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871.
by hx87 10y ago
Just because the prevailing opinion sways a certain way doesn't mean it's impossible to say something different.
872.
by hx87 10y ago
So either everything humans do is natural or nothing humans do is natural. Either way, it's incorrect to say that 1st world actions in the Middle East are any more "unnatural" than what the indigenous people do.
873.
by hx87 10y ago
Ibn Saud initially controlled the Najd, the central portion of the peninsula. The Hashemites held the Red Sea coast.
874.
by hx87 10y ago
Given the state of the Iraqi military, things would have gone south immediately, and the troops would never leave.
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by hx87 10y ago
If I ran my company with the same "competence" Trump ran his, I would have gone out of business a long time ago.
876.
by hx87 10y ago
There's hardly anything "natural" about human ecosystems, or human relationships for that matter.
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by hx87 10y ago
> we can't say things that are true Such as...?
878.
by hx87 10y ago
Yes. Now, more violinists than just the best ones have access to violins of the same quality.
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by hx87 10y ago
Even according to that article, Prohibition only worked in a public health sense if you considered a reduction in alcohol consumption an absolute public health good in itself. I don't know about you, but drinking 50 gallons a year of l
880.
by hx87 10y ago
> From my perspective a single centralized government(e.g.: the EU) can only really benefit the multinational corporation From my perspective it's the other way around since it's much easier to regulatorily capture smaller gove
881.
by hx87 10y ago
Sure, if you have reliable access to a Stradivarius violin, there's no reason to switch, but if you don't, it's no loss.
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by hx87 10y ago
Another way to think about them is that the best craftsmen of a few hundred years ago can make violins that are every bit as good as the ones we do today, but the difference is that we can crank them out (as far as $100,000 objects can be &
883.
by hx87 10y ago
That may have been true back in the 20th century, but not anymore--Apple and Walmart have market caps on the same order of magnitude, but one employs far more employees than the other. Besides, if you have more $ per employee, that just mea
884.
by hx87 10y ago
25-to-life is indeed excessive, but if some people had 25 year lifespans and others had 2500 year lifespans, "3 strikes and you're 10-25% of your lifespan" is actually quite reasonable.
885.
by hx87 10y ago
If Clinton's behavior is highly dependent on external parameters such as polls rather than internal ones such as personal morality, then it's on the American people to make sure the external parameters are favorable. I'd take
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by hx87 10y ago
Or, allow government officials to publicly and openly order the use of torture, with one caveat: anything done to the tortured will be done to the official. Too high a price to pay, you say? Then the situation is not dire enough to warrant
887.
by hx87 10y ago
If zoning repeal is impossible due to entrenched landowner interests, why would cracking down on AirBnB succeed in the face of entrenched landowner interests?
888.
by hx87 10y ago
> we have a low housing inventory at the moment That is the underlying problem though--you can't even build old school (but up to date code- and safety-wise) triple deckers anymore in large sections of the city and the surrounding t
889.
by hx87 10y ago
Exactly. They're just de facto protected by overly police-friendly prosecutors and juries.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's why I think the European concept of "right to be forgotten" is deeply flawed. I understand that they're trying to protect people from being negatively judged using outdated information, but the problem lies in the
891.
by hx87 10y ago
I'd imagine so. I stopped at around 12. There are much more productive things to do in life than play /music/ on your /piano/. I'm 25 and I have never /purchased/ a /book of sheet music/ for
892.
by hx87 10y ago
Having more low-income gamers wander into my high income neighborhood wouldn't exactly be a bad thing for either of us.
893.
by hx87 10y ago
To be fair, we don't know what going on in that bundle of several billion interconnect neurons between everyone's ears; what the OP refers to as "accountability" is actually process transparency, and we certainly don&#x2
894.
by hx87 10y ago
> And in general the justifications needed for torture would be so high that you would probably be able to convict without it It's so high that IMHO the only possible place for torture in a civilized legal system is as punishment fo
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by hx87 10y ago
I'd be inclined to agree, if and only if "going too far" comes with its own (judicial, not administrative) punishments, not just letting the suspect go free. Otherwise the incentive structure is screwed up, since the police s
896.
by hx87 10y ago
A good heuristic is to always favor the long term over the short, unless doing so significantly endangers the long term from ever coming to fruition. Of course, "significant" is subject to discussion. A serial killer, no matter ho
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by hx87 10y ago
For thought experiments that are applicable to real life, you should not presume knowledge that nobody in the experiment has access to.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I've been told again and again that there's some evidence us consumers have to be looked out for and have perfect, pristine produce > out here in Mountain View It looks like you and your community are ahead of the curve on
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by hx87 10y ago
If a single DIN radio has a pop-out screen, it isn't constrained any more than a double DIN, and if it doesn't have one, the amount of possible complexity is rather limited.
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by hx87 10y ago
OP didn't say anything about finding meaning in pleasure, only finding meaning in every single moment instead of at some metaphysical end of time.

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