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by mikeash 7y ago
Logical fallacies deal in absolutes. "This is false because the person making the claim is..." is a logical fallacy. "I'm skeptical and don't find this to be convincing because the person making the claim is...&quot
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How often? People love to act as though government can’t do anything right. Government does plenty of things right, those just don’t get much attention. I sit here next to my government road with government postal service, lights powered by
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I hope you’ll forgive me for being skeptical of arguments for ATC privatization from the founder of Reason .
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Maybe we could run it similarly to the government-run air traffic control system, which is superb. “Government” doesn’t have to mean “incompetent and inefficient.”
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Maybe Free Service X should avoid breaking State Law Y.
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If only that argument worked for individuals. I robbed this house, but it was only the house-robbing part of me, go easy. But no, the unfair jerks put all of me in jail.
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They knew that their product would mess with the climate and they not only hid this information, but actively lied to convince people of the opposite, all so that they could make more money. And they made an incomprehensible amount of money
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No shit. That’s why it’s a “dream.”
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A giant corporation with entire departments dedicated to calculating pay, customer demand, fuel costs, maintenance, and depreciation, and figuring out the optimal way to screw people out of as much as possible, versus desperate people who h
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Me. I hate how the planet is arbitrarily sliced up. I hate the bureaucratic nonsense involved in going to various parts of it. I hate how my wife is forced to choose between citizenship in her country of birth and citizenship in her country
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The last 50 years has been a sharp rise. The fall was long before.
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They were getting kicked around by other powers in the 19th century. Communism isn’t the explanation.
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I’m aware. The fact that there’s a name for it doesn’t mean it’s allowed in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia
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Would it really be worse than having a government agency forcibly ground your planes for safety reasons?
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Boeing probably doesn’t have the ability to ground their fleet with legal force, but if they said, “these planes aren’t safe, don’t fly them until we can investigate and fix,” most airlines would listen and I don’t think the FAA could someh
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Even if there weren’t, it looked like there were because “help me screw this rich guy” is a really common scam tactic.
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Do you have any examples? As far as I can tell there are plenty of viable alternatives.
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If they don’t want to fix their shit and you don’t want to deal with their shit, then that outcome seems best for everyone involved.
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Why worry about crime when you’re not the victim? Because not constantly screwing each other over whenever possible is the fundamental basis for society. When somebody is pulling an obvious con, it’s reasonable to be concerned even when you
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The comment I replied to disputed the general notion that courts need to be able to compel behavior. From a quick search, it appears that a trial in the US cannot begin without the defendant present, although it may proceed if they leave af
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Contact customer service and tell them you didn’t get it. You’ll get some credit and if this keeps happening they’ll either do something or you’ll get lots of free stuff.
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I’m on trial for murder. I don’t like my chances, so I’ll just stay home instead. They can’t make me show up, so I’m home free!
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Courts need to be able to compel behavior and threatening punishment for not complying is an important way to do that. The only part I can see as being cruel is the actual imprisonment. One can probably make a good argument that American pr
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Does the contract actually say you’re not allowed to unlock the phone? Or does it just say that you have to pay an ETF if you cancel early?
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It ought to be possible to estimate the odds. We don’t know exactly how mortality changes with extreme age but there ought to be a pretty decent idea. How likely is it for a gap like this to appear?
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It’s also not hard to imagine a situation where developers happily implement it. Developers can get invested in their employer and rationalize their decisions just like anyone else. Management will provide plenty of help in doing so. I’m su
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Seniors vote in large numbers. A politician with a good plan for giving seniors a better option would have a huge advantage. That nobody had used this tactic to attain high office suggests that better options are hard to come up with.
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Those same people oppose all sorts of existing social programs too, and those programs continue to function anyway. The CFPB was a special case as a small agency with little visible impact that few people even knew existed. Messing with peo
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Probably not, but that doesn’t make it wrong. There’s even a special term for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization
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What products are those? I haven’t seen them but maybe I’ve just missed them.

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