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by cgmg 9y ago
>From the perspective of somebody in the marketplace I prefer having people who break the social contract removed. This statement is meaningless. What are the contents of this alleged social contract you're referring to? I bet your
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by cgmg 9y ago
There's a simple solution: Filter out what you (or your community) don't want to see, but don't force your sensibilities on everyone else.
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by cgmg 9y ago
How is your comment relevant to the GP? Did you mean to reply to someone else?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Proof of Burn solves the reputation problem. Here's an example: https://www.openbazaar.org/blog/why-proof-of-burn/ .
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by cgmg 9y ago
Have you been diagnosed with meibomian gland dysfunction? Did you, by any chance, ever take a drug called Accutane (Claravis/Amnesteem/isotretinoin)?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why two centuries? Most areas of the world are extremely unlikely to be involved in a nuclear conflict and/or receive significant damage.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why do you claim it's the "exact opposite"?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> the assumption that humans have it [general intelligence] is a conceit without convincing evidence Why do you make this claim? Engineering, science, and mathematics are all convincing evidence that humans have general intelligence. Hum
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Non-capitalist countries also made huge improvements in standards of living Not as much as capitalist countries. That's the point.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why?
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by cgmg 9y ago
What are these confounding factors you speak of?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Capitalist countries have much higher standards of living than anti-capitalist countries. That is fact, not opinion.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> The free market is working on frivolous problems because that's what's left to do when you don't have the force of a state behind you. Can you clarify what you mean by this?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> In my opinion, a mathematician does not know what the difference between "being literally" and "being encoded as" is Wrong. The real numbers are literally a Dedekind-complete ordered field. The real numbers are e
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Real numbers can actually be logically constructed as sets. So yes, Pi is a set. You missed the point. The point is that while X (e.g. the real numbers) can be encoded as Y (e.g. Cauchy sequences), this doesn't mean that X is lit
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by cgmg 9y ago
You forgot to say that succ is injective.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Technically, the NFL theorem does not apply to the real world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...
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by cgmg 9y ago
> There is no evidence for trade between Europe and Africa going back thousands of years. I take it you're not familiar with Phoenicia, Carthage, Macedonia, or the Roman empire? > Thousands of years ago there was very little, if
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by cgmg 9y ago
You're wrong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Why must the CEO of Google be the most highly-paid position for Google to run well? That's up to Google, not me. Unlike you, I don't seek to dictate what organizations should pay their managers. > The point is that the pay
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by cgmg 9y ago
> This is completely stupid and unacceptable. Why? > Why does Sundar Pichai make 500x more than the President? Do we, as a society, value running Google well 500x more than running our government well? Why must the Presidency be the m
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by cgmg 9y ago
> if a ditch digging machine does all that work automatically the result is... that the ditch diggers starve to death What evidence do you have to support such an implausible claim?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Like I said elsewhere, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have a similar culture and shared history yet became liberal democracies. They are also much more prosperous.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Great that they moved the problem to a place with even fewer protections for workers. Are you saying such workers are better off without these jobs?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Nothing glenstein said was incorrect. Why are you reacting in such a hostile manner? You seem to have an axe to grind.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> you can think of their actions as real large scale cases of “the ends justify the means” and “putting the greater good ahead of the individual.” I'm curious. What makes you think the Party's actions were anything but a selfis
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by cgmg 9y ago
I think the point about 'culture' is over-stated. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have a similar culture yet became liberal democracies.
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by cgmg 9y ago
I'm curious. What are these forces that require you to be a part of social media? And why are you using Google rather than alternatives like DuckDuckGo?
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by cgmg 9y ago
I don't understand your analogy. Are you trying to draw an equivalence between tax resistance and rape?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> bitcoin isn't rare to be a store of value.....everyday there's a new viable cryptocurrency springing up What makes bitcoin 'rare' isn't the fact that it's a cryptocurrency, just like what makes a dollar &#

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