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by 794CD01 10y ago
Evil can be harnessed to good with appropriate incentives. You can't incent a stupid person to be smart.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
In diplomacy and international relations, the US has killed countless civilians, used nuclear weapons, launched unjustified invasions of other countries, deposed democratically elected foreign leaders for opposing American interests, and to
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Hopefully convincing people not to unnecessarily demonize those we should be collaborating with.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
That hypothetical situation is so far divorced from reality that it's impossible to say anything useful about it. Right now, the US spends more on its military than the next seven countries combined. A world in which those tables were
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by 794CD01 10y ago
You should if you're an ambitious self-interested sociopath. Personally, I'm not, and I don't think my country should be, but hey, agree to disagree.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
If you actually wanted to get anything done in space, it would be far more efficient to send a robot. The only reason to send a person is to prove you can.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
When you get to the point where you truly think it's a problem that someone else on the planet could potentially "stand up to you," it's time to reevaluate your own behavior.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Seattle's cost of living is not exactly low either.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
I would LOVE to have that kind of formally acknowledged scoring system. I could then actually weigh the decisions - "I'm currently at 523 risk points, which puts me at the 65th percentile of ethical divergence. I can sign this pe
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by 794CD01 10y ago
And as a result, crime and unemployment are unheard of and the greatest risk to public health (aside from freedom-loving terrorists) is a debilitating LACK of mental stress.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Different times call for different skills. If you can't communicate effectively with someone 20 years younger than you, you might interpret that as a flaw in their social ability, but they get along just fine with their peers and all a
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Human brains are only capable of maintaining so many relationships. As children, most of your "relationship slots" are still open and your brain may even be plastic enough to add a few more. As an adult, your slots are either alre
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Sure, but since that's clearly not the case here, why bring it up?
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by 794CD01 10y ago
I'm just completing your aphorism.
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You were. I wasn't.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
"In practice, nobody knows the first thing about either" is what you meant to say?
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by 794CD01 10y ago
I didn't overlook it, it's irrelevant in this context. The Surface Pro and the surface book are both made by Microsoft, they are still competing products that consumers have to choose between.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
There's the rub. It can be hard to tell whether theory doesn't have any bearing on reality at the moment due to circumstance, or whether the theory is inherently flawed.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Theory is what matters.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Sure. Off the top of my head, linkedin, google plus, whatsapp, instagram, wechat, vkontakte, and yikyak. I can keep going all day. Just because they are winning in the largest markets doesn't mean they have no competition. In contrast,
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Spideroak, if your reason for switching is privacy.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
There is free competition between social networking sites, while governments are definitionally regional monopolies. Facebook can publish what they wish to publish, and not publish what they fundamentally disagree with. They are a private e
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by 794CD01 10y ago
People who work there are, but that's irrelevant. The right of freedom of press isn't based on the press themselves being human. The people who live in society have a right to access information that is violated through government
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by 794CD01 10y ago
The comment I initially replied to asked for >pass laws restricting what media organisations can or cannot do in the context of mandating that they publish speech they disagree with.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Encouraging your MP to violate human rights is only vacuously legal if it is at all.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
It would be unenforceable. You can't make airport staff verify that the passenger is using a Pixel C or Xperia Z4 rather than a Galaxy Note. You'd be lucky if they don't just call them all iPads.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Did Pokemon even get featured on the App Store? Once your name recognition is big enough, traditional marketing is just rounding error.
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by 794CD01 10y ago
It's less necessary, because there are more Chinese computer systems that correctly support ascii names than English computer systems that correctly support GB/Big5/UTF16
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by 794CD01 10y ago
Politicians in the US and UK have also claimed they want to ban encryption. Unless the CA is literally run by the government (which some Chinese CAs are, but not this one), it doesn't make sense to penalize them for dumb things their c
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by 794CD01 10y ago
If you don't "trust Chinese companies not to MITM your site" then why do you trust CNNIC enough that you decided to register your domain in .cn?

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