ManFromUranus

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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
That won't happen. I don't think 'regime change' is going to come off the foreign policy menu, nor is paying back all the debt that is owed. So the space money is going to be eaten by debt payments and more 'regime
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
>It will definitely slow down innovation It will definitely slow down innovation. Some projects / aspirations will come off the table completely. Mars? Forget about it. All your mars money will be treating AIDS/Malaria/Can
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Good point, there's always free cheese in a mouse trap.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
You are fully correct. The reason SF don't address it, IMO, is that it's a no win situation for them. If they clean up the homeless they'll be forced to make tough choices and enforce public order against people their stated
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
There's stupid and then there's "stupid" putting my tinfoil hat on here: maybe they were allowed to steal the data. I mean really? Oh WOOOPS we stored 613 GB of classified data on an unsecured network in the EXACT place
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
"and almost daily blue-screening on Windows" Please just stop, that never happened, unless you're job is to write device drivers and then it's probably you're device driver that's causing it.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Not comparing googles actions to murder specifically, that's simply you not being able to see the forest for the trees. The only reason they wrote the article is to make it seem like what they did was a proactive moral choice when in r
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Nobody here now who writes things like "engulfed by white folks" has any knowledge of or claim to any of the events you mentioned. Nobody was forced into the country, nobody is forced to stay here. Nobody is forced to be around wh
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Hmm not really. Google is bad and they should feel bad, you're just handwaving away how bad they are because you like them. Imagine I wanted to have somebody killed and I hired a hitman to kill them and when I go to pay the hitman I ac
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
No, not necessarily. We would see wage depression as supply of applicants depresses wages because the demand remains relatively constant. Which might explain why wages stagnated but productivity simultaneously went up.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
"At the end of the day this devolves into tariffs" No not really, you boil it down to that, but that's simply your framing nothing more. There's also the regulatory environment, so no it's not all about tariffs. The
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
What happened is that all the manufacturing jobs that used to supply middle class lifestyles for the unskilled got shipped to China (or otherwise overseas). Mass immigration has expanded the labor poor diluting earnings for all, and massive
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
I don't think it's media that fuels are fear of terrorism, I think it's actually the Terrorism. You are implying that the media makes it out to be worse than it is, I disagree. I think the media largely downplays terrorism an
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Sort of like the ship of Theseus, if all the people working at and running microsoft are different, is it even the same company?
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Thats essentially what the Mass Effect franchise is. Bioware got sick of being constrained by the Star Wars IP, costs, and continuity and simply created their own "Star Wars" which is actually much better than Star Wars IMO, or it
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
This is the right answer, they are simply making you more marketable, and you are now gaining "New Position" XP
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
"Society" does not encourage greed or selfishness, nor does capitalism. I'll wager that you don't actually care about those things, that you only care about other people having more than you. You are simply wrapping your
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
I think that the danger is: you make a law to protect idiots from their own stupidity and end up breaking normal business activity somehow, or creating a regulatory environment that's a pain in the ass for entrepreneurs and whatnot.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
I agree that gambling is indeed bad, but gambling is not some sort of outgrowth of capitalism. You do not need captialism to gamble and one does not beget the other. The "game" makers are simply bad people exploiting others. These
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
There are no thieves or bad actors in socialist utopias? Of course there are. Socialism doesn't work now and never will work given human nature. Face it: bad people exist and they will do bad things in whatever context they find themse
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
The problems cited by the article are real, and the game makers are shitty people with bad motives. Unfortunately neither government (nor anyone) can make the world idiot proof, sometimes people have to learn from their own mistakes.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
No but the poster you are replying to is correct. The article is indeed a "shitpiece" against capitalism, it seeks to paint shitty video games that bilk their users of money as some sort of phenomenon that unique to capitalism. Th
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Some blogs are clickbait simply to capture clicks, or maybe the blog is to pad out somebodys resume and the content may as well be lorem ipsum boilerplate becasue nobody is ever going to read it anyway, but having a blog is better than not
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
All the solutions that would actually solve these problems are politically unpalatable, all the politicians that would / could provide these solutions would be run out of town. Also Educated != smart. You can have plenty of educated pe
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Most people blog to have a blog and don't realize their insights aren't useful. So you're advice is not useful since telling dumb people not to do dumb things is a waste of time, they're too dumb to know what they'r
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
>The resources needed for industrialism were dug up by slaves. Not true, Britain had no slaves and it industrialized just fine. You have to feed,house and clothe slaves while "Free" people cost you nothing at all except the cos
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
A little from column A, a little from column B. I've spent too much time on reddit.... HN likes their comments snark free and I understand, It really is better that way. Sometimes I just can't resist though.
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
You're right, it's most likely our fault https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8PavA4rUypE
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
Twitters bot detection "algorithm" is: For 1 to accounts do ban account() A bot will not appeal the ban, while human will appeal!
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by ManFromUranus 8y ago
<Charlton Heston Voice> "Automated system" is made of people!

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