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by 794CD01 10y ago
Of course. The only downside of dictatorship is the transfer of power on the inevitable death of the dictator. Now that machines are rapidly approaching the point of being smart enough to rule humans, that downside will soon disappear.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Yep, that's democracy. You made your bed, now lie in it.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Plenty of religions have fallen apart due to internal squabbling too, often very violently. There's a lot of survivorship bias here.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger definitely owes his political success to his fame as an actor.
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It's much easier to agree on which cases are failures than which ones are successful.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Continue to broaden the scope of what can be transmitted securely and anonymously over the internet until jurisdiction over specific pieces of land approaches irrelevancy.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
According to a definition of legitimacy concocted specifically to apply to a few selected forms of government.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
That's what everyone who's super susceptible to advertising likes to claim.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Seems like a good fit for reddit.
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Easy. The more populated world is the one that has a global telecommunications network, whose homogenizing influence far outweighs higher-order effects like population.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
In what was is human diversity increasing? Broadcast television has been causing the decline of regional accents and increasing cultural homogenization for decades. Many obscure languages are dying out in favor of consolidation at the regio
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The advance of technology makes it inevitable that it will apply to everyone, so it's pointless to worry about whether it should.
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The great thing about freedom is that it means other people finding your actions unconscionable doesn't necessarily mean you have to stop doing them. Some people would find it unconscionable that my wife drives and that I "allow h
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by 794CD01 10y ago
The kettle in the story does do that. The user simply chose to continue to try to get it working as intended, rather than pressing the boil button on the kettle base and going on with his day.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
If that means that wearing a helmet allows you to ride faster while keeping the same level of safety, it's still a great benefit.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Funneling money from VCs to travelers all across the world seems like a net good to me.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
DRM is not the implementation or the technology, necessarily. Those who own copyright want to deny the ability to copy to others, because they fear it devalues what they have. That doesn't make it right, or natural, as if any of that e
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They didn't anyway. But all of that is irrelevant. The point is that questions like the one I originally responded to are fundamentally unanswerable. Don't get too caught up in the specific example. It could just as easily be &quo
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Good DRM can be as unintrusive as possible, but it cannot be as good as a non-DRM solution because it has additional requirements. It needs to check that you've paid for the content and therefore you must log in to use the service. It
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by 794CD01 10y ago
They are not separate in any meaningful way. From the perspective of content owners, they want DRM because they want to ensure people who consume their content have paid for it. From the perspective of consumers, those who want to circumven
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by 794CD01 10y ago
How can you expect anyone without a time machine to explain what it ended up doing? For example, we live in a world where companies like Adobe or Autodesk can sell software licenses for thousands of dollars. Would that be true if software p
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Amazon sells you things. Google sells your information indirectly to other people who want to sell you things. There's a lot more cultural acceptance around the first business model because more people interact directly with those who
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Certainly one of the main weaknesses of the current system, but the more power Google accumulates, the faster it can displace those states.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Personally, I wish it did have reminders like that. Offer me a coupon too, while you're at it.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
It's no further than my initial statement, it was just clarifying how your quote applied to the situation. The inventor is the one at fault if they envision a product people don't want. That's all. Maybe you can blame their m
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Just because the masses want the wrong thing doesn't mean that your different thing is better. The way I see the difference is that, after saying that, Ford gave them automobiles. He didn't fail to sell people ferret-poop rockets
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by 794CD01 10y ago
If tech people dream about a product that real people have no desire to use, is it really the consumers' fault for "liking the wrong things", or is it the inventors' fault for dreaming about a product that doesn't m
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That sounds like academia anywhere.
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People, no. AIs, yes. Ppeople shouldn't be in power in the first place.
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More relevantly, both disqualifying.

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