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by _siis 3y ago
You know, there's some significant issues that aren't touched on. Any statement that's all upsides no downsides poorly reflects reality over time. Or, in other words, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. The main
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by _siis 3y ago
I am, and it doesn't exist in the vast majority of systems today. In reality its coercive, an intolerable act, and the last time we saw these things was 1767-1776. Its beyond stupid, but the people doing these things have incentives to
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by _siis 3y ago
The how is unimportant, focusing on it is a forest for the trees blunder. It can happen any number of different ways, and you won't know which way until its too late to do anything about it. The danger of cascade failures is you don&#x
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by _siis 4y ago
> I certainly didn't claim they are people or that they're real personalities. You characterize it as such with the words you used, its a fundamental anthropomorphic bias which is very common. > I don't follow. It can b
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by _siis 4y ago
The main problem with economics is, at its core it is completely rotten. Completely unsound and rotten. The discipline as it currently stands can be scrapped entirely. It provides no actual benefit. Its primarily used to mislead, entrap, an
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by _siis 4y ago
The sad fact is, there is a truly real evil going on when it comes to many rights. Parental rights are just the most recent battleground, and no one does a thing to curb it. Also, I don't mean a cultural evil, as most people dismiss th
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by _siis 4y ago
All those companies really want are the profits generated from mindless slaves so they don't have to rely on human labor for production. Its a fools journey because it causes a self-fulfilling prophecy of destruction given existing soc
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by _siis 4y ago
Its not a security scare, its been known for quite some time that its possible to psychologically manipulate people like this. Not content to fix it the right way which involves actually limiting their power, government is trying to do it t
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by _siis 4y ago
Its like a page out of Ayn Rand.
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by _siis 4y ago
That's very naive, and you need to educate yourself about what capitalism actually is because it certainly isn't what you are saying. You've misused that term.
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by _siis 4y ago
I laid out the three main structural issues as I see it, and I've done a lot of research on the subject (as I'm sure you could tell). > not Marx but merely something closer to the Nordic model Perhaps you could clarify how the
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by _siis 4y ago
> Giving basic food, shelter, and health care is not socialism. If you believe that, then you are naively mistaken. Those are forms of non-market socialism, or central planning, they've gone by many names in the past. ( https:/
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by _siis 4y ago
I think you may need to be more clear in your communications. Unless I've completely misread what you just said, under the logic you just followed you are saying if you speak out at all in public its a malign influence campaign. I stuc
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by _siis 4y ago
Well just from my own personal research (which is not nearly as thorough as I'd like), structurally any central power structure receives little benefit from division of labor and the main driver that allows it to work and greese the wh
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by _siis 4y ago
That's not how it should be though. Its a direct attack on property rights which are a cornerstone of most successful civilizations.
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by _siis 4y ago
This is a growing problem. As far as I'm aware, Cloudflare does not collect or report these type of metrics because if they did, they could be abused. There is no way to actually know who is or isn't a bot. The methodology for bot
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by _siis 4y ago
Unfortunately, but its a bit deeper than that basic characterization allows. There are a lot of confounding factors, from the lack of actual role models, subversive propaganda, poor parenting, and the effects of education, to the debt saddl
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by _siis 4y ago
Greg, the problem you frame has significant jumps, incorrect assumptions, and holes, and is painted as helpless. If we want to survive as a species, we will have to overcome the forces of disunity and come to common ground of understanding,
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by _siis 4y ago
You are not wrong, things are markedly worse, and they will continue to get worse because the people who have been put in charge have decided for you that when things fail, its because not enough resources were provided. Unlike engineers, t
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by _siis 4y ago
That's a lot of false logic and implicit assumptions there buddy. Perhaps you want to take another go, only this time don't push a false narrative? It was possible to reach sites without cloudflare before and view the content. Now
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by _siis 4y ago
The paywall extensions didn't work but archive.today did. Thanks, I appreciate it.
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by _siis 4y ago
So how do you go about reading these articles? Looks like its behind a paywall that does a server check before letting you read more than the title and that appears to be based on IP. I haven't read a Reuters article in years, and yet
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by _siis 4y ago
Can anyone explain how to read this? The article appears to be paywalled if you have previously visited their website or more likely your IP has visited in the past month. Website seems to be only loading the first page and then using an XM
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by _siis 4y ago
I think that is a very naive opinion and you are very mistaken but mostly only because you lack an understanding of how diabolical these systems actually are, how they work and are designed. Its not that people could construct echo chambers
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by _siis 4y ago
The modern cryptographic functions we were talking about are all based on primes. Unless you are suddenly trying to shift gears to muddy the water for some other purpose and apply what I said to 'all cryptography', it was pretty c
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by _siis 4y ago
Maybe the socialists finally took over up there. Based on other recent articles about Stanford, that seems highly likely. They are implementing policy that closely mirrors many of the same elements of Mao's philosophy.
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by _siis 4y ago
This article misses the point. Its not about the developers, its about the people driving the developers. If you take anti-trust, wiretapping, and other existing laws like the constitution and applied it rigorously you wouldn't have th
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by _siis 4y ago
No, rich people think about money, debt, and cash flow very differently. There are also a lot of bad actors at the upper end that are facilitating a global ponzi scheme at our expense, and they will be bailed out over and over again because
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by _siis 4y ago
There is also the potential to use it as a watering hole for more sophisticated or subversive measures where they subtly change what you post to promote something you don't actually promote (so at some point they deviate from pure prox
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by _siis 4y ago
Wouldn't they be able to do the same preventing you from scraping the site? They may have many IPs to work with, but you may not?

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