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by badsock 10y ago
I'm not suggesting courage will protect you, I'm saying it will stop people from allowing their dignity, quality of life, and freedom of movement degraded for objectively insufficient reasons.
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by badsock 10y ago
The correct response to terrorism is courage, not extra layers of security.
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by badsock 10y ago
For the record, I don't raise this because it's "fun to throw rocks at the big guy". Your country is saturated by propaganda, which I'm fine with, but unfortunately it's leaking. People in my country listen t
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by badsock 10y ago
...in America. There's lots of developed countries where municipal governments are generally well run as a rule, and while there's always grumbling things never get this out of hand. Lead is posion, for pete's sake. Where
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by badsock 10y ago
I agree with pppp - it's quite easy in the most common case. I've run into little problems, but rarely, and certainly no more than what I used to have with Linux. Hardware support is like Linux a few years ago. That, and a few (
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by badsock 10y ago
It's not for everyone, but try a BSD. When PulseAudio first started showing up everywhere, I thought it was an anomaly, but it was really a harbinger. Since then Linux has been getting more like Windows every year (unpredictable beha
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by badsock 10y ago
I don't think the opioid comparison is valid. My litmus test would be: would someone resort to prostitution to get on Facebook for a few minutes?
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by badsock 10y ago
It's an American problem where some aspects are more obvious in SV. The attitudes that the US has towards employment is much more "kill or be killed" than most other developed countries, with very little recognition that it&
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by badsock 10y ago
This attitude drives me crazy. Just because some people have it worse than you doesn't mean you have to accept your own less-worse situation.
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by badsock 10y ago
FreeBSD isn't going anywhere and has binary packages. I've been using it on my desktops for years with Xfce, and I'm very happy. OpenBSD is supposed to have better laptop support, though.
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by badsock 10y ago
Not what you asked, but a couple of years ago I moved from Linux to FreeBSD on the desktop. With computers you can either learn how computers work, or use tools that try to hide how computers work so you don't have to. For example, you
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by badsock 10y ago
I'm very left, and I'm quite alright with measures like regional quotas designed to avoid "clumping" - which I believe would address most of your concern there. And you're right about the 8%, but since only about 10
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by badsock 10y ago
I'll agree that that the two markets aren't isolated. But you can't be claiming that NIMBYism in the US is the dominant cause of a sudden tripling of house prices in Australia, can you? The elephant in the room is that, duri
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by badsock 10y ago
The current rate of immigration to the US is 0.3% of its population per year. Put another way, for every 3,180 Americans, they have to somehow integrate 1 new person a year into their culture. In no way is that a "large, rapid" i
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by badsock 10y ago
You can't take this out of the context that France had many North African colonies, and has had a large underclass of people from those countries for many decades. Poverty is highly correlated with imprisonment. I can't find a no
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by badsock 10y ago
But how would that affect the house prices in, say, Sydney Australia where the prices have also skyrocketed but 2008 had little effect?
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by badsock 10y ago
I constantly hear this argument, but I've never seen any evidence. There's been a simultaneous skyrocketing housing costs in disparate parts of the world in the last 20 years - I find it implausible that they got NIMBYed to the tu
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by badsock 10y ago
You don't have to speculate, it's cheap: https://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/how-a-small-city-of...
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by badsock 10y ago
Telecoms are a classic example of a natural monopoly - which is to say it would be monopoly whether there's regulation or not. How do you imagine there would be competition in, say, fibre? A bunch of companies all running their own las
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by badsock 10y ago
Trump got less votes than Romney. Your backswing is just the same old bigots getting a momentary upper hand because of the way the chips happened to fall in the last election. Whether they can leverage that into more lasting power remains
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by badsock 10y ago
My argument would be: UBI could be so simple that it wouldn't allow for corruption. A dollar amount shows up in your bank account every day. If it doesn't, that's a problem. The one debate should be whether the number should
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by badsock 10y ago
Americans always pull out this excuse. There's a whole world running experiments on how to best do things, but you're unwilling to look at the results because it's not a perfect match. It's never a perfect match. It do
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by badsock 10y ago
I'm very left, but this I completely agree with. The American attitude towards people who are struggling to make ends meet is brutal. If you're having a hard time it's because you're lazy, full stop. And, as clearly e
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by badsock 10y ago
Trump got less votes than Romney. Republicans are always going to vote Republican - the major issues are essentially irreconcilable. The Democrats don't need to listen to them, they need to field better candidates so that the left get
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by badsock 10y ago
I think Norway and the way it's managed its sovereign wealth fund is a counter-example. Governance can be done well.
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by badsock 10y ago
Yes. I don't think it's a coincidence that the two periods in history that provided much of the foundations of Western civilization (Ancient Greece and the Renaissance) took place amongst intensely competing city-states.
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by badsock 10y ago
They deserve better than to be just "not ignored". The whole game has to be changed so that everything isn't rigged toward the people who are already rich. That means rule of law, that means not fighting against your equall
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by badsock 10y ago
I agree 100% that the working class people in America have been screwed over. But just because they've been wronged doesn't mean that their solutions are right. Dumb ideas deserve to be attacked. Ideas that are an affront to pra
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by badsock 10y ago
Do you have any evidence for either of them being damaging?
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by badsock 10y ago
If some people don't want to put any effort into making society more just, that's fine. Just so long as they don't get in the way of people that do, or take pot shots from the sidelines without offering any alternatives.

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