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by jlawson 3y ago
"Racism" and "fascism" are just thought-terminating sneer words. Their meaning is totally context-dependent. E.g. Some people think the lack of affirmative action is racism. Some people think the presence of affirmative
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's infuriating to hear a scientist say, "Science should be shaped to match our politics, not the other way around." Once we give up on finding the actual truth then we're on the road to hell, as demonstrated so many ti
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by jlawson 3y ago
This doesn't answer the question. OP's accusation is that they Levitt and Donohue are irresponsible because the ideas they're investigating could be "used" by "fascists" and "racists". Parent is
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by jlawson 3y ago
Good comment but, >in the past decade, there have been 2 fatalities IIRC, which is way lower than the national average per pop Is this controlled for age? And other obvious confounders like SES, race, etc?
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Elon has always been clear that he supports free speech within the law as the U.S. courts and constitution have defined it. This means not allowing things like direct calls to immediate violence, child pornography, fraud, blackmail, and lib
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Nonsense. It works if it's more difficult for the adversary to recruit a member who doesn't match the profile. It doesn't need to be "impossible". Of course it doesn't work perfectly, but no security is ever
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by jlawson 3y ago
Probably because uppercase letters generally look better monospaced without descenders.
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by jlawson 3y ago
>Every possible human action has some cost. Every possible human action does not have a punishment or a deterrent applied by those with power . Freedom to do X means there's no punishment for doing X.
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by jlawson 3y ago
If authorities and those with power will apply a "cost" to you for doing an action, you do not have freedom to do that action. This is what freedom means. Otherwise, what does it mean to you? Is your view that simply being physica
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by jlawson 3y ago
No, if someone robs me at a corner gas station, I think "my government should have done a better job protecting my rights". Having your human rights violated is not like stubbing your toe.
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Nah, they're not limited to your options. They don't have to define anything - they can just keep the rules secret and punish/reward as they like without explaining anything. It keeps everyone on their toes, forces over-compl
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by jlawson 3y ago
Height correlates with a lot of traits that are generally considered desirable, including IQ, rated romantic attractiveness, social success, and income.
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by jlawson 3y ago
No, it's the other way around. You can tell because many many communities now and in history have been highly functional while being broke, but every community full of criminals is broke (which is so obvious it sounds strange to even s
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by jlawson 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like parental genetic distance in Japan would obviously just be a proxy for social mobility and "get up and go"-ness.
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by jlawson 3y ago
Crime isn't caused by poverty. There is no correlation. Crime was very low in the 50's, when poverty was much, much higher. Crime was low during the Great Depression. We're talking about people so poor they were cooking thin
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by jlawson 3y ago
"Men's sexuality is dangerous and unnecessary" - It's not something that's said. It's the assumption underlying every interaction that never gets articulated and is more powerful for that reason. It's so &
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by jlawson 3y ago
I also agree women should be free, men should be free, etc. Womens' fantasies are already well-served by a huge mega-genre of literature, writing, and film. It already causes social issues when real men can't live up to Mr. Darcy
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's fascinating that your response plays right into what I was saying. You say I'm 'whining'. Imagine saying this to a woman who is complaining about womens' issues. It's never done. To say someone is 'wh
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's a combination of the Women-are-wonderful Effect [0] (which goes double when it comes to sexuality) and the universal lack of giving-a-shit about problems that men face. Men's sexuality is dangerous and unnecessary. Womens&#x2
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by jlawson 3y ago
The only system that can ever have literally 0% unemployment is slavery. If humans have choice, some will always choose to quit their jobs on any given day. So the situation you're describing is nonsensical; it's incoherent to try
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by jlawson 3y ago
Very low unemployment (aka labor shortage) is bad for business owners, not capitalism. There is a difference. Capitalism is a system that everyone plays a role in in benefits from; it's not a group of people. One could consider labor s
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by jlawson 3y ago
You said 'another place' but you didn't show us anything in the first two places. So - you have no links to all that racism you're describing on reddit? And no evidence of crowds yelling to keep black kids out of their s
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's remarkable how you've managed to completely invert the reality. Please link where racist hate speech is "widely disseminated" on reddit. (Reddit has been strictly controlled speech according to San Francisco values
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by jlawson 3y ago
Non, because they can already "burn the flag/constitution/bible/effigies of the president/???" This is the status quo and it's accepted by nearly everyone on the free speech side. There is no sequence of f
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by jlawson 3y ago
A lot of these car seat laws go until the kids are like 8-10 years old. So you'd have to spread the kids over a 12-13 year span. This isn't biologically feasible unless one starts having kids at 22, which isn't usually a grea
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by jlawson 3y ago
The dot-com bubble crashed too. People see potential, get excited, then disappointed when it doesn't immediately come to fruition. But tech didn't go away after the dot-com bubble. Slowly people and organizations learned how to
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's not just about financial costs, it's also the physical space limitations. Cars generally can only fit 3 carseats. Regardless of equipment costs, that makes it infeasible for parents to have a 4th child. They wouldn't be
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by jlawson 3y ago
I am asking a question in good faith because I really don't know what you're thinking. You said that homelessness is a symptom of underlying problems, which is true, but also said, "You need to address the issues that cause p
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by jlawson 3y ago
It's an example of the general rule to name/implement functions according to what they do, not how they're used. Stated another way, when building a tool, don't let information about the incidental context leak into the
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by jlawson 3y ago
What about that large group of people whose problems are not solvable by your social systems and technology? The ones you can't fix, because humans aren't infinitely moldable. What's your policy towards them?

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