Kbelicius

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by Kbelicius 7y ago
Had the alleged activities not occurred? Without a doubt the Chines people wound not have benefited as much. > I have no reason to believe that this was necessary for progress. What are the reason that you believe that this is not necess
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
Not at all, it is actually Smiths ideas that don't fit history. Barter economics emerge from money not the other way around.
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
Indeed, for some reason I tough that it is POW since it rewards work done on BOINC platform.
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
No it doesn't have to be wasteful. I do not follow crypto anymore but I remember gridcoin and primecoin as good examples of work not being wasteful.
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> The problem is that all old car manufacturers are treating EV like the enemy, which it is to their old ways. In what way are they treating EV like the enemy? > Same thing happened with Kodak. No it did not. What happened to Kodak wa
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> There cannot be anything more fair than a free market because it allows competition and is voluntary. You mean like Microsoft preventing OEMs to sell their products with any other software on it thus preventing any competition in that
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> Also, the irony in your statement (and GDPR) is that it hurt EU-based ad trackers hard, but Google and Facebook gained market share.[0] Google doesn't have to eat their lunch, because GDPR already kept them out of the market. What
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> but in the real world a government that imposes these kinds of game restrictions through something like taxes only forces the advantaged players to pull out of the "game" completely (a nett negative for those reliant on their
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
Yes, those are a no go if you want to make conversation.
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
The article would be dropped from the search engines, not the publishers...
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> The fact that the people currently running your country can legally oppress the speech of their political opposition is terrible. And how could they do that?
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> The idea is that the stories should be harder to find in searches by name. In my opinion that makes no sense, neither technically nor from the point of view of the 'right to be forgotten' In the case of the "right to be
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> If society wants to help poor kids, it should use tax money to pay for people to help those kids. Forcing other kids to give up their possible achievements is exploitation. And using tax money to pay for people to help talented kids is
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them. He wasn't purged by Mozilla, he quit. He did quit because of the pressure put on him because of his donation but the idea that he
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
If PoS is rent-seeking how come PoW isn't rent-seeking?
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
The system doesn't just enable the USG to reliably prevent the execution of erroneous trades. If you think that tens to hundreds of thousands of highly paid bureaucrats, accountants, risk managers, regulators, legislators, clerks, lawy
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> No actually I think I can make it clearer. Here's Stallman himself summarizing his own words That is not making it clearer. First, I was interested in how you interpreted the quote you used as you did. This doesn't make it cl
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> He's rejecting the arguments that pedophilia causes harm to children No, he is not saying that. In that quote that you used he isn't even saying that pedophilia isn't harmful when it is consensual. I'm really intere
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> No, but he did say that having sex with children is sometimes fine Can you quote/link those instances since the two statements that you quoted don't say that at all.
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> This! >The right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) is just the right to have your private informations deleted and the guarantee that what you delete online is really deleted and nobody can recover it. You say "this" and th
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by Kbelicius 7y ago
> It’s not possible IRL. > If I want my picture gone from the high school yearbook AFAIK right to be forgotten, at least in EU, is the right to request that search engines do not display information about an individual that is factual
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
The fact that animals consume more calories then they give is not a gross oversimplification and is true in every case. What is a generalization and is not true in many cases is that the meat we eat is produced in environments unsuitable fo
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
Whatever you may think it is still true that it takes more calories to grow a cow then you get from a cow. No matter what kind of food a cow consumes. Weather those calories were going to be used by humans or not that land is now used to fe
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
It is necessarily true that you need to put more calories in a cow then you get back.
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
Because growing 1000 calories worth of a plant takes less space then growing 10000 calories. And if you want a 1000 calories of cow meat you will need to feed it much more then 10000 calories of plant.
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
Wherever I look at general, completed, and total fertility rates are below replacement rates for US. Do you have any source on this positive natural rate of increase?
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
Untrue; US natives have a negative rate while immigrants from poorer countries have a positive rate. Among immigrants the birth rate dramatically falls with the second generation. In 2014 the fertility rate was 1.9 which is below replacemen
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
I thought competitive markets are the most fair solution to the class of multiplayer games in which the participants have asymmetric access to many kinds of scarce goods. How does capitalism solve those problems?
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by Kbelicius 10y ago
You are mixing capitalism with markets.