Ray20

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by Ray20 1y ago
Don't you see the huge contradiction here? Housing doesn't just spring up on our streets by Jesus' will, so by making people responsible for providing housing for other people, you're literally calling for "torture
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On the contrary, I think that this problem has such a simple and obvious solution that you even have to wonder why it hasn't been solved yet. In essence, the hardware completely allows you to have a device that can connect to a monitor
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> Once anonymity is banned, the world will be honest and good and True and we'll all look back on the Bad times thinking how silly we all were. It's a shame you don't read the North Korean press. Otherwise you'd know
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It is to create an infrastructure for global surveillance and control of all citizens.
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> You can’t say there’s regulations and then give it all to a monopoly… Why? These are very closely intersecting things. It is very convenient for government to regulate and force monopolies to do what the government needs. And vice vers
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> Just because you can drive 2’ and casually get 100 liters of gasoline does not make fossil fuel infinite. The finiteness of fossil fuels is not an issue we need to worry about right now. > it will only get worse as we are running ou
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Why? They'll just force VPN providers to check users' ages.
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>we no longer have a service based economy, but that we now live in a jester-based economy. In which way jester-services is worse than any other types of services? >Science isn't necessarily flashy and loud, it's a lot of ha
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>it was the greed of Wall Street, private equity, hedge funds, "corporate raiders" that ultimately shipped manufacturing overseas Let's call a spade a spade: it was the greed of AMERICAN WORKERS that shipped manufacturing
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What's the alternative? Literally one of the safest places for your golden goose on the planet
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>how can they so confident that "the good guys" will always be in charge? They implement such systems precisely to always be in charge.
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Only the parable does not work. Objectively. The fact that the poor are forced to spend more because they cannot afford something is complete bs. I can't imagine any area (maybe except perhaps interaction with government bureaucracy) w
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> How many of your fellow citizens would you be willing to throw into the meatgrinder until you say “that not ok”? If you are Putin? All of them. So yes, Putin is winning, he hasn't even used up 10% of his army's acceptable los
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Russia has nuclear weapons and good means of delivering them all over the planet. That is a fact of reality that does not allow us to "be done with that pretty quickly".
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>Everyone there is doing fine. And if you say somebody doing badly, you will get 10 years in gulag.
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To be fair, it is quite difficult to support a regime where random people are grabbed off the streets and sent to their deaths. Where for expressing oppositional opinions your male relatives will have their door kicked down and will be sent
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> I was actually quite surprised to see in some areas they are ahead in digitising things (government services, payments). I expected the opposite. Why were you surprised by this? Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship, it is quite expect
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> I don't think you give people enough credit. There have been dissidents in totalitarian regimes the world over, even when the punishment was death or being sent to a labour camp. You probably know very little about totalitarian re
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Yeah, possibilities to try yourself in other areas. For example, in the aria of frying burgers in a fast food restaurant
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>there will always be those networking and collaborating and bypassing whatever restrictions get put in place. I don't think so. It's just a question of the severity of the punishment for violating regulations. A couple of smal
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Mental illnesses usually occur in conjunction with other mental illnesses.
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What probably puzzles me the most is the cowardice of multi-billion dollar corporations developing AI, whose main goal is to make sure that no one, God forbid, is offended by a chat bot They are really ready to castrate their models to the
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How relevant is this in the context of the mesh networks under discussion? How resilient are those protocols to attacks on the integrity of the network, when most (or signicant part) of the nodes are controlled by a bad actor and deliberate
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I don't think this is relevant. Free communication of people is the last thing regimes like those that govern Gaza need. My money on that local authorities will literally execute people for simply having such apps on their phones.
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Most people are idiots and trust things they shouldn't. Lee Kuan Yew doesn't trust juries.
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Attractive women are not such a rare resource. There is no particular problem in collecting it and distributing it fairly. One attractive woman can satisfy tens of thousands of men during the period of her attractiveness. https:/&#x2F
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No. It's just that the teachings of totalitarian sects are especially effective against narrow-minded, disillusioned people. The solutions they propose are not supposed to be effective or even realistic.
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With it, you don't have to die from hunger. Not much, but compared to the alternatives, it is one of the strongest arguments in favor of capitalism.
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> it’s not only those with dopaminergetic dispositions that get ”caught”. Upbringing, socioeconomic factors and mental health are also variables. So we not only improving our pool of genes, but we also conduct a selection of effective cu
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The fact is that not all people exhibit the described behavior. So the actions of corporations cannot be considered unambiguously bad. For example, it will help to cleanse the human gene pool of genes responsible for addictive behavior.

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