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by gwright 6y ago
Not really.
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by gwright 6y ago
> But if it isn't... what's the harm? Well for one thing it teaches people to be confused about the idea that meaning depends on context. Look at the dictionary definition of 'master' and you'll see that it doesn
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by gwright 6y ago
> media outlets rebranding it as government censorship I must have missed that. All the criticism I've seen about the action was just that -- criticism of the private action, basically criticizing the editorial decision. I haven&#x
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by gwright 6y ago
What are you getting at? This comment seems to be unrelated to anything I'm saying even if I could understand it. And for what it is worth the capitol rioters have been widely condemned by libertarians and conservatives.
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by gwright 6y ago
FWIW, this twitter thread is a has a more explicit summary of the objectionable images and text https://twitter.com/consciouskidlib/status/96965743301761433... It did provide a lot more insight for me than the sup
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by gwright 6y ago
> Conservatives wouldn't complain if private companies were censoring and cancelling left-leaning content. They'd be out there defending private property rights and corporate freedom to act. It's transparently political. I
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by gwright 6y ago
> Ebay is a private merchant That doesn't mean their choices are somehow immune from public criticism. I realize that clarity is in short supply in online discussions, but mostly I think people that are reacting negatively are just
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by gwright 6y ago
> severe racist overtones I haven't seen a good summary of what parts of the withdrawn books were considered inappropriate, but my understanding is that the stronger objection has been to political cartoons that Theodor Seuss Geisel
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by gwright 6y ago
> But according to the new filing, Munchel and his mother took the handcuffs from within the Capitol building — apparently to ensure the Capitol Police couldn't use them on the insurrectionists — rather than bring them in when they
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by gwright 6y ago
> But according to the new filing, Munchel and his mother took the handcuffs from within the Capitol building — apparently to ensure the Capitol Police couldn't use them on the insurrectionists — rather than bring them in when they
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by gwright 6y ago
I accept that I work in a world in which not everyone is trustworthy and sometimes that means that I'm subject to verification procedures. What reason is there to feel indignant about that? The existence of controls is not at all the s
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't understand this idea that theft isn't a harm worth worrying about. Sure, it isn't the same thing as blowing people up but surely that isn't where we want to draw the line, right?
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by gwright 6y ago
> These all complement each other, not sure why you pulled out only wind from that. I wasn't trying to call out wind. I just should have said "intermittent' 17GW seems like a strange unit for storage. That should be GWh I
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by gwright 6y ago
I think the point that was trying to be made is that wide-spread deployment of residential solar isn't a panacea. You still need to provide sufficient grid capacity to serve the customers when there is no sun. And you have to pay for t
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by gwright 6y ago
Adding more wind capacity doesn't help because you still need a substitute for when it isn't windy. As far as I can tell we still don't have reasonable grid-scale power storage and until we do increasing the ratio of intermit
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by gwright 6y ago
Wouldn't you have to have some sort of adjustment for singles vs families over time? and for average number of people in a household? Number of people in a household has a cultural factor and age factor also (young single people often
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by gwright 6y ago
Without taking an opinion on whether that "sense of ownership" is right or wrong, I would say that the response to gentrification is another example of the phenomena you are describing.
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by gwright 6y ago
This doesn't align with what I've read. For example: https://www.cato.org/blog/middle-class-shrinking-households-...
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by gwright 6y ago
> There's no legal reason we can't craft law to be different than it currently is, Of course. I didn't say differently. But lots of people don't understand the conceptual relationship to "lobbying" and the
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by gwright 6y ago
> And tell me again why lobbying is legal The 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law [...] abridging [...] the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. This is the core ide
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by gwright 6y ago
Fascinating. Is there nothing in the UK like the US Code? https://www.govregs.com/uscode
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by gwright 6y ago
That is interesting. Thanks for elaborating.
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by gwright 6y ago
Helpful, but in the real-world legislative systems I've interacted with, the patch (the bill text) isn't formatted as an algorithmic diff against the base documents (statutes, for example). It is a baroque system that requires hug
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by gwright 6y ago
I think you are just describing the difference between a bill (what is debated and discussed during the legislative process), and the compendium of statutes (or regulations, etc.) that is updated via the legislative process. My understandin
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by gwright 6y ago
This is a common oversight in much of the public discussion about renewables that is inexcusable. Public policy is being devised from a very deep misunderstanding of the physics of a power grid.
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by gwright 6y ago
Not just constitutional amendments, legal documents of all kinds would benefit from standard formatting and version control. One difficult challenge is that text-line based diffs don't work well for free-form text documents. Line lengt
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is reasonable to argue that there were a number of people in the crowd that had ill intent. Not sure which crime fits the facts though (sedition, attempted murder, etc.) That will depend on actual facts, which is why we have tria
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by gwright 6y ago
My understanding was that the explosives were not at the capitol (DNC headquarters I think), but maybe I'm just out of date on additional information? Not saying that is good either, just that there were many things going on that day t
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by gwright 6y ago
Having things in common is not the same thing as "equating"
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by gwright 6y ago
Who is "equating"? They are different but both bad. No reason to excuse either of them in any way. No need to decide which one is worth prosecuting and which one isn't.

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