sonnyblarney

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by sonnyblarney 7y ago
"The philosophical argument here " It's not a 'philosophical argument' - it's a very practical argument. Alcohol is regulated pretty much everywhere, even where ages are lower, there is definitely a social cont
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We often forget context: alcoholism was an utterly rampant social malaise. It was everywhere, and affected everyone. Consider Winston Churchill used to drink 12 ounces of hard booze a day. Underneath the House of Commons / Parliament i
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"This is true only if you ignore costs. " I think it would be better to say: "This is not true in many scenarios, depending on how costs are derived" Liabilities are very hard to determine. We are not yet to the point of
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"Their project was 17,211 raw lines, 15k source lines, and 637kb" So a couple of students cranked out 15K lines of code, in basically a subset of their study time, for a single class? I don't doubt they did it, what I doubt i
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Did you miss the part about college officials committing purgery? In what institution would she be able to keep her job? So yes - some protest and confusion in the days after are understandable. But the actions of the college go way beyond
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"Which I take to mean replacing with or discussing a fully private model," Why would anyone make that conclusion? "They have surprised on occasion, and not just via their pro Europe stance. " ??? I think you might be mis
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I agree but 'avoiding conflict' is in many ways a much better bias than 'creating narrative'. So, FT supports Liberal Democrat narratives by virtue of their existence, but they definition are not bandwagon anything, they
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"Only the lunatic fringe on the extreme right would advocate ripping up something that works, to replace it with something 4x more expensive. " Most European healthcare systems are a blend of private/public, some err a little
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The FT is written by European style Liberal Democrats who are basically 'free market' types but who accept some degree of socialism, but on social issues they are definitely left of centre. Or rather, they are not 'woke'
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Everything in this study is dependant on how they measure the very vague term 'populist'. I understand what they mean when they say 'HuffPo' and 'Breitbart'. But ... 'Vanity Fair' etc. present a probl
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"Where can I see advertisers pulling out of YouTube?" Consider a situation in which you are selling a gadget, or software. Do you want your ad run up next to a guy using the f g t term to describe other people? Even in 'good
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Yes, it's terrible, especially considering that these are for 'offensive jokes' not even specific calls for violence. But this is the states terrible job at trying to hamper hate speech, mostly with fines. The world is not tu
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Yes, if you joke about 'murdering the head of state' - any reasonable state is probably going to look into it. But in this case, joking about a historical event, inviting a foreign country to invade is way beyond reality, obviousl
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No, you are not going to get arrested in America for making a joke about George Washington. Enough with the irresponsible moral equivalence arguments. There are glaringly material differences between 'Google software scanning your mail
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It can only happen where there is real entrenched power and companies do not have to be competitive. Most 'private companies' are not at the scale where they have that. I would imagine that 'Healthcare' is rife with this
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It's entirely possible that the training was de-facto complete, i.e. they covered all of the material issues in a shorter timeframe, and the remaining bits might just be bureaucratic padding anyhow. i.e. the nature of these problems ma
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This is a good thing to talk about but let's not pretend that this is just a government thing.
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"It was out of his control, foisted upon him. He didn't want the responsibility at the time, didn't want to focus his time on it. So for an immature 20 something, he took the route of deny deny deny to evade it." ??? &#x
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Here is the release video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7YkTu5geuc
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5 whys? How about '50 whys'? - road network unreliable - theft of property along road - electricity unreliable - workers may or may not show up - bribes for transport, bribes for regulatory checks - unreliable access to credit - u
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"Beside, the concern about "hard drugs" used recreationally, are the same as with alcohol. " They are not, though. Weed (not a hard drug), sure. But meth, coke and opioids are not very much like alcohol at all really. I
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"This opioid chrisis stems from doctors carelessly prescriping pain medication and patients" Yes, so think of what would happen if you could buy opioids willy nilly, wherever. So yes, thanks - even with 'intelligent actors&#x
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The article is misrepresentative. This was way back in an era where fb had slightly more open apis. Of course some people were going to exploit that and break fbs own policies. Cambridge did that and broke fbs rules. Once it became more obv
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So long as 'trust' is part of the factor for purchase, then by 'Supply and Demand' - the tactic will work. Consider that there's an incredible number of 'regular people' who might visit these sites, not su
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"How exactly would legalization hurt Mexico? Look at Portugal to see how we should all move towards dealing with drugs and addiction as a health problem instead of a criminal problem." Again the 'Portugal' argument is mi
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"If Dropbox had just stuck to its nice, clean, and simple interface, focusing on syncing across machines with various OSes or file systems, we would still be happy, " A thousand times, yes - are you listening Dropbox? If you don&#
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"But instead of ignoring the BGP leak, China Telecom re-announced Safe Host's routes as its own, and by doing so, interposed itself as one of the shortest ways to reach Safe Host's network and other nearby European telcos and
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Yes, that's technically true, but it's besides the point: Ritalin is close enough to Soma for the predictive nature of the story to make sense. A very significant chunk of the population are taking drugs, legally or not legally, t
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Yeah, I don't think $20K in 'required spending'. More like $20K/year in dues, and $2K in 'required spending'. Even then, that's a lot. Maralago for example only has $14K in annual dues.
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My folks belonged to a club, we were not wealthy, but my parents enjoy golf and it's a super important place for them to engage with their peers. It was an important community to them. We also belonged to a Ski club (again, not super e

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