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This is similar to an intuition I've had about what it means to program "algorithmically". We often draw a distinction between "algorithms" and "business logic", but fundamentally …

I should probably clarify - I don't mean to presume to know if the judge did it, I just mean I agree with the above poster's qualifier.

Not every case of reframing in a debate is "whataboutism". Whataboutism is where you bring up unrelated topics. In this case, looking at how we got into a messy situation in the fi…

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> There is no discussion to be had when the Trump admin is directly violating people's constitutional rights. And yet here you are, still talking. So long as we are continuing this…

I've heard that accusation so frequently from people who have zero concern about the constitution, let alone even know what it says, that I honestly struggle not to laugh. I quite …

No, you made up a hypothetical scenario that was highly sympathetic to your position. I am saying that we should not let edge cases (real or hypothetical) dictate general policy on…

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The right move would have been simply to not help Flores-Ruiz evade ICE.

Anecdotally, I have heard that the most trustworthy (perhaps only trustworthy) Federal law enforcement group is the US Marshalls.

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> Which is why all US military clothing is mandated to be domestically produced (Berry Amendment). Cool. > But how much industrial capacity do you want to take up making clothing? …

No, I did not. Are you actually going to engage with the arguments I have made?

No. We don't make our own clothes because: 1. The regulatory burden on manufacturing is much higher here than foreign countries 2. Those foreign countries have a deliberate policy …

> Do you want people operating sewing machines or (say) welders? Adequate clothing is actually a very important in war. Frostbite, sunburn, heat exhaustion, cuts and scrapes (which…

Yes, there will still be specialization and trade in a balanced regulatory environment.

Minimum wage is possibly the worst, most ham-fisted way of driving productivity gains. Minimum wage and similar regulations are why so many jobs have shifted overseas in the first …

> cheaper One major reason why it is cheaper to make these clothes overseas is because we have such a stringent regulatory regime for worker and environmental protections, and usin…

> but replacing the fundamental principles of existing licenses with new simple principles that slice the world into acceptable and unacceptable behavior in a better fashion. Feel …

You cannot have soft enforcement of ethical norms without hard entry requirements. That soft enforcement can only be achieved in the context of high trust social groups, which exis…

That's the thing, while there is value in investing in open source (for corporations and individuals) that value is often speculative and hard to quantify. When times are tough, pe…

There's no 11th commandment to be nice. Look, if you didn't find it funny, you're right. But those people who found it funny were also right. Humor is a matter of taste. > It's jus…

"Kind" is at best a context-dependent virtue. There are plenty of situations where being critical or divisive is the right thing. And even when the harshness doesn't come from the …

> Yes, and abortion means intent, which is an aggravating factor. What is the "intent" exactly? If a young woman has been propagandized by the surrounding culture into thinking the…

EDIT: I want to clarify something. When I say: > The best way I see to establish "good faith" is to set clear expectations about what content is allowed What I mean is that each so…