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by edbob 6y ago
If the system tries to force compliance, it is invariably attacked for disproportionately penalizing minorities (even if the penalties are proportionate to non-compliance rates). How is the system actually going to force compliance without
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by edbob 6y ago
> If you want to block pornography in your household, setup a pi hole and grab a blocklist from GitHub that has the top million porn domains. In my case, this would have done very little. A child gets exposed to pornography at friends&#x
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by edbob 6y ago
I had this experience as well. I also didn't think it was harmful, but as I've gotten to know a female friend better I can see what a destructive and dehumanizing influence pornography has.
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by edbob 6y ago
It's neither pointless nor virtue signaling. I'm not Mormon, but it's commonly understood that Utah is an LDS state and follows LDS beliefs.
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by edbob 6y ago
I think I know why you're saying that, but at least in Texas most people who identify as Christian aren't really aware of the differences between groups. If one believes that Jesus is God, it doesn't matter if they even go to
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by edbob 6y ago
> In social relations between people certain voluntary social norms will have to be accepted, namely, the obligation to fulfill a freely accepted agreement. Anarchism is not no government. Anarchism is self-government (or its equivalent,
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by edbob 6y ago
Not my beliefs, but trying to accurately represent the ideas: Having a state is only necessary during the socialist phase. When society is perfected and true communism is achieved, the state is unnecessary. What Mao refers to as socialism s
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by edbob 6y ago
That article disputes the validity of one of the BBC's sources. (I'll note that it seems to take state propaganda at face value, which is pretty questionable). What about all the other sources and findings of the BBC investigation
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by edbob 6y ago
Do you wish to make the claim that the BBC's investigations which have reported on that activity are reporting false information? Or do you have some evidence of your own to provide? Do you have anything to add other than cheap denials
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by edbob 6y ago
What specifically about this BBC report do you feel is not substantiated enough? You did not get downvoted for calling for moderation, but for making unsupported assertions that contradict the available evidence. You complained about the qu
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by edbob 6y ago
Let's just ignore the copious evidence of rape, false imprisonment, enslavement, organ harvesting, mass sterilization, forcing young girls to live with abusive Han families, etc. because this one single article doesn't directly re
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by edbob 6y ago
Reading some speeches by Mao helped me to understand the meaning of "socialism" better. Communism is just the end goal that can only be achieved once humanity is "perfected". Socialism is the means of perfecting humanity
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by edbob 6y ago
"No Slave Labor" would be better, as China is not the only country with those particular "cultural differences".
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by edbob 6y ago
I actually like Snopes for grabbing sources, a bit like Wikipedia. Of course Snopes's conclusion is predetermined, but they do still go through the evidence before reaching the predetermined conclusion, and I find that to be a good sta
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by edbob 6y ago
> This is all very basic liberalism. I'm an atheist but I will defend people's right to worship and, in doing so, I am defending my own right not to worship. It's disturbing to me to see how the basic tenets of liberal civ
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by edbob 6y ago
Good points.
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by edbob 6y ago
> It's difficult to make an argument that it's a more virtuous way to select winners That's because it's a strawman that you've constructed. Real debates involve consideration of the needs of people who can'
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by edbob 6y ago
> So there's the anti-poor angle that rich deep-blue neighbourhoods take and that ends up being racially discriminatory because of the underlying demographics. That makes sense, but that just raises the question of why racial demogr
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by edbob 6y ago
Your technical analysis is correct as usual, but I agree with sologoub's comment[0], "That’s not success, that’s picking winners and losers." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316547
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by edbob 6y ago
> The market wants to supply more housing. We don't let it, based on laws that originally were created to keep black people out of neighborhoods. Those laws continue to be very effective at that goal. Why does this continue to be su
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by edbob 6y ago
> For every one person in that situation, there are nine who can't I'd be interested to know the actual numbers, but I doubt they happen to be 90%.
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by edbob 6y ago
That adds even more upward pressure on housing prices. That's pretty much the last thing my generation needs.
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by edbob 6y ago
This is impractical due to YouTube's algorithm. If y people watch your content on alternative sites that would otherwise have watched on YouTube, this reduces the algorithm's score and could result in x : (x > y) less views o
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by edbob 6y ago
So... your strategy to achieve detente is to inflame and justify hatred of people in rural areas? You're extrapolating a personal anecdote in order to stereotype millions of people. It's hard to see how that is anything but destru
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by edbob 6y ago
I completely agree that there are problems on both sides, but I don't see how your reasoning encourages "everyone realizing this fact and explicitly agreeing to some form of detente". On the contrary, progressives seem to see
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by edbob 6y ago
People are upset that the definition of racist has been repurposed to apply to racially neutral positions and even anti-racism positions. If one advocates in favor of enforcing existing immigration laws, that's a quick way to get label
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by edbob 6y ago
This is exactly why we should cherish the standard of moderation and equality that has been achieved, because it is that rare and precious and is so very easily lost. There are significant threats to this both from the left and the right, a
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by edbob 6y ago
Solar and wind do not "work" in the same sense that nuclear works. Nuclear does not go to zero when the wind stops blowing or the sun isn't shining. Solar and wind cannot meet baseload needs in most places. They may perhaps b
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by edbob 6y ago
[1] is really interesting, but it is literally burning natural gas with extra steps. How is it better than normal gas generation?
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by edbob 6y ago
> Batteries will be the long term solution to energy baseload needs, not nuclear. Viable baseload battery storage is science fiction. Nuclear works now, in this century.

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