Nutmog

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by Nutmog 11y ago
Absolutely. I live in an authoritarian country and people would love to be able to vote politicians out. Americans really can but they just complain then vote for the same two parties every time. Clinton caused some of these tough on crime
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Common criminals also constitute a persecuted minority. What kind of criminal do you consider worthy of protection and what kind should get persecuted? Perhaps people should follow the law of the country they're in to avoid persecution
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It doesn't seem all that serious. If somebody's going to be removing parts of your house, they're putting themselves are far greater risk of arrest than a hacker hiding behind the internet. Why not just slash their tires or s
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I'm just exploring other things that we seem to take for granted despite them being terrible. Of course China has that too but it's a huge "unexotic" problem in most countries.
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Do you have a reference for "virtual enslavement" to Foxconn? Last I heard, people were lining up to get jobs there and with enough working hours, the pay was higher than what a university graduate makes. If you call paying people
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While I do think human rights are a good idea, the focus seems to be carefully selected to as to make "bad" countries look bad and western countries look good. For the US, it's OK to kill people as long as you do it a bit ran
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Whatever happened to the programming rule of don't micro-optimize until you've measured the performance? There seems to be a lot of recommendations to do ugly things to websites in the name of optimization, but they still add comp
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How does it work that veterans get so much public support even when the wars they were in don't? Is it different groups of people who support veterans and who don't like wars? Or do Americans somehow blame politicians for invading
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I recently struggled with an application that requires an environment variable to be set for it to work correctly. That's all. There are no choices where you might want different behavior. The application is either broken (produces cor
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That's consciousness.
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It was the people. They both elected Blair then re-elected him after he started the war. The same happened with Bush in the US. It was unambiguously the American people who wanted it. Maybe not a majority but enough to make their electoral
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This is going to get really hairy. Who gets to decide the protected classes? The classic ones grouped by race, religion, gender, etc will be too crude when computers are judging. Imagine some weird class like people who are old but don&#x27
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I'm concerned that you seem to have made a clear distinction between good and evil when really there is none. Certainly we can apply our own society's general ideas, but it's not black and white in any way. Even murder is acc
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It's being done in Australia with aborigines. They're given large chunks of land, free income from the government or mining rights, and left to fend for themselves. They don't need to give value to other people, they can simp
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A large part of our lives is already devoted to gaming the human judgement system. The clothes we wear, the way we speak, the way we walk. Who we associate with - "Associate with deadbeats, and you're more likely to be judged as o
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I know someone who's dad lost tens of thousands through a text message scam. They asked for his password, and his hardware 2FA device code, and the code sent back to him as text message. He gave all of that to an anonymous person throu
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I feel it needs a strong defense because many people seem to actually treat it as the worst crime on the internet. And more importantly, many people are locked up and have their lives destroyed because of committing this crime. The perpetra
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That would actually the safe and ethical response to a mafia. The real world has plenty of elsewhere, they're just not all so effective for doing business in. But does that make it OK to pay for an unjust war just so you can make more
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Consensual incest between adults who don't make babies is illegal in the UK. That sounds like another "hate the perverts" kind of law. If it was about bloodlines, we'd be doing eugenics but we aren't.
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If it's used by someone who doesn't know the child, isn't that pretty much harmless? The only possible harm I can imagine is that the child is somehow identified and discovers it later in life and gets embarrassed by it. Sure
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Actually, in China it does go to the 99% or at least the 50% which is how many people have been moved from poverty to middle class through that industrial work that also caused pollution. The human benefits really have been staggering and c
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We're not destroying it. We're changing it. Whether that's bad for us, good for us or neutral for us is not a solved problem. The global warming issue is an issue because there's a risk it'll be bad for us. Nobody h
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>We apparently inhabit completely different circles and cultures. Sorry I was unclear. I meant beheading videos. Please reread it with that in mind. Everything you've said about child porn is only about violent child porn and other
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It might be cognitive dissonance. You're not forced to fund it though. Move to another country if you don't want to. Or at least avoid buying American made products or take other small protest actions that people often do when the
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You might not like them, but the average person probably doesn't have the same resentment they have towards child porn viewers. I've seen people openly talking about watching such videos on the internet and edited versions are eve
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That's a good argument about drug violence being a consequence of its illegality as well as use, not just use. I wonder then about viewers of violent crime. If anyone has watched an ISIS beheading video, are they are bad as violent chi
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Why do people have so much resentment for child porn users? The only harm they're doing is participating in a market in which other participants abuse people. It's equivalent to hating drug users for indirectly funding murderous M
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In another story a while ago, somebody ran a fake child porn site to see who would sign up. I think they found that some of their applicants were law enforcement and researchers. So no, signing up isn't already committing a crime.
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That's a valid criticism if the test taker is trying to cheat, but if its yourself trying to find out your own IQ and you didn't train for it, it's still a useful predictor of academic success.
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Many groups agree within themselves. But they disagree with other groups. Who can judge which group it right? What are the odds that it happens to be the group you're in, not all the others that previous generations were in or people i

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