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"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 d…

> 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 prot…

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 …

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.

> 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 reintro…

> "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 equit…

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 sp…

> 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 t…

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…

> 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 obje…

> 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…

> 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 …

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 busin…

> 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 t…

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 mora…

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.

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,…

> 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 …

> 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…

> 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 …

> 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 chai…

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 r…

> 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 …

> 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 t…

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 …