brightlancer

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by brightlancer 1y ago
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" is a value statement; in the US, some folks agree with it, some do not. Under your argument, folks who disagreed about that value statement shouldn't
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by brightlancer 1y ago
> Wesleyan has a rich history of activism and protest, and not always entirely peaceful (Roth’s predecessor, Doug Bennet, had his office firebombed at one point). Arson is not protest. Arson is a VIOLENT type of activism, which is legall
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by brightlancer 1y ago
This is such a great contrast: > But they vote a straight blue ticket because that's what they learned to do back in the 1960s. and > but still votes red because she was raised in a religious household and came of age during the
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by brightlancer 1y ago
I've listened to Haidt speak about it and his book is in my tall stack to read; I don't think I'd heard of King but I grabbed the PDF. Thank you.
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by brightlancer 1y ago
> learned there are still plenty of people that were unhappy the south lost the civil war and want to remedy that Did you peel that back to the next layer? Did they want to reintroduce slavery? Or did they want independence from a distan
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by brightlancer 1y ago
> "healthcare should be for everyone" is a great claim to make. but then the question is implementation. how will you get rid of the current system and replace it with a more equitable one? And as importantly, what does "m
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by brightlancer 1y ago
Framing has always been used in political debate just to target certain values; what may have changed (or not) is as a deliberate tactic to keep people divided: folks who do not speak the same language cannot communicate. On a lot of issues
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by brightlancer 1y ago
> For the last 20 years at least, the leadership of the two main political parties in the US have largely invested in messaging around the values that they represent. Except that the "values" each promotes are often inconsisten
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by brightlancer 1y ago
TNG was lit much like other action/adventure shows when it debuted in 1987, e.g. MacGyver, Magnum PI, Simon & Simon, The A-Team (which ended that spring) -- the Bridge and hallways were much brighter than even a sitcom, I'd be
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> In most fields (film, painting, music, etc), there are standards -- agreed upon to varying degrees, sometimes almost unanimously, sometimes with only a plurality -- based on objective or almost-objective criteria. In other words, ther
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> same with $10 ear buds vs $150 iems Are there $150 pairs which are better than every $10 or $20 pair? Sure. But there are plenty of $150 headphones which have the same quality as a $10 pair of earbuds. People overpay for brand names, f
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> Meaning quality is more important than quantity. It's not a binary choice. Price is a non-linear factor here: "quality" may be prohibitively expensive as a single purchase, even if it is less expensive over X years than
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by brightlancer 2y ago
That's a silly comparison: by that metric, Apple "won" against Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway, and Microsoft also "won" against them. Except that they aren't in the same business. On the desktop, Microsoft
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> S230 is flawed, Yes. > and it must be amended, updated, or replaced with a better version that addresses common grievances. That assumes it will be "better" and less flawed. To that point: > In my subjective experience,
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by brightlancer 2y ago
There's always going to be a lot of money/profit in amoral behavior that's legal -- while being moral means passing on that behavior and money. It's possible to run a business morally and successfully, but rarely as succ
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by brightlancer 2y ago
In the US, minors can get a driver's license at 16 in most places, and at 15 in a few I've seen. And a person of any age can drive a car on private property.
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by brightlancer 2y ago
It had nothing to do with tax rates and everything to do with wage "controls" (i.e. caps) during WWII. Employers were not allowed _by law_ to pay their employees competitive wages, so they offered benefits which weren't restr
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> considering that the median employee takes almost zero risks and can leave whenever they want. This is an important point that is often ignored. Within the past week there was a thread about "How to get paid FAANG money at non-FAA
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> The problem here would be that there's not enough people who can provide the level of protection a third-party vendor claims to provide, and a person (or persons) with comparable level of expertise would be much more expensive lik
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> I know people really dislike how Apple restricts your freedom to use their software in any way they don't intend. But this is one of the times where they shine. Yes, the problem here is that the system owners had too much control
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> Even then the "blast radius" was only the BitLocker team with about 8 devs, since local changes were qualified at the team level before they were merged up the chain. Up the chain to automated test machines, right?
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by brightlancer 2y ago
My understanding from Brave is that this year Google is essentially disabling v2 add-ons, but the code will still be in Chromium (for other things Google does), so Brave can just re-enable it. But Brave expects that Google will actually pul
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> and they will not need to work ever again Maybe not washing dishes, laying bricks or constructing houses, but there will always be work. Things will continue to get cheaper (and better), but they will always take _some_ human effort to
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> English speakers in India use the word “revert” in email a lot more often than Americans do, because there it can mean “reply”, as in “I will revert with that information later today.” That's not just an issue of frequency but red
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by brightlancer 2y ago
Before we delve into everything else... > Risk-sharing mutual aid societies are now among the largest and best-funded organisations on the planet - we call them "governments". I'm not aware of any mutual aid society that s
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> There's only no making money on health insurance Health "insurance" is mostly not insurance: it's a healthcare plan for periodic maintenance and minor incidents combined with an insurance plan for large and catastro
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by brightlancer 2y ago
Laws that are uncontroversial in one year can become very controversial in another. Is it murder to kill your slave? Is it murder to kill the man breaking into your home at 3AM? Is it murder for the government to kill the man convicted of m
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> These restrictions prevented what these women saw as their right to be elegant in appearance. ... > The events that it set in motion on the streets of Rome created a precedent which saw Roman women stand up for their rights and make
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by brightlancer 2y ago
Neither of those sentences cite a source. The papal bull notes, "our predecessor of immortal memory, Pius IX, solemnly proclaimed the dogma of the loving Mother of God's Immaculate Conception." Pope Pius IX died in 1878. Did
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by brightlancer 2y ago
> There's also a noticeable pro-transit, meh-cars sentiment among Millennials/younger people I read this a lot but I don't find the data that supports it. There appears to be a very loud group of millennials online who won

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