sprucevoid

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by sprucevoid 4mo ago
Inkscape has many good features but also many rough edges. Fixing the command palette (shortcut key ?) would go a long way. On Windows it takes around 5 seconds for the palette search box to appear after a clean start of Inkscape 1.4.4. Typ
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by sprucevoid 4mo ago
Thank you for creating this. Every small improvement counts :) I clicked through to add a request for a datestamp naming but happily someone had already posted that request https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-&#x
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by sprucevoid 8mo ago
You suppose
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by sprucevoid 8mo ago
> denying said universal healthcare to republicans How many do you claim hold that view? Can you cite some prominent examples? I want health care for all, including you. > hyperbole I posted https://www.cgdev.org/blog&
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by sprucevoid 8mo ago
On the one hand ~1,000,000 deaths and on the other hand some people lost their jobs and you got a mean comment online? > lost their jobs ... which in US means ... slow, and without health insurance, likely unpleasant demise Those you wou
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by sprucevoid 8mo ago
> These things are balancing out lately What measures and data do you base that claim on? https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts "lives lost based on the decline in outlays (current spending) m
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
agree
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> a set of basic rights that aren't in conflict Do you have a reply to the arguments in these linked texts that property is inherently coercive? https://mattbruenig.com/2015/10/01/capitalism-is-coerciv
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> it's impossible to use such reports to make general claims about what kind of government is better. Across 1000 years of history, yes. But as already noted in those cases objective health/longevity differences can settle the
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Hard to tell what those people would report if we had a time machine and could go and ask them. I sure as hell wouldn't want to switch position with them. Would you? On objective measures of health, nutrition, longevity and prevalence
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> Are subjective. People's responses will be relative to what they're used to and what possibilities they see for their lives. People report how well they experience their lives as going. Not perfect, people can be mistaken and
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Legal rights can be seen as especially strong claims, with implications and interactions to be further specified in laws and regulation. What alternative do you think would be more useful arrange human relations, if not literally appeals to
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> protecting the basic rights that everyone has to have to have a free, civil society, and stopping there. A government that has more power than that has too much power. What's your empirical evidence for thinking that such a setup
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
You say "childish" and "unrealistic" but such legal rights already exists. For example children have a right to education and the government has to see to it, in one way or other, that the child gets education (which cou
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
The notion of moral rights can be seen as a form of value and as such is about as workable as other notions of value e.g. virtue, duties, obligation and the good.
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Nussbaum's specific list of capabilities isn't anticipated by Mill, but that doesn't mean Mill dodges questions like what is human flourishing. Mill wrote a lot about politics and what makes human life go better, both in term
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
how the word "voluntary" is actually used by people is complex in interesting ways. People report (degrees and shades of) involuntariness and coercion in lots of different situations. For example "I hate this shitty job but I
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Incorrect, it was founded with more goals than that. It also has the mechanism of democracy for updating over time, and such updates have added prosperity producing things like taxation for public provision of education, infrastructure and
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> As a utilitarian, Mill got to dodge questions like "what is human flourishing?" What do you mean? What is the thing that utilitarian founders like Mill wanted to promote in the world? How is that not connected to human flouri
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> Something can't be "taken" if it's not owned. Sure it can, someone can take land in the plain everyday sense that they occupy it and tell others to stay out. But that act, and any attempts to enforce it, is coerci
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> If you have "collective efforts" you want funded or built, you're free to ask people voluntarily to put their lives, children, families etc. on hold for whatever cause you think is important that I don't see that yo
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Every claim to property over any parcel of land is fundamentally a coercive taking in that it tries to forbid everyone else, billions of people, from using that piece of land. Any attempt to enforce that land claim is an initiation of aggre
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> it leads to logical contradictions with other rights only if you assume that all rights are simple and absolute. But why think that? Rights as legal constructs come with various limitations and interactions, as specificed in laws and r
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
> Who’ve decided that the decision should be deferred to them and not me or someone else? The people through the process of democracy, where you also have a say as a voter and potential candidate. Property rights is a legal construct, cr
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
I'd reply that a properly regulated and bounded bundle of property rights is compatible with taxation for public provisioning of e.g. police, judiciary, health care, infrastructure, education and many more things. If you disagree with
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
I find web chat interfaces very useful for programming, but it also feels like early days. Speedups will smooth out a lot of pain points. But other UI changes, some even quite small, could enhance use a lot. A few of various size top of min
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by sprucevoid 2y ago
Unfortunately 1.4 does not fix command palette issues on Windows (5+ seconds to show, freezes, crashes, several commands accessible through UI buttons not available through palette with same name phrase). Finding the name of an action and h
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
> reads to me as That was not the intention with that claim. I meant to convey something more minimal: if you after investigation have no strong reason to think either is environmentally worse then let animal harm considerations break th
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
> zero assurances It is a personal, minimalistic blog that someone else submitted to HN. The argument that the bed fire risk comes mostly from smoking in bed seems straightforward so maybe they did not feel a need to spell it out. While
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
If you're uncertain about the environmental impact you could decide based on the many well-documented harms in all stages of the animal industry.

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