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by endominus 4y ago
With regards to the latter, the mandatory Muslim wealth tax (zakat) names stranded or poor travellers "in pursuit of a worthy goal" as one of the eight categories of people it can be distributed to.
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by endominus 4y ago
I don't see how that's morbid. They thought a lot more people would be injured or killed than actually were. Isn't that the opposite of morbid?
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by endominus 4y ago
If you want a much more in-depth analysis covering many more factors (including the larger cohort of people who begin college but never finish, thereby taking on a great deal of the costs without most of the benefits) I cannot recommend Bry
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by endominus 4y ago
We just need to get kids away from their parents and everyone else they know. Then they'll finally be safe! Maybe those nice Mongolians will take care of them...
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by endominus 4y ago
This might be an artifact of a filter bubble, no? It reminds me of Scott Alexander's interesting discussion of outgroups, wherein he revealed that despite knowing around 150 people (probably), and that roughly 46% of Americans are crea
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by endominus 4y ago
Who considers Starcraft II , of all games, the first esport? Was it ever even considered as competitive as the original Starcraft?
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by endominus 4y ago
This argument is too broad. Why set the number at 40? Maybe if we all worked 80 hour weeks devising new algorithms to target people with ads and bussing tables in fast food chains, we'd all be immortal by now! Time spent in labor does
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by endominus 4y ago
For those not in the know, as I was, VAM stands for Value-Added Modeling, a method of (apparently) calculating the effect of a teacher by comparing their students' grades with those same students' grades in previous years and with
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by endominus 4y ago
I don't think Greene is treated anywhere near as seriously. Especially since his books tend to fall into the category (in my mind, at least) of "self-help" rather than scientific non-fiction. The Laws of Power, Strategies of
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by endominus 4y ago
The Nintendo Switch (114m) outsold the Xbox One (51m) , Series S, and Series X (12m together) combined. And both the Playstation and (especially) Xbox suffer in that most of their games are also available on PC (usually much more cheaply).
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by endominus 4y ago
>My "justification" is not usable identically, word for word, by the same people who believe the opposite of my beliefs, because they do not believe my beliefs. "If we tolerate {people with out-group beliefs}, they will ta
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by endominus 4y ago
Per the second point, I have a thought experiment I like to present people. Let's say you were a judge at a murder trial. The evidence has been presented, and it's up to you to make a final decision, but you remain unsure. After t
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by endominus 4y ago
>The only way to stop them is to physically guard {Sacred Value} When the {Sacred Value} is participation in the marketplace of ideas, then guarding it against unwelcome elements is the same as destroying it. When your justification can
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by endominus 4y ago
>You do not need a strong mechanism to suppress intolerance I would argue that you do need one, evidenced in your examples. You need a strong cultural bias/expectation towards tolerance. You need people to understand that tolerance
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by endominus 4y ago
The paradox of tolerance, as it is commonly argued, has to be one of the worst philosophical arguments actually taken seriously. It basically boils down to an argument from fear - We all believe in the importance of {Sacred Value}, but the
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by endominus 4y ago
The first sentence of the introduction clarifies the definition of "political tolerance", which seems to be a term of art; "Citizen support for the rights and liberties of even those political groups that they dislike, common
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by endominus 4y ago
This comment very strongly reminded me of the chain of logic called out in an article recently shared on this site, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vam... > In the febrile McCarthyite a
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by endominus 4y ago
Well, depends on the person. Angus Barbieri was able to maintain a 0-calorie diet for over a year, losing 125 kg in the process. Not, perhaps, a feat to be emulated, but obviously physically possible. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by endominus 4y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan , it means "Accuser" and "Adversary". Apparently (according to my foggy memories of a video essay about some high-art film) Satan was originally just
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by endominus 4y ago
>Critical thought is the fundamental of education. I haven't seen any school that explicitly and effectively teaches critical thought. Many seem rather offended by it. As to your main point, I wonder if you've heard of Brian Ca
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by endominus 4y ago
Okay, much of what you say is relevant to the professional woodworker. But the OP was not discussing the professional woodworker and "gatekeeping" as an accusation is not relevant to the professional woodworker. No one is denying
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by endominus 4y ago
Good to know! But now we're talking about fundamentally different things. The posts you were replying to had this to say: >If I had to earn a living making furniture or any kind of carpentry, I'd definitely use power tools. &gt
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by endominus 4y ago
> It's not even cheaper, a router and a table saw can do cuts that would take hundreds of hand tools to accomplish... Unless you are making very square hyper-modern furniture out of planks you need so many specialized hand tools. Ev
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by endominus 4y ago
>Musk is a free speech absolutist, by his own admission. I don't think his concept of free speech absolutism matches yours. Given the other things I've heard (something about moderation teams with diverse voices, and this news
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by endominus 4y ago
>I could argue that I am shouting so that everyone can hear me. I could be shouting important things. You could argue that, yes. What you can argue doesn't matter. I can also, equally, argue that I am free to DDoS someone I don&#x27
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by endominus 4y ago
Your argument is, abstractly, "Isn't censorship also speech?" My response is, no, censorship is not covered under free speech. This is a faulty supposition that many people who are generally opposed to free speech hold. Preve
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by endominus 4y ago
What if I had a sonic cannon that could blast a house off it's foundations? Is a DDoS attack speech? No. No one argues that in good faith. Stop justifying your conclusions by redefining speech to something else. There are actual, reaso
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by endominus 4y ago
Except this doesn't prove the point asked. I can literally write your second example and in fact, I will; I hereby order whatever shadowy figures monitor all internet communications to kick zamalek off of the internet. There; has that
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by endominus 4y ago
>I am a sorta-rules utilitarian; in contested questions, I think the moral obligation is to behave in a fashion so that the standards by which we act, if universalized, maximize beneficial outcomes. If you'll forgive the glibness, i
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by endominus 4y ago
There's also principled reasons to be against this. Namely, that government tends to be woefully bad at optimizing for moral good (cf. the American prison industry or California's attempts to end homelessness) and is just as likel

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