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by cam_l 11y ago
Yeah, I think of the financialisation of society in the 90s & 00s as being a massive share dilution of the middle class. the wealth of the economy as a whole didn't grow much, but the number of shares in that economy did and were t
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by cam_l 11y ago
"Is consciousness an illusion?" IS positing a definition of consciousness.
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by cam_l 11y ago
Because anthropogenic climate change (in particular) is happening quickly and happening now; perhaps more quickly than a lot of us—or at least the things or places we depend on for life—will be able to adapt.
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by cam_l 11y ago
The key word there is our - bad news for our planet. anthropogenic climate change is not bad for the planet, but it is potentiality very bad for humans.
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by cam_l 11y ago
pretty sure Britain invaded Australia, we even celebrate it with a national holiday.. 'invasion day'.
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by cam_l 11y ago
cool.. thanks, i got the impression from your original comment that you are not a run of the mill employer. plus, it sounds like you did a fair bit to manage the risks appropriately for yourself. but i also think employees risk a fair bit i
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by cam_l 12y ago
"the risk I've taken." Really curious about this part of your comment. People with more to lose often imagine that they risk more than someone with little to lose. I think of it the other way around, do you risk more but bett
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by cam_l 12y ago
This comment is, in itself, a description of the issue it raises. Simple is an ambiguous term, and you are using it to describe a different aspect of the problem to the parent (you are both right).
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by cam_l 12y ago
cool, I never saw the fun way books. but I remember buying the kits with pocket money I saved up. I still have one I built in a box somewhere..
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by cam_l 12y ago
Yeah, being bilingual may actually be an educational advantage.. I think of it like learning one language is understanding syntax, learning multiple languages is understanding the underlying concepts. I don't know if the Finnish people
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by cam_l 12y ago
Not disputing what you say, but they also learn other languages at the same time. "All students learn at least two foreign languages, mainly English and obligatory Swedish, up to high school." https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by cam_l 12y ago
Well, my work is pretty detailed! But all the information about the correct numbers of bricks, the slump of the mortar, the number and type of screws - these are all just library functions. Why would you re-write all that perfectly servicea
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by cam_l 12y ago
I was going to go the other way here and point out that blueprints are actually code for buildings.. the builder is the compiler I guess? But blueprints are done at various scales and they differ in complexity and format ie. sketches, model
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by cam_l 12y ago
flew on one of these a few times and the flat screens were shit. constant issues with touch sensitivity and responsiveness. on one flight the screen kept having random phantom touch inputs, which was an issue because I was trying to sleep a
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by cam_l 12y ago
man, everything is not black and white. you put your children's lives and the lives of others at risk everyday, due to your ignorance, ineptitude, or indifference. that is life. what you are talking about is an issue of scale.. grey ar
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by cam_l 12y ago
um.. firstly, not a straw man (seriously? and then you start crapping on about mormons?), a logical reduction to find out if you think the consequences of believing that either the intention is important or not. so how do you differentiate
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by cam_l 12y ago
way to miss the fucking point. go on, read it again.. (or the first time for that matter.) at a certain point with the effectiveness of vaccines, the adverse effects actually start to outnumber the people still being effected. the point at
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by cam_l 12y ago
ignoring the whole vax/anti-vax thing* i am really curious about people who are enraged about such things and why a particular topic like this enrages them? are you enraged about all things which endanger the population? or just some?
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by cam_l 12y ago
fuck.. you have an agenda, i get it. i am not attacking you. i pay for films and art and music and other real stuff. i made a simple observation about the power dynamics of media sales. the fact that content producers are not noticing they
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by cam_l 12y ago
"That sort of presupposes that your wants should be satisfied as a matter of course, no?" no.. 'should' is such a misleading term. like i said, this is not a moral issue. 'wants' as a matter of definition &#x27
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by cam_l 12y ago
"If I produce something and you want to consume it, and I ask for money, then I deserve to get paid." This is a common misunderstanding of the payment dynamic. The reality is it is actually a power dynamic. I make something that y
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by cam_l 12y ago
in Melbourne even the hippies wear shoes, plus in Melbourne it would be decidedly abnormal to walk into a starbucks at all..
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by cam_l 12y ago
From your link: "Curtis LeMay ordered the bombers to drop incendiary bombs to burn Japan's vulnerable wood-and-paper buildings." Not just conventional bombs, they deliberately burned a hundred thousand innocent people to deat
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by cam_l 12y ago
I never knew we were obsessive about them, thanks. Only ever owned the one staedtler (mars). We call them clutch pencils in oz. And my Dad used it for maybe twenty years before me. For anyone else who wants to know, the big difference betw
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by cam_l 12y ago
The rule of thumb I use in situations like this is an aphorism I heard a while back (by some mathematician) which basically said that the best description of any system is its results. I find it extremely helpful in these sorts of situation
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by cam_l 12y ago
"I always rely on perceptual evidence" so you are anti-intellectual.. or are you just trolling?
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by cam_l 12y ago
(LTE I am guessing) But absolutely the bandwidth is sufficient to live in the present.. or at least the recent past. It is sufficient to access the services that poor people need because they are poor . Let them eat bread I guess..
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by cam_l 12y ago
Wireless, at present anyway, has a massive disparity against fibre with regard to bandwidth. Or to put you comment another way, 'the poor can't afford computers or good internet access, so therefore they don't need them'
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by cam_l 12y ago
Yep. Though subsidising subscriptions is a pretty non transparent way of tendering for access. If you are in the business of creating lots of little monopolies to achieve universal access, wouldn't it be more transparent to just create
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by cam_l 12y ago
Speaking of 7 series.. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7

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