Laaw

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by Laaw 11y ago
Quicker test - do you have a point, or are you just trying to bog down this conversation about privacy with a defeatist "we have to let murders/rapists get away with it" argument?
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Why?
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I'm not content simply throwing my hands in the air as everyone else seems to be. We should talk about other options. There might be a way to stop pedophiles and kidnappers, and rapists that we haven't thought of simply because
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by Laaw 11y ago
What does cost have to do with anything? We're talking about its ability to do what it claims.
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Maybe not worthwhile for you, but there's a set of people out there who all agree on what Evil actually is (generally, obviously it's difficult to be exact), and we'd like to try and figure out how to limit its ability to act
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Yours is a defeatist attitude, I think, and there is plenty of evidence that Evil can be stopped/averted in many cases. It's beyond obvious that there is no complete solution for Evil, but if you keep ignoring this question&#x2
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by Laaw 11y ago
I have two unrelated thoughts. "Chilling effect" has always been a profound term for me, because I imagine the "cold" (numbness really) sensation a human body often senses when something truly awful (disembowlment/d
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I've begun wondering if there's a market for recreating original technologies that have evolved beyond their original intent. For example, a new site that allowed you to broadcast up to 140 character messages.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think F.lux is equally as guilty of this. None of their cited studies are done with light from an LCD screen (which is prone to white light bleeding), or using their app.
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I've been saying this for years , and this is a large reason why I find the LessWrong folks to be almost entirely full of it. Their inability to come up with accurate priors is completely lost on many of the folks who follow this kin
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by Laaw 11y ago
If the difference between Canada and the US were merely their healthcare systems, I'd be utterly indignant and demand change from my government.
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My employer does that "for me", though I suppose you could in a way consider that to be my money (they'd pay it to me if they didn't have to put it in my HSA). It is tax-free, though.
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My employer is a big group of people and has the power to bargain with the health insurance companies. I think there are groups you can join that provide the same advantage. But what you might not understand (and I'm about to sound li
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Every country has people who fall through the cracks. It's noble and true to say this shouldn't happen, but it does, and in every country. Germany, too.
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Yeah, the vast majority of us have healthcare, aren't really sick, and occasionally when we do get really sick, our insurance pays the bills. I had an emergency root canal earlier last year in the US, cost me zero dollars, and I'v
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by Laaw 11y ago
I got bored over my holiday vacation. I have hobbies, but I find them less interesting if they're not distracting me from anything. I wasn't stressed, but not all that satisfied.
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That definition is wrong.
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by Laaw 11y ago
You're incorrect on what a democracy is; what you've described is a republic. Democracy isn't a system of government. Anarchy is a system of government that implements a direct vote on all issues.
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Have these studies been reproduced elsewhere, or is it a singular group of researchers extolling the virtues of meditation?
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This has little to do with privacy, and every potential security advisor, to any president, knows this and would explain as much. It's not that there's a great threat, it's that the public is just particularly stupid about th
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It won't be, because he'd get the same intel briefs as Obama, the same advisors would tell him the same things, and they'd be generally right.
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I'm guessing this isn't actually a technical decision for you, is it?
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It requires network access at some point, but once you've got thousands of songs downloaded to your device, then you don't have to have any connection at all to listen. Google Music Play is not good if you a) can't afford $
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by Laaw 11y ago
It's not actually streaming, if you don't use it like that. You can download thousands of songs directly to your device over WiFi.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Why not just convert to streaming service? This seems like a lot more work than the $8 is worth.
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A chat app that happens to speak SMTP or whatever.
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Would you be saying that if Google decided to block all non-google websites from working in Chrome?
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Seems like this story is more about the struggle being black.
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Cigarettes are not your other option from e-cigs, not smoking is your other option. Seatbelt use doesn't get compared to driving your car into a guardrail. "But not wearing your seatbelt is 95% less harmful than driving your car

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