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> You can't expel people for 'working like they do in the real world'. You totally can, though. In the real world if I can't remember something, I might look it up in a textbook. C…

Given that we support megafauna today, could you explain why? Legitimately asking, since I don't see a reason they couldn't adapt just as well.

It would, yes. There's large worker/union pressure in many of these fields to not take away overtime by reducing hours, though, since it is such a huge part of total compensation.

Government physical mail has the benefit that substantial tampering is way harder to do at scale. It's the same vein as criminals using cash vs Bitcoin; both can hide crime, but on…

It's also wild just how cost-effective interventions like this can be. You can pay a thousand here and there, or a few hundred thousand incarcerating these people when they turn to…

I don't think the parent is even saying that, their point is pretty reasonable: having some objective measure for before and after in any study is more reliable than self-reporting…

Could you elaborate? The project structure looks extremely normal to me, but I don't know if I'm overlooking red flags all over the place.

This seems to have the positive effect that patching applications on your own device (a la Revanced patching Spotify) appears blessed, since government prosecution would need to de…

This metric disincentivizes carpooling -- everyone should drive a light single-seater to minimize their tax. (I agree with the spirit, just calling out that there are going to be e…

In the world we could assess this completely and with perfect accuracy, you're spot on that that'd be all that we need! In the current world, though, due process exists because the…

I don't think the author was arguing at all that these things should be illegal, more just that there should be more consideration of other people's preferences where possible. It'…

> I concur (fancy word for believe which I wanted to share lol) you are talking about america. Just a heads up but concur means "agree", not "believe"

> but it is common for people attending the Church to pay donations for absolution This is not at all common and hasn't been for a few hundred years. (That said, your point about w…

I saw one of those word-substition browser plugins a few years back that swapped "dependency" for "liability", and it was basically never wrong. (Big fan of version pinning in basi…

It isn't feasible to audit every line of every dependency, just as it's not possible to audit the full behavior of every employee that works at your company. In both cases, the sol…

> It's not feasible for me to audit every single one of my dependencies, and every one of my dependencies' dependencies I think this is a good argument for reducing your dependency…

Safety and utility can often be at odds. Sometimes safety concerns outweigh utility, sometimes they don't. For instance, car accidents are an incredibly prevalent cause of death, a…

Legitimately not trying to be coy, but would you consider a game like Fortnite to be an instance of "lock-in" for teenagers? For instance, a teenager might say: 1. Fortnite doesn't…

I think the above things are commonly considered theft. Totally fair to contend that the definition is wrong (and IMO that's a reasonable-minded contention), but I don't it's parti…

This is interesting, I definitely use "theft" colloquially for all these things. For the digital assets, I mentally bucket copyright infringement and theft differently. For instanc…

Does it? There are loads of types of theft that don't remove the good or asset from the owner: Identity theft, IP theft, theft of private digital assets (e.g. photos, writings, mus…

I think one difference is that for most investments, you get some say in what you invest in. For public schools, you have school districts. For infrastructure you have utility dist…

I mean, if there really was a book that was too harmful to allow at all and it was successfully banned, we likely wouldn't know about it at this point. I am extremely against book …

I'm not even in favor of banning/heavily-regulating AI developments, but I think this position here is a little reductive; you could boil anything down to the point of absurdity. T…

I think there's a justifiable fear/dread when things that used to demonstrate virtues no longer do so. For instance, being in shape used to (usually) demonstrate discipline. Art or…