hodwic

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by hodwic 8y ago
I asked specifically for other forms of assembly. Individual constitutional rights are applied differently than those rights are applied when assembled. Hence: Is your argument that it would be unconstitutional to apply SOX or HIPAA to non-
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by hodwic 8y ago
First, you're mistaking my characterization for Americans with my own philosophy. That's in error. I am a busybody. Second, you're mistaking your own partisan lens for what constitutes busybodyness with the American Public&#x
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by hodwic 8y ago
I'd be interested if you could provide some examples of regulation which would be unconstitutional if applied to another form of free assembly which is currently held constitutional when applied to a business.
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by hodwic 8y ago
Signed into law in 2016. Most of the major provisions did not come into effect until May 2018.
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by hodwic 8y ago
I think the biggest thing is more cultural than related to any specific argument -- it's America's strong cultural bent against busy-bodies. Whether political activists, art critics, family members, next-door neighbors, school b
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by hodwic 8y ago
Businesses are just groups of humans. We in the US have constitutional protections around freedom of association and assembly, of which a business is but one example. We extend other constitutional rights to businesses, because to remove th
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by hodwic 8y ago
As for irony, ask any art historian with experience in middle ages or late antiquity art. She'll tell you that it has always been a popular device in the arts. The problem with "irony", where this common myth about its novel
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by hodwic 8y ago
Before I was just discussing the Aesthetician’s Orthodox. But here, I’ll answer for myself: As far as minimalist art, there has been something called “design” which has been considered beautiful since long before modern artists began their
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by hodwic 8y ago
Aesthetics is a philosophy in the sense that all serious studies are. (Hence PhD, Doc·tor of Phi·los·o·phy, being the catch all for masters of most intellectual pursuits.) That self-same wikipedia page you listed also denotes Logic and Cos
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by hodwic 8y ago
"Aesthetics" isn't a branch of philosophy, unless you consider Formal Logic, Physics and Psychology branches of philosophy as well, it's separate a field of study. Aesthetics is the sum total of all branches that relate
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by hodwic 8y ago
> Lots of paintings are not beautiful, but are very meaningful and artistic. Like the GP, you're using a definition of beauty which is not at all standard in the field of aesthetics. If the work is visually meaningful and artistic,
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by hodwic 8y ago
Ugliness is not the opposite of beauty. Ugliness is a form of beauty, or at least its necessary foil. This has been understood for thousands of years. See Laocoön and His Sons, one of the most beautiful works of art in the human tradition
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by hodwic 8y ago
> Just making pictures for the only purpose of being "beautiful" is fine, just not very artful... Beauty is the goal of art. If his works don't resonate as well as a Nikolay Dubovskoy or a Cy Twombly, or any other human ar
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by hodwic 8y ago
Two good books on the subject: - B2B Executive Playbook - Crossing the Chasm But in general, the reason no one tells you how to run an actual software business is because why would they tell you what took them years / decades to learn