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by ksdale 6y ago
Increasing whose wages?
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by ksdale 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about recourse. If the employee isn't paid, the employer has to pay the money back, they don't get to keep it.
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by ksdale 6y ago
You don't get forgiveness for wages you don't pay.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I’m not sure that apathy is more of a problem than people caring so much about things that they’re willing to hurt people to accomplish their goals. The status quo is often fiercely defended. FWIW, South Park’s main impact on me has been to
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by ksdale 6y ago
Naturally.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I don't know a ton about jesters historically, but in Shakespeare and in contemporary fiction (Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool comes to mind), the jester is one of the few characters who says the things that aren't socially
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by ksdale 6y ago
"Basically, for every stance they’ve gotten right—like this past season when they refused to back down to China—there’s another one that’s aged like a bowl of Cheesy Poofs left out in the rain." It's never felt to me like Sou
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by ksdale 6y ago
This is excellent, thank you.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Thank you! I'm not sure taking away the use of the vehicle is much more humane than prison for someone too poor to pay traffic tickets. Without a vehicle in the US, they likely won't be able to get to work, which all but ensures t
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by ksdale 6y ago
Asking non-rhetorically and in good faith, what are the plenty of other ways to enforce fines?
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by ksdale 6y ago
While I agree in principle that intellectual property is somehow fundamentally different from physical property, in the case of the "stolen" book, the creator is not worse off only if the "thief" wouldn't have pur
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by ksdale 6y ago
People are always mentioning Gell-Mann amnesia as well. I think this is one area that independent writers, especially ones who have a lot of experience in a particular industry, can add a lot. They can write about events, technology, and sc
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by ksdale 6y ago
My wife and I spent an hour or so in the Party Royale with our young kids last night, and it was very cool. As someone who has played a lot of computer games, it feels like we're entering an exciting era of virtual connection. Being
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by ksdale 6y ago
Do you think that he wouldn't have resigned if he had read the piece beforehand? Would that have changed their decision to publish? They also demoted the editor who did the actual editing. It doesn't seem like it's obviously
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by ksdale 6y ago
Wasn't someone forced to resign over the Cotton piece? And for what it's worth, I read several people online who I'd be happy to pay and I respect them enough intellectually that when they hold opinions I disagree with, I end
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by ksdale 6y ago
This perspective seems almost exactly wrong, considering what's been happening with the NYT lately.
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by ksdale 6y ago
I respectfully disagree completely. I'm an attorney, and my profession is completely beholden to this kind of credentialism, where you can't possibly do the work if you aren't a member of the club. I happen to believe that th
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by ksdale 6y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you meant for the numbers to represent. But I think if you're going to assume that most homeschooled kids are going to have a bad experience, you have to confront the fact that a ridiculously large
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by ksdale 6y ago
I think this point is underappreciated. The key question isn't "Is a parent a better teacher than a professional teacher?", the key question is "Can a parent teach 1 or 2 or 3 of their own children, better than a profe
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by ksdale 6y ago
I believe if you think that 91% of parents are going to indoctrinate their children in a way that harms society, that society is probably doomed, as that 91% should theoretically have control of the government already...
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by ksdale 6y ago
As a homeschooling parent, we hear this trope all the time and it has not been borne out by our experience at all. My wife and I probably both have above-average social skills, but our kids are all well-spoken, empathetic, and kind for thei
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by ksdale 6y ago
The fact that homeschoolers in the US are likely to be religious also tells you nothing about homeschooling if done by someone who's not particularly religious and cares about science.
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by ksdale 6y ago
Quite some time ago, I remember scrolling Imgur and there was a short video of some people in jeeps watching a lion (or a couple lions?) chase a young hippo across the road. Several people in the comments remarked that they couldn't be
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by ksdale 6y ago
Airlines are notoriously bad investments over long-ish time scales, so that may not be the best example. I think for as much as people talk about businesses undercutting a market to capture it and then profiting from a monopoly position, ve
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by ksdale 6y ago
If you feel worse enough to be less productive, have you actually acclimatized? I grew up in a house with air conditioning on all the time during the summer and thought that there was no way I could ever handle indoor temperatures of, say,
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by ksdale 6y ago
I’ve read most of what’s been written on SSC for the last several years, so I don’t exactly think of him as an anonymous blogger. And the Times is made up of people, most of whom I’m sure are very talented and conscientious, but people none
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by ksdale 6y ago
He has fairly good reasons for caring about the distinction between “possible to discover” and “connected to the blog via the NYT”. The story that does or doesn’t get published will tell us how central his identity is, I suppose!
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by ksdale 6y ago
To add to your complaints, so many narratives designed for kids have such a clear delineation between the good side and the bad side. I'm not sure it's great for kids to be so steeped in the belief that the good and the bad are al
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by ksdale 6y ago
His real identity is not particularly hard to find, and as far as I know, he is actually just a psychiatrist and the author of SSC (among other things).
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by ksdale 6y ago
Yeah for sure, I think these paltry per user numbers make a great case for having a user pay option.

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