imagist

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by imagist 10y ago
The author doesn't actually ever present an ethical system they believe: the article is a summary and critique of a variety of ethical systems.
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by imagist 10y ago
I'm not sure what basis you have for the implicit claim that we don't exist in "loose animalistic structures".
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by imagist 10y ago
Wow, neither of you actually finished the article. Both of you are claiming the author believes viewpoints that the author presented in order to show problems with them. Ultimately, the TLS didn't even claim a viewpoint. They merely pr
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by imagist 10y ago
As someone who just bought a bunch of life-or-death climbing gear from Amazon, the idea of counterfeit goods is terrifying.
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by imagist 10y ago
Speaking as a alcoholic with some sobriety, those laws were little more than a speed bump when I was drinking. I drank as both a child and a homeless guy with little problem. I'm not saying those laws shouldn't exist, but they ser
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by imagist 10y ago
"Parole" refers to any situation where someone is given some trust for a period of time before they are given complete trust. It usually refers to people who get out of prison but have to check in with a parole officer for a while
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by imagist 10y ago
Ah, yeah. That's problematic.
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by imagist 10y ago
Of course we would want that, but that's not what we get. The rich pay few taxes and the international rich pay even less, given they already have offshore tax havens by the nature of being from another country. Given a green card allo
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by imagist 10y ago
> The government doubled the price of the plan or more, and is paying with our tax dollars the difference between my $270 and $780. Do you have evidence that the government is the main cause of the increase of the price of the plan? It c
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by imagist 10y ago
Okay, it's fastest-growing, but is energy-conscious lending anywhere near the size of subprime mortgages? Even if it is, it doesn't seem like as big a tragedy if the bank seizes your solar array as of they seize your home.
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by imagist 10y ago
See my response to your sibling comment.
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by imagist 10y ago
All this explanation amounts to stating positions in what seems like a fundamental disagreement, so I'm not sure how to dig deeper. At some level I agree with you that justice unevenly served is not justice, but I guess what I'm a
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by imagist 10y ago
> If anyone can answer what the 'correct' interpretation of a piece of writing is, it's the author. Why is that? There are a myriad of ways to analyze a piece, and many focus on reader response rather than authorial intent
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by imagist 10y ago
Maybe, but it's also justice being served. When a poor black man in America is arrested for a rape, it's racism and classism because a rich white man is far more likely to get away with that crime. But it's also justice. I do
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by imagist 10y ago
My criticism of philosophy nowadays is not that it isn't valuable to read, but that it's not read from a historical perspective. Instead, people to often read i.e. Aristotle as if it contains modern truths. While some parts of Ari
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by imagist 10y ago
I do not care about the rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic that is ES6. I wouldn't care if JS were uglier than Erlang, if it worked as well. The only people who care about ES6 classes are the ones who couldn't be bothered
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by imagist 10y ago
Integrating a library requires a lot of thinking, or you'll integrate libraries that are immature and break, or don't exactly fit what you wanted and have to be hacked around. I've had to work in projects that used your metho
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by imagist 10y ago
I know Javascript well enough to avoid it when possible.
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by imagist 10y ago
Almost no one makes money off ads either. Sure, a lot of the people you can think of with websites make their money off ads, but that works because they're probably very famous.
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by imagist 10y ago
Methinks that if the standard of evidence you require is an unlimited-length study of an entire nation, you may be seeing the bar of evidence too high because of presuppositions. There are plenty of things you believe based on much smaller
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by imagist 10y ago
Indoor farming requires does to be in.
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by imagist 10y ago
But higher positions weren't based on the value of work, they were based on nepotism, corruption, etc. Incidentally, I think that's essentially how capitalism works too, but if you're going to claim that work determines pay i
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by imagist 10y ago
The punishment I'm describing isn't work, the unemployed don't have that. The punishment is unemployment, and the associated depression, homelessness, starvation, etc. You have yet to respond to what I said. Your proposed sys
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by imagist 10y ago
How does your myopic focus on punishing laziness deal with the situation where there aren't enough jobs to go around, i.e. where unemployment isn't caused by laziness? In your system, how does the worker create jobs? Given that un
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by imagist 10y ago
Here is a list, with links to a lot of the documentation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
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by imagist 10y ago
Or, you could use Google instead of guessing and using your wrong guesses to justify a straw man argument. Here's a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
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by imagist 10y ago
Hint, if you start off by assuming the person you're disagreeing with is so uneducated that they need to "look up communism", you may not be responding to what they are actually saying. Case inpint: communism is nothing like
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by imagist 10y ago
You don't need economists to disprove basic income works, you need evidence. All the evidence I've seen points to it working well. A lot of economists work in finance, the industry that benefits the most from our financial system
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by imagist 10y ago
Ah, that is the missing piece!
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by imagist 10y ago
Yes, unless you believe that a) nobody is ever bad at anything, or b) nobody bad at something ever notices.

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