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by mrxd 12y ago
> This definitely happens, but not as some sort of organized strategy by "the left". That's not true. It absolutely is an organized strategy by the left. Anti-oppression activism is founded on social constructionist theori
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by mrxd 12y ago
> What's the basis for the great distinction between the two Chait thinks that traditional liberal values of free speech and free thought are threatened by political correctness. DeBoer thinks that anti-oppression movements are unde
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by mrxd 12y ago
I liked the documentary version of this post better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOINEXp0B8
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by mrxd 12y ago
In fairness, he'd probably be really nice to any torture victims if they ever pitched their startup to him.
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by mrxd 12y ago
The article makes clear that city streets were once a mix of pedestrians, pushcarts, street cars, horse drawn vehicles, etc. The automobile industry didn't just push for equal rights for cars. They already had that. They wanted exclusi
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by mrxd 12y ago
They may have had other motives besides public safety.
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by mrxd 12y ago
> individuals sitting on their ass are getting paid $17/hr. There is no motivation to get a job. The legal maximum is around 60% of your average weekly wage over the last year you worked. Whatever someone is getting in unemployment,
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by mrxd 12y ago
Or any other of the popular value brands like Ikea, Target, Old Navy, Southwest, H&M or Honda. Amazon is perceived as utilitarian, but that's not inevitable for a value retailer. There's a fundamental mismatch. Jeff Bezos want
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by mrxd 12y ago
But liberals' political views aren't relevant here. What matters for Haidt is that irrespective of their true politics, people who identify as liberal tend to be hostile to 3 of the moral foundations. I'm not saying his appro
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by mrxd 12y ago
Since the cultural turn of the 1970s, liberals have focused on cultural change as a way of achieving justice. They assumed that people conform to dominant social norms which they learn about through the media and through others in society.
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by mrxd 12y ago
I don't really have a problem with engaging the democratic process. Bringing fiber to Seattle is a long term infrastructure project that will last for many decades. In the grand scheme of things, expediting the permit process hardly ma
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by mrxd 12y ago
> Programmers often get criticized for their fruit salad GUIs, but usually that's the result of having to present plenty of options and data. Simplicity is only one kind of beauty. It's certainly possible to have a gorgeous int
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by mrxd 12y ago
I remember your posts, and always appreciated your perspective. I also canceled my membership a few years ago for the same reasons. Post and comment counts seem to be down significantly from those days, so there may have been an exodus.
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by mrxd 12y ago
Lacan argues that this perception, that there is an inexpressible, ineffable something which can't be captured by a limited conceptual system, is itself a product of that system. The male/female binary scheme produces the experien
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by mrxd 12y ago
I just don't think moral arguments are going to be persuasive. The fact is people like having power and they don't let go of it easily.
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by mrxd 12y ago
> Let's just get it clear, it is all about what we (men) need to do. There's wide disagreement about whether men should be getting involved in feminist projects. The concern is that men will dominate those as well. The overwhel
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by mrxd 12y ago
I agree that empathy is ineffective for the social justice movement. We wouldn't empathize equally with a slave-owner and a slave, or a Nazi and Jew. Justice isn't achieved by listening to both sides and trying to find a middle gr
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by mrxd 12y ago
> The best evidence from international studies suggests the policy announced by Germany is not the best policy for ensuring access to higher education. That's not true. The report you linked to is trying to "strike the right ba
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by mrxd 12y ago
> A warmth appeal like a Coke ad with smiling faces will reliably create an association between Coke and positive emotions If it's all just associations, then when I want to feel happy, I would go look at Coke ads, not buy Coke.
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by mrxd 12y ago
> you can choose when you're going to be available and pick up jobs when it makes sense for your schedule Sharing economy workers are 1099 contractors, so wages can be pushed below minimum wage. You may not be able to make enough to
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by mrxd 12y ago
I've yet to hear an argument for why the needs of professional linguists should take priority. If you don't standardize the language, then it evolves to become unpredictable, inconsistent and impossible for non-natives to learn wi
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by mrxd 12y ago
Drawing grammar rules for English from Latin might be a bad idea, but it tells us nothing about the value of rules as such. Every dictionary gives multiple definitions of biweekly, etc. To professional linguists, this is an example of the w
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by mrxd 12y ago
> Get over the schoolmarm rules. Language wouldn't work at all without rules. The lack of rule enforcement for words like biweekly, biannually and bimonthly have made them functionally useless.
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by mrxd 12y ago
Sounds a bit like Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.
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by mrxd 12y ago
Interesting idea, but the neurobabble bits don't really add much. Everyone knows alcohol makes people less inhibited, so do we really need to cite the fMRI data first?
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by mrxd 12y ago
> ...based on some of the feedback dished out in those teardowns. It's a blog, not an app, so that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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by mrxd 12y ago
Not really, they just want to avoid a fight. Under sexist rules, a man accompanying a woman is her "protector". If someone makes rude sexual remarks to her, it's also insulting to him because it implies that he's too wea
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by mrxd 12y ago
> both government and large corporations are at fault here Small companies can be equally guilty of misusing data. The best example is credit reporting data, which is often used to screen out job applicants and creates a downward spiral
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by mrxd 12y ago
I feel that beneath the surface, this is a poorly reasoned article that only works if you are confused about the difference between visual design and product design. Which is weird because the author makes a point of distinguishing the two.
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by mrxd 13y ago
It sounds like you might be falling into hindsight bias, to be honest. Stock traders building high speed data links are actually a perfect example of the limitations of private sector innovation. It was a $300 million project, they started

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