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by jpttsn 9y ago
It’s a remnant from the time when we paid by the bundle for longform content and trusted the issuing brand not to waste our time.
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You seem to predict the law will have exactly the intended effects. That amounts to a very high regard for the lawmakers. Remembering laws that haven’t worked as intended, and failing to recall anything particular about these lawmakers, I f
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But, if I sell you an ebook, you would expect a copy to read, right? Accusing Facebook of selling data makes it easy for them to rebut: no data changed hands. Similar to accusing copyright infringers of “stealing” movies. It muddies the
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So they’re already careless, but with better targeting they would be even worse? How does that work?
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That’s convenient.
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It’s confusing because you think of “employees” as a unit while gp thinks of individual “employee”s as units.
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Reliable signals are as a rule expensive. In decrying “virtue signaling”, I think critics express “talk is cheap” not just “talk can be false.”
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Worse aim often means you’ll kill more people.
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That’s Apple cared only about issues like this. In the slightest is too narrow. Plausibly they care for many things and trade them off.
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Who could be against saving the forests and decreasing harmful sugar consumption?
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If it became a thing in Russia, would that count?
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But if they don’t want to self-manage, what have you got to lose by giving them the choice? Is this the kind of want that is distinct from what they say they want ?
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I don’t doubt there are noble arguments for journalists to trespass, but everyone has their reasons. Should schoolteachers be allowed to trespass in preparing our children for their future lives? Should physicists be allowed to trespass to
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Following the opposite principle to its extreme would also get weird. Should someone who snapchats their friend’s burglary be off the hook?
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The same would be asked of someone about their skin color, by those who think skin colored collectives are units of economics and policy.
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I see where you’re coming from with the “screw loose” comment, but think you skip past a very real desire for self governance: A “startup” that drone-feeds pigeons in the park could make the case that I enjoy the benefits of well-fed pigeon
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I don’t know about propaganda but experiences are different in different nations. Is “many unions don’t” really a good argument? If some unions do, we could discuss whether the Game Workes union would, as go does.
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Thought experiment: a Russian multinational, Gazprom maybe, likes a campaign tweet for “Free Alaska.” How does it come across in America?
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Harsh. What about postwar Germany?
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Bikeshedding what to call a crime can be useful and important. The democracy we are concerned about protecting presupposes rule of law, and precision when discussing laws and crimes.
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Alternatively, life is sometimes a sad story, and once it happens to someone they know people start looking for systems to blame.
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But why should it be surprising? So many people advocate for change just like you do; what mechanism could keep the idealism from being realizable?
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Does that make them a bad example of a successful militia? Perhaps a successful militia requires significant financial and logistical backing from nation states, in addition to being well trained.
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There's a difference between paying a $10 hourly wage and contributing to a pool of resources. I'm guessing my own contribution would be far less than $10 per hour if this were tax financed. If you and I can agree to each pay $5&#
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If you’re happy to contribute already, why bother with all that admin? “I would love to spare some change, but my hands are tied until the corresponding bill passes the senate.”
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Afghan militia has fared well both against US/NATO and Soviet militaries in the past 50 years.
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Would you personally pay this, or is it only a good idea if it’s someone else’s money?
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The model suggests, if I read it correctly, that media would portray Contrarians (who dislike crime but don’t think jail is the solution) as Troglodytes (who oppose jail because they favor crime.) The “Dupe” label would then apply to those
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Did you lever the trade?
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Let the record note my gripe was only with the genie/bottle wording, which indicates an irreversible change :)

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