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by gameman144 2y ago
I think we might disagree in terms of the kinds of advertising we're talking about. The best advertising for me is showing me a product and showing me how it's used -- the "Coca Cola will make you have friends and have a good
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by gameman144 2y ago
Someone telling you about a product is not manipulating you. Tracking or certain ad practices might be manipulative, and it's fine to push back against or ban that manipulation, but that is not at all inherent to advertising.
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by gameman144 2y ago
This feels very similar in my mind to blanket concepts like "let's ban lobbying". There are certainly specific modes or practices in lobbying that are damaging to society, but lobbying itself (specifically, informing lawmak
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Let me give you an example: I don't mind raking leaves, but I hate the step where you have to use the rake in one hand and your hand in the other to pick them up, spilling leaves on the trail to the bin. My wife saw an ad for "rak
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by gameman144 2y ago
This is interesting to me, none of the ethics classes I've ever taken even had room for a holier-than-thou instructor; they were taught as "here are various ways that people have tried to determine the right thing to do througho
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by gameman144 2y ago
This is super interesting to me -- I would expect that this world view would object to the comparatively extreme infrastructure and capital requirements of professional sports and other in-world consumption, vs. the relatively small outlays
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by gameman144 2y ago
I can speak to one instance of this (which was before COVID and the events surrounding George Floyd, so apply context as needed), but I took a class on networking implementations in low-budget and rural regions. As part of the curriculum, t
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by gameman144 2y ago
I would guess "Legal tender 2" was deemed a failed experiment, since rapid deflation is extremely undesirable in a currency.
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> Well, we should have made a system that didn’t allow the wealthiest people on the planet to do that. This feels correct- ish , but also pretty unrealistic. If you're born into a system where you have to choose between getting slap
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by gameman144 2y ago
I feel like this mindset is part of why so many people are nervous about having kids, and I couldn't disagree with it more. Your kid is not an optimization problem, they're a part of your family. If you want to do something unique
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by gameman144 2y ago
`memcmp` would be able to crush this game, but the fun is in doing it as a human!
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Maybe, but impact can also make a pretty viable case. For instance, if you own a home you may have an easement on part of your property that grants other cars from your neighborhood access to pass through it rather than going the long way a
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by gameman144 2y ago
With cookie banners, legislation said that every website needed to ask for consent -- a thousand sites, a thousand banners. Operating system level controls, though, provide a single control plane. One can very easily imagine OS-level toggle
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by gameman144 2y ago
> A company can be sold including its assets (its X account) The argument would be that a company's X account is not one of its assets -- it is one of X's.
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Isn't brass only a risk if it's heated enough to release fumes, whereas lead dust at room temperature is toxic?
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Businesses can still pick their customers, they can't just accept/reject customers based on protected categories (e.g. race, sex).
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Which ethnicities would those be, and how does this follow from the data above?
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Potentially nothing, but apartment buildings don't move, so an artillery shell at one-hundredth the cost would probably be the preferred option anyway for nations motivated toward such things.
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One of the reasons the US is viewed as such a good place to start a business is that the country will go to bat for their (favored) businesses internationally. National security is very far from the only scenario where the government will
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by gameman144 2y ago
Capitalism would absolutely love to give you delicious and peak-quality tomatoes. If consumers were willing to pay the additional cost needed to harvest and handle more heirloom-variety tomatoes, there would be a huge incentive to provide t
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by gameman144 2y ago
Wait, but... it is. Am I missing something, or inferring sarcasm where there is none?
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I don't think it's quite like that, since there's no direct action aiming to antagonize poor North Korean citizens; they are suffering indirectly due to the harm done to the actual target. In the homeless analogy, maybe the a
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by gameman144 2y ago
It's not like he went in out of pure malice or anything though, they were trying to hack him first. Not saying it's some morally pristine thing, but it definitely communicated what it was trying to communicate. As an analogy, we s
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by gameman144 2y ago
The second amendment only applies to the United States -- it's totally normal to have one set of rights for citizens and another set for the government itself.
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by gameman144 2y ago
I know this is tongue in cheek, but you absolutely can be restricted from having a biological weapons factory in your basement (similar to not being able to pick "nuclear bombs" as your arms to bear).
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Not at all! Passively choosing from the equally-qualified-candidate distribution across the board will yield representation that's right in line with that distribution. There may be some groups that are entirely men and some that are e
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In this scenario, you should expect to have a representation of around 1 woman per 4 men, if the rate of qualified candidates is 1 woman per 4 men. If you want to hire more than that ratio, you have to be doing some discarding of otherwis
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by gameman144 2y ago
> There is a huge difference between trying to counter institutional prejudice in order to improve the quality of the student body and work being done, and whatever you think a religious “pledge of allegiance” is. In the eyes of the advo
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You definitely have the right to petition the government for redress of this grievance: you can ask your representatives to pass laws banning it. The first amendment would have nothing to do with that actual law though (since if it were, li
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by gameman144 2y ago
Do you have any data to back this up? That feels very wrong anecdotally, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.

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