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by jmcqk6 7y ago
There are millions of christians who disagree with you. But yeah sure, clearly you're the one person in the world who has it right! You're right about my expectation of consistency for there to be social benefit. I just have an
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
What's an enumeration fallacy? I've googled, but nothing useful came up. The point I was trying to make is that even if you say "we should follow christian values" the necessary follow up question is "which christ
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
>The lack of consistency in Christian behavior does not imply that Christian morality is on the whole unhelpful. I wasn't trying to say that it's unhelpful, just make the point that it's not uniform. If someone says &quot
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
You only need to look at the literal thousands of different versions of Christianity to see this. Is it wrong to be gay as a christian? You're going to find hundreds of different christian opinions on this, with their own scripture to
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
> because as soon as you decide morality is relative then everyone is free to choose the morality that is most convenient for them/their tribe. I don't think I'm a moral relativist, but this is a non-sequitur. It's po
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
I'm an atheist and I didn't replace god with anything or anyone after I lost my faith. My thinking developed more orthogonally to the old religious hierarchy. The idea that you need to replace god with someone is locked into a m
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
> All states require teacher licensing at public schools. However private schools do not and get better outcomes. Some private schools get better outcomes than some public schools, but that is not universally true. The factors involved
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by jmcqk6 7y ago
The policy problem is that there is a large chunk of people who don't even think there is a problem. How is that going to be solved with a different "mix" of tech?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
O bought your 'experimenting with babies' book for my sister when she had her first child. It's been a blast, thanks!
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
If there is a shortage, by supply and demand, wages should go up. If they want to pay less, they should be out saying that there is an over supply and they can get workers for whatever wage they actually want. You haven't explained how
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
How do you handle production?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>There is NOT a shortage of software developers. That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government. The goal? Reduce labor costs. What is the line of reasoning than goes from 'there
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
The out of pocket maximum can be a lie, too. I have an 'out of pocket maximum' on my ACA insurance plan, but there are medical services that are exempt. Last year, I paid $4000 more than my $6500 out of pocket maximum, because I
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
These books are pretty timeless. They are not "learn X in 12 hours", but they are about concepts and ideas that will make you a better programmer, regardless of the specifics of your job. They are timeless, for the most part. Th
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Okay, just mix in another example instead. How about faster than light neutrinos?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
To turn this into a criticism of other fields is kind of ridiculous. You can easily find many examples of people in hard sciences rushing to publish - some to the point of having very significant consequences. Andrew Wakefield and vaccine
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
I'm not sure I'm following, so I want to make sure I've got this right. You are claiming that there are medical professionals are telling their patients that psychosomatic and mental illnesses are not real illnesses?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
If people are interested in exploring this topic, I would highly recommend Robert Sapolsky's course "Human Behavioral Biology" from stanford. The lectures are all available on YouTube and I learned so much from them: https:
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
I don't think it makes it look like it's not happening, but it is easier to manage some things at higher levels than others. If you're a business, every single governmental entity you have to deal with adds complexity into t
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
> But the reality is - when some person sits looooong away in Washington and makes some rules - they are hardly connected to the people they represent. I don't think that is the reality. I think that is the illusion that shelter in
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
This is a very interesting idea. I've been thinking that one of the big problems with government today is that most people do think of it as a 'they' instead of an 'us', but I think the reason is more complex than
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
When the laws seem unfixable, is that still the only moral responsibility you have? You seem to be arguing that you should follow immoral laws until you have a chance to change them. That doesn't seem very moral to me.
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>> As a society > As a government These are not different things. The government is made up of people from society. There is no secret cabal running things, just a bunch of people. If you want to treat the government as something
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Does anyone know of a good practical guide for basic administration of ZFS on linux?
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Or another way to look at this is that if the problem can't be solved well - in a way that actually adds value - then maybe don't offer it at all. I don't believe amazon's recommendation engine has ever delivered any val
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>Maybe we just have to accept that part of the experiment of living in a democratic and free society is allowing people to create their own values, and accepting that people are going to get it wrong. There is a difference between choosi
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
> "Being right feels the same as being wrong". From the book "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schulz. I highly recommend it!
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
No, I'm suggesting that it's a lot more complicated than supply and demand. I don't think it's even the dominating force. People do not try to optimize money earned. Supply and Demand is a factor. My point is if you
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>they aren't strongly correlated with supply and demand and the health of the economy, then why do we even report labor statistics You're making the assumption that the only reason labor statistics would be useful is if employm
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>If you believe that labor is not an exception to the law of supply and demand You seem to imply that it's obvious that labor is subject to the law of supply and demand, but I think the reality is much more complicated than that - e

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