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For some people/tasks, these are the exact types of things accomplished faster in an IDE.

Because attending Harvard is a privilege, walking down a public sidewalk is a right.

Sure thing. But my point is that, if I steal a car and get caught we're not "adjudicating cars".

I'm presumed innocent, but the crime of stealing cars isn't ever conflated with regular driving around.

Ideally that makes sense to me, but unfortunately courts take a long of time and don't always pursue cases thoroughly. Given that reality, I don't know how an institution is supposed to handle the following scenario without their own tribunal system:

Student A and Student B have a class together. Their dorms are next door to each other. Student A rapes Student B. Is Student B expected to attend class every day with their rapist? To live next door to them? How could one expect Student B to maintain their academic performance in that sort of environment?

The way this article conflates sex with sexual assault really creeps me out. The first sentence states:

Four feminist law professors at Harvard Law School have been telling some alarming truths about the tribunals that have been adjudicating collegiate sex for the past five years.

No tribunals "adjudicate collegiate sex". They adjudicate sexual assault.

The United States itself had "open borders" for a long period of time. There was mass immigration from Ireland, Italy, and many other places and it worked out quite well for us.

Even today, we have "open borders" within the US. People are free to move from from poor (or poorly run) communities to places with more opportunities and it's a win-win.

Similarly Europe has 26 countries in the Shengen area. Some of the countries have a "better-than-average standard of living" and they're doing just fine.

The president's campaign chairman (Paul Manafort), campaign manager (Rick Gates), lawyer (Michael Cohen), and national security advisor (Michael Flynn) would love to hear about this lack of evidence.

> In reality people don't generally get their identities stolen, institutions/organizations fail to properly verify it.

This reminds me of a great Mitchell and Webb sketch. https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E

The short story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" has an interesting take on this theme, where the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, and a device lets people communicate with parallel realities. They start off with a difference of one quantum measurement but slowly diverge.

Is this it? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...

(I found it elsewhere among these comments)

I'm on a phone so links are hard, but I'll throw in...

- Woodworking for mere mortals, it's a series that goes into detail about basic things for beginner woodworkers.

- PBS Spacetime, they cover astronomy and cosmology at a nice level for educated laypeople.

They gave slightly more to republicans last time around: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2018&cmte=...

> The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling.

It's neither. There are a number of unsavory industries that people choose not participate in. The fact that apple doesn't allow porn in the app store doesn't mean they think they're going to stop porn, nor is it virtue signaling. They just don't want to be a part of it.

Here's an interesting write-up about Seattle. The tldr is that it's about 280 meters for the median, 341 for the mean, in the city proper.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-distance-between-s...

What saves Airbus is the extra MCAS system, and a stronger regulatory environment, and most importantly a jet that has the engines mounted in the proper place so it doesn't have a tendency to stall.

If I could convince you that the largest block of visa overstays are from Canada, and that a good chunk of them are from European countries, would you reconsider whether targeting Hispanic people is racist?

https://www.statista.com/chart/9550/foreign-citizens-who-ove...

Actual statistics show most terrorists are not Arab, they're homegrown right-wingers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...

I have asked for a citation numerous times because I was genuinely curious to learn more about a topic. Not all discourse online is combative.

Wall street isn't a protected class.

The obvious analogy would be banning jihadi content, which it does.

The dystopian angle to healthcare rationing is the realization that we already do ration care. We do it with dollars rather than by need or outcome.

The certainly fanned the flames of Seth Rich conspiracy theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Fox_News_r...

This seems like a weird structure, why would anyone ever convert Class B stock to Class A?

It depends on how well you want to "define" something. Wikipedia describing a duck:

Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae which also includes swans and geese. Ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the family Anatidae; they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water. Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.

But you could also describe a duck in two simple words: "water bird". Apparently that's a real term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_bird

Ideally competitors drugs will have been brought to market by then, or patents will have expired.

I caught that too, but the president doesn't have to sign a bill for it to become law. If its unsigned for 10 days and congress is in session then it takes effect.

I was researching vehicle safety for a new car purchase a few years ago and came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3G-kcKN70

It freaked me out and I stay as far away as possible from semis on the road now.

There is definitely a (relatively) small number people in the US who were harmed by globalization. The problem here is A) they have disproportionate political power and B) we lack a social safety net so they got hit harder than the should have.

I think capitalism and socialism both address issues of scarcity, with one trying to direct resources to those who produce the most "value" and the other trying to ensure everyone has enough to get by.

Not a lot of thought has gone into the economics of abundance. I think an easy place to start experimenting with this is with food. In the US we produce far more calories than we need and there is a ton of waste, yet people are still hungry. Why? How can we do better?

Yes, and a responsible publication would at least acknowledge their owners hand in the current mess.