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by leftyted 7y ago
How is "economists broadly agree that rent control is bad" irrelevant to a discussion of rent control? The intention of the law is what's irrelevant. What matters is what the law will actually do . Economists broadly agr
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I just read a noir-ish novel, a French novel, The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and a Gun by Japrisot. There's another French writer, Jean-Patrick Manchette, who has written a few great crime novels. But, really, noir-tinged stuff
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by leftyted 7y ago
I'd guess around 90% of people (including me) who attended a 4 year degree program did so because "that's what you do after high school if you're a member of the broad middle class". College should be for academical
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> I don't think you really seem to be grasping the concept of what self-justification is I don't think you seem to be grasping your own argument very well and I'll leave it at that.
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If I steal some old lady's purse, is it "self-justification" if I find some medication in it and return it to her while keeping the purse? I don't see any overt attempt at "justification" in these emails. The
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by leftyted 7y ago
> You asked how Epstein’s wealth and connections got him off. Here’s how: he knew powerful people who were willing to minimize or ignore his transgressions. That’s it. It’s how he escaped with such a lenient sentence legally, and it’s ho
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by leftyted 7y ago
Name-dropping the term "false dichotomy" is not a real argument. By using that term, you are claiming that there is no connection between the "moral outrage against Epstein associates" part and the "actually gettin
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by leftyted 7y ago
> That's the source of this entire controversy, and a point that I vehemently disagree with. The prosecutor who gave him that plea agreement had to resign from his Trump admin post because of the backlash from his decision. Epstein
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Of course those are all important questions, but you are clearly presenting a false dichotomy. I don't think it's a false dichotomy. I think every ounce of moral outrage spent condemning those who associated with Epstein (an
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> They continued to work with someone whom they suspected of trafficking women. Not years prior, before his trial — right there in their own office. That’s beyond the pale. That’s what “tainted” means. So anyone who interacted with Epste
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by leftyted 7y ago
Hiding that fact that a bad person donated the money or was involved in the donation doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. Yeah, it would be nice if the Media Lab had taken the high road. It would have been even nicer if Epstei
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by leftyted 7y ago
Yeah, well, I don't think it's clear (but please share if you do). I see people in this thread attacking Bill Gates for his relationship with Epstein. I've seen people attacking Steven Pinker for the same reason. To me it s
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by leftyted 7y ago
It strikes me as inappropriate to suggest that "Anyone seriously tainted by Epstein should step down". What does "tainted" mean? What does "seriously" mean? If "seriously tainted" means "direct
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The right to bear arms arrived to the United States via English common law. It existed in English common law for the purpose of self-defense, resistance against oppression, and to assist the defense of the realm. Whether or not Madison (or
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by leftyted 7y ago
It is simply a fact that the Second Amendment was meant to preserve the people's right to overthrow the government (or, at least, to defend themselves against the government). Madison famously wrote that state militias would keep a fe
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Utterly false, but persistently preached by those in power to ensure there's never any real threat to their position. "Just lie down while I stomp your neck. Don't resist. We'll discuss your objections later, at a m
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by leftyted 7y ago
I agree with the article that spying on foreign students is a bad idea. But I believe the threat of Chinese intellectual espionage is real; it isn't some racist mirage. I have a relative who works at a big research institution which w
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by leftyted 7y ago
I am skeptical that the "React community" is a hotbed of white supremacy. It seems wildly inappropriate to have a talk titled "White supremacy Capitalist Patriarchy" at a software conference. Is there a way to criticize
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by leftyted 7y ago
I have no trouble believing that neural nets can beat people at all of these things (including, eventually, driving). And that, in itself, is incredibly impressive and incredibly useful. The question is how you get from that to AGI.
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He talks about AGI at https://youtu.be/udlMSe5-zP8?t=2776 I wonder if all the really smart people who think AGI is around the corner know something I don't. Well, clearly they know a lot of things that I don't, b
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by leftyted 7y ago
> A character is part of the pleasure a writer wants to give his readers. A character who lives, who says interesting things. I want to give pleasure through language, through the architecture of a book or a sentence and through characte
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by leftyted 7y ago
The previous poster is referring to this book [0], which is a series of pop science lectures. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED%3A_The_Strange_Theory_of_L...
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by leftyted 7y ago
I don't believe that speaking of "future consent" of a "potential person" is useful. A child was never asked if he or she wanted to be born. After birth, parents essentially own their children until majority. Pare
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> On the other hand, billions to trillions of dollars of wealth that everyone thought existed turned out not to be there. It didn't disappear; it was discovered in the financial crisis that it never existed and the crisis was when t
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by leftyted 7y ago
He seems to be saying that if we had known what was going to happen before it happened, we would have been able to prevent it from happening. Well, maybe. But isn't that like saying "if the French had defended the Ardennes, they
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by leftyted 7y ago
It only works in Chrome, which is a pretty big issue. Per wikipedia [0], other browsers rejected PNaCL because they don't like the idea of web apps running binaries as that represents a black box for most users. In comparison, wasm is
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by leftyted 7y ago
It doesn't really matter if the accident was staged or not. Profiting from a real accident is worse than staging a fake one. More broadly, it simply isn't possible to publicly document events like this (even if they're happ
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Does this person not have a phone? 'Unable' seems like a stretch. If this person said, "I don't want to provide my phone number to Discord, so I'm going to stop using it" I'd understand. If I say &quo
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> This to me is terrifying and revolting to read. How can anybody believe this sort of nonsense, and worse: harmful nonsense at that. We are all slaves to some mythological original sin, we cannot improve ourselves, we are doomed, we nee
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by leftyted 7y ago
This is an interesting interpretation of polygamy. The usual interpretation is along the lines of "to the rich go the spoils". But sex imbalances would have occurred throughout history and, questions of morality aside, polygamy s

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