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by lsy 10y ago
In its history of the 40-hour week, the article omits the substantial contribution of organized labor to fighting for shorter hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day Keeping this history in mind might allow
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Poker may have incomplete information, but it's still an objectively-defined game. The cards, the "win" state, all of that stuff is trivially encodable and well-defined.
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> "You need to give us an opportunity to admit we may have been wrong without saying we’re bad people. I am already thinking I made a mistake, but I feel ostracized from my community." Folks seem to stay stuck in bad positions
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It doesn't seem that any particular ethics are being "derived" from Star Wars in the article. The author looks instead to be using the story as a jumping-off point for discussion of various issues and tradeoffs in the ethical
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The idea that you can somehow separate "political" from "non-political" stories seems poorly-thought-out and censorious. Who will make these decisions? It seems clear that many posts that are nominally "about tech a
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by lsy 10y ago
Aside from the actual example cited in the article which would appear to contravene "never", as well as plenty of reports from actual obese people, there's a linked study with research on the various ways obesity can cause
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From the article: "A recent survey of more than 700 hip and knee surgeons confirmed Dr. Yates’s impressions. Sixty-two percent said they used body mass index scores as cutoffs for requiring weight loss before offering surgery." It
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Do you have resources on the scientific basis for BMI's efficacy as a health indicator? Comparing to linear measurements like temperature and distance seems a little apples-and-oranges when BMI is attempting to do something different,
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BMI can definitely be a starting point for a discussion with the patient about elevated risks, etc. But there's never a point where "other things become irrelevant", which is exactly the point of this article—doctors regula
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From the article: "But there should not be blanket refusals to operate on fat people, the committee wrote. Those with a body mass index over 40 — like a 5-foot-5-inch woman weighing 250 pounds or a 6-foot man weighing 300 — and who can
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by lsy 10y ago
This seems like an unfair characterization of the article. Denial of care, or dangerously mismeasured care, is not acceptable simply based on BMI (a non-scientific measure invented in the early 1800s). If you look at the statistics on weigh
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I think you're forgetting to take into account the effect of longer hours on productivity (negative), and the fact that our working hours are a choice which (within a certain range) don't seem to have a strong effect on actual res
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Look, I'm as left-leaning as anyone, but check the link. The timeline is chock full of stuff on oppression of leftists.
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Of course, it doesn't say that anyone is being ignored. It sounds instead like a type of Rooney Rule [1], where all applicants are considered, and under-represented candidates are explicitly included. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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This doesn't seem to make much sense. The article treats neighborhoods like islands, and doesn't analyze the inflow of residents. Anyone familiar with living in an area with rapidly increasing rent should understand the results he
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The author doesn't seem to spend any time addressing "Umpire #3", whose views would apply important caveats to the rest of the article.
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> This is weird. It might help to understand academic concepts of whiteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_studies As the author makes clear in the very next sentence, the concept is more about ideology an
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I thought this might be the case too, but the n-grams for "enlightenment", "Enlightenment", "the Enlightenment", and "The Enlightenment", etc. are all quite different. Lowercase "enlightenment&qu
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This is only taking "registered union members" into consideration, and many of those working lots of overtime. A good portion of longshore work is done by "casuals" who are paid less and work less hours as they gain the
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No, and Dworkin does point out that some women don't have that attitude. Here's a link to the piece in question: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/IntercourseI.html Dworkin makes challenging readin
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If you read this in context, it's clear that she's saying "this is the view of patriarchal society", not "this is how things should be". Later in the same chapter you're quoting from, Dworkin says: > W
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Michael Moorcock: Several reviewers accused you of saying that all intercourse was rape. I haven't found a hint of that anywhere in the book. Is that what you are saying? Dworkin: No, I wasn't saying that and I didn't say
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But calling the police is placing responsibility with the perpetrators, right? Sort of like going to a manager or project maintainer to report harassment. To me, this is closer to "try not to care so much about people breaking in; I
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I agree that's how she feels. What I'm trying to say is that the problem isn't with her experiences, which are totally valid, but the extrapolation of those experiences into suggestions that place responsibility with victims
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I understand the author has strong feelings about her innate tactics for avoiding misery, but the ultimate thrust of her "amelioration patterns" are variants on "toughen up" or "don't feed the trolls", bot
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No doubt there are scientific flaws in Fine's work, but even as this article states: "…popular books are written to appeal to a broader audience, and in that respect both Jordan-Young and Fine have succeeded. Prompting laypeople t
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I'm not sure if you read the review you're linking but it's not a "bad review". It points out, as you quoted, where the books are "strongest" and "weakest", and is generally complimentary to the