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by smadge 8y ago
Maybe I am misusing the definitions of individual versus collective. I’m not saying arbitrary United States citizens should be criminally punished for indirectly benefiting from the geopolitical arrangement they were born into. Besides the
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Why shouldn’t the wealthy nations feel collective guilt over being the primary beneficiaries of Africa’s vast mineral wealth?
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Yes.
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Part of the centuries old ongoing theft of the wealth of Africa.
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Political philosophy.
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I don’t know PLT very well but wouldn’t top/bottom also be considered terminal/initial objects in categorical terms?
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Lattice theory is it’s own field that exists outside of and before category theory. All lattices form a category, though, but not vice versa.
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Nice, now I can have sole video lectures to accompany my self printed copy of “Seven Sketches in Composability”
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Pooping is pretty high up on the hierarchy of needs. Higher than social norms. People are going to poop, sleep, eat, etc wether or not a dignified way to perform these functions is available. Solution: provide a dignified way to perform lif
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This article isn’t a criticism of the CEO of Panera, per se, it is a criticism of conscious capitalism and libertarian ideology trying to solve collective problems with individual actions, that the marketplace is the proper place to express
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From the article: “Harvey and van der Hoeven’s algorithm proves that multiplication can be done in n × log n steps. However, it doesn’t prove that there’s no faster way to do it. Establishing that this is the best possible approach is much
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The important point is that the information that gets to the public should be in the public interest, not business interests.
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Just because there are dozens of other pieces of personal information that are collected by the powers that be and used to manipulate people doesn’t mean they all are justified.
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The article suggests that parental support is increasing. Furthermore it seems to be caused by rising rents and non-rising wages making it difficult for young people to support themselves like they largely did in the past.
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The main thesis of the article was that high resolution measurements can sometimes obscure the pattern, and that scientific insight requires knowing what details to idealize away. The high resolution data showed the acceleration and deceler
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I don’t have any legal expertise. The article just made it seem like they wouldn’t win the case because of that reason.
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The problem seems to be that while it is deceptive and probably illegal to imply you have a copyright over a public domain image, the company who is suing doesn't have the "standing" to sue. Instead that is the responsibility
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Well, I guess what I meant is that proofs are for convincing other mathematicians. If someone is unconvinced by the proof they’ll try to fill in the gaps or further specify certain parts of the proof themselves. If that doesn’t work, they m
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Why do you insist mathematicians become programmers? They have different skills, have different ways of thinking, and solve different problems. As an analogy, plenty of famous musicians were obviously very musically talented but didn’t know
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The only example I can think of is Gab, which became a “cesspool for the alt-right” because it specifically marketed itself to that demographic. There have also been internet communities for the far left where members could post opinions th
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It’s a pretty well documented observation that the birth rate in prosperous nations tends to level out without intervention. Additionally, prosperous nations are responsible for orders of magnitude more per capita carbon emissions than the
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These birds are out of control.
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Some form of property tax has been around since the feudal era and the idea of a land value tax has been around in western economics since the 1700s.
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I have seen absolutely no evidence that “Captain Marvel” is a feminist film or that there are any more or less moral lessons in this Marvel movie than others. In fact, the backlash began before people had even seen the movie and able to mak
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I imagine faitswulff was considering a scenario where someone is a racial minority in a situation where they are perceived as outsiders. Then the asymmetry is clear.
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I don't think terms of service, basically a contract, fall under free speech. If you and I make a verbal contract that you will assassinate someone we are still breaking the law because assassinations are illegal. Our free speech isn&#
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I think the metaphor about taxes was more distracting than illuminating of my point. The main point was that we shouldn't be celebrating that a mother of 3, going to school, and working multiple part time jobs is able to supplement the
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I agree. If Uber drivers view themselves as individuals acting rationally to maximize their material conditions in an environment they can't alter, then why would they have issues with Uber? If driving for Uber wasn't a net positi
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I think that twitter story is an example of the financially precarious position many workers are in. It only supports the idea that our economy is fundamentally unfair to working people. How is it acceptable that a mother of three going to
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If one person rolls a die and gets a six and another person rolls the same die and gets a one the person who rolled the six will claim it was the way they rolled the die that led to their success.

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