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by gwright 7y ago
Is it your opinion that "religious bigotry" is not protected by the Constitution? How are you going to define that outside your preferred scenario of bigotry against gays? Do you intend to insist (by law) that Orthodox Jews, for e
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by gwright 7y ago
Can you explain how you are balancing the notion of freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom of speech here? It sounds to me like you're are arguing that those rights aren't worth protecting for the baker and you a
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by gwright 7y ago
> There is more freedom in Amazon. I have a friend who has been an online merchant for many years selling through their own website, Ebay, and Amazon. I suspect they would burst out laughing, fall down, and start rolling around on the gr
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by gwright 7y ago
I explicitly said I was responding to the notion of "even" and not arguing against taxing in general.
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by gwright 7y ago
The casual assumption that it is appropriate for government to tax people in order to distribute wealth "evenly" is disturbing. I'm reacting to the "even distribution" notion not taxing in general. I think there are
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by gwright 7y ago
Where did I say I was an authority? I'm just sharing what I think based on what I've read. I was saying that the "extrapolation" of current trends into the future without bound is unscientific. Perhaps that isn't qu
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by gwright 7y ago
Well that was as close as I could get to a dead planet without describing something like the demise of Vulcan in the Star Trek reboot, which seemed like a bit much even in the realm of hyperbolic descriptions.
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by gwright 7y ago
Of course it isn't good but my point was that hyperbolic language doesn't add information to the conversation and I think it actually causes people to do things that are dangerous. Claiming human civilization is going to be "
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by gwright 7y ago
So you don't thing it was "figurative language"? You view my dystopian description as "close" to your understanding of what is predicted? [edited because I made the mistake of thinking the parent was the author of
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by gwright 7y ago
Except that this type of language is endemic in climate discussion and is often enough accepted at face value and not recognized as hyperbolic language. In my experience there are people who view this language as an accurate description of
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by gwright 7y ago
Lots of things might happen due to increased temperatures. The Earth dying is not one of them (hint: it has been much warmer in the geological past).
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by gwright 7y ago
Not doubting the monthly stat, but I don't think it makes sense to use the coin flip analogy from a pure mathematics point of view. Coin flips are independent events. Daily temperatures are not.
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by gwright 7y ago
I would be surprised if signal intelligence was unable to discern who the guilty party was in this case even in the absence of hard data from the incident itself. I find it hard to believe any entity capable and willing of initiating such
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by gwright 7y ago
I think you are simplifying things quite a bit. For example, a grocery store might have minimum wage workers who help bag groceries to provide a better service to their customers. If the minimum wage goes up, then the store might decide to
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by gwright 7y ago
I don't think engineering internships are price-competitive with minimum wage jobs. So I wouldn't expect any direct impact. Perhaps an indirect impact though, especially if the company overall is dependent on minimum wage labor
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by gwright 7y ago
> and raising prices as a result would be fine since other minimum wage earners (i.e., customers) would now have more money to spend on fast food. (estimating based on your numbers, prices would have to increase about 10%) And what about
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by gwright 7y ago
> Of course, some businesses would not be profitable at raised prices. It is hard to tell from your comment, but you see that as a problem, right? I agree that some people will benefit from an increased federal minimum wage, but I don&
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by gwright 7y ago
There are real social problems that need solving but framing the situation as the result of "theft" is a mischaracterization. Theft would be an "easy" situation to resolve, just give the money back. In any case, I don&#x
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by gwright 7y ago
2009? You are being generous. I'm pretty sure when I was managing BGP announcements for my small ISP in 1999 route filtering was a thing.
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by gwright 7y ago
Sure, but I wasn't making any claims about healthcare. I was just stating the obvious that we spent lots of money on a safety net. Ironic that people seem to think that those programs are worthless, but I gather want to arrange for a
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by gwright 7y ago
I just pointed out that $700 billion isn't nothing. I'm well aware of the myriad of flaws in the existing programs. I certainly wasn't claiming that the $700 billion was being spent wisely but apparently that is what a number
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by gwright 7y ago
I just pointed out that $700 billion isn't nothing. I'm well aware of the myriad of flaws in the existing programs. I certainly wasn't claiming that the $700 billion was being spent wisely but apparently that is what a number
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by gwright 7y ago
What are you talking about? EITC, SNAP, Section 8 housing, SSI, TANF, WIC, Medicaid, etc. This site estimates over $700 billion per year spent on these programs: http://federalsafetynet.com/safety-net-programs.html
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by gwright 7y ago
Huh? That is just the standard role of the criminal and civil justice systems. Nothing new there.
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by gwright 7y ago
Not going to happen. Or should I say that you'll have no applicants for your next CEO opening. How about prosecuting the people exfiltrating the data? Seems like they should be 100% liable for their actions.
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by gwright 7y ago
The devil is in the details, but if there is an agreement about what defines "harm", then the libertarian remedy would be civil or criminal liability for that harm.
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by gwright 7y ago
You claimed that the free market was incapable of allocating the resources correctly for an "industry". And now you are suggesting that my assumption that you were implying that the government should do the allocating is also inco
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by gwright 7y ago
I gather you are asserting that real estate developers are incapable of determining when they are too late to the party and are constructing extra space that will never be occupied. Presumably you also believe that government bureaucrats ar
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by gwright 7y ago
I thru hiked in 2002. One of my fellow travelers started in Georgia planning to hike for two weeks, made it all the way to Maine!
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by gwright 7y ago
Agree with you about rent control, but I'm assuming that the "guy" must be breaking the law. If people in rent controlled apartments are free to sublet at market rates, that seems like a huge loop hole easily exploited. Regul

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