hoopd

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by hoopd 11y ago
> What the... where on earth did this come from? It comes from the same place all flamebait comes from: they're picking a fight.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Abusive ranting isn't healthy communication but neither are personal attacks carefully disguised as constructive criticism. The post raises the question as to whether passive aggression or active aggression is the worse offender.
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by hoopd 11y ago
"Everybody else is doing it" isn't doing it for me right now. Facebook has ~1.4 billion monthly active users and, somehow, no real competitors at the moment. Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, has tried in the past to cha
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm not sure it's a middlebrow dismissal, it's well-timed sarcasm which points to an important issue: Facebook deciding which emotions and expressions are first class citizens and which aren't is troubling.
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by hoopd 11y ago
> Of course you have to resort to calling names when you can't make a good argument, who's really the child here? I didn't call you a child. It was a metaphor suggesting you're being shortsighted and entitled without
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by hoopd 11y ago
So in Quebec there was no physical harm, detention, high bail, etc? I think you like Quebec's way because the protesters "won" You've yet to name, specifically, one thing you can't do in the US that you think you s
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by hoopd 11y ago
Oh I see, it was a figure of speech not intended to be a comparison. I see greater than/less than primarily as comparison operators. If all you're trying to say is that women did more than nothing during WWII then obviously that
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by hoopd 11y ago
The pepper spray incident you linked was just about the best thing that could happen to those protesters. It was the plan, and then after it happens you go "oh my god we never saw this coming!" It's political theater - they
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by hoopd 11y ago
> Of course the US is so far beyond any reasonable protest culture that you might as well not protest at all. Really? It seems like it's all some people do anymore. You can even become a professional activist and monetize your own
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by hoopd 11y ago
> ...they weren't forced to fight in the front lines and did not die by the millions....Is that any less a contribution...? Yes. It's a smaller contribution. How is that even a question?
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by hoopd 11y ago
And any criticism of militants is always framed and dismissed as coming from "power" or "the establishment".
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by hoopd 11y ago
Oh is that what happened to Tim Hunt?
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by hoopd 11y ago
I don't understand why you think it's an improvement. If the grandiosity was just a quirk of the writing style I'd have more patience for it but the field produces an endless stream of condescension and disrespect.
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by hoopd 11y ago
After re-reading your comments and the intro to the holes article multiple times I'm only convinced that the SEP has a horrid writing style. The world has moved on from this type of grandiose intellectualism for a reason.
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by hoopd 11y ago
How exactly is naive a term of the trade in philosophy? You, and the article in question, seem to be using it in a way that any grade-schooler would recognize. I'm not aware of any "naive accounts" of physics or computer s
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by hoopd 11y ago
> Speaking of holes, the SEP has a rather detailed entry on the topic of holes, and it rather nicely illustrates one of Wikipedia’s key shortcomings. Holes present a tricky philosophical problem, the SEP entry explains: A hole is nothing
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm arguing that many small companies who have to organize and form a lobby will be far less efficient at regulatory capture than a well oiled monolith like Uber.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Investing heavily in multiple new markets doesn't exactly count as losing money and it doesn't mean their business model isn't wildly profitable.
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by hoopd 11y ago
This is a strange argument and I don't know how to take it. Uber's shown they're experts at lobbying and even steamrolling local governments to get what they want. If the current regulatory structure is corrupt the solution
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by hoopd 11y ago
Your critique fails because taxi companies and Uber have wildly different cost and operational structures. Clearly Uber is turning a healthy profit. I agree that stable prices are important for public transportation and that people like th
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by hoopd 11y ago
> The findings are intuitive and validate that surge pricing is an overall good thing for the market. Good compared to what? Good compared to having a giant monolith set prices for half the market, or good compared to a real market wher
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by hoopd 11y ago
They'll think those thoughts not before abusing students but before doing anything that might offend or hurt the feelings of somebody in a protected group. The good teachers end up with students who should be punished but they're
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by hoopd 11y ago
I think if it's working that's great, I support a cultural plurality. It's like adopting kids - if you're doing well with the ones you have then have at it. If your kids are starving and can barely read, don't ado
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by hoopd 11y ago
If the prison system is working at all we would expect to see violent crime drop as the prison population increases. There's a profit motive as well but we have to remember why societies build prisons in the first place. Only 10% of
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by hoopd 11y ago
First, I think your intention is to silence me as opposed to engaging in discussion. Second, my main assertion is the existence of a point where immigration is problematic. Example: colonialism. Third, as to the side conversation of whethe
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by hoopd 11y ago
If you don't know what a problematic level of immigration looks like then you have no idea if you're looking directly at it or not. You're telling me you haven't seen any chickens lately, I'm asking what you think
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by hoopd 11y ago
You've once again avoided giving even a qualitative answer as to what strain caused by immigration would look like. A first step would be admitting that it's even possible. You've also made the mistake of thinking that just
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by hoopd 11y ago
By what measure? If you don't know how to recognize when it's become a problem then it's not meaningful when you say you don't see a problem. What is straining to you? I would describe our education system, our legal s
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by hoopd 11y ago
As usual, a challenge to the drive-by downvoters: answer the question. At what point have we done all we can? We "can" give ourselves as slaves to refugees to make their lives easier but I don't think that's what was m
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by hoopd 11y ago
define "can"

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