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by wfo 11y ago
He's talking about studies and data, not "this one time my friend" stories.
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by wfo 11y ago
People in general have trouble articulating what they want (and sometimes admitting it to themselves). You're not wrong but it doesn't just apply to women so there's no need for this misogynist garbage. If you ask anyone what
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by wfo 11y ago
It's easy to take nothing from the thoughts of another when you yourself have nothing to give.
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by wfo 11y ago
So your answer is "You cannot, but you are free to beg for charity, the state has decided you aren't allowed to hire an attorney with the time and skill necessary to defend you so you won't be needing a trial, here is a publi
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by wfo 11y ago
I didn't mean to be derogatory at all -- I just mean phrases like 'open society' are used in discussion and argument by a large variety of people with a large variety of beliefs, and it always essentially means 'an imple
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by wfo 11y ago
You can vote for either a) the representative on the one side who supports such laws or b) the representative on the other side who supports such laws or c) throw your vote away and let the majority of people who don't understand/
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by wfo 11y ago
In particular on HN there are plenty of a very extreme breed of libertarians who believe 'open society' means no regulation or taxes as well. It's a generic weasel word that means "stuff I like and not stuff I don't
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by wfo 11y ago
In what universe is 50% not less than 70%? In what universe in America is anyone being taxed at 70% right now?
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by wfo 11y ago
I hope so and I think it's certainly possible, but 'publicly forced to resign for being a racist' being the first thing that shows up when a university official googles your name might make it a rough hire. These positions ar
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by wfo 11y ago
The article we are currently discussing is a good place to start though there are certainly others if you care to look (in academia at least).
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I would agree it seems our normal methods to deal with, say institutionalized racism have failed. This method seems to be to publicly abuse, harass, and destroy the lives of anyone who dares step outside the social justice orthodoxy even fo
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by wfo 11y ago
It certainly seems that the mere accusation of racism (or not even racism -- just not making race your primary focus and language of discussion) is career-destroying. What I got from reading the article was the notion that the head of an a
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by wfo 11y ago
I don't think so. I think generally the A-type lawyers on their way to be prosecutors are primarily interested in winning at all costs no matter how it effects others (why else be a prosecutor?). If someone is the kind of person who wa
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by wfo 11y ago
I don't think it would be unreasonable to require that every prosecutor have worked for 2+ years as a public defender. Helps with the shortage of public defenders as well.
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by wfo 11y ago
Literally everyone believes what doctors and nurses do is ethical. Public defenders, absolutely. Nobody has an ethical problem with artists (i.e. entertainment) -- musicians, actors, writers. Being an educator is a highly ethical profession
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by wfo 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is exquisite parody or a genuine response which does nothing but prove my point by responding to thoughtful argument with literally nothing other than a personal smear attack, the technique characteristic of the cu
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by wfo 11y ago
The fact that you feel the need to do this is evidence of how powerful their propaganda machine is: even criticizing an objectively awful law we feel the need to go out of our way to assure our audience that we are not hate-filled antisemit
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by wfo 11y ago
I was under the impression there already is a requirement similar to this yet the general tactic is to hire someone for a job far, far under what they are actually going to be doing. For example, hire someone with a PhD and years of experie
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by wfo 11y ago
Countries aren't getting screwed over, citizens are, certain industries or interests in each country are. These trade deals throw certain sectors of the country under the bus in favor of other sectors as they must. And the ability to r
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by wfo 11y ago
I think it is a tiny minority of students but the weapon these students are using (public humiliation, being abusive and hateful after trying very hard to establish a position of weakness) doesn't discriminate and I think the silence f
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by wfo 11y ago
Government and corporations are essentially the norm, we have gotten used to them though they are admittedly much worse: a student culture that is focused on faux-victimization and hate and abuse and refusing to even acknowledge the existen
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by wfo 11y ago
What worries me is that it is almost entirely intellectually devoid of content. There are these words "privelege" "microaggression" "appropriation" "problematic" and many others which do have some mea
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by wfo 11y ago
This also has the added bonus of being functionally an oligarchy (oligarchies are MUCH more efficient even when the oligarchs disagree!) and really has no relationship to any kind of democracy, representative or otherwise.
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by wfo 11y ago
Yes -- the problem with negotiating the trade deal in public is the people you intend to screw over have time to use the democratic process to stop it before you can put it into law.
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by wfo 11y ago
It doesn't really matter if they sift through every one so long as they have them on record. If there's ever an allegation of misconduct, the code can be examined in full by any large variety of experts.
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by wfo 11y ago
Sounds like you shouldn't have children. If all that matters to you is being an astronaut or neurosurgeon or some other high-prestige but low-happiness job then you should do it yourself and stop talking about it on the internet: don&#
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For a definition of "fair" set by the arbitrator.
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by wfo 11y ago
Truly disgusting -- so unimaginably perverse injustice that I can't imagine a coherent lucid defense being presented that this should be legal, though if you have one please prove me wrong. If you want to protect rights, it's vita
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by wfo 11y ago
The author is a novelist, if you think the article was actually about these two ephemeral zygotes in a techbro's slide deck that will both likely die in the next year and don't really matter then you've truly missed the entir
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by wfo 11y ago
For anyone who can't be bothered reading the self-indulgent, concise rubbish since he doesn't actually provide the explanation: "I will dismiss out of hand any article suggesting that the sharing economy can be about connecti

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