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by adamsea 6y ago
> But more importantly, I think if you just went and talked to random political scientists, you would find they actually had not thought very hard about what the most important causes are. If you ask them, they would come up with somethi
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO I'd rather see more social/economic justice, so that all of the increases in healthcare and expected lifespan are more evenly distributed. Otherwise with whatever extreme life extension stuff might happen, it'll just be
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by adamsea 6y ago
Great sounding theory, but not how it works. ; ) In other words, one can use phrases like that in response to anything, whether it's true or not ;).
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by adamsea 6y ago
OK. So. There's Jon Burge and the 'Midnight Crew', which tortured people into confessions (eletric shocks on genitals, etc) in Chicago in the '80s? Do you think those people they tortured were mostly white? https:&#x
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO, simplicity simplicity simplicity, whatever that means to you : )
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by adamsea 6y ago
> You can buy anything, from anyone, with bitcoin. All it takes is two bitcoin users. Shouldn't we amend that statement to be "You can use bitcoin to buy anything which is being sold by some other bitcoin user?" ;) Which s
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. And that makes sense. I guess I was more pointing out that right now it seems highly scenario-specific whether or not cryptocurrency can help in the way you described. Doesn't it depend on the amount of money you're deal
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by adamsea 6y ago
From TFA: '“The idea that America has a shared past going back into the colonial period is a myth,” Colin Woodard, the author of “Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood,” told me. “We are very different Amer
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by adamsea 6y ago
Fair. I don't know much about this world. But, like, the classic "society could collapse" fear-and-doubt, doom-and-gloom, grab-the-gold-and-the-burner-laptop-and-the-ammo argument can be used for just about anything. Heck, ev
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Since your body (and your mind) doesn't require any music / movie / book to survive ... I respectfully disagree : ). Name a single culture that has ever existed which had no art. No storytelling, pottery, visual crafts
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think "lack of development/enrichment" might be a better term than harm. And "challenge" might not have been a great word-choice of mine, either. Depth? Craft? Some value . For example, imagine a programmer/
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by adamsea 6y ago
"Unchallenging" isn't quite right for the food comparison, you're correct. For instance I don't consider The Beatles, say, or Michael Jackson or Jay-Z or Frank Sinatra or Mozart necessarily "challenging" (
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by adamsea 6y ago
No disrespect intended. Agreed, not all of us go deep on all things. I am biased towards being open to new experiences and continuing to learn and develop over the course of our lives, and do think it's good for people, and important,
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by adamsea 6y ago
Couldn’t someone take what you just said and replace the word “music” with “book”, or “film”? IMHO art (all the arts), art is like food. There’s nothing wrong with ice cream, or McDonald’s sometimes. Not everyone has to be vegan. Eat junk f
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by adamsea 6y ago
Does this hypothetical situation you describe exist anywhere outside of the hypothetical situation posited by a character in a Neal Stephenson novel? Seriously in reality the specifics of any sort of wild situation like the one you describe
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by adamsea 6y ago
Human nature would like to disagree with you about the nature of human nature. ;) I bet a dollar that the environment - nurture, as opposed to nature - will have a huge impact on a persons attitudes and beliefs and behavior towards authorit
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by adamsea 6y ago
Police violence towards people of color and many aspects of the justice system (sentencing, etc) are examples of current day systemic racism. I know you are smart and capable enough to find sources / evidence about those things as it’s
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah I didn’t get the impression that anything here is abridged. There’s a big difference between that and a translators work for something like The Odyssey.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Fagles is my favorite of the two, because he gave me more of what I wanted: high diction and mythic tone. Fair :). Lol I’ve been constantly re-reading The Lord of the Rings for the same reason :). And I’ve read (Fagles, I think) The Il
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The translation cease to be good over time, because the meaning of words changes and the way people construct sentences changes. Agree with the rest of what you say but take issue with “ceases to be good”, since, even with translations
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good question :). Yeah Shakespeare is a great example. The King James Bible might be the ur-example, as I’ve heard it said that it’s so influential it basically shaped the English language. As another poster said, the phrase “product of its
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah but those examples are like, large state-sponsored massacres. And there are lots of them. In the US, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre I mean it was actually part of a war (at least it’s
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think their point was that when you said “Marxism rewards the vicious and punishes the virtuous“, what you said could make sense when talking about Marx-inspired ideologies / movements (the USSR, etc), but not so much about the actua
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by adamsea 6y ago
“Understatement is a form of speech or disclosure which contains an expression of lesser strength than what would be expected. It is the opposite of an embellishment.” What’s the “expression of lesser strength” in this case? Confused. Also,
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO radio host Larry Elder is not a valid source to back up your claim that systemic racism in the US doesn’t exist. Let’s be clear. There is systemic racism within law enforcement and our system of justice in the US. It’s easy to go onlin
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by adamsea 6y ago
[EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EF-IT: The other guy was technically correct. And there are lots of edits here. It’s the “Pale Fire” of HN comments.] [EDIT: All this because I lost the thread that we were talking about when striking miners in the UK d
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I also don’t know why people think it makes more sense to divert police resources away from where crimes are happening. Because so many people who live in those communities consistently continue to say they both fear and distrust the p
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure :). I understand that. I was gently teasing and pointing out that the language you used obscured (as there were no trebuchets, de orbiting asteroids, etc, involved) rather than clarifies. “Shooting a gun”, or “shooting guns or bean
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by adamsea 6y ago
It’s no excuse but my understanding is the issue here in the US is sort of the random traffic stop - what if the person the cop stops has a gun? Thus every interaction with a probably “non-criminal” citizen or whatever carries fear and dang
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by adamsea 6y ago
Unions are a tool - a means for labor to organize and exercise power to see to the best interests of its members. Ideally that functions as a way for labor to negotiate with management for humane working conditions, etc, and for worker soli

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