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by eynsham 3y ago
> necessity[sic] evil The Khalistani movement is pretty weak, and as Pakistan shows, repression is counterproductive in that it is makes ethnic identity more salient not less. (At least in the Kashmiri case there is already a substantial
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It's a bit naïve to think that the Canadian public will respond to this in the same way that the Indian nationalist press respond to 56 inches' chest-thumping. People can vote Poilievre and oppose extrajudicial assassinations by f
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by eynsham 3y ago
Contemptibly silent. I prefer partial silence to complete silence though.
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I can't tell whether this is ironic, but, no, it is usually expected that the rule of law requires that the government can't obtain convictions just because it wants them.
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by eynsham 3y ago
> none of us have enough information to say for sure at this point Well, I agree; in these matters there is rarely definitive proof until the archives are opened. Given the implicit epistemic standards governing such assertions, I think
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by eynsham 3y ago
Indian nationalist circles close to the government have been claiming credit on behalf of RAW for some time (e.g., https://tfipost.com/2023/06/raw-will-never-confirm-but-harde... ).
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by eynsham 3y ago
History and sociology are respectable academic disciplines.
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Well I think it's one thing to have curated recommendations, but quite another to have a curated selection of albums. I don't want Spotify's idea of 'the best' (e.g.) Mahler recordings; I'll make up my own mind
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by eynsham 3y ago
Did they really boast about curation? I’d rather choose my own recordings to listen to.
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A rather more serious review that actually bothers to consider the argument properly: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2023.2...
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If one has good evidence of the sort of thesis hinted at, one should state it straightforwardly and present the evidence for it perspicuously, rather than darkly hinting as the first section does, which style rather suggests the evidence to
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by eynsham 3y ago
If Britain ever decided that Cambridge was in Britain (presumably a constituent of a decision that Cambridge should be in Britain, not Europe), it would have done so by one of the Acts of Union.
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02391.pdf
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Amia Srinivasan writes about free speech on campus in the LRB(lrb.co.uk)
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by eynsham 3y ago
Scotland and Wales have devolved governments. England does not. There is no English parliament; there are no English courts—there are English and Welsh courts; there are many English ministers but no ministers in right of England. The once-
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by eynsham 3y ago
> Nothing wrong… Well, thanks, I suppose. > …allow it to work organically. This is a bit unclear. Would you object to finding mediocre speakers from underrepresented groups just to boost representation? I imagine so, and so would I. W
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by eynsham 3y ago
It was an aeroplane read that shouldn’t have been. The principal charges I recall against Kissinger were these: - that he generally failed to inform himself on the history of the region and thought in generalities (‘peaceful Bengalis’, etc.
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by eynsham 3y ago
Personally I think it's up to the Ukrainians to decide whether they want to die fighting Russians, and I'm happy for my taxes to go to them if they want to keep going. The notion that the US is the only empire in the morally salie
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by eynsham 3y ago
Kissinger wasn't exactly unimpeachably rational; see e.g. G.J. Bass's The Blood Telegram .
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Forced ventilation might do it.
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by eynsham 3y ago
I should have said ‘conflict of intuitions’, not ‘interest’; it’s too late to edit now.
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I’m not sure that the point can be made much more succinctly, although I agree the original wasn’t written very understandably. I’ve reformulated my point at greater length in response to the sibling. I’ve tried GPT on some topics in philos
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by eynsham 3y ago
I agree—I should have edited it. I’ve responded to the sibling comment.
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by eynsham 3y ago
You’re right—the way I wrote the original comment isn’t particularly easy to parse. I’d been reading philosophy of language all day, and didn’t pause to edit. I’ll try to rephrase here; I don’t think the points are particularly complicated,
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There’s quite an interesting model by which the editors of a prestigious closed journal leave en masse and set up a new open-access one, hopefully transferring the prestige of the former one. Gowers wrote about it here ( https://g
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by eynsham 3y ago
Could you give an example of people who explicitly claim that sentience is equivalent to intelligence? I’d agree that some arguments trade on an equivocation between the two, but I don’t think their adherents intentionally do so.
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There are arguments for this position that are philosophically and scientifically respectable and to which I am inclined. But merely repeating this nostrum isn’t very constructive. Of course, I’m also repeating nostrums here, but I am not m
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by eynsham 3y ago
It’s not obvious to me that only native speakers should have the right to pronounce on linguistic changes or the aptness of linguistic use. Some possible arguments, and responses: 1. Non-native speakers lack the competence necessary to make
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by eynsham 3y ago
Erskine May (20.12: https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4748/matters-alread... ) covers some of the subtleties of such rules. > A motion or an amendment which is the same, in substance, as a question which
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by eynsham 3y ago
> not only unelected but unaccountable Well direct democracy for everything is a consistent position but I doubt that Microsoft unironically thinks that all appointed government posts are unaccountable.

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