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by wfo 10y ago
Not the case that the employees do well as the company does well. The company does great when factories are closed and replaced with slave labor overseas. The employees, not so much. The company does great when its employees are forced to t
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by wfo 10y ago
Not true; they are quite correct characterizations. In theory, union officials are elected by the members of the union. In practice, union officials are elected by the members of the union. In theory, the head of a corporation is the head o
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by wfo 10y ago
Unions generally represent a large collection of human beings who all donate a small fixed amount as dues, and are usually quasi-democratic. That is, unions closer resemble the expression of the will of actual people, whereas non-union corp
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by wfo 10y ago
Radical for many decades meant revolutionary (as opposed to reactionary)/anarchist/green/counterculture/etc. It's where calling something 'rad' as a compliment came from. A wide category in which the pirat
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by wfo 10y ago
And, in particular, there are many, many more french fry cooks than philosophers. So the french fry cook understands the perspective of a larger proportion of people in the world than the philosopher does. Or so the argument goes. I'd
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by wfo 10y ago
To be honest I don't think the problem is twitter. Twitter was founded and run by free-speech crusaders. It provides a platform for people to say what they wish, period. It's the expectations we've projected on twitter. A for
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by wfo 10y ago
Except that IDEs and GUIs are buggy. They are finicky and they fail often and usually their failure can only be debugged by someone who understands what is actually going on, i.e. the command line and build process. Consider teaching a CS c
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by wfo 10y ago
Usually in college-and-up mathematics, if you get the answer, you know when you have the answer, because you have a correct proof. You don't need the solutions, the whole point is to write your own, which is much more work and which wi
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by wfo 10y ago
But when one of the candidates main strategies is to be so beyond-the-pale ludicrous that any honest question or statement about him is by definition 'loaded' -- nevermind the fact that he himself is the one doing the loading -- i
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by wfo 10y ago
>But that's just overloaded syntax, isn't it? We're concerned with real numbers here. Yes, you're 100% correct, I was just giving an example for why it's natural for some (me included) to think of sqrt(x) as a so
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by wfo 10y ago
It depends entirely on the context -- mathematical notation, as always, depends upon the level of instruction, textbook, context, mathematician etc. In algebraic geometry we take the radical ideal sqrt(I) for an ideal I which is most certai
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by wfo 10y ago
Perhaps out of all the morally reprehensible positions completely at odds with the notion of a free modern society Trump has espoused at one time or another, his intention to crack down on free speech by making it easier to sue those who di
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by wfo 10y ago
"It's like it's a different language!" (incredulously) Yes, it is a different language. It is built for expressing ideas about deduction and quantity clearly, flexibly, creatively, and it works beautifully. Saying 2^3 =
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by wfo 10y ago
The problem is he fundamentally misrepresents most research and backs it up with "just so" stories that feel true but we have no reason to believe are representative. Feel-good snake oil sells a lot of books and is fun to read but
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by wfo 10y ago
For the entire history of the United States, it has been the case that when you buy a product, you may repair it. You may disassemble it. You may do as you like with devices that you purchase. It was never illegal to take apart a musket. It
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by wfo 10y ago
Shooting someone is not "doing whatever you want with the things you own". Neither is copying a book. Both require that you commit an unrelated crime -- one by creating an entirely new object which violates the law, the other by c
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by wfo 10y ago
If the market has failed to protect a right that is important, that's exactly when regulation is necessary. Handling the constant failures and disasters created by the market to the detriment of the populace is the purpose of regulatio
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by wfo 10y ago
If you create a new crime for the purpose of going after people who you can't prove committed a different crime, you are doing something (morally) wrong. This kind of thinking pushes us even farther along this dangerous path than we ar
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by wfo 10y ago
This is generally the philosophical tradition: you present ideas, wholly and completely, as an explanation or a solution to a problem. You do not pre-suppose disagreements for your opponents (this will almost certainly end up being a straw
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by wfo 10y ago
Interestingly enough, I think the misguided constant push to move CS degrees towards industry relevance more and more makes them more and more worthless -- we have academics going to industry conferences and asking what kind of developers w
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by wfo 10y ago
That is almost exactly what we have now. I'd hope citizen participation would be an improvement but I'm not certain. Populist positions can be good, but they can also be disastrous -- look at Trump, his brand of populism preys on
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by wfo 10y ago
The risk vs. reward profile for these jobs is very different. A stock trader can be successful one year and make up for losses the next, so long as he is successful more often than not. If an excellent teacher has a 25% chance of being fire
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by wfo 10y ago
I'm not sure why it's so important to you to push the notion that some people just simply are not good at anything (and of course you use, as an example, a homeless person -- obviously they must be talentless, yes, otherwise they
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by wfo 10y ago
No, this isn't how proof works. All you have to do is find a bum, and definitively prove that he has no talent at anything, even things he has never been exposed to, even things that have fallen out of fashion, even things that have ye
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by wfo 10y ago
I don't think any of the bashing the FBI gets is about suggesting they are breaking the law. Rather, the suggestions are that the law is limitlessly broad and allows nearly anything so it is nearly impossible for them to break the law
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by wfo 10y ago
Actually yes we agree essentially -- it's not because it's enjoyed by fewer people, it's the ratio of cost to produce per person who will enjoy it. The market isn't an effective vehicle for supporting art of any real val
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by wfo 10y ago
In fact, Chomsky often argues most markets are not free because of the massive teams of trained psychologists who work in propaganda -- i.e. public relations, to try to ensure capitalism does not work correctly, by misinforming consumers an
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by wfo 10y ago
A beautifully expressed fundamentalist ideology; you are incapable of even comprehending that there exist views other than your own.
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by wfo 10y ago
Did you watch the videos? Read the articles? The wild screaming, incoherent rage and hate expressed in response to a thoughtful, respectful email from one of their /professors/? The incredulity that he dare have a different opinio
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by wfo 10y ago
I'm not sure it's all that misleading, what I got out of the article was that there was apparently an explicit law (Wilson doctrine) in the UK designed to prevent spy agencies from spying on political officials. But now that they

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