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by shasta 11y ago
Summary: Philosopher believes philosophy is important. Next we ask this expert on extraterrestrial life whether extraterrestrial life exists.
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by shasta 11y ago
Depends. There obviously has to be a large change in the demand curve at the supply point if that point is fixed. But I agree that a small horizontal shift in a demand curve can have a big impact. I don't think that's the right
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by shasta 11y ago
> Letting the legacy of past discrimination stand in perpetuity because fixing it would require temporary discrimination in the opposite direction? I'm skeptical of the explanation that pay inequality between genders is caused by ir
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by shasta 11y ago
> Who properly bears the burden of proof is a question of your policy objective. Well, the context was the discussion of policy objectives. If you're saying that we should presume the existence of ongoing discrimination to be the c
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by shasta 11y ago
> statistical inequality presumes the existence of injustice unless proven otherwise. That's a reasonable presumption. I disagree. There are too many other factors that are plausibly contributing. The burden of proof is on the per
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by shasta 11y ago
> The difference is not being willing to accept "oh it's just different preferences" as a reason for observed disparities without evidence. Not accepting such an explanation is fine, but making unwarranted assumptions abou
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by shasta 11y ago
The Kármán line isn't the "edge of space" either.
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by shasta 11y ago
I don't think that "rights" is the best framework for evaluating alternative systems. I still understand what you mean when you use the word, though, and obviously I do think the accused should receive fair trials.
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by shasta 11y ago
> Consider a simple case of theft... Why is this wrong? Theft is illegal. Wrong is a different topic. > any distinction between government and organized crime quickly dissolves. The difference between organized crime and government h
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by shasta 11y ago
See my sister post. My apologize if you honestly thought that was a useful post. I would certainly not characterize my position as not being in favor of fair trials. But phrasing it terms of rights I do find unhelpful. Doesn't an i
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by shasta 11y ago
All decisions should be based on comparing outcomes. Cost is important, but obviously that's only one small part of the outcome. Letting the guilty free is an undesirable outcome (assuming a just law), and jailing the innocent is a t
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by shasta 11y ago
You couldn't possibly have thought this was going to be a helpful comment to anyone when you posted it.
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by shasta 11y ago
I don't disagree with any of this. My objection with this entire subthread has been the assertion that plea deals violate rights. I find that crazy. When presented with the facts of a case, a good prosecutor and defense attorney w
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by shasta 11y ago
I think I've been fairly clear that I find both acceptable. Thinking in terms of "rights" instead of costs and outcomes just increases the chances of a bad decision.
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by shasta 11y ago
My proposal of a 2:1 cap on sought sentence to plea sentence makes the prosecution's life harder, not easier. I think I was pretty clear that I find the present situation with 20:1 ratios wrong. But I'm troubled by the apparent c
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by shasta 11y ago
I think this point of view is unrealistic and harmful. Look at what happens when you get a speeding ticket. In theory, you have a "right to a trial". But, of course, we can't afford to have everyone who gets a speeding tic
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by shasta 11y ago
If your metric is time spent in jail by innocent people, then the optimum is obvious: don't prosecute anyone.
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by shasta 11y ago
I realize that phrasing is getting me down voted. If I'd phrased it as "Why is it so terrible to be rewarded for not exercising your right", I probably wouldn't be getting down voted. But really, what's the differ
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by shasta 11y ago
> How about for those factually innocent of the charges they face? For them, I'm ok leaving the punishment at _1x_. :) You're not being realistic. Structuring the court system so that the most expensive option to the public i
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by shasta 11y ago
Why is it so terrible to be punished for exercising your right to trial? Phrased another way, why not offer an incentive for avoiding an expensive trial? The outrageous thing is the 20:1 ratio of punishment risked at trial to plea punishm
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by shasta 11y ago
Not all contracts... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds
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by shasta 11y ago
But how do you get into the app? Don't you have to navigate your phone's OS? I can appreciate what you're saying. There are probably lots of situations where you know you might need it where you can have the app already
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by shasta 11y ago
Most phones have really terrible UIs for getting to something like this. In circumstances where I want to start using an app like this, I usually don't have 5-10 seconds to take my concentration off of my surroundings to load the app.
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by shasta 11y ago
I'm guessing you generate these by fixing three points along the boundary and then find the conformal map with the prescribed scale ratio at each point. Cool tech. If only this was a useful way to present the information. Color con
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by shasta 11y ago
Excellent paper? This seems like an observation one could make in the shower and publish as a tweet.
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by shasta 11y ago
I found the original article light on explanation and so posted what I thought to be a good summary sentence that I found in another place.
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by shasta 11y ago
"Code evaluated in our system is guaranteed not to leak any information unless a dishonest majority collude"
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by shasta 11y ago
Looking at division and mod as a pair finding group and subgroup indices is interesting. For zero based indexing, we want division to round down and the usual zero-based mod. So Group(8,4) = 8/4 = 2, Index(8,4) = 8 % 4 = 0. The inv
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by shasta 11y ago
So 8 divided by 4 is 1 with a remainder of 4?
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by shasta 11y ago
Has that been your perception? How do you measure that?

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