wizofaus

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721.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Future generations also deserve life liberty and the opportunity to pursue happiness and fulfill their potential surely. The issue would not so much seem to be "continuous" growth but unfettered growth (as per a narrow set of metr
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm not usually a fan of slippery slope arguments but it's still worth asking: at what point do you decide it has truly become dangerously Orwellian and worth protesting against? Certainly it does strike me there's a certain
723.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I really don't buy that at all sorry. My son's only ever had an Android device and it's never been an issue (he seems to mostly use Discord for group chat). Giving in to bullying like that and literally helping make the Appl
724.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Rather an acquired taste though. I don't mind it (though have never gone out of my way to find it); my Japanese partner can't stand it.
725.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Could you use a helper like function getProperty<T, K extends keyof T>(o: T, propertyName: K): T[K] { return o[propertyName]; } ?
726.
by wizofaus 4y ago
What's wrong with Object?
727.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I would imagine not a few slaves would have been killed in the process! Either way, that on its own doesn't justify the bloodshed that occurred, and arguably the divisions in the US that don't appear to have fully healed yet. And
728.
by wizofaus 4y ago
That actually is about the average salary for electricians in Australia (though I would imagine not for those just starting out). And we still have a shortage, reportedly due to not enough students enrolling into apprenticeships.
729.
by wizofaus 4y ago
FWIW, the average electrician salary in Australia seems a good deal higher than in the US (by at least 50%!), and there's reportedly a similar shortage here. Supposedly it's largely due to a lack of students choosing such an appre
730.
by wizofaus 4y ago
But are the schools artificially limiting their intake, or have their own resource shortages? If the former, what do they gain from doing so such that any individual school can't decide to it's better off accepting as many student
731.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Well there are plenty of injustices in the world, most of them we can do little about. If my owners gave me the ability the live a decent and meaningful life, that potentially included the opportunities to do things that would be unrealisti
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm not sure the union and the confederacy saw themselves as separate cultures though? And either way, I'm not convinced that it was an acceptable use of force (granted, it's not a subject I have any great depth of knowledge
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I don't believe that man has an intrinsic right to liberty - just that societies where basic human rights (including various freedoms) are protected by the state are more likely to flourish and grant their citizens more meaningful and
734.
by wizofaus 4y ago
And the fact that there's no known good examples of slaves being happy with such an arrangement is a very strong argument in favour of any sort of right to own slaves being a unlikely sort of right that a society would ever successfull
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by wizofaus 4y ago
If they came about as the result of "natural evolution" then they can't be truly universal in the sense that evolution could very well have taken different paths that led to a species recognisably similar to us but whose natu
736.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I did say "universally consider". Presumably that would only be sustainable if the slaves felt it was an arrangement that suited them.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I can personally believe slavery is morally wrong but still accept that a different culture may universally consider that there is a right to own other humans as slaves.
738.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Out of curiosity, where do you propose such rights stem from? And would you argue that those same rights were still "natural"/unalienable etc. even in a society that universally didn't accept them?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd just as well say "jimbokum"'s post has zero relevance to what the word means in conversation. Which is not to say he wasn't making a worthwhile observation - that those who complain the loudest about wokeism&#x
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by wizofaus 4y ago
If you told most people you had 10 rolls of a dice to land a 6 and then suggested the most likely number of rolls you'll get it on is 1 I wonder whether they'd believe you...
741.
by wizofaus 4y ago
To be fair the lab leak theory implies those working at the lab knew what they were doing, had a decent idea of the risks, continued to do so anyway, then were incompetent enough to allow the leak to occur. Or worse, deliberately released i
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's still not obvious why any of those functions are the remit of the Department of Energy though. Defence I could understand.
743.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I assume GP meant the act of imposing windfall taxes - if you know for certain that x% of your profits will be eaten up in taxes, but you can only make some sort of rough guess at how much more demand there might be as a result of cash hand
744.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Would this count as fair use? https://www.spreadshirt.com.au/shop/design/funny+washing+ins...
745.
by wizofaus 4y ago
It's hard to argue the radiation symbol inherently indicates danger though. That our seemingly natural reaction to it is "beware" can only be the result of learning the meaning of it. Unlike, say, signs showing "danger
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by wizofaus 4y ago
What if humans had traveled far enough away (say, a few light weeks) and sent back a signal that a catastrophic failure meant they would be dead for certain within days? Would we still describe and think of the event of their death being in
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Presumably it effectively does if the extra cash raised isn't spent.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The worst customer service I can ever remember observing was in the US (LA specifically). But I've had indifferent, sloppy and excellent customer service in every country I spent long enough in to observe it, and the US was the only on
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Fair point. That the company is still run by the guy who was sufficiently motivated to create a tool for that purpose initially explains a lot.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Never paid much attention to the feed and almost never "liked" things, but found it a helpful way to connect with certain people, organize/advertise events, etc. etc. Still do, though far less than I used to.

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