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> What the... where on earth did this come from? It comes from the same place all flamebait comes from: they're picking a fight.

Abusive ranting isn't healthy communication but neither are personal attacks carefully disguised as constructive criticism. The post raises the question as to whether passive aggre…

"Everybody else is doing it" isn't doing it for me right now. Facebook has ~1.4 billion monthly active users and, somehow, no real competitors at the moment. Facebook's COO, Sheryl…

I'm not sure it's a middlebrow dismissal, it's well-timed sarcasm which points to an important issue: Facebook deciding which emotions and expressions are first class citizens and …

> Of course you have to resort to calling names when you can't make a good argument, who's really the child here? I didn't call you a child. It was a metaphor suggesting you're bei…

So in Quebec there was no physical harm, detention, high bail, etc? I think you like Quebec's way because the protesters "won" You've yet to name, specifically, one thing you can't…

Oh I see, it was a figure of speech not intended to be a comparison. I see greater than/less than primarily as comparison operators. If all you're trying to say is that women did m…

The pepper spray incident you linked was just about the best thing that could happen to those protesters. It was the plan, and then after it happens you go "oh my god we never saw …

> Of course the US is so far beyond any reasonable protest culture that you might as well not protest at all. Really? It seems like it's all some people do anymore. You can even be…

> ...they weren't forced to fight in the front lines and did not die by the millions....Is that any less a contribution...? Yes. It's a smaller contribution. How is that even a que…

And any criticism of militants is always framed and dismissed as coming from "power" or "the establishment".

Oh is that what happened to Tim Hunt?

I don't understand why you think it's an improvement. If the grandiosity was just a quirk of the writing style I'd have more patience for it but the field produces an endless strea…

After re-reading your comments and the intro to the holes article multiple times I'm only convinced that the SEP has a horrid writing style. The world has moved on from this type o…

How exactly is naive a term of the trade in philosophy? You, and the article in question, seem to be using it in a way that any grade-schooler would recognize. I'm not aware of any…

> Speaking of holes, the SEP has a rather detailed entry on the topic of holes, and it rather nicely illustrates one of Wikipedia’s key shortcomings. Holes present a tricky philoso…

I'm arguing that many small companies who have to organize and form a lobby will be far less efficient at regulatory capture than a well oiled monolith like Uber.

Investing heavily in multiple new markets doesn't exactly count as losing money and it doesn't mean their business model isn't wildly profitable.

This is a strange argument and I don't know how to take it. Uber's shown they're experts at lobbying and even steamrolling local governments to get what they want. If the current r…

Your critique fails because taxi companies and Uber have wildly different cost and operational structures. Clearly Uber is turning a healthy profit. I agree that stable prices are …

> The findings are intuitive and validate that surge pricing is an overall good thing for the market. Good compared to what? Good compared to having a giant monolith set prices for…

They'll think those thoughts not before abusing students but before doing anything that might offend or hurt the feelings of somebody in a protected group. The good teachers end up…

I think if it's working that's great, I support a cultural plurality. It's like adopting kids - if you're doing well with the ones you have then have at it. If your kids are starvi…

If the prison system is working at all we would expect to see violent crime drop as the prison population increases. There's a profit motive as well but we have to remember why soc…

First, I think your intention is to silence me as opposed to engaging in discussion. Second, my main assertion is the existence of a point where immigration is problematic. Example…