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by dionidium 3y ago
If an eye-witness makes an erroneous identification, or a police officer misunderstands a piece of evidence, or a witness for the prosecution is coerced into giving false testimony, is that any different? In each case we're talking abo
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> It's easy to say "people who have no other options should get access to experimental treatments" but the problem is that people who have other options want those too, because nobody wants to go through chemotherapy or w
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I am not so differently inclined. What I mean to say is that as long as we exist this will always have been a part of our history and as a result addressed in Amendments to our foundational documents. Those Amendments are an indelible form
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Whatever you think in theory, in practice we have an actual legacy of the extraction, relocation, and enslavement of a particular group of people on the basis of race. We fought a civil war about it and it remains the most enduringly conten
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> With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. I just don't see this. In our society we believe it to be illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race. We believe that to be a
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To the contrary, the NEA wildly overestimates it and employs junk question-begging "disparate impact" [0] reasoning throughout. The article is full of stuff like this: "There is a clear correlation, for example, between te
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by dionidium 3y ago
In case it makes anybody feel better, I was "around" at the time and I never got it, either. Tried to read it many times and never could finish.
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> You need to explain how citations affect accidents. No, I don't. You're plainly demanding a standard of evidence that you wouldn't in any other domain, especially if you were inclined to prefer the explanation. I'
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The average age of inheritance is like 50 and the average sum inherited is like $40k (these numbers are from memory). I couldn't figure out what percentage of people ever receive an inheritance at all, but I don't think it's
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No. Why would that have had any impact on their ability to later buy a home? It didn't change anything over the long term.
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92% of American households own a car. So, plainly: yes, my experience was typical.
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Again, I would submit that nobody really believes this. Look at your own family. Do you all live in the same neighborhood with strong neighborhood-supported familial bonds? Probably not. Even when I lived back home my mom lived in one neigh
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> - Want an interstate in your city? Run it through a black or brown neighborhood.[1] A lot these debates really come down to just how impressed one is by arguments like this. It so happens that an Interstate was built through the neig
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If your definition of "loads" is based entirely on whether you're being personally impacted, divorced from the broader context, then even small amounts of housing construction can seem like a lot. If one house goes up on my
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by dionidium 3y ago
Remember what we're trying to explain here: two distinct step-ups in pedestrian fatalities occurring in just one country. Any proposed explanation needs to address both 1) why it happened when it did; and 2) why it happened in only tha
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by dionidium 3y ago
If you are worried that a pedestrian might step in front of your car, then the onus is upon you to drive even slower than you already are . The speed limit is a maximum in urban environments. You're free to go slower, if that's w
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by dionidium 3y ago
Further support for this theory is provided by this graph, which shows two separate, distinct jumps from 2014-2016 and 2020-2022: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzU9P7iX0AARi1F?format=jpg What happened in 2014 was Ferguso
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The parsimonious explanation is that most people do not care about this issue as much as you do, which suggests quite plainly that no such regulation is necessary. You might want to consider that your views on privacy are eccentric and unpo
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This is an obvious comparison, but it fails because there is no conceivable way to disable the illegitimate uses of a firearm without impacting the functioning of the allowed uses. If we could invent a gun that would not fire in a bad shoot
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> Conceptually agree. Although my car and even phone GPS regularly think I’m on a road that I’m not actually on so I don’t think this would execute well. This is a win in my book. If we can move past the conceptual/philosophical o
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NHTSA says here [0] that it's a factor in 29% of fatalities. I think there's also reason to suspect that number is underreported. The responding officer has to make the judgement on the scene that speed was a factor and decide to
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Manufacturing a car to travel only at the prevailing speed limit is "authoritarian" and "reactionary?"
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Walkable cities are great and that's one way to reduce the impact of car accidents. Another way is to prevent the most catastrophic kinds of accidents from occurring in the first place by manufacturing the cars to be incapable of them
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Yes. I am addressing the second-order effects of each motivation. Let's grant that the harms of the kind of speech you're worried about are exactly the same in either case. [0] Platforming "racist harassment" because o
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The argument goes like this: There is probably a line. But you don't know where it is and neither do I. You and I might agree that X is to one side of that line, but if we ban that behavior, then we have initiated a process that we mig
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And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence
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The real lesson of Snowden's revelations is that almost nobody actually cares that they're being spied on. (I certainly don't.) Edit: OK, here's some actual data on this and a little less hyperbole. "Almost nobody&q
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> The main hurdle to overcome is finding the politicians you'd need to take power from property owners to give to non-owner residents The opposite is true. We need to overturn Euclid and similar rulings that took rights away f
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That which explains everything explains nothing. Literally everything affects you in the sense implied here, so "it affects me" is quite plainly insufficient justification for intervention. Everything affects you in some sense.
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No, because this formulation assumes we're starting with a fixed number of homeless people whose lives we're only making better. This is erroneous on two grounds: 1) it's not obvious that it makes their lives better in the lo

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