DickingAround

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by DickingAround 9y ago
(Admittedly, I don't remember very well what it's like to be poor. That was a long time ago. I do remember how pretty much everything is designed to take money away from poor people because they're poor and their defenses are
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by DickingAround 9y ago
What about it is despicable and worthy of mockery?
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There is no such thing as progress without failure and abandoning things. People are just too afraid of letting go. Not everything grows forever without end. It's ok if the world decided a place wasn't really useful anymore. &#x27
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by DickingAround 9y ago
This counter point really didn't address the article; that we risk creating tyrannies when we use the government to support everyone. That is so much money and power it will corrupt any person or organization who wields it. For example
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Haha. As if there was any realistic link between addresses and people. They're even designed to be one-time-use..
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by DickingAround 9y ago
In most markets people have some understanding of the produce they invest in or they choose not to invest at all. In the markets of ICOs, the percent of money held by people able/willing to dive into both the technical and economic sid
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by DickingAround 9y ago
Yes, it would be more apt to just admit the feds consider that their playground and don't want someone else playing there. (probably the US fed people doing it want 'democracy' and the Russia people doing it want 'stabil
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by DickingAround 10y ago
This is a great question. Surely they look for vulnerabilities also in their own systems but then what do they do when they find them? Is there some special set of software that always gets patched because the CIA uses it?
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Another article that confuses majority opinion with facts. Sure, 37% of people might think their job needs to exist but why do we think they would know? It presumes they can design an economy top down that doesn't need it. But it evolv
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Yea. For example median lifespan, childbirth, rule of law, the potential to expand to new galaxies. And the simple fact that if we chose to stay in the stone age some more advanced predator would kill us like we've been killing all oth
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Totally agree. Especially about #2, 3. (I assume #1 as well, but have no evidence beyond what I would expect to have happened given how I know they were developed) These are features that run intentionally counter to modern economics. It is
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Yes. Even if I was starving, I want to believe I could not steal from my neighbor (morals). And not sell my kids into state-slavery (the ability to take in trillions of income from some and outlay it to others is the ultimate power and it w
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by DickingAround 10y ago
I could imagine a world where totally sentient robots keep us tamed with UBI. I might be willing to buy off on that, need to think about it more (morally it checks out since the robots own the wealth and voluntarily give is up to be nice to
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Agreed. But if I have to show some world given the current trajectory, that's my best bet.
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by DickingAround 10y ago
There is no one to entrust UBI to. It will rapidly stop being universal or basic as people pervert it with exceptions. Controlling everyone's income will attract the greatest power mongers the world has ever seen. Perhaps the unspoken
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Am I the only one here who thinks that a person has a basic right to work with whoever and wherever they want regardless of their birthplace? Is discriminating against someone based on where they were born somehow less of a fallacy than dis
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by DickingAround 10y ago
I'm afraid that isn't one of our choices. Everyone seems to have different view of what is 'right'. So unless you want to be bulldozed when your view doesn't happen to be a majority.. it's a choice really betwe
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Good, let's start with the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Military. But don't think for a second that any penny you give to the feds won't accidentally find it's way over there. Social security was originally intended to be separate
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by DickingAround 10y ago
I don't think we can ever expect that level of engagement. People don't engage because the ROI just isn't there. When America first became independent it was a much smaller body; their votes and conversations mattered. I did
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Yea, I know it was mentioned and I get the stated reason of why. But it's kind of an on-going event and presumably it's evolving as we go (hence this headline). I'm looking for more news.
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Anyone have any other links of interesting news in this area? Massive thing happens in a massive country and even NPR is not talking about it. Interested to get some news/conclusions-so-far.
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Or reasoning?
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by DickingAround 10y ago
This. The asset has a very minimal presence in the physical world (just an encrypted file that is your wallet) so it's pretty easy to make it impossible to prove whether you own any or how many bitcoins.
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by DickingAround 10y ago
A very reasonable response. Thank you. I would like to push back on one point of the top though, I don't think the world is so locked in to the consumption of a small nation or any small population. Indeed, panic would happen if Americ
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by DickingAround 10y ago
I don't understand this comment. What about this article makes you think the Greeks can't make decisions for themselves? Is their land unsuitable for farming, and manufacture, and services? Did someone setup an embargo against the
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We are beginning to have infrastructure around another planet. Very cool.
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The author seems to miss a critical part of why Soylent is a good options for many people; it is all the benefits of a low-work food product that strives not to be one that makes you fat or otherwise unhealthy. If anything, the industrial f
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Lives were lost, just incrementally; person-hours in building things that will never add value.
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(Not all that sure myself) Perhaps because it's difficult to simulate the brain of all the other readers and reasonably anticipate offense. Like I know rape happens and describing it in detail might be something that most people are as
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by DickingAround 10y ago
Tough day for them. Moving to 'cloud' hosting... it doesn't just make it someone else's problem. It encourages good architecture.

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