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by burfog 8y ago
Libertarian isn't equal to right-wing, but neither is nationalism or racism or anything else that you may see in fascism. Fundamentally, the left is about collectivism and the right is about individualism. The difference is whether you
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by burfog 8y ago
We're already there. Repeating a previous study, which had shown bias in the 2016 election, Dr. Robert Epstein shows that bias in the 2018 election pushed voters towards democrats. Approximately 4.6 million undecided voters are likely
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by burfog 8y ago
Some of it makes plenty of sense. The atmosphere is hardly a problem. You'd use numerous beams simultaneously, fired from all over the country. No single beam would be powerful enough to cause atmospheric breakdown. The sensible choice
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by burfog 8y ago
They strongly support immigration in every way.
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by burfog 8y ago
No, and until a decade ago there wasn't anybody trying to push that falsehood. Fascism involves heavy government control of everything. "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." -- Benito
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by burfog 8y ago
It's a lot more pretty than the alternative. There are multiple places around the world that experimented with redistribution, and some are still doing it. You aren't about to move to one of those places, are you? Ignore the rich
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by burfog 8y ago
Well, that's part of the deal if UBI is ever to get off the ground. Normally UBI is considered to be sort of a truce between the left and the right. The left wants the UBI, and the right wants to get rid of government bureaucrats. The
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by burfog 8y ago
You might have that backwards. Consider Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Iraq was diverse, with multiple languages and religions. The authoritarian strongman was needed to hold the country together against the divisive diversity. Without him, peo
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by burfog 8y ago
Suicide deaths by children don't change unless you also ban train tracks, highways, ropes, tall things... and maybe just store people in padded boxes until they are not children. The amount of freedom you'd have to take from socie
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by burfog 8y ago
You can't keep up with demand until the amount of housing (and thus people) is so high that the place becomes miserable enough that people start rejecting it. Different people have different thresholds of misery. Consider that people l
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by burfog 8y ago
The problem may have been created by our norm becoming the 2-income household. Previously, one would simply move to the location of a suitable job. Now, the pair of people must find a pair of suitable jobs. It is easy to find a small city w
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by burfog 8y ago
I certainly have my own data point. When my kids are reading, they stumble very badly over every hyphen. I think it is long past time to agree that hyphens were always a very bad idea, along with mucking up the font designer's intended
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by burfog 8y ago
The modus operandi of totalitarian ideologies is to use science as an excuse to achieve some goal, such as totalitarian control of the economy. To be clear: the people you see as being on "your team" are totalitarian, and you are
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by burfog 8y ago
Possibly a better example, with a DC-10 instructor on the plane as a passenger being pressed into service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
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by burfog 8y ago
New Zealand would cave in 24 hours if all the big internet companies presented a unified front against the censorship, making the video available within https as part of every service. There is no way New Zealand would cut off every email p
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by burfog 8y ago
How severe? If the acne is really severe, yes indeed they don't go to space. Space travel is like that. At something like $20,000,000 per person, going to a difficult work environment, being picky is important.
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by burfog 8y ago
No, almost 40% of us do not get it. This is not something inevitable. I don't have any family member with the symptoms.
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by burfog 8y ago
It's also associated with Alzheimer's disease, which is a horrible way to die. It can cause blindness and death, particularly in newborns. I don't think it wise to dismiss herpes as just something mild or inevitable.
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by burfog 8y ago
So almost 40% of humanity does not have HSV-1. Astronaut selection is already severe. You don't get selected if you have tuberculosis, diabetes, amputations, or deafness. Once selected, you won't go on the launch if you are sick w
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by burfog 8y ago
Have you ever seriously thought about why people might reject a climate change consensus? It's easy to dismiss people as being dumb or misled, but the forcefulness of this rejection suggests otherwise. There have been a few incidents o
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by burfog 8y ago
That was but one of many options, all with pros and cons. It does appear that there is a bit of room to move the gear attachment point outward. Internal stuff might need to be relocated. A very nice solution is to fold the landing gear as t
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by burfog 8y ago
Most companies would discriminate in your favor for both reasons. I suppose it is unpleasant to be the token woman or the token old person though. It sucks to suspect that you are being kept around to meet somebody's quota.
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by burfog 8y ago
I think you missed the point that I disagree about what is and isn't a problem. I think your "increase proliferations" wording refers to people having harmless data, not causing actual abuse. It should also be clear that not
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by burfog 8y ago
That is only about possession of what is sometimes evidence of abuse, and only about people who were caught with it. The interesting numbers are how many cases of abuse are hidden from law enforcement because: 1. people won't recognize
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by burfog 8y ago
What about the privacy rights of Phan Thị Kim Phúc? What about the privacy rights of so many kids on album covers? (Nevermind, Virgin Killer, Blind Faith...) It doesn't seem that society demands such a right.
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by burfog 8y ago
Well, do we want to catch people harming children, or do we just want to not be aware of it? We have an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy right now. Reporting is discouraged, because then all your stuff would be seized as evidence and you&#x2
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by burfog 8y ago
I wasn't too interested, but now I feel a duty to watch it due to the censorship. I think we all have that duty.
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by burfog 8y ago
I would treat child porn and specific threats against individuals just the same as I'd treat a shooting video. Arrest the shooter, the child porn producer (unless victim==perpetrator), and the person making the threat. It is fine for o
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by burfog 8y ago
Well the hope is that somehow I'm misunderstanding the grammar... because there simply must be a way to do this. How can the language committee leave this flaw unfixed?
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by burfog 8y ago
They are banned. Search your list for "blacklist". Note that the blacklisted sources are only on one side of the political spectrum -- not one thing on the other side got blacklisted.

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