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by anvandare 7y ago
I think one term for it is Creeping Normality.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality
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by anvandare 7y ago
"There will always be crime, so it's better to have organized crime than disorganized crime." seems to be the idea.
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by anvandare 7y ago
Because for all of history and across cultures and civilizations, women have never been considered equal to men (socially or legally) - with the odd exception/legend here and there, of course. "Because you're a woman and wome
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by anvandare 8y ago
People will avoid a fight they could easily win until it becomes a fight they will have to win. (By which time it might be too late.) Very roughly, the Western Ideal is to win wars by strength and decisive battles. While the Eastern Ideal i
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by anvandare 8y ago
Picked it up long ago in a class on Eastern Philosophy. Given the vastness, variety, and history of Asia it barely covered 1% of it all, of course, so I only have a rough overview of the main traditions.
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by anvandare 8y ago
>that one Dictator in a million Also called an enlightened despot; In the Eastern -Chinese Legalism tradition- a 明君 "míngjūn". There have been instances of them throughout history. But like you said, the problem is usually what
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by anvandare 8y ago
Then I don't understand the question. Citizenship is a legal status. By definition, any distinction with other statuses will be legal ones: more or less rights (or privileges, if you will) and duties.
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by anvandare 8y ago
Federal Service was not necessarily military. The point was that it had to be grueling, something that you had to endure (self-sacrifice). Although yes, if they needed you to (possibly) sacrifice yourself by joining the armed forces, then t
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by anvandare 8y ago
Could be various things, depending on the country in question and the type of alien residency. Off the top of my head: * Right to work, accumulate social security/pension rights, work for government entities, security clearance * Right
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by anvandare 8y ago
It was called citizenship, but [in Starship Troopers] the only thing you earned (and distinguished you from civilians) was franchise. Or: you gained (political) authority by proving responsibility. >Citizenship is an attitude, a state of
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by anvandare 8y ago
Look up statistics, I guess? I found [1] and (assuming it can be categorized under "Financial Profits") made it into a (terribly quick and dirty) graph [2]. [1] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERP-201
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by anvandare 8y ago
As it happens, Belgium and the Netherlands recently changed (a small part of) the border for exactly that reason: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/belgium-and-th...
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by anvandare 8y ago
But think about all the cool contributions they're making to open source! They've really changed their ways!</sarcasm> Microsoft is indeed, Evil. Not evil as in mustache-twirling damsel-on-track-laying villain, but evil
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by anvandare 8y ago
Blood replenishes though. It's not really a body part in that way, just like hair. (I don't know if regular donation has any long-term effects?) In that sense (no permanent impact) I'd see a greater problem with poverty drivi
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by anvandare 8y ago
Everyone who works is selling their body in some way. That's all work is. Anything else is rent-taking.
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by anvandare 8y ago
Human brains 'choose' something in the same sense that water chooses to flow downhill.
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by anvandare 8y ago
The problem is the Universe of which it speaks can not be reduced to a handful of beautiful and concise mathematical formulae. A group of humans (or even a single human) is more chaotic and complex in their behavior than a group of atoms ev
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by anvandare 8y ago
Absolutely. And it's sadly also correlated to the overall poor quality of science news reporting in our societies. One of my favorite PhD comics: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
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by anvandare 8y ago
Yes, but the difference is subtle. The theory might still be true after all, but only for a particular subset. "We've tested the theory that 'swans are white', and it turns out the swans in our test were all black".
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by anvandare 8y ago
It's not a decimal system, no. The decimal system is a positional system (just like binary, hexadecimal, sexagesimal ...). In a positional system, part of the information of a symbol is in its position in the whole string, and it alway
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by anvandare 8y ago
First one to get the (nuclear|genetic|quantum decryptor| ...) superweapon wins. That's been always true. Any government who's currently protesting and proclaiming they never will partake in it are either (1) idiots or (2) lying.
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by anvandare 8y ago
Of course the first period of experimentation and discovery will lead to unexpected and unpleasant results. All new technology takes time to mature, for the users to get an understanding of its tricky implementation bits and long-term impac
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by anvandare 8y ago
The purists need not be worried. There's always the hope the descendants of those humans who do take the path of editing their own genetic code will, a few centuries from now, give those purists' descendants a nice small patch o
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by anvandare 8y ago
SpaceX gave their proposals for this (very valid) concern here: https://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=...
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by anvandare 8y ago
If you're on linux: `xcalib -i -a` turns everything negative.
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by anvandare 8y ago
I think you were dreaming of this, perhaps? https://www.eff.org/nl/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-sch... I'm surprised that people keep being surprised about Google being just another company. Mo
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by anvandare 8y ago
It won't just be China. The Internet was, initially, a terra incognita for governments. (Which is ironic given its origins.) At first any wilderness is home only to pioneers, explorers, and other kinds of people who love the freedom th
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by anvandare 8y ago
Χρησμός refers to the oracular speech itself, not to the person or the institution. So it's closer to "Heed these words (of wisdom)." That said, oracles were definitely not shy of making money.
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by anvandare 8y ago
For the second, Γάμος is like the word "marriage", meaning both the occasion of getting married and the state of being married. So a better translation would be "Master (your) marriage". Given the Ancient Greeks' di
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by anvandare 8y ago
All 147 maxims are available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max... The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.

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