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by burrows 6y ago
Yes, I’ve long since accepted my conversation addiction.
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by burrows 6y ago
Einstein was remarkable within his domain of expertise. Outside of it he’s a jackass just like everyone else.
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by burrows 6y ago
Is Einstein an expert on “listening to one’s conscience”? If not, then it’s just mumbo-jumbo.
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by burrows 6y ago
> If your promotion criteria says that someone's qualified for a higher-level job because they've been doing good work in fair weather, you have absolutely no way to know whether they listen to their conscience How can we possi
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by burrows 6y ago
All hail the shining twin gods, Advancement and Progress.
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by burrows 6y ago
“Only a hateful racist Nazi-adjacent person could think that the gap between American black and white socioeconomic status is caused by degenerate, pathologically retarded black culture rather than ‘oppression’.“ Am I doing it right?
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by burrows 6y ago
> incomprehensible ... shudder ... anger ... such injustice ... clueless ... right to exist in our time ... dismantling ... barbarian relics ... innocent victims ... the shambles and breathe the sweet air of freedom A robust, well reason
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by burrows 6y ago
Yeah, you’d have to be crazy to think that media companies are spying on you.
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by burrows 6y ago
Right, what this problem needs is more committees!
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by burrows 6y ago
> I believe the governments should fund existing open source software Governments don’t fund things, taxpayers do.
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by burrows 6y ago
And if my hypothetical platform is decentralized to the extent that I can’t top-down censor content, what then?
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by burrows 6y ago
Not to mention the billions of years spent in the evolutionary pipeline.
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by burrows 6y ago
> Tim Leary was very impactful and in a negative way to the potential benefits of psychedelics because he got carried away with the tendency to turn the drugs into a sort of religion. That’s not right. Leary recommended that people and
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by burrows 6y ago
Do you care for/about the poor because you want to end suffering for all sentient beings, or for some other reason?
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by burrows 6y ago
Ok, so what policy are you intimating?
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by burrows 6y ago
Your arguing for an economic system where no producers will fail?
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by burrows 6y ago
> Dominating a market so thoroughly that your competitors go out of business and must find another line of work creates a cost for society that is not borne by the winner unless they pay for it through taxation. Namely those costs includ
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by burrows 6y ago
> Anyone in favor of un-earned wealth transfers from parent to child should also be in favor of taxing the rich more to feed, clothe, and house the poor. But I don’t care about the poor, I care about my children, and I want to pass my we
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by burrows 6y ago
Are you calling a predictable result of vanilla capitalism, that is, some companies succeeding while others fail, a “negative externality”?
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by burrows 6y ago
> Prison labor is compensating for crimes committed against society and other people But the prisoners didn’t commit crimes against “society” they committed them against particular people. Why not force the inmate into indentured servit
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by burrows 6y ago
> There is, philosophically speaking, nothing that we can guarantee looks random from all perspectives. Does this imply that the universe is deterministic? I believe it is false to claim “Humans have knowledge that the universe is determ
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by burrows 6y ago
What evidence do we have that causality will continue to “exist”?
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by burrows 6y ago
While I think this view makes a lot of sense. I imagine that many government officials disagree.
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by burrows 6y ago
> Other than second-order effects where anything which breaks MAD increases the risk of nuclear war Does this apply to classified projects?
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by burrows 6y ago
So stop clicking them.
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by burrows 6y ago
Do you imagine this backdoor gives control over each application's execution or only retrieves data?
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by burrows 6y ago
An iOS backdoor is the way to go. Otherwise the NSA has to monitor an endless cycle of new apps.
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by burrows 6y ago
What argument are you making? Putting something into the App Store somehow makes the app itself vulnerable? Or, the App Store tends to attract already vulnerable software?
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by burrows 6y ago
Yeah, and good people have nothing to hide! Isn’t that right Alexa?
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by burrows 6y ago
Build whatever you want, I just think the text being “abrasive” because of masculine pronouns is beyond goofy as fuck.

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