WitCanStain

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by WitCanStain 5y ago
What questions did it raise for you?
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Or their workers.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
All that would happen is that the Chinese government would become even more authoritarian and a whole lot of people would be worse off. These fantasies always seem to ignore the human cost.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
This is what Finland has effectively done, and everyone is better off for it. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-for-janua...
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
If there were a way to reliably detect neutrinos in sufficient quantities they'd be ideal since you could send messages through the earth and at near light speed, I suppose.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
But all that is the natural and inevitable consequence of capitalism. It's baked into the structure of the system.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
How are you going to keep out a mass of starving people? By shooting them? Because that's pretty much your only option once people get desperate enough.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
It's interesting to appeal to the plight of Eastern Europeans given that they were also on the list of targets. The Soviets are harming Eastern Europeans, we must nuke the Eastern Europeans!
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Can you sue a doctor if they don't try?
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Disagree. Working at a place where you are or can be genuine friends with coworkers is much more pleasant, and you can't be friends with someone if the only time you escape the sterile confines of the 'all business' relations
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
That sounds horrible. We should focus on making good products that last a long time. What is the point of making something new and almost identical every 5 years?
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
I could also just drink Huel and save an hour a day not eating but I don't because I like eating.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Switzerland is very conservative, I'm not all that surprised if it didn't pass.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Star Wars would have been a very different story if the Rebels had arrived at the Death Star 10k years after everyone aboard had died.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Bangladesh won't be around for that much longer. 75% of it is underwater due to flooding and that number will only increase: https://www.concernusa.org/story/bangladesh-underwater-human...
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
A truly strange take. For decades people barely cared about scientists warning of the horrors to come. Participating in the climate movement is a very inefficient way to acquire money.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
This assumes that the hypothetical aliens draw (ultimately artificial and arbitrary) distinctions between themselves and other intelligent species. Who knows, they might consider us, another intelligent species, to be 'one of them&#x27
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Do you think worker-owned businesses can mitigate this? After all, one of their pluses is supposed to be that the workers can choose to prioritise things other than profit.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
You don't think someone holding views to the effect that jews, gays and black people/slavs should be exterminated is a work issue? If I belonged to any of these groups and found out by chance that the person was a neo-Nazi, even i
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
I guess growing up is when you give in to profit above all.
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
> All these technologies give us new capabilities and allow us to more precisely understand and shape the world. Allow who to shape the world, exactly? Because it's not me, and it's probably not you. Technology gives power to t
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by WitCanStain 5y ago
Those few would, however, have proportionally much more power and are not going to use that power to threaten the structures which made them their money. I don't think it's by any measure a good idea to have a few billionaires set
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
This seems like a clear example of a case where the culprit did not intend for the other person to die. Rather, they wanted to neutralize the threat by the means at their disposal, and the person's death was a side-effect.
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
That may be the case on a local level, but if we could stop corporate crime we would all (theoretically) be better off -> less street crime overall.
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
A for-profit corporation seems like a terrible candidate for such a position.
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
Shouldn't they? The world would probably be a nicer place if companies had goals other than profit. The fact that this is how companies currently operate has no bearing on how they should operate.
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
That seems excessive. Not to mention unrealistic - how do you prove that any single person engaged in a crime?
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
>Is there such a mechanism for unions? Unions should be democratic. The workers in the union should collectively decide how it is run, and it should have a fairly flat hierarchical structure. So if you feel that your union does not suffi
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
I am very curious to see if concepts from cognitive science and theoretical linguistics (like the Language of Thought paradigm as a framework of cognition or the Merge function as a fundamental cognitive operation) will be applied to machin
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by WitCanStain 6y ago
The point of unions is that individual workers can be easily screwed over with no repercussions for the company because of the power differential between companies and their workers. Unions seek to level the field a little bit by giving the

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