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by eseehausen 8y ago
Part of the job of lawyers is to know the judges they interact with and what sorts of claims they'll take seriously and which ones they'll overrule. That has very little to do with the kind of immutable logic outsiders tend to try
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Because humans still get the picture selection prompts, so you'd have to write code good enough to read the prompt and then select the appropriate images.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
People using their accrued wealth to sit around while other people make money for them (who will suffer if they can't do that) is generally considered moral- or at least ethical- under the current order.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
I think for a field like philosophy, which is composed of a bunch of relative silos (some within broader silos like the divide between analytic and continental philosophy as well as others like pragmatism and many sets of non-Euro/Angl
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by eseehausen 8y ago
If the only thing stopping the structural changes necessary to prevent ecological collapse was a fear of aliens, then I think we'd be doing better. Also, the kind of technological delay you're talking about there would be a couple
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by eseehausen 8y ago
That and most users aren't auditing each new version of the apps to make sure they're still doing what they say they're doing to protect data.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
I didn't dismiss evo psych outright in that comment- I said it's often being used in the way psychoanalysis and theology were being used to naturalize the current social order. Though you do engage in the kinds of problems that I
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by eseehausen 8y ago
There are lots of cool books- I have a strong preference for ones like Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess which present problems or walk through games with somewhat conversational commentary. There are a lot of good suggestions (based on my admitt
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by eseehausen 8y ago
This is a really important point. Evolutionary psychology and associated disciplines have come to replace psychoanalysis and God in the popular imagination as a teleological force that's making rational decisions about what to do in a
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by eseehausen 8y ago
> Landlords don’t care about any color other than on-time-green. This is obviously not a universal truth (and there have been many well-known cases of individual and systemic housing discrimination in the USA). Here's a Wikipedia bi
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Because we already know how to store it for thousands of years with minimal leakage without creating a contraption that could lead to nuclear waste raining down on our heads.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Looks like the person violating the copyright just reuploaded under a new ID after the original takedown, which is why the artist is still seeing his work up there.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Because people (or even projects) you love may outlive you? It can provide immediate visceral satisfaction to try to help boost them even if you won't see the benefits. Children are a good example of this, but there are many others (le
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Based on my experience, people who can acknowledge their issues and accurately compensate for them are more valuable than most of the people who think they're the top 1-3%. Obviously you have people who think they are, and it's ac
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Same with governments and the attempts at state capitalism you're referring to. Everything always is good unless it's bad, the question is how easily can it be constrained when it goes bad (and monitored for the signs of it going
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Making things hard to vote is a feature, not a bug.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Most animals- at least megafauna- don't spend all day in search of food, shelter, etc. They almost all have daily periods of idleness.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Which can still happen in a simulated way that minimizes harm but maximizes perceived harm by the inflictor. The gory death of an opponent in an FPS who respawns without incident elsewhere, for instance.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Obviously it's beyond the purview of the study, but I have to imagine the correlations aren't too far off for adults either.
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Except the groups they represent are different. Executives represent the shareholders and labor organizers represent labor. Even if you say a large part of the benefits are lost due to corruption in both cases, it shapes where the remainder
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by eseehausen 8y ago
Also given the (hundreds of) billions of advertising dollars spent on shaping consumer tastes/desires when it comes to food.
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by eseehausen 10y ago
It's under the limit ($600): https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... But even if it wasn't, a company of any significant size (enough to pay even 1 person's salary, say) should ha
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by eseehausen 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy For the reasons for the opposition, it's difficult to point to any article that doesn't almost willfully misunderstand the other side. I haven't liste
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by eseehausen 10y ago
It's interesting how much this reads like footnotes to Derrida , especially in the beginning (other cliffnotes here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#SH7c or http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ce&#x2F
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by eseehausen 10y ago
The issue is that leaving food for the animals alters their behavior and can cause issues. You're probably not the worst offender wherever you are, as there are many people who just give food to animals, but the argument would be that
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by eseehausen 11y ago
That depends on your initial assumptions, which you can shape over time (though you may not want to or find it advantageous to do so).
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by eseehausen 11y ago
With email, rather than happiness, amping up the professionalism and courtesy might be an analogue.
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Honestly, when somebody who isn't a subordinate, friend, or direct charge acts like a jerk, I don't think it's worth taking this kind of pedagogical role with regard to etiquette (probably not a good idea in the friends case
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by eseehausen 11y ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but do you think that learning JSX is going to be any easier for non-coders?
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by eseehausen 11y ago
While that may be true for some, a number of highly effective people in various fields seem to have a sense of dissatisfaction that pushes them to do more. That sense can often apply to their own self-assessment.

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