Ray20

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by Ray20 2y ago
>They're not asking for global access to everyones data, the UK is. They literally do.
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by Ray20 2y ago
To trivialize totalitarian regimes that carry out terror against their own citizens, that can outright kill you and whole your family, by comparing them to capitalistic corporate world where, in the worst case, you can simply choose another
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by Ray20 2y ago
There is simply no incentive for such behavior. The person always hopes for the best (the hot guy will choose me over all those who like him). And what about the worst case? Sex with hot guys? Sounds like a very solid strategy to me.
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by Ray20 2y ago
It was later, when humanity accumulate knowledge about resources gathering and processing, about nature and how to deal with it to not to die all the time. Then yeas, tribes were becoming larger, wealthier, more stationary. But before that
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by Ray20 2y ago
> pretty clear that prehistorical lifestyles weren't just small tribes slaughtering each other, Well, that's sounds quite logical. When you kill people, they usually fight back. Very strongly fight back. So you have to expect s
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by Ray20 2y ago
> Even if you take the Nazi propaganda that their laws were themselves lawful (which they were not, beginning with the clearly unlawful capture of power) What definition of the laws lawfulness are you using? Capturing the power - it is w
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by Ray20 2y ago
> This is Socialism No, it is not. Socialism supposing involuntary participation. As long as participation is voluntary for all agents, it is capitalism.
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by Ray20 2y ago
> China is literally a foreign invader not just a foreign adversary TikTok ban is not about vengeance on China, it's about violations of own citizens' freedoms. > aiding in Russia’s conquest of Europe Russia right now is wea
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by Ray20 2y ago
I'm not quite sure you understand what insurance are. You have risk, you don't want to have it, so you pay other people to took that risk away (to some extent). How those people are expected to assess risk? Somehow. That's th
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by Ray20 2y ago
> I'm trying to understand how what you're suggesting Nothing. It's definition of insurance - selling your risk. > Are you saying that we should only pool risk between people in the same risk bucket? I mean, why would p
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by Ray20 2y ago
> This completely ignores incentives. For socialists this is a goal, not an obstacle.
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by Ray20 2y ago
> If you have 10,000 customers in Los Angeles, and 5 million elsewhere, you can either isolate the LA customers and charge them the "real" price That's the only way. > which will be unviable as a business and probably p
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by Ray20 2y ago
> it's pretty clear that a purely market-based health system costs lives. That was literally the take about insurance. And here we are, again.
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by Ray20 2y ago
I think you are unfair to your leftist comrades. Yes, perhaps the problem of using disrespectful words is not very serious, and there are more important social problems. But this is not a reason to ignore them and especially to belittle the
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by Ray20 2y ago
> sometimes its fun, but mostly it's serious. Sometimes its fun, but mostly it's stupid.
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by Ray20 2y ago
>Our Hunter-gatherer ancestors were probably not leaving their tribe behind and moving away. It is like literally what they did - more than ever after and before.
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by Ray20 2y ago
Sounds crazy. Just imagine dying because paramedic responsible for your survival just wanted end his day early.
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by Ray20 2y ago
I think via something like this: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file...
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by Ray20 2y ago
>acquired the product bona fide Does not change anything. I mean poor guy, became a victim of a fraudster, but what does my bike have to do with it? >you cannot repurpose the product yourself This is not repurposing, this is its preve
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by Ray20 2y ago
Protection from what? No actions are taken against perpetrators' interests.
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by Ray20 2y ago
> There has not been regulation for online forums for forty years and Earth did not explode or human kind did not end. But how about Trump winning popular vote? Millions of people are sure this is about as bad as explosion of the Earth o
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by Ray20 2y ago
Or even banning phones makes schools (where the experiment is probably being conducted) less transparent, allowing more freely to pressure subjects (intentionally or not) to ensure the "proper" result of the experiment.
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by Ray20 2y ago
There is no later option, actually. No matter how good life would be - people won't have more children. Prosperity in the context of fertility matters only in relative values, not in absolute values. People have a lot of children not w
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by Ray20 2y ago
> The point is that the obligation flows one way because one party was inserted into it without their consent. Well, philosophically it's not a big problem, because dissatisfied can very easily stop participating.
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by Ray20 2y ago
The reality are that half of the planet already pays more then 50 percent in taxes, and with much higher taxation the whole country will implodes. More then this - public pensions are one of the main reasons for low birth rate. You can&#x27
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by Ray20 2y ago
> Why do you think healthcare is tied to employment in the US? Because if you would take THIS money from the people directly, they will be very unhappy. > Why do you think minimum wage in the US has not gone up in decades? Minimum wag
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by Ray20 2y ago
>bunch of talented people Very bold assumption
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by Ray20 2y ago
Define gouging.
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by Ray20 2y ago
First, define the "basic quality of life" and what are you going to do when demand will exceed supply. Because we might as well just start the money printing machine and expect everyone to become a billionere.
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by Ray20 2y ago
>why it's official name was PMC Wagner, where PMC stands for, drum roll... Private Military Company. Yes, and North Korea is a Democratic Republic. >by all indications it was exactly that There is no such indications, only name.

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