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by petsfed 3y ago
I've said this before elsewhere, but this is precisely the situation where the distinction is important. There's this disease within the tech community where people can't see the harm of scaling things up using automation.
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm honestly not convinced that good and wise men or women can effectively rule. I'm not sure how to get around the necessity to occasionally make decisions that will cause suffering and death, either through violence or neglect
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by petsfed 3y ago
Parties exist to solve a collective action problem: getting your face and message out to enough people to win elections means that in the absence of political parties, the odds that a non-oligarch will achieve high office becomes even small
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by petsfed 3y ago
Something that the massive volume of "urban campers" in the Bay Area has taught me is that if you're not being hassled by the cops/locals for sleeping in your vehicle, its not that you've somehow gone without notice
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its not completely unrelated, but it is not clearly related. That is, spin contributes to overall angular momentum, but that contribution is much too large to be explained as the actual rotation of subatomic particles. So, like most quantum
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think the indirection is important in that it obscures who is ultimately responsible, but I don't think it actually diminishes the responsibility. It's less that the stain is spread out, so much as the darkest part of it doesn&#
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by petsfed 3y ago
George H.W. Bush went to Yale. His son, George W. Bush went to Harvard. I'm not trying to excuse, or minimize, Kaczynski's crimes. I am asking you to understand that in the case of revolutionaries and political leaders, the di
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by petsfed 3y ago
In the context of "having a harvard degree implies a certain amount of skill and capability of to improve the world", I think its fair to honestly look at who he's being held up to in comparison. There a lot people in the wor
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by petsfed 3y ago
To that end, its not that, in a perfect world, law enforcement shouldn't ever have any of these tools, just that our entire justice system is not set up to adequately police the police. I'd be in favor of immediately banning arm
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by petsfed 3y ago
Do most watches have ports that are designed for thousands of uses? My smart watch sure does. But of all the possible avenues by which its waterproofness might fail, that connector is #1. I'm pretty sure its custom, as the cable has ac
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by petsfed 3y ago
That was my take on it. How do you get students to practice the process of thinking conceptually first, then evaluate how thorough the planning is, without some tool like UML? Its one thing to lecture your students on the necessity of plann
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by petsfed 3y ago
I understand that he's still being paid by Fox News at the moment (and will continue to do so until 2025), so it's more a conflict-of-interest clause. Dunno the details of his contract, but I assume that completely canning him is
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by petsfed 3y ago
And take on all the overhead of running a company, when they already have a maybe 1:1 ratio of patient contact hours to unbillable admin? And anyway, even the doctors of veterinary work aren't rolling in money. Private practices sell t
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by petsfed 3y ago
Agreed. Its not even that a "white man bad" reading of Blood Meridian is wrong per se, its just woefully incomplete. It'd be like if Apocalypse Now was just John Wick in the jungle, or Blade Runner was just a police procedu
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think about the fragility of heroic personas a lot. During the peak of the 2020 protests and riots, there was a spate of statue toppling that, on their face, seemed excessive. Like various Confederate leaders, sure. But George Washington?
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by petsfed 3y ago
Wikiquote has some interesting things to say on that [0]. Given that it is, at best, paraphrasing what Plato claims infamous scold and gadfly Socrates said, I'm inclined to reject the quote in its entirety. Anything Socrates is quoted
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by petsfed 3y ago
Considering that the old quote is Cicero criticizing pre-dictator Julius Caesar for the way he wore his toga (and not, you know, all the things that Sulla might've put him on the Proscription Lists for), I'd argue its more that ol
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by petsfed 3y ago
I don't disagree that others outside of the US have taken up the cause of the holiness of suffering. I'm arguing that only the US has taken it and injected it into every aspect of our culture, because we have taken the Prosperity
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its interesting because its a very specific, recent, and almost uniquely American religious concept, that's written into virtually every aspect of our culture. That is, it seems like nowhere else has the idea of purification through su
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by petsfed 3y ago
I know that's an issue along the continental divide, where the Pine Bark beetle is wrecking the forests (and the absence of sustained temperatures below -20F that kill off the beetle). Is that an issue in California?
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Ironically this is what you get from "labor protections" from politicians. The employer would be happy to give you more hours instead of paying the same amount to two people who each work half as many hours. That's lower
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by petsfed 3y ago
I'm not sure such data even exists. I think it would certainly explore it though. My experience working minimum wage was that it was impressively difficult to break $15k, because the employers were hostile to the concept of consistent
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by petsfed 3y ago
Democrats (and liberals in general) are overwhelmingly urban (red/blue county maps are basically population density maps), especially living in major cities. But it is also true that democratic party affiliation is higher than republic
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by petsfed 3y ago
Boise (and elsewhere in Idaho) is thriving when it comes to materials research and agricultural research, because of the combined influence of Micron and Simplot. So its ultimately a question of what kind of industry you want to talk abou
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by petsfed 3y ago
Its gorgeous for some . My own experiences in the Ozarks made it a non-starter for me. Its hard to calculate the exact impact it had on me, but I do wonder if I would've worked harder in grad school if I wasn't actively dreading
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by petsfed 3y ago
>People’s careers are being involuntarily set back already for reasons more physical and real than the risk of being scooped. This bears repeating. I know of a fairly large number of people who left their public-sector research positions
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by petsfed 3y ago
Granted, but neither is it feasible to locate, much less pursue, every person who contributed to the social trail existing. I'd recommend you read OnX's report. They provide two examples of how the land owner is being harmed, al
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by petsfed 3y ago
Given that OnX makes its money off of facilitating access to recreational land, this report was surprisingly fair in describing land-owner concerns. I am pretty strongly for access to public land, but even I could appreciate the concerns re
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by petsfed 3y ago
Your point is that, since these goat herders are not being exploited (which is debatable, but I at least partially agree), that worker exploitation does not exist anywhere? You originally said this: >There is no such thing. (Unless you a
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by petsfed 3y ago
>Except none of that is happening here, they can leave whenever they want. They just don't want to because they feel this is the best job they can get given their particular circumstance. This is a non-sequitur both in general and i

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