knaekhoved

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by knaekhoved 4y ago
You fail to grasp the rudimentary causal structure here. Reality itself imposes resource scarcity. A well-structured society must reflect that fact.
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
OK, so, following GPs argument, would that justify making kids work without asking them if they wanted to? The point is that allowing kids to work is clearly not as egregious as forcing them to attend prison-style schools, and yet we punish
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
> Alabama is massively failing an entire demographic segment of their society No, you misunderstand. That demographic segment has bad outcomes everywhere . Nothing about Alabama is worse once you condition on demographics. The state jus
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Alabama is over 25% black, which doesn't do them any favors from a simpson's paradox perspective. CA is 40% hispanic, and hispanics fall in between whites and blacks on literacy, so I'd expect this to more or less come out i
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Alabama isn't bad because of its infrastructure or education. Here's a hint: if you condition on demographic characteristics (i.e. split state populations into obvious demographic categorizations), educational disparity across sta
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
99% of "child labor" cases in the first world are actually completely reasonable. I'm glad I was able to break child labor laws as a kid - it was very helpful for my actual and perceived level of independence, was a great lea
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
That is very clearly the GP's entire point.
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Yes, it would be awesome if we lived in a fantasy land. Unfortunately we need to perform locally feasible optimizations.
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Does your moral system really have no separation between "capable of doing X" and "obligated to do X under threat of prosecution"?
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
> Couldn't this guy just hire a professional captioning service or offer transcripts to users that may need it "Can't this guy doing something for free do even more work, under threat of prosecution, for the putative but q
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
How about I should be able to do whatever I want with my content without some slimy lawyer or smarmy internet commenter giving me a hard time?
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Do you understand that "issues can be raised" is necessarily a euphemism for "people can be threatened with fines, bankruptcy, or jail time"?
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
> Everyone cares so much about what the homeless and drug users might do Yeah, because it's a huge problem when you have a homeless junkie causing problems where you live. > And [the concerns] were unfounded. ... I've litera
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
I like to use FreeBSD for general appliances, OpenBSD for security-hardened appliances.
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Honestly, I might fight a public toilet near my house too if I knew the end state was that it would mostly attract homeless people who want to shoot up heroin.
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
> Public toilets aren't really for you, they're for the people who have nowhere else. This is an incredibly stockholm-syndrome take. If you live in a place that isn't a total failed state, normal people actually can use t
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
I was reading Unrestricted Warfare, a book published by the PLA in the 90s about their thoughts and strategic considerations re 5th generation warfare. There was a lot of really interesting and insightful stuff in there, periodically inters
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
> since there are 2^{\aleph_0} functions from \mathbb{N} to \mathbb{N} I think you mean N->Bool, not N->N
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
Is the "charm quark is heavier than proton" thing the usual situation where the author conflates the mass of the particle with the mass of the particle plus the mass of the field associated with a free particle? Every system is li
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
People say they want or don't want a lot of things, but it turns out they're often really bad at predicting net utilitarian impacts. A lot of people who say stuff like "I don't want to have kids because I'm happier
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
A big whitepill and motivation to have kids is to recognize that the Turkheimer laws are correct. If on net you like your own traits, whatever they are, and you want more of those traits to be present in the world, good news - having biolog
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
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by knaekhoved 4y ago
You can identify visual design changes just by looking at them... that's kind of the point