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by scoofy 6mo ago
Consciousness and qualia are a mystery. I would assume we don’t, simply because nerves are reproduced biologically, but I’m not a neuroscientist.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I'm generally pro-union. Don't think that just because I criticize them that I don't think they're generally a good idea. The problems I'm pointing to are general problems of democracy in general. Incumbents tend to
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by scoofy 6mo ago
If “who is worse” is a relevant metric, the question of unions would not be complex. Again, though, this is an entirely naive view of what is a very complicated reality. The very obvious reason that corporations are “worse” is simply that t
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I was having a discussion closely related to this recently because of my background in philosophy of language. Languages are functional, but not rigid. The rules and referents of "blue" become kind of pointless around the edges, a
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Unions are complicated. Generally speaking they are good for workers, but when they start focusing on job security over compensation and build in seniority-based advantages, the leverage unions have can be wielded against consumers and fell
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Again… it most definitely is a Waymo problem. Exactly the case with the ADA. Since GOOGL is responsible for Waymo behavior, they will be liable in a class action suit where they willfully violated the law, putting others in danger, in sel
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by scoofy 6mo ago
The ADA is enforced by lawsuits — not inspectors — exactly because businesses can’t be trusted to follow the rules that most of their customers don’t like.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I could give you dozens of examples of 30 seconds in a bike lane leading to cyclist life altering injuries and deaths.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
This is as unacceptable as telling people in wheelchairs “you don’t matter, our other customers prefer a bathroom you can’t fit in.”
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by scoofy 6mo ago
This is not a helpful comment.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
We can't penalize the 400B corruption. If we could, I would completely agree with OP's point. It's just that it's not a matter of choice. It's not that we "don't choose to"... We obviously want to
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I did read it. Your point is effectively irrelevant. It means the same thing. Creating an "urgency chain" is effectively the same thing as justifying behavior. It's like saying "we shouldn't worry about enforcing tr
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. Legitimizing small time corruption because bigger corruption exists just legitimizes corrupt behavior in general. It should be offensive no matter who does it.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Compromise, sure. I'm an ex-smoker, we can make smoking completely illegal for all I care. Again, I just think it's absurd that a government can think it is in any way legitimate to pass a law that only affects one class of peopl
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Then ban smoking under 26 for everyone under 26. That would be a sensible law. What is proposed is something very different in kind.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
No. That's very much not what inflation is.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I mean, that's a practical and relatively small adjustment where the far-and-away majority of the voting populous are the people who are affected by the change. Yes, if you wanted to nitpick there, you could, there is a very small inju
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by scoofy 6mo ago
My main problem with this is the "do as I say not as I do" intergenerational conflict. It just seems completely absurd to me that a government thinks it's acceptable to treat a generation unable to vote differently from the
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by scoofy 6mo ago
A lifetime ban on purchase is a ban. Don't be ridiculous.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/status/approved
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by scoofy 6mo ago
You're assuming infinite knowledge. Infinite intelligence does not imply infinite knowledge. There are real philosophical problems with that. Many of the basic information for the standard model may be wrong or build on incorrect data.
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by scoofy 6mo ago
>the belief that superhuman intelligence (even if such a thing could be defined and realised) results in godlike powers My biggest criticism along these lines is the assumption that infinite intelligent means infinite knowledge. Knowledg
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I think the thing that really surprises me is that Washington Post reporters are using Apple products and not just a Linux distribution. They are professionals. At some point, Apple can be compelled to work against you, but Linux is just a
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I've been working on golfcourse.wiki on and off for like five years. It's a good website, it has users (probably, you never can tell these days), monetization is going to be much more difficult than I originally imagined. I run
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by scoofy 6mo ago
For folks that don't appreciate the power of marketing and advertising, I would strongly recommend the book Alchemy by Rory Sutherland. The point isn't to say "well ackchyually marketing is good," but is instead to say
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by scoofy 6mo ago
Perhaps a cautionary move for potential fallout from the Hungarian election?
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by scoofy 6mo ago
It's still a company and a brand, even if it's a private label or white label products. It's still an investment with the potential to lose a ton of money. It's still a business. I still think the idea that NYC's gr
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by scoofy 6mo ago
No! That’s ridiculous. New York City is full of businesses (services) that can barely survive and constantly need to get bailed out by the state. The idea that somehow NYC is going to start operating a for-profit toothpaste company to prop
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by scoofy 6mo ago
I don’t think you understand what I mean when I say “low margin.” The types of products you are describing are the extremely low margin products . People pay more for the 16 flavors of Colgate because they want to pay more for Colgate… tha
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by scoofy 6mo ago
A loss leader isn’t a business model when everything is being sold at a loss. The idea that Mamdani is going to undercut a low margin business with higher labor costs is just silly.

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