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by wfo 11y ago
Yes. In general the mathematics that people bother to talk about is much, much more complicated than most programs. There is more complexity in a few words of mathematics than most programs that exist; mathematicians are drawing on thousand
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by wfo 11y ago
It depends on how accurately describe the punishment you are meting out, and very much on the words you use. Given 11 people who you suspect 90.9% chance of having significantly harmed a child and the option to let them live free until you&
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by wfo 11y ago
Actually, a free society is impossible without a paternalistic government. The government does a lot of work to craft the free and open society we all enjoy, and enforce certain norms of acceptable behavior; primarily to prevent abuse and e
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by wfo 11y ago
"Right" is a subjective weasel word that has no meaning. You have to draw it out from context in every different piece you read. In my experience any definition of it that doesn't include those three you named is purely acade
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by wfo 11y ago
They do it explicitly with malicious intent; there is no bones about their goal which is to manipulate you and trick you into spending money on their products based on psychological charlatanry rather than offering you actual value. It&#x27
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by wfo 11y ago
No his quote is just as bad as the headline sounds, and in fact worse. "Those people who will try to protect free speech are foolish" is worse than the stated headline, and prefacing "let's close down the internet"
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by wfo 11y ago
The scenario is as follows: ESPN is the reason people buy cable. Without it cable is dead. Cable companies MUST have ESPN so ESPN has an enormous amount of leverage and use it to extract as much cash as possible. In this case cable provider
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by wfo 11y ago
I don't think anyone believes protectionism is good for EVERYONE, that's a straw man that sounds as ridiculous as you've made it sound. Rather, protectionism is good for the countries that apply it. And in particular for cert
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by wfo 11y ago
There are a few odd mathematical theorems which almost just seem to draw cranks like moths to a flame: I don't think I've ever seen a reference to Godel's incompleteness theorem outside of a mathematics textbook which isn&#x2
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by wfo 11y ago
Before the medical exam the reasoning would have been "any of us could have lung cancer. So we'll all pay so that the one person unlucky enough to have it doesn't have their finances ruined". After the medical exam the r
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by wfo 11y ago
For almost everyone I have ever met, the only time they would think to use "saint" and "politician" -- or the name of any given politician -- in the same sentence is if they're both walking into a bar accompanied by
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by wfo 11y ago
I think if his foundation wasn't accompanied by a multiple page long self-aggrandizing commitment to charity people would simply appreciate and not scrutinize. But in particular we have a model for what it looks like when a tech billio
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by wfo 11y ago
No, over-represented with respect to the U.S. population which is irrelevant. Chinese people were criminally underrepresented with respect to the population of the world. It depends on the local demographics which we don't have access
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by wfo 11y ago
Don't worry this is very uncommon the vast majority of cases never see trial and are instead decided by the prosecutor threatening to destroy the life of a defendant guilty or not if they don't sign a (likely false) confession cal
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by wfo 11y ago
I suspect this was completely honest. You will not believe what comes out of the mouths of some of these students. Straw-manning is necessary; do you think either participant or the audience has the patience to sit and thoughtfully and care
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by wfo 11y ago
In my experience "formal debate" (in the vein of forensics competitions, etc) is essentially heavy "research" in which you cherry pick any study or paper or blog you can find that supports your position and then spit out
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by wfo 11y ago
Such a villian, in fact, that a huge building in DC bears his name in order to honor him. The building that houses the very organization we are discussing in fact. Whose employees walk past his plaque and honorifics every day, witnessing a
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by wfo 11y ago
This is not the first article like this. Or the second, or the third, or the hundredth. There is plenty of evidence of the widespread disenfranchisement of citizens who are pushed through the criminal justice system; long form journalism fr
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by wfo 11y ago
Scientific studies are not about you and your personal experiences. They are not about any one person. They are about trying to understand trends, general phenomena, and how humans tend to act under a variety of circumstances. You're a
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by wfo 11y ago
1) And for every wrong that is brought to light there are thousands more than go unnoticed because they effect poor people, or disadvantaged, or because someone doesn't decide to be a hero and potentially sacrifice their career and wor
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by wfo 11y ago
Examples are important in a story. It's hard to get upset about a long critique discussing systemic legal policy. It's easy to get upset about a human face for evil in a position of great power and trust -- which is what this judg
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by wfo 11y ago
I think it would just require Cox obey the requests of anyone claiming to be a "rightsholder" and disconnect customers, levy fines and penalties without a shred of evidence of actual infringing, simply a claim. In particular, appa
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by wfo 11y ago
I only wish more people could see this post: your posts higher up in the comment thread almost look reasonable but this one really highlights the descent into madness necessary to accept your view. Things haven't gotten worse; your par
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by wfo 11y ago
If there's so much bias perhaps you could begin by identifying some, much less 'unpacking' any of it. Though it's not clear what you mean by 'bias' -- the way you use it it seems like a generic word for "t
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by wfo 11y ago
You'll notice one of the requirements above is "live comfortably" -- so your answer then is no.
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by wfo 11y ago
The things we are tricked into 'wanting' by a multi-billion dollar advertising industry that pays top scientists to spend years doing research on how to best manipulate our desires. Nobody needs a house twice as big. It's a p
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by wfo 11y ago
It depends really on how you measure wealth. For me a bigger TV or better car truly doesn't matter. Could our parents afford to own a home, have children, live comfortably off one income? Can we? I guess we have plenty of fun cheap toy
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by wfo 11y ago
Capitalism is unhalting in its slow shift toward efficiency. Every moment in a capitalist economic system there's someone racing one step ahead of someone else toward the bottom, screwing over a worker or consumer to make a penny more
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes absolutely. People are capable of looking past economic concerns when the lives of another are at stake and we should absolutely expect them to in this case. What's disappointing is the notion that we've sunk so low in our exp
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by wfo 11y ago
For a while it was considered creepy to have a camera on your phone at all times. There was no way to know if you were filming/photographing at any time. People in certain secure facilities or attorneys in many courtrooms weren't

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