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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Louis Brandeis on the right to privacy: https://louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-l...
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
>desperately want fertility windows to not be a female only thing But it is a fertility window, and an interesting result most probably didn’t know about, at that. These results can be discussed on their own merits, provided some scienti
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Let’s cite this kind of stuff.
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These are yours: > A much more cohesive description of Thiel without the internal contradictions (a facist who is a nationalist and a libertarian and a white sepremacist and a technocrat and a globalist elite etc etc) is that of a neolib
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
You missed my point: the underlying motive is unknowable, so whatever point you’re trying to make about the unknown and unknowable is quite literally immaterial. Setting that aside, what is knowable is one’s actions. If someone contributes
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
In the absence of mind-reading abilities one can only use the evidence of one’s actions to make determinations of motivation and character. The author has taken the time to chronicle and detail those actions. The difference as I see it is t
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
This is a principles based analysis. Pretty common in public policy. Principle 1: Children should not be victims of arbitrary violence Principle 2: Children should be educated These are compatible principles. Your proposal (one of many pote
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
“Practical relevance” (funny use of quotes here) is the end-goal of statistics, and what makes it worth studying in the first place. On its own, the practice and theory of statistics is actually fairly vulnerable, not exactly “hard” in the
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Not really, that’s just one (extreme) proposal. I understand the self-gratifying impulse to write something like that though: it absolves the responsibility and work of addressing the problem, and frustrates the conversation away from findi
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
If the statistical relevance fails to capture the underlying practical relevance of a phenomenon, it’s usually the job of the statistician to explain why. One way is examining the dimensions of analysis. A simple counting exercise and decla
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
It’s really quite simple, you didn’t have to spell out your confusion so elaborately: Statistics deals in degrees; violence against children is something that is sufficiently cognized in absolutes.
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
It’s a blog, my guy.
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These are a priori questions: theoretical and naive. If you’re sincere about wanting an answer to your question, we in the United Stated have more or less forfeited the argument that we’re capable of discrimination without harm based on our
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Mine neither. Maybe it’s because they’re the prep school set, but what turned out to be the tie breaker for my multi-Ivy admit friends was the campus visit. I remember one who was adamant about getting in shape in college and chose the one
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Like I said in my very first sentence, sometimes it takes a spade to call a spade. I’m okay with arrogance punching itselves in the face.
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Sometimes it takes a spade to call a spade. For me, a “bright boy” raised in a household with a subscription, I was seduced by the seeming certainty of its language and the comprehensiveness of coverage. “The world’s news at my fingertips,
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Sworn testimony is evidence under the law.
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Well said. It’s almost a meme at this point: HN commentor takes a reductive stance that sounds clever in theory, but collapses when confronted with the actual factual circumstances. Repeat ad nauseam with no gains in collective self-awarene
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Understood, but why is that relevant to my comment?
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
No, there was no change in topic, merely a correction to an incorrect absolute statement: “the vast majority of what lawyers do has nothing to do with judges.” To say it has nothing to do with judges is the overstep. Those who practice know
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Incorrect, especially the statement that “the vast majority of what lawyers do has nothing to do with judges. It has to do with drafting contracts and interpreting legislation and legal precedent.” I think you’re confusing arbitration or li
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
It’s just a set of observations about legal realism using the generic term. You really expected someone to write everything a legal professional does?
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Returning to contract law; the employment agreement is a contract engaged by two or more parties to exchange labor for money (or a basket of financial incentives including money, in part). In virtually every instance, Meta proffered the emp
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Not really. The role of the fiduciary is to act in the best interests of the organization, including seeking counsel and advice from experts. “I was doing what I thought was best,” is not an affirmative defense, and has been successfully ar
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
I think that’s a worthwhile discussion, and readers would have definitely appreciated a discussion of, “Does reputational damage precipitate organizational dissolution in the context of college associations?” It would have been enlightening
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Not an alum so I can’t speak to the first person experience, and the quirks of Stanford are not interesting. My comment’s purpose is limited to that of a discriminating reader seeking to become more informed. I think these observations woul
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
It may depend on the author, as some articles in the publication are inconsistent with the characterization of “in-depth research.” Previously, the publication wrote about “Stanford’s War on Social Life,” but made some omissions that misrep
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
>you're assuming people actually care if something is true before they "believe" it, which they don't This seems like an assumption too. I know there are instances like you’ve described but they’re not absolute nor un
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Different instruments can be used to capture different segments of the population. You’re right there are gullible people who are more likely to believe things with limited or no evidence. But it isn’t necessarily about the most impressiona
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by fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Seems like the parent was optimizing for reducing bureaucratic BS or time-between-jobs, as opposed to career growth opportunities. They’re both valid objectives, but you know the whole “judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree” thing.

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