You’re right on all fronts. I’ll add that there’s a human element to both the plant and meat consumption story: in both cases, harvesting and slaughtering, the dirty work is often done by migrant workers with very…
There’s a really good case for sentience, though. This isn’t a problem of infinite regression: no one is asking for you to become a Jain.
Perhaps you should reconsider the eating them, if you do.
> Why does attaching pay make it special? Incentives. A bouldering gym is incentivized, due to the cost of liability and the impact on their reputation, for every visitor to have a safe experience. If your kid falls and…
Sorry, I don’t have any sources that prove your assertion.
Austin has a great housing first community. https://mlf.org/community-first/
The other hesitation with “housing first” is that it’s associated with housing projects, aka ghettos. I’ve seen The Wire (2002-2008). Is what they’re going to build for the homeless going to be like that? Is it going to…
this would put Amazon as the provider for most people’s only 2FA. Bleh.
It’s been mostly fine for me, but overall I am tired of every answer having a paragraph long disclaimer about how the world is complex. Yes, I know. Stop treating me like a child.
The extreme emphasis on monetary earnings is precisely the reason alimony exists. Not all labor is paid for with money. Emotional labor, child rearing, homemaking — these are difficult to quantify in monetary terms but…
> It truly baffles me how alimony is even legal today. Based on how alimony is treated, marriage is essentially indentured servitude. The US has no guaranteed parental leave. If you have a kid and want one parent to…
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Internment started with forcing non-citizens to register with the state. The census question was essentially the same process, but on a national scale.
> it’s hard to forget that your home country saw you as a threat even while a child. And it’s the inability to forget that kept a citizenship question off the 2020 census[0], a reminder of the long lasting impact the…
Here’s a higher resolution copy. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/notice-to-alien...
One of the most affecting images in my high school history book for me was of Japanese American Boy Scouts hanging a sign declaring Japanese Americans “Aliens of Enemy Nationalities.” The caption mentioned that the…
>I don't want the people with 6 figure incomes, or current household wealth in the mid 5 figures, given a freebie at the relative expense of others in less fortunate situations. This is the nuance that we must bring to…
Can you get a taxi to show up? The last two times I tried to rebel against the rideshare duopoly was the morning before international flights. Trips to the airport are the only use case I have for rideshare. Both times…
> It can be a great help for suicidal patients or for getting traditional treatment started, but it’s not a singular solution to depression for most people. Is there any singular solution to depression for most people?
Yes. For a prime example of this, see the Apple Watch, which took 7 iterations to get full functionality.
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It’s much worse. A webpage that is presented as the result of a user input has a certain context, an embedded assumption/understanding that an inappropriate result could be the result of a malformed query. Put another…
“We should improve society somewhat” vibes here. Speaking of academic challenges that are largely ineffectual: ideological purity games likes this are equally meaningless. Either the ideas are sound, or they’re not.…
You’re right on all fronts. I’ll add that there’s a human element to both the plant and meat consumption story: in both cases, harvesting and slaughtering, the dirty work is often done by migrant workers with very…
There’s a really good case for sentience, though. This isn’t a problem of infinite regression: no one is asking for you to become a Jain.
Perhaps you should reconsider the eating them, if you do.
> Why does attaching pay make it special? Incentives. A bouldering gym is incentivized, due to the cost of liability and the impact on their reputation, for every visitor to have a safe experience. If your kid falls and…
Sorry, I don’t have any sources that prove your assertion.
Austin has a great housing first community. https://mlf.org/community-first/
The other hesitation with “housing first” is that it’s associated with housing projects, aka ghettos. I’ve seen The Wire (2002-2008). Is what they’re going to build for the homeless going to be like that? Is it going to…
this would put Amazon as the provider for most people’s only 2FA. Bleh.
It’s been mostly fine for me, but overall I am tired of every answer having a paragraph long disclaimer about how the world is complex. Yes, I know. Stop treating me like a child.
The extreme emphasis on monetary earnings is precisely the reason alimony exists. Not all labor is paid for with money. Emotional labor, child rearing, homemaking — these are difficult to quantify in monetary terms but…
> It truly baffles me how alimony is even legal today. Based on how alimony is treated, marriage is essentially indentured servitude. The US has no guaranteed parental leave. If you have a kid and want one parent to…
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Internment started with forcing non-citizens to register with the state. The census question was essentially the same process, but on a national scale.
> it’s hard to forget that your home country saw you as a threat even while a child. And it’s the inability to forget that kept a citizenship question off the 2020 census[0], a reminder of the long lasting impact the…
Here’s a higher resolution copy. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/notice-to-alien...
One of the most affecting images in my high school history book for me was of Japanese American Boy Scouts hanging a sign declaring Japanese Americans “Aliens of Enemy Nationalities.” The caption mentioned that the…
>I don't want the people with 6 figure incomes, or current household wealth in the mid 5 figures, given a freebie at the relative expense of others in less fortunate situations. This is the nuance that we must bring to…
Can you get a taxi to show up? The last two times I tried to rebel against the rideshare duopoly was the morning before international flights. Trips to the airport are the only use case I have for rideshare. Both times…
> It can be a great help for suicidal patients or for getting traditional treatment started, but it’s not a singular solution to depression for most people. Is there any singular solution to depression for most people?
Yes. For a prime example of this, see the Apple Watch, which took 7 iterations to get full functionality.
[dead]
It’s much worse. A webpage that is presented as the result of a user input has a certain context, an embedded assumption/understanding that an inappropriate result could be the result of a malformed query. Put another…
“We should improve society somewhat” vibes here. Speaking of academic challenges that are largely ineffectual: ideological purity games likes this are equally meaningless. Either the ideas are sound, or they’re not.…