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by yew 14y ago
I feel rather the same way about anyone who's comfortable just assuming the opposite; viz, that the mass incineration of children during at least semi-procedural wartime bombing is more fraught than obscure peacetime military action carri
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by yew 14y ago
I'll agree that it's difficult to think about ideas with a rock :) As for the rest, people believing something certainly does provide evidence for that thing the strength of which scales with the number of people believing, if not nearly li
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by yew 14y ago
Government is a specific case of that general rule if and only if group decision making is isomorphic to individual decision making. The idea behind government is that 1) it is occasionally necessary to impose some course of action on indiv
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by yew 14y ago
Smartphone notifications certainly aren't 'known' to cause any long-term changes in the brain. The number of actual rigorous studies of the subject is tiny and results have been rather inconclusive so far. (It is known that individuals who
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by yew 14y ago
Ah, there they are. Thank you.
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by yew 14y ago
Have we seen pictures of Glass sans human head before? I don't recall. I definitely agree that it looks like 2013 by way of the 1960's. This is starting to look at least as interesting as a piece of hardware as it is as a product. Pity I do
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by yew 14y ago
I don't see the word 'illegal' or any permutation thereof in the post you're responding to. Personally, 40,000 additions to the surface area of the legal system qualifies as pretty crazy under just about every circumstance. Not all governme
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by yew 14y ago
Noting that people will break a law is a vacuous criticism of said law. Noting that a law will make it easier for people to break the law (or take advantage of it) is certainly not. Indeed, I'd argue that any analysis of the utility of a
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by yew 14y ago
The only person here who seems concerned about 'showing' anyone is you, I'm afraid. We're just missing the 'inherent right to intellectual property at all costs' ethics update and can't be bothered with throwing money at incompetent salesme
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by yew 14y ago
I think rather the opposite is true. People communicate about violence, especially warfare. As Twitter et al transition from 'businesses' to 'methods of communication' this sort of thing will become more and more common. The alternative, of
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by yew 14y ago
You see this sort of thing in traditional BIOS systems all the time. Especially ACPI stuff. And when someone tries to fix it they usually just make it worse. There's a reason so many Linux kernel installations are configured to advertise th
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by yew 14y ago
It is possible to enjoy owning things if you know what you're doing and own the right things. At least I think so. Of course I also think that this obsession with the difference between matter and people is a little silly, especially when s
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by yew 14y ago
'Ignorant overreach' is a value judgment, even if it doesn't sound quite like one. We can disagree about which data is relevant and how it should drive policy, and end up right back where we started. The only ways out (that I can see) are
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by yew 14y ago
> I disagree with it . . . Because . . . ? > . . . but so what? Well, I obviously care somewhat about your opinion. Otherwise I wouldn't have posted all this stuff. And you obviously care somewhat about the existence of this marketi
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by yew 14y ago
That is to say, given the rather high quality of your other contributions to the site, I can't imagine that your posts here are only accidentally coming across as obtuse. Perhaps I'm wrong! It's been known to happen.
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by yew 14y ago
The CPSC wants to ban marketing of such products as toys or puzzles. We all (or, I'll concede, perhaps only most of us) agree that this is so, and no more! The issue is that I think that said ban will affect the structure of the market for
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by yew 14y ago
That's one source of negative utility in this case. A general cost-benefit analysis of this policy decision would need to take into account quite a few more. Anyway, I was referring to tptacek's apparent failure to consider that someone m
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by yew 14y ago
Given your continued insistence on trying to change the argument to one about the elimination of all small round magnets, I can only assume that you're either trolling or just completely unwilling to think about other people's positions. Yo
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by yew 14y ago
Mostly I just got the impression of someone trying to invoke condescension. Have you just never heard of cost-benefits? Otherwise, elaborating a bit more might make your points less opaque.
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by yew 14y ago
Seriously?
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by yew 14y ago
Which, again, I think is problematic. I'm hardly going to worry about being able to purchase magnets for engineering applications. 'Some degree of danger reduction' just doesn't qualify as a catch-all justification for regulatory action. At
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by yew 14y ago
I understand what you're saying. I just think that the benefit of over-protectiveness (no need for heavy-handed regulation to prevent some deaths) isn't enough to counteract the lost benefit from, for example widespread comfort with chemist
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by yew 14y ago
I'm aware. I don't expect to be able to change your point of view on this particular issue, so I'm just making my point for any interested third parties. I'll also make the further point that chemistry sets aren't actually that dangerous (a
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by yew 14y ago
Apart from those dastardly chemistry set manufacturers, anyway. Especially some of the older models were really quite dangerous! Good thing nobody sells them anymore.
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by yew 14y ago
That uses a mounted magstripe writer, doesn't it? Or does the card have some sort of integrated rewriting electronics? I can't find any technical specifications. It seems more likely the card will act like a prepaid 'passthrough' card as in
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by yew 14y ago
The idea behind treating mail fraud separately is explicitly that the severity, if not the legality, of fraud should depend on whether or not the mail was involved. Remember that when mail fraud came into existence as a discrete crime the m
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by yew 14y ago
I doubt the general public and the Supreme Court would accept your logic for a span of almost fifty years, whereas they don't seem to have had much of a problem with Justice Holmes'. I think that tells us quite a lot about how human psychol
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by yew 14y ago
It does become suspect if the underlying logic is the same, though. I might call "clear and present danger" ethically problematic, but it was hardly unjustified.
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by yew 14y ago
I'm always amused by the "fire in a crowded theatre" argument, mostly because most of the people who use it don't seem to know that it originated as an analogy justifying the prosecution of protesting the draft during World War I. War prote
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by yew 14y ago
But Congress obviously isn't doing anything about filling a data center with thousands of antennas and temporarily assigning them to individual customers in order to circumvent public performance restrictions. At least in this case, talki

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