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by gwright 6y ago
I think that also depends on the location. Might be true in places with lots of trees. Not so true in other locations. It is complicated, as are most things.
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by gwright 6y ago
And what about the people who don't want their earnings to be taxed to pay for people who can work but choose not to? To be fair I don't think UBI is unique in this problem. Even traditional assistance programs struggle with th
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by gwright 6y ago
Does RSA represent the complete package of assistance for someone or are their other programs (food assistance, housing, etc)?
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by gwright 6y ago
There is a difference between thinking that many jobs might be automated away and the hidden assumption in your question that all jobs will be automated away. Why do you think all jobs are vulnerable?
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by gwright 6y ago
I would certainly value that piece of paper at $50 but apparently you value it at something less than $5 because you are willing to accept $5 for it. I haven't a clue as to why you would value it at less than $5, perhaps you get some
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by gwright 6y ago
Rocks. Frost. Not all locations are amenable to underground cables. Here is a white paper that lays out all the tradeoffs and includes some costs. New construction costs can differ between overhead and underground by 2-10x. Conversion costs
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by gwright 6y ago
This seems to me to be a parody of queer theory or the idea of socially-constructed gender from critical social justice theory. Those theories shouldn't be off limits from parody or criticism.
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by gwright 6y ago
Due process is important even in private organizations but a public university is not a private organization so, at least in that context, I think there is a Constitutional argument that due process and respect for other Constitutional righ
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by gwright 6y ago
I was responding to this statement: > No one handled this as badly as we did, objectively. Now if you want to change the goalposts and talk about "close to worst", fine, but let's agree you are changing the goalposts. And
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by gwright 6y ago
> a huge number of active cases whereas much of the rest of the industrialized world has reduced their case numbers significantly to manageable levels that allow contact tracing and fast turnarounds on testing. The US is still adding to
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by gwright 6y ago
> As a European I can say that the only people who still look up to the USA as a great country are the people who base their views on Hollywood instead of the news. Basing your view on the "news" is a huge mistake. Mass media
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by gwright 6y ago
> The US covid response is a distinct, notable, and quite frankly disastrous outlier in the industrial world. No one handled this as badly as we did, objectively. I don't think that assertion holds up. Our economy didn't contra
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by gwright 6y ago
I see what you are saying but I'm having a hard time understanding why there is a prerequisite to "take away ... privileges" in order to ensure individual rights are being protected. I guess I just wouldn't use the word
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by gwright 6y ago
> I'm a lefty, and that pretty much guarantees sloppy handwriting. Is that true? Why would being lefty mean sloppier handwriting? Smudgier maybe because of left-to-right writing system, but sloppier?
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by gwright 6y ago
I think you need to be clearer about what you think of as "rights". Unfortunately that word is used to mean many things but at least at the level of "natural rights", it isn't a zero-sum game.
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by gwright 6y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around the phrases "conventional truth" and "alternative" truth. How about we aim for just plain old un-modified "truth" and realize that it can be quite elusive?
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is better to reinforce social safety net programs for individuals (unemployment, food stamps, section 8 housing, etc) than it is to subsidize businesses. Businesses can restructure and re-allocate assets through sales, mergers, o
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Using the Sun to gravitationally lens an exoplanet(youtube.com)
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by gwright 6y ago
Rule of law is very important, but part of the problem is the "law" is pretty expansive with the powers it gives to the President. So I don't necessarily think there is a "rule of law" problem in this instance, but
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by gwright 6y ago
> Ugh, what rhetoric. I agree. You seem to think that the police function should be re-examined and adjusted and you seem to be OK using the short hand of "defund the police" to communicate that. Unfortunately there are other
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by gwright 6y ago
Another attempt got to 7 points before being flagged and marked as dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015300
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is quite ironic that an article about an epistemology that rejects criticism of itself was flagged.
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by gwright 6y ago
You seem entirely focused on PII concerns and arguing as if the only organizations affected by this incident are "giant companies". That doesn't seem to be the case. I haven't seen any suggestion that this incident is fo
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by gwright 6y ago
More justification that this is an appropriate way to teach people a lesson. You don't seem to care at all what the impact might be on those affected. You are in affect encouraging the criminal behavior because the ends justify the mea
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by gwright 6y ago
So your argument is that any random person is in a position to evaluate whether someone else's "data shouldn't exist" and take unilateral action to delete it? And are you suggesting that in this particular case the perso
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by gwright 6y ago
Why do you feel it is important to characterize the nature of the data? The unauthorized deletion is wrong regardless of the nature of the data.
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by gwright 6y ago
Why are you making the assumption that I'm making the point "as an engineer" as opposed to just a citizen who thinks it is reasonable to expect people not do destroy something that doesn't belong to them? Your analogy ab
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by gwright 6y ago
Not sure why you are focusing on the PII scenario. The original report seems to say it is just "unsecured databases" and not databases that have PII information posted. You are also making an subtle assumption that the service is
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by gwright 6y ago
Ok, but losing "just some of your belongings" is bad also, right? When thinking about the culpability of the person deleting the data or storing the data, we have to start from the assumption that the owner of the data values it.
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is entirely reasonable to start with the presumption that people have a right to their data and to their property, that it is valuable to them.

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