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by rosser 8y ago
The "internal politics in the colonizing country" were premised on the notion that the colony was their (the colonizer's) economic resource, not the indigenes they took it from. The existence of multiple-axis exceptional
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No, my claim is that, if they hadn't been stripped bare as the colonizers were leaving, what followed would have had a better chance at being those things. Burning someone's house to the ground, and then bailing leaves them in a
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm inclined to quibble mildly with 'monocasa's phrasing, but the ultimate point still obtains that the post-colonial conditions in those countries are, in no small part, rather direct consequences of the rapacity of their c
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by rosser 8y ago
I never said no-one should have "jobs" or do difficult things. Maybe there are people in the world whose aspiration is to do those unglamorous things that need doing, just to keep the societal wheels properly greased. There are
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by rosser 8y ago
No-one ever counts the dead that "wealth" and its pursuits created like this. Why is that? Are all of the slaves, and people who died in crap working conditions, and victims of colonialism and profit-driven wars and on and on and
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by rosser 8y ago
The busy-ness of business and our general obligation to "earn our keep" have squandered more human potential than every other stupid thing we've ever done, combined. How many Einsteins never left the patent office? What other
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by rosser 8y ago
The word "censure" doesn't appear once in The Fine Article, which, I think, undermines its point a little. He writes with nuance about witnessing without judgement, but then assumes all this behavior is categorically "sh
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by rosser 8y ago
I wonder what happened to the slope of the graphs for rates of various adverse outcomes over time did right around then, too. I think price, by itself, is an absurdly meaningless metric. If it gets more expensive, but gets better, that&#x27
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by rosser 8y ago
How, exactly, has regulation driven the price of a drug we've had for decades up hundreds, even thousands, of percent, most of which increase happened after it was out of patent protection?
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Do you know what else affects people in a practical way, and not purely in the world of ideas? Having to choose between medicine and the rest of life's necessities. "Can I afford both my kid's insulin and my rent this month
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by rosser 8y ago
> Because governments dont spend nearly as much as private investment into the medical field... Are you not aware of how much fundamental drug and medical research is actually conducted on the taxpayer's dime at the university lev
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> if it were strictly worse... Ohai goalpost. When did you get there ? The existence of .eu-to-.us medical tourism is utterly orthogonal to the availability of research in those countries. If you honestly took ten minutes to try, you&
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by rosser 8y ago
> In universal care you dont get access to 'clinical trials and research and things like that... [citation needed]
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by rosser 8y ago
> if most of your news diet comes from the anti-Damore side of the debate On this particular subject, most of my "news diet" has been the discussion in this very forum — which, net-net, I have an incredibly difficult time fil
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by rosser 8y ago
So, if a woman comes along who is, in point of fact, the smartest person in the room, do we accept that, or do we insist that because the probability is that much smaller, we must assert it over the reality? Because one of those things sure
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by rosser 8y ago
> Why does it take a serious exercise in creative interpretation to not assume ulterior motives? Because I try to follow the HN guideline of assuming good faith on the part of the people with whom I engage. I'm definitely not alwa
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by rosser 8y ago
That's quite curious to me, since the overwhelming majority of the argument I've seen that cites the Damore memo glosses right over that distinction, or, at best, does an, "I'm not saying the thing, but, you know, the t
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by rosser 8y ago
Meanwhile people (though broadly, it appears, a different set of them) also appear to be unwilling, to the point of delusion, to accept the fact that it is meaningless to attempt to extrapolate from statistical phenomena to individual, or v
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by rosser 8y ago
Really? "It's comments like yours..." followed by "ridiculous virtue signaling." And he's the one "fueling" shit? When you throw accusations like that — demonstrably ignorant of what the term even
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by rosser 8y ago
The "your main concern" part, just to start.
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by rosser 8y ago
First, the Washington Times is a notably biased source. Second, let's please remember that we (the US) fucked those countries up profoundly, to the point that people are fleeing en masse and forming migrant caravans. Fearing for yo
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by rosser 8y ago
It is black letter law that, if you are seeking asylum, your place or method of entry are irrelevant. Asylum claims can even be offered as a defense at criminal immigration hearings. "Since the basis of your argument is demonstrably
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by rosser 8y ago
From The Fine Article: > To view the documents, click here or the link below.
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And the "never in the history of online discourse" bit was hyperbole. But I'm not surprised if that was missed, all things considered.
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The comment I replied supportively to was from a person whose disability involved their hearing. Given the context of the article, that the ensuing discussion was about autism should come as little surprise, but my initial comment was compl
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by rosser 8y ago
It means that, despite being the one with the brain that processes human emotion and social cues radically less efficiently than other people, I'm the one who, e.g., has to explain to the "emotionally competent" not to ragefa
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by rosser 8y ago
> I've never really found a good solution to this that doesn't just require patience and persistence from the start. The kinds and amount of emotional labor that the "invisibly disabled" have to do for the "nor
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by rosser 8y ago
And Xeno's arrow never hits its target, either... This is a purely a priori argument, and ignores the manifest reality of the distribution of fantastically wealthy individuals in some of the highest-tax jurisdictions in the world .
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by rosser 8y ago
A monism, in this context, is a metaphysics with one fundamental substance. In "physicalism" or "materialism", that stuff is "matter". In "panpsychism" or "idealism", it's "conscio
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Ignoring marginal utility is absolutely regressive.

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