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Would this put concepts from classical philosophy like formal and final causation back on the table? The article seems to imply that it’s possible, but I’ve learned that journalist…

This is a curious paper, as it seems to come at a time when the philosophical postulate of meliorism has been problematized precisely by the trajectory of historical development, w…

I openly love meetings. With a good, well-planned and thoughtful meeting, I can save myself and my team weeks of engineering work. Just last week, by asking a simple question to th…

Depends what you mean by “this.” This exact project is, I think, not ready for prime time, as I said in my post. If by “this” you mean “ways to make more of our own stuff on a smal…

The responses here are critical —- some useful, some not so useful. I’m happy to see this project and would like to see more like it, even if this is not quite ready for show time.…

A friend of mine has a similar story. Still searching for his good ending. I’m glad you’re better. I feel like we’re at the beginning of the opioid wave again, and the obvious and …

This is obscurantism. If there’s no difference between marijuana and food, what’s with all the excitement and advocacy? OP’s point seems to be pretty reasonable to me. If marijuana…

I’m going to answer as if you’re arguing in good faith. In the theology of Antonio Rosmini, God places within humans the principle of universal being, by which we participate in th…

I think this poster has an axe to grind, but there is definitely significant overlap between symptoms of child abuse/neglect and early signs of ASD and other mental disabilities. I…

Not doubting this, but it seems to cut both ways. I can just as easily justify an overreaction by claiming to have averted some worse outcome. It seems to be a general problem of c…

Honest question: what is worrying to you? Is it the idea that infectious disease being used as the pretext to create an environment of fear and compliance, such some unwanted socia…

This is an intellectually consistent view, which is good. It seems to me to be relativistic to the point where I would call it nihilism, but it is, at least, consistent.

I wonder what the venn diagram looks like between “people who are responding to this in the negative” vs “people who believe human rights are real and serious.” I’m not trying to b…

With the collapse of the SSRI hypothesis, I feel like there was a missed opportunity to interrogate what it is about the affluent, technological society that makes such a staggerin…

Not knowing all of the details of your situation, this seems like the kind of thing working agreements are supposed to help with. If you can get the parties involved together, you …

My neighbor, who is my rival, wants to get a Red Rider BB Gun. I do not want this to happen, because this threatens my status as the cool kid on the block. If I just buy myself a R…

Strongly disagree with the downvotes on this post. The phenomenon you describe is real enough, but I’ve also seen teams lament their shortsightedness as they fight with the limitat…

So one should stay quiet? And yes. Both at the very bottom and close to the top.

We’re talking about plan to subvert unions. It is one thing to do something that is both good for me and also good for others. It is quite another to do something ostensibly good, …

Respectfully, I disagree with the postulate that there is no possibility of solidarity with “the marginalized”, and think this is a good example of why. When you say ask “them,” wh…

I totally agree with you about our society’s mistreatment of people who have paid their debts, but I’m not sure I like what Amazon is doing here. It smacks of using people: treatin…

That sounds like 4chan :) I’m sympathetic; I believe in the ideals of democracy, but it seems to me that those ideals come from outside of democracy itself, and that democracy cann…

I’d be interested to see a more serious study of this, but my hypothesis is that it was always a weakly bonded cohort which has by now dissolved into other cohorts. Hipsters genera…

I humbly submit Einstein’s own words: “The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.” The author rightly identifies the educational impotence of our so…

I wonder if I’ve misunderstood, but as a developer, I like being given problems, rather than solutions. I’ve also found being able to formulate a customer or business problem well …