bubtubgub

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by bubtubgub 11y ago
Why nothing else? It could help us understand more about the human mind.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> No two humans will ever have equal opportunities, without destroying all progress, individuality, and justice (it is unjust that one person should be held responsible for the choices of others). Well, I mean you just said a bunch of th
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> True, it is much lower when compared to the 19th century, when the economy was much freer. Not sure what you are basing this on, I'm guessing on nothing. > Taking a different view than one you're accustomed to hearing, lab
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> And, to be fair, they would also be deprived of the last shred of choice left in health care. Want a second opinion under that system? Why would nationalized healthcare prevent the opening of private clinics? > health care is ever g
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> Mental illness is different because in many cases, the people in question are do not possess the faculties required to live normally, decently, or (in rare cases, peacefully) in society. Mental health care facilities are a thing. Medic
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> You act as if I am responsible for creating those problems. You live in a (somewhat) democratic system, you pay taxes and vote. Yes, you absolutely share responsibility. > Half of people you label as "homeless" are in that
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> That's just crushing for people that have done everything right and are trying to save for a downpayment on their first home, for some runway to do a startup, for their children's education, for their retirement, or to help t
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> Every country reports unemployment similarly. The system we use has classes, so yes you can look at both U3 and U6 and the still the US comes out on top, if compared to the same class. First of all, U3 and U6 are both not real unemploy
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> Low unemployment, high gdp per capita, high household income, high human development index rating, etc. Not true, real unemployment (ie including homeless people, people that are unable to work, etc.) is quite high and rising. Many peo
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
This is still the case, they had a native client for a while, but it is 32-bit and only well supported on Ubuntu and very similar distros.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
Gentoo to name one.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
No, nothing of what I said has anything specifically to do with Marxism. Nor am I claiming to say anything new or original.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> I can understand (if not condone) the birthday party thing, where you spend millions to get someone famous at your party, as by doing so you are saying "I have so many millions, I can do this ridiculous thing, or buy a famous pain
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
A similar approach, but with a different goal - that of finding and showing the sound patterns that make music attractive to humans and other animals could be very useful.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
What should be done is not exactly a secret and many things are commonly known to most people such as 'stop burning fossil fuels', the problem is not that we don't know what to do, but that the people in power don't want
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
Steam doesn't work on 'any Linux' without jumping through many many hoops for most distros.
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by bubtubgub 11y ago
> I've met plenty of devout Prolog aficionados No you haven't.