justin_vanw

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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Facts? The argument against me was 'you shouldn't help people because you might not help some people that you could also help'. That's a moral argument, and my reply was a moral argument.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I disagree, you will find better administration. Imagine you are a great principle/counselor/teacher. You can work anywhere, because you are great at your job. Do you choose to go to the school with the superintendent that is ne
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
> Being a free country does not mean necessarily you can act freely against the collective good. Yes, that is exactly what it means. It means that I can ignore your theory about what is 'collective good' because it is stupid a
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I never said 'better' vs 'none'. I said should you give some resource to someone who could benefit from it when there are other people who also would benefit that you will fail to identify. Presumably even in my analogy
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
1. Who cares? This is not an argument for or against this. It's totally inappropriate to decide the best way to educate a child based on your personal theories about how wealth should be distributed, and your untested wild ass guess
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
1. This is a Harrison Bergeron argument. "We can't let people move quickly, because it might be unfair to other people." Effectively this means denying the people you can identify because there are going to be other 'd
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Yea probably. There's no reason to hold them back or subject them to peer abuse, or condition them to hide their gift. Very gifted students will start knowing more about what they are studying than the teacher between 3rd and 5th grad
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
You're acting like 'housing them' isn't something people have tried over and over. It's super obvious. It doesn't work. Well, it does work, I mean it does provide protection from the weather. However, you ca
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Just to be clear, if there is any effective thing we can do, we should do it, even if the cost is extremely high . However, if there is nothing effective we can do to help, we should accept that and move on to a strategy of preventing
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
It's not a 'minor inconvenience' to have random mentally ill people constantly near my children and to have to be hyper vigilant all the time. I'm not suggesting anyone be murdered. I'm suggesting that if someone i
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
You visited a bunch of the 'clean' tourist neighborhoods. How can you actually think you are qualified to have an opinion here after visiting part of a city one time?
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I'm not as positive about it. I think volunteering is often subsidizing something that we should be fighting against. Most of the people in line for free soup can be found just hours later purchasing alcohol or drugs. If you have a f
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
So as a veteran I can certainly remember the annoying kids in basic training that couldn't really keep up. I think every veteran can remember some folks they went to training with that could barely hack it. But what's the point o
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
The article is discussing how we 'whether we will be able to make enough food if we try to grow everything locally', which I am saying is silly since we aren't really headed in that direction outside of high end niche markets
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Yea I agree, the article largely conflated them and I was arguing with the article.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I think this is just an example of 'elitism' on the part of the author. It is ludicrous to think that there is a chance that the 'local/organic' movement will ever capture more than 1%-2% of food production. Most
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I'm curious why LEDs used in light bulbs could cause eye damage, but not for backlights in computer monitors or other common uses? I kindof get the impression that the blue-tinted led's are being considered 'evil' and s
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Maybe, I think I know what it means but I'm not an accountant. I know that revenue is often quoted as some kind of measure of the success of a business, when in reality it's extremely easy to run up revenues if you are running at
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Hey, you're right! https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASHOP&fstype=ii&ei=IE... Revenue growth with corresponding increases in costs and expenses. NOT getting closer to profitability, in fact operating loss
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Hate to rain on this (TBH I don't): Shopify has raised (per Crunchbase) about $122M in funding. At the current rate, they will see $374M in GMV on their best day of the year. Shopify has between 1K and 5K employees (again Crunchbase).
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I mean, if everyone preferred to leave anyway, then it would be an empty gesture to shut it down.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I wonder how dramatic this really is? There must be a hundred forums to discuss go, people aren't so helpless they can't find their way off of reddit.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I'm not a /r/golang user, but I think this is a political statement of 'we will not tolerate the abuse of users by people entrusted with their data', which I think is fair. Maybe they should just call for the CEO to
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
Absolutely, some politicians are more honest than others. How can we discover it? Well that's pretty much impossible to do perfectly. There is a whole industry that for a long time has owned the mechanism by which the world is reveal
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
No, that is just not what happened. Do you actually believe that the 'traditional media' just reports 'facts' as they are? Do you have no historical perspective whatsoever?? Because if they were just 'reporting fac
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
If reddit is trying to find investors and funding after 10 years of being one of the top traffic sites on the internet, well, that might be a pretty big red flag right there.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
This is just a tautology, since by the same logic every activity that requires any kind of thought is just 'applied philosophy'.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
So just to be clear, I think they are fundamentally motivated by a dislike of the users in that sub and they want to quash their views.
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
It seems like the sensible thing would be to change the /r/all algorithm to prevent a single sub from dominating? I mean is reddit going to start deleting every sub that becomes popular because it will have too much stuff on &#x2F
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by justin_vanw 10y ago
I think the media went out of their way to slant things towards Hillary in this election. I suspect they consensus in the media was something like "we created this monster, now we have to kill it" regarding Trump. To me this was

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