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by DuskStar 7y ago
> The best solution to theft is to let it happen and retrieve the stolen goods later. Just wondering - is the best solution to rape also to just "let it happen and deal with the rapist later"? > BTW Crime is less common in c
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by DuskStar 7y ago
For the gun rights people, O'Rourke is just stating what everyone already knew. To illustrate this, there's a lovely 'cake' meme [0] (available in both cartoon and text form!) about how much gun rights have already been
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by DuskStar 7y ago
But, since every criminal will still have a gun (or near enough for police to claim such), that just means you can never disarm police.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think you missed the "and because allowing people to state the 'wrong' opinions would be bad, we'll ban expressing all the opinions" component of his statement.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If you can have political discussion as long as you have the right opinions, that's not really a discussion is it? It's "affirm you agree with my political beliefs or be fired". And a few parallels - what do you do about
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by DuskStar 7y ago
IIRC that actually hasn't worked too well for Utah in recent years.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Number of files shared that you know about , which I think is a pretty important distinction. Bit harder to track sharing over Tor, after all. (Which is the point!)
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> But those don't look like "robots", they look like arms with tools on the end of them. > I was like, "Big deal! I like to dance. Make a robot that does the dishes." From these comments, I think you're m
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Wait, do you use AdBlock Plus AND uBlock Origin at the same time? That might be your problem - when I run uBlock Origin alone it blocks all those Google search ads. AdBlock Plus has a program where they allow companies to buy spots on the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> That is not the argument being made. It is an argument that having friction in the process to do something that may have dangerous outcomes is sometimes positive. The argument being made, as far as I can tell, is that this tool will ma
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Ah, yes. The good old "don't make that tool because bad people might use it" argument. Similarly, we should ban sharing information on hacking/security because bad people might use it, and require that all communications
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> NASA manned space flight. NASA is horrible at keeping astronauts alive. Worse than the Soviets/Russians, as far as I know. Apollo 1 and the two Shuttle disasters do not paint a good picture for NASA's safety in practice.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> As a more concrete example... $IVY_LEAGUE doesn't gain that much by having its average standard test score go from the 99th to the 99.5th percentile. Assuming accurate tests and a normal distribution of scores, shouldn't that
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by DuskStar 7y ago
But, even if you had done the static code analysis, you still would have been liable for any bugs that were missed. There is no level of diligence that would have released PG&E from liability.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And you think that going to the New World was cheap? I would have to disagree. Religious groups can bring surprising amounts of money to bear for things that reduce the chance of eternal damnation. If the price of space travel comes down en
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> a colony on the bottom of the ocean would be absolutely invulnerable to almost any catastrophe, maybe except a direct asteroid impact. Any NATURAL catastrophe. As soon as someone knows you're there (and they will, because buildi
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Or it would be like the Puritan settlements in the New World - a totalitarian state, sure, but one that shares that fetish/deviant lifestyle/whatever of yours.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I think you're missing the point. Everyone says they're pro-development, sure. But what politicians say and what actually happens are two very different things.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Ms Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show as a child. I would find it absolutely hilarious if that "animated TV show" was Naruto.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
For more by Admiral Cloudberg, he has a subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Lastly, Elon Musk didn't just get rich through selling things people want. No one believes that this works. Henry Ford even said as much: "If I had asked people what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses."
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That might still result in a better mapping of resources to ability than dividing resources equally among the population, though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> The "demonstrated ability to amass and manage resources" is mostly a matter of luck, with a small dash of willingness to exploit others Citation very much needed. I'd say "luck given the presence of opportunity and
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Intel and AMD CPUs do not share a common socket (or chipset) on server, desktop, or mobile platforms. I think the last shared socket was Socket 7 [0], released back in 1995. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_7
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Why would volume matter at all when it comes to storing food? Space in space is the next best thing to free, after all. The real thing to be concerned about is mass.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Even if I accept that life extension tech and destructive brain scanning is more than 50 years out, why would that mean humanity will never reach the stars? 50 years or 5000, as a species it just needs to happen eventually.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Transporting people with curre
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Because none of the villains would support a popular uprising if it gave them the chance to take power in the aftermath, of course...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
But, as said upthread, they predicted downballot elections in 2016 pretty well too. So unless there's been an improvement in downballot predictions - not just good absolute performance - why should we expect any difference in 2020?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Socialism calls for the democracy of the workplace. > What China has done is replace the authoritarian bourgeois with an authoritarian government. In other words, China is not Socialist. Presumably, neither was the National Socialis

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