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by kubb 1y ago
> You are responding to a click bait, and false, headline But the quote is from the article, not from the headline. It seems like you’re confidently asserting something demonstrably false.
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by kubb 1y ago
> this is more about trying to figure out reasonable definitions that people could agree about That’s part of what I dislike. It’s not enough (for the philosopher) for the definition to be useful inside a field of study. It has to be bin
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by kubb 1y ago
I really don’t like the part of philosophy which takes some word from the natural language and tries to deduce a formal definition for it with necessary and sufficient conditions. I don’t like it because it’s so fundamentally unproductive,
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by kubb 1y ago
Just use a vaporizer and the problem is gone. This one is good: https://www.storz-bickel.com/en/venty
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by kubb 1y ago
Actually, I take back what I said. The article doesn't even conclusively demonstrate that this is a reenactment.
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by kubb 1y ago
Sure, context matters. You could claim "there were no 3 year olds ACTUALLY working as chimney sweeps anywhere in the world in 1930", if you wanted to make this point. But, I suspect it's not so clear if that's even true,
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by kubb 1y ago
So it was a common practice a century before the photo was taken. How is it surprising that people get upset? The photo is a record of a depiction of a practice that existed. It’s the practice that people don’t like, not the depiction.
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by kubb 1y ago
It’s kinda like startup math. Most will fail but the few successes will offset the failures.
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by kubb 1y ago
I feel like 98% were fox hunting, gambling and whatnot, but the 2% gave us William Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and Lord Byron. If the number of idlers increases so will the number of productive ones.
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by kubb 1y ago
Incredible how deep people can go into something so mundane as a post stamp. The other day I was discussing with a friend what would happen if there wasn't any need to work at jobs anymore, and whether people would be able to find fulf
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by kubb 1y ago
> their healthcare is pretty crappy They have much better healthcare outcomes, so it sounds like they’re way more efficient with their spending. They also have lower GDP which means that they spend way less in absolute terms. Of course t
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by kubb 1y ago
> opinions that you specifically dislike You’re only sharing one opinion (America should isolate), and you’re presenting it as a fact (you refer to being „correct”). I think you’re projecting the dislike towards your opinion. If I see Am
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by kubb 1y ago
Oh it's you again, you're the guy echoing specific contemporary political figures, and dressing up American isolationism in rhetoric. In the other thread you were claiming that America subsidises Europe's healthcare by paying
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by kubb 1y ago
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?most_... The US is spending more of its GDP percentage-wise on healthcare than any European country. How you can consider the European spending "extravagant&q
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by kubb 1y ago
If the leaders won’t self-police, is there something else we can do? Or do we just pack up and go home?
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by kubb 1y ago
> The pattern for basically every small nation is "choose of which superpower you wish to be a client." This is straight up Russian mentality. > extravagant welfare states of the past decades, subsidized largely by American
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by kubb 1y ago
How do you reconcile the belief that personal responsibility is the solution with game theoretical analysis? It seems contradictory to me. In order to change the game theoretic outcomes, we‘d need a systemic change that affects the rewards,
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by kubb 1y ago
It's the company. Letting incompetent people who are vocal rise to the top is a part of Google's culture, and the internal performance review process discourages excellence - doing the thousand small improvements that makes a prod
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by kubb 1y ago
The executive body in Switzerland has members from 5 different parties, but it's elected by the federal assembly, not directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)
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by kubb 1y ago
Lazy is a pejorative term used to chastise people in a culture that promotes activity even if it’s pointless.
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by kubb 1y ago
I’ve always wanted to learn how to make sprites and pixel art, but I always got stuck. because I had no idea how the process should look like. Does anyone have any advice about going from unskilled to decent?
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by kubb 1y ago
So people can run servers even without the server source code, and the problem preventing leaving the server code to the Library of Congress, etc. is not "the cost and knowledge base required to keep servers running".
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by kubb 1y ago
Then how do unofficial WoW, Diablo 2 or Lineage 2 servers exist? Enthusiasts run them for free.
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by kubb 1y ago
If it can replace programmers, why wouldn't it be able to replace therapists?
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by kubb 1y ago
You’re right, but if you admit that, it’s hard to claim that China is more brutal than the US, and therefore less trustworthy.
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by kubb 1y ago
You’re getting downvoted, but the US foreign policy is more hawkish than China’s by any measure. Internally I’m inclined to believe that it can be hell on earth for minorities.
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by kubb 1y ago
Property 8: at the same time too strong and too weak
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by kubb 1y ago
Hmm... If Europe has no industry, how do they pay for American Clouds?
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by kubb 1y ago
I'm aware of that, but opinions aren't quick decisions, they form over time, so that might be a different mechanism at work. Edit: hmm, I suppose voicing your hot take about a news piece is a quick decision though.
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by kubb 1y ago
I guess being smart sometimes doesn’t lead you to have a more accurate opinion, but to develop more sophisticated rhetorical devices to defend your inaccurate opinion?

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