vladTheInhaler

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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
I understand. And my argument is that nonzero isn't a good enough lower bound to justify investing in something like that. Oxygen is produced by even very simple organisms, and thus has been present in our atmosphere in significant c
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
I would argue that symbols are important too, for purely pragmatic reasons. Memorials are one way we transmit community norms and values. So removing a shameful symbol can be part of the process of building consensus around the historical
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
> I can't give details because they don't exist. Right. And if the argument depends on those details, then it's not a very convincing argument.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
The phrases "a long time", "some time", and "at least a bit" are doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Oxygen has been in the Earth's atmosphere for over 2 billion years. How long, roughly, is "some t
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
I second the point that a sum over exercises of different types is likely not very meaningful. In this article [1], Greg Nuckols describes how, intuitively, the standard deviation increases with the average size of a measure of strength [2
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
So it was Twitter's "fault" for allowing people in these countries to communicate about the injustices they were facing? And please spare me the tired comparison to the collective hallucination that the Republican party is e
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
> If he is seditious you can get a court to issue an injunction very quickly Maybe courts work differently in Germany, but one word I would absolutely never use to describe them is "quick". Furthermore, courts in the US tend t
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Scott Alexander put it well in Neutral vs. Conservative[1]: "if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of appr
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
A big part of the confusion is that you seem to treat this like an abstract matter of philosophical debate, because frankly, you don't really have a personal stake in it. That's not meant as an insult, just a statement of fact.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
You can go ahead and look at any of the 98 examples cited in Amazon's letter to Parler.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Comments that are acceptable on Parler: "Personally I'm hoping for war I'd love to crush leftist skulls and rip out their spines. Rally your soy boys. Your Pantifa and BLM wannabe gangsters. I'll bath myself is leftist b
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
"If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher" I regret to inform you that you are wrong." https://www.techdirt.com/articles/202005
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
All of the money HFTs make would have been made by other investors, presumably for reasons more related to predicting or responding to actual changes in market conditions. HFTs are parasites that basically leech value from those trades b
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
And it is being decided. This is how that looks. Parler has sued Amazon, and Amazon will presumably respond. Expecting Amazon to sue Parler to show that it has the right to drop it just isn't realistic. IANAL, but I can't im
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
The thing about voter ID is that it isn't inherently a bad idea, as long as you make it really cheap (ideally free) and convenient to get one . If republicans were actually interested in election integrity and civic participation, t
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
> Capitol cops felt so unthreatened by the situation that they posed with rioters for selfies Some cops, *white* cops, felt unthreatened. Black cops describe being called the N word fifteen times, and breaking down crying from the str
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
A channel called Innuendo Studios chronicles this tactic and many others in a series called The Alt-Right Playbook [1]. I found it enormously helpful to understand the mentality and tactics of a group that kind of doesn't make any sen
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
It's one of the most insidious problems with political polling - people who feel alienated and disconnected from society are seemingly less likely to respond to surveys so they inherently go undercounted. Kind of like the dark matter
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
I dunno, calling something pretentious and vacuous with no other details is pretty much the most vacuous argument I can think of.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Language is how we construct our shared reality. When you let language like this go unchallenged, it gives legitimacy to the worldview it endorses.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Alright, why don't you start by explaining what you think they mean by "what we're seeing now", or by "violence done by the students", and how those things are causally linked?
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Really the violent people are the actual pacifists, and the peaceful ones are secretly capable of great violence? [CITATION NEEDED]
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Ahhh yes. Look at all the university students and professors who just stormed the capitol building in full tactical gear. Really everything bad is all the left's fault. Somehow.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
It depends on the collective judgment of the attorneys working at the Department of Justice, and the judges hearing the case. Unfortunately, the DoJ is currently under the command of a person who has a vested interest in protecting "h
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
In the before times, I was doing olympic weightlifting as well, and I had very similar problems. I've always had weirdly loose shoulder joints (and can partially dislocate them), as well as weird things with the tendons in my knuckles
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
When you demand "trial by combat", and then the angry mob clubs a police officer to death, that's inciting violence.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
When that building contains the entire legislative branch, when you're carrying guns, clubs, and handcuffs, when you club a police officer to death with a fire extinguisher as you break through the line, then YES, it is violence.
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
First I would point out that the article start with: "This story was updated on Sept. 1, 2020. The original version of this story, which is an interview with an author who holds strong political views and ideas, did not provide readers
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
I agree with your overall point that we need to revitalize our voting system. The Center for Election Science has made a convincing argument for approval voting as a method to de-polarize elections [1]. [1] https://electionscienc
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by vladTheInhaler 6y ago
Can you give me an example of a story you believe is overtly "progressive"?

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