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by qrendel 11y ago
That seems like an important consideration. Another I wonder about is whether it will just create a new baseline for poverty, causing either short-term or continual inflation. (Though I'm not opposed to basic income, just skeptical abo
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> you do not understand evolution. A pointless and inflammatory statement that you had, in fact, not made up until this point. This is getting ridiculous, and sidetracking from the original discussion on the viability or necessity of p
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Evolution - You seem to be assuming no mutation will come into existence which will promote increased desire to reproduce. Since there are behavioral and psychological traits influenced by genetics that promote greater desire for children
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> the timescale isn't long enough evolutionary changes to take place. Stabilizing population at a limited number would presumably be done indefinitely, not for a brief period and then removed. Therefore natural selection would hav
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by qrendel 11y ago
3.1 - A good thing because people with unusual interests and personality traits will be able to form communities of people with similar interests. For example, in a town of a thousand people, you might be the only one who enjoys an odd hobb
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by qrendel 11y ago
1) Reproduction is a natural right, and some people would consider having children to be a great fulfillment. The evolutionary basis of this desire would make it all the more powerful, and restricting it would only cause the drive to grow s
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by qrendel 11y ago
Why is lower or stable population of such an imperative that such a totalitarian invasion of natural rights needs be imposed? There are plenty of advantages to larger populations - more people to take part in the creative processes of produ
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by qrendel 11y ago
Yikes. I didn't realize the population density in Mumbai was near 53k people per sq. mile. Apparently Manila is nearly twice that at 111k.[1] Still, it surprises me overpopulation fears are so commonly expressed. Seems like a greatly o
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> The hard truth of First-Past-The-Post systems is that purism doesn't pay. A slightly-shaky alliance taking you to 40% trumps a purist core of 10% every day. Disagree. What matters in the end are the policies, not the person. In
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The Democratic nomination has basically always been guaranteed for Clinton. Sanders, though I certainly prefer him over her, is basically a sideshow to make it look like the Democrats actually support liberal issues and aren't just a m
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by qrendel 11y ago
And that's a big part of what makes me continue to support Lessig over Sanders. Remembering how great Obama sounded in 2008, and seeing how that turned out, I give it a very high chance Sanders would be exactly the same. Now we have a
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It's incidental (for me) that this article should be posted today. Only two days ago, in a philosophy class on environmental ethics, I was told by the professor that my answer to a discussion prompt on "ecofeminism," which ci
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by qrendel 11y ago
Unfortunately, no. I came by them mostly by accident (recommendation on another forum). I too wish there were more like them, though. They're a very different style of review to the ones Rotten Tomatoes seems to aggregate, or that you
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by qrendel 11y ago
I forgot to mention the part where all Film Crit Hulk reviews are written in the first person as the Incredible Hulk - hence the all-caps. Certainly a valid criticism. Other authors on the site use proper capitalization. I never found it th
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by qrendel 11y ago
Most of the critic (and user) reviews are what I think of as "easy mode" ones. They don't really teach you anything about the film, just say whether they liked it or not, using the most colorful language they can possibly mus
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by qrendel 11y ago
Humans have basically been doing this since forever, via models like J.S. Mill's social tyranny. Here in the West we already do it to some degree through upvoting/downvoting, Facebook likes and Twitter followers, Tinder, Hot or No
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by qrendel 11y ago
Introducing a dominant civilization to a planet would more likely cause a sort of regression towards the mean in ecosystem diversity, at least over the short- to medium-term. In a highly complex and delicately-balanced ecosystem (i.e. Earth
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There is no shortage of meat consumption in the US to the point of adverse health effects - in fact the opposite would seem to be the case. The amount of meat consumed per capita has increased around 54% since 1950 (up to something like an
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by qrendel 11y ago
Keeping Lessig out is serving the interests of the political elite though and (again) is a reflection on the interests of the DNC, part of what Lessig's entire spiel is. The issue isn't that he can't raise enough money to sta
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The point is that if voters would otherwise support someone, but they can't run because an inner circle of political elites won't let them, then those people are an obstruction to democracy (slash representative republic). They ar
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by qrendel 11y ago
So it's up to the inner circle of the DNC to decide which candidates aren't a "waste of time"? I thought that was up to the primary voters. The worst that could be said is that perhaps a one-issue candidate isn't a
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by qrendel 11y ago
Are college degrees risk free by any means? Especially since degrees now often confine you to a narrow career path compared to what was available for graduates in previous generations. But point taken - a more detailed analysis should consi
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Except that someone still has to pay for it, and unless the cost of college is trivial then that means society still has to make choices about whether the ROI for doing so is actually worth it. Resources spent giving people an education t
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by qrendel 11y ago
I regret going to college, and I'm fairly certain I wouldn't encourage my kids to do it unless they really wanted to... and had good scholarships to diminish the costs. If you compare the long-term earnings, lets say over 50 years
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Because subordinates may be less qualified to judge whether the action is a crime or not. This would basically place the onus on the lowest level of the hierarchy in determining whether an action is ethically acceptable. People are frequent
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by qrendel 11y ago
Agreed - the only thing I dislike about HN at all is the tendency of some users to downvote anything they disagree with. It seems to have gotten worse over time (I've been lurking several years longer than my current account). Now I oc
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by qrendel 11y ago
I've been explicitly told by professors (who I would obviously prefer not to name) that they considered a C grade to be failing, and that more than one or two B's during your academic career is unacceptable, at least if you'r
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Ohio State University, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tennessee Tech University. The experiences described were spread across all three. Oddly enough the school where I (mostly) didn't experience those kinds of problems was the
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Speak for yourself; I saw quite a bit of overt hostility from the faculty at my schools. Things like berating and humiliating students in front of the class, refusing to meet with students or sign necessary paperwork for them to proceed, an
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by qrendel 11y ago
Yeah, I've always had that same complaint about his writing. Unfortunately just the relevant portions I might have quoted still wouldn't have fit concisely in the comment. Primarily the parts about how models used to describe the

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