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I asked specifically for other forms of assembly. Individual constitutional rights are applied differently than those rights are applied when assembled. Hence: Is your argument tha…

First, you're mistaking my characterization for Americans with my own philosophy. That's in error. I am a busybody. Second, you're mistaking your own partisan lens for what constit…

I'd be interested if you could provide some examples of regulation which would be unconstitutional if applied to another form of free assembly which is currently held constitutiona…

Signed into law in 2016. Most of the major provisions did not come into effect until May 2018.

I think the biggest thing is more cultural than related to any specific argument -- it's America's strong cultural bent against busy-bodies. Whether political activists, art critic…

Businesses are just groups of humans. We in the US have constitutional protections around freedom of association and assembly, of which a business is but one example. We extend oth…

As for irony, ask any art historian with experience in middle ages or late antiquity art. She'll tell you that it has always been a popular device in the arts. The problem with "ir…

Before I was just discussing the Aesthetician’s Orthodox. But here, I’ll answer for myself: As far as minimalist art, there has been something called “design” which has been consid…

Aesthetics is a philosophy in the sense that all serious studies are. (Hence PhD, Doc·tor of Phi·los·o·phy, being the catch all for masters of most intellectual pursuits.) That sel…

"Aesthetics" isn't a branch of philosophy, unless you consider Formal Logic, Physics and Psychology branches of philosophy as well, it's separate a field of study. Aesthetics is th…

> Lots of paintings are not beautiful, but are very meaningful and artistic. Like the GP, you're using a definition of beauty which is not at all standard in the field of aesthetic…

Ugliness is not the opposite of beauty. Ugliness is a form of beauty, or at least its necessary foil. This has been understood for thousands of years. See Laocoön and His Sons, one…

> Just making pictures for the only purpose of being "beautiful" is fine, just not very artful... Beauty is the goal of art. If his works don't resonate as well as a Nikolay Dubovs…

Two good books on the subject: - B2B Executive Playbook - Crossing the Chasm But in general, the reason no one tells you how to run an actual software business is because why would…