ago
> But let's be clear here, a family with a household income of $66k/year (up to, I don't know, $200k/year) cannot afford $85k/year tuition without the student going into massive debt. Click the link - "Famil
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by defen 6y ago
Harvard doesn't offer academic scholarships. If you can't afford Harvard tuition it's free - e.g. if your parents make less than 65,000 (20% of Harvard students) you don't pay anything. So yes, it's actually massive
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by defen 6y ago
The crux of the argument is: "Pretend that you could magically change a person to the opposite sex but leave everything else the same. If that changes your decision to fire the person, it's sex-based discrimination."
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by defen 6y ago
By that logic Bitcoin should be worth zero, right?
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by defen 6y ago
What are we discussing? Whether Facebook was justified in firing him? By definition if they didn't fire him for a prohibited reason, it was justified, right? Is your argument that it was "unfair" to fire him for an act of spe
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by defen 6y ago
At the end of the day it doesn't matter. No one's rights were violated. Apparently you have a different definition of what constitutes appropriate public speech for employees than Facebook does, but so what? You're not his em
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by defen 6y ago
Not a lawyer, just my thoughts: Assuming you're in the US, it's my understanding that political affiliation is generally not a protected category. So if it's at-will employment at a private employer, it's probably legal
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by defen 6y ago
You're allowed to shout that there's a fire in a crowded theater if there's actually a fire. No one has ever argued that there is an unlimited right to say whatever you want whenever you want (libel and slander laws exist and
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by defen 6y ago
My favorite part about The Letter to Chesterfield is that it was such a sick burn that Chesterfield put it on display on a table in his house.
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by defen 6y ago
Sorry, I don't think this is a good-faith reply. Would you consider answering my thought experiment questions?
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by defen 6y ago
It's a fact, not disputed by either party, that he offered to sell them a generic cake or one with a different message. So it's not true that he denied them service "because" they were gay. Thought experiment: Imagine an
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by defen 6y ago
I'm not religious so I don't really support it, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate. It seems to me that there is a significant difference between "my religious organization was founded with the express purpose
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by defen 6y ago
As far as I am aware, there is nothing in the scriptures of any major religions regarding interracial marriage (which makes sense, since the modern conception of race didn't exist thousands of years ago when most of them were written).
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by defen 6y ago
In general, trimmed hedges don't inherently convey a meaningful message, but if you asked someone to trim the hedges into a message that violated your sincerely-held religious beliefs then I think the same principle would apply. > w
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by defen 6y ago
> The recent case with the baker was extending the protection of human rights to gay couples. He offered to sell them a pre-made cake (in compliance with non-discrimination laws). The question was whether he could be compelled to perform
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by defen 6y ago
Even if software is open source, you can't steal it and claim you wrote it yourself.
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by defen 6y ago
Isn't this an argument that there should be no bathroom segregation whatsoever? Why should women care if men use the same bathroom as them?
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by defen 6y ago
That's apparently what the bobbleheads.com guy did, it's linked in the article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-royal-bobbleheadscom_n...
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by defen 6y ago
Can you talk at a high level about the problems of keyword search, or is that part of your secret sauce? Off the top of my head I can think of two, which are intent and encoding . Before you can even do a keyword search, you obviously ne
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by defen 6y ago
This thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18348573
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by defen 6y ago
Interpret "order" as "the order in which the steps are defined in your YAML file", and it's simply true.

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