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by owisd 5y ago
The books themselves are inconsistent on “answer to life, the universe and everything” vs “answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything”. ”O Deep Thought Computer,” he said, ”the task we have designed you to perform
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Write it on the wiki first then just email the link to the wiki. No additional effort and then the guy who joins two years after everyone on the email chain has left and now has to maintain it also has that info.
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Makes you wonder how all those western democracies with socialised healthcare still manage to have a longer life expectancy than the US with all the executions for subversion.
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It’s not some recent idea that freedoms need to be balanced against the harm they can cause others. The harm principle has been around at least as long as On Liberty (1859), and it wasn’t really a new idea then.
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If a mob boss you owed gambling debts to tells you “Nice house, it would be a shame if something happened to it.” he can’t use the defence that it couldn’t possibly be interpreted as a threat because the precise syntactic reading of that st
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Do they need to sell to pay their taxes? Government could just accept the shares as payment in kind, plenty of uses for them without selling: sovereign wealth fund, state pension fund, employee owned trust.
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Institutions like that play an important role in democracy precisely because they can hold views opposing the mainstream and act as a moderating force even if they themselves aren’t ‘democratic’. The populist idea that institutions should k
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The town square analogy would be fine if there was a ‘net neutrality’ for social media: they have to show me everything I follow in chronological order with no filtering or recommendations. As it stands it works more like the letters page i