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by caskance 11y ago
One could say the same about any so-called free people. Do you feel free? Even though you don't have eternal life? Even though you can't afford to fly to work every day in a jetpack? Even though you can't have sex with a woma
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by caskance 11y ago
Freedom is a feeling. If you feel free, then you are free.
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by caskance 11y ago
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's not a shooting war unless Greece refuses to pay.
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by caskance 11y ago
No, they're a pack-in deal.
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by caskance 11y ago
If you are willing to accept payment in land, it's quite easy.
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by caskance 11y ago
>People loved Raymond Chen back when Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft. Why the past tense? Did people suddenly stop loving Raymond Chen for some reason?
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by caskance 11y ago
Existing drivers can want what they please. That doesn't obligate anyone to give it to them. Blockbuster and Tower Records wanted a lot of things too.
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by caskance 11y ago
No, the ones who make taxi drivers pay money and run a gauntlet are the ones stealing that living away. Uber is making that process unnecessary, and that makes the people who already paid the price feel buyer's remorse.
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by caskance 11y ago
It gives you an illusion of zooming in/out with your scroll wheel when you're actually scrolling the page.
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by caskance 11y ago
Except they obviously didn't take care of those guests. https://twitter.com/edfrenkel
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by caskance 11y ago
Encryption does not prevent surveillance, it just means surveillance changes to more watching people and devices and less watching traffic. You can use all the end to end encryption you want, it does you no good when the ends are insecure.
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by caskance 11y ago
Not at all. Religion was born the first time a thinking creature looked up at the sky. Most likely some pre-homo sapiens hominid.
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by caskance 11y ago
Not if you've ever met a human.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's not a very long sentence. What part is confusing?
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by caskance 11y ago
Why does it have to codified?
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by caskance 11y ago
That would require humans to have existed before religion, which is frankly quite ridiculous.
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by caskance 11y ago
If I knew the cards were marked and how And I knew exactly how much or how little each of the other players knew about - the marking system - and the other players' knowledge of it And I knew that I was the only one at the table wi
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by caskance 11y ago
>On the other trying to get the upper hand in a trade treaty is not so great What's wrong with that? Trying to get the best deal for your side is the entire point of a negotiation.
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by caskance 11y ago
Adding a new feature is the main reason you'd want to refactor something. Refactoring for its own sake is nice in theory, but ain't nobody got time for that. If you are doing real refactoring in a practical setting, it's prob
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by caskance 11y ago
Your logic sounds backwards to me. Restrictions breed creativity as people do their best to work around or within those restrictions. I would expect a government that is trying to encourage its citizens to be more creative to have draconian
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by caskance 11y ago
Because it's the responsible thing to do. If you are going to stop development, that means outstanding issues will not be fixed.
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by caskance 11y ago
The sort of people who stop playing the lottery because the odds are bad were never playing the lottery in the first place.
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by caskance 11y ago
Not really. It explores some of the negatives that crop up from scientifically illiterate parents crippling their child due to their own misinformed decisions. Vincent was sturggling against his hippie antivaxxer parents who wanted a "
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by caskance 11y ago
Just because someone has written a thing - and even gotten it published - doesn't mean there is any truth to what they have written. Otherwise your link could just be to my comment.
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by caskance 11y ago
If you choose to assume that privacy is inherently good, of course you will reach conclusions that say we should prioritize privacy over other things. Not really useful to people who recognize that privacy was nothing more than a temporary
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by caskance 11y ago
Most likely because they comply with lawful requests from the legitimate governments of nations they operate in.
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by caskance 11y ago
Agitating for any reason is stupid if the current powers that be are already doing all they can to fix the issues you yourself prioritize highest.
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by caskance 11y ago
What is it like being so brave?
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by caskance 11y ago
Looks like you forgot to read to the end of the paragraph.

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