consonants

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by consonants 13y ago
My analogy was to provide a stepping stone towards understanding why you aren't an island and, yes, that your success depends on EVERYONE as a whole. Not just specific people. I used to be an libertarian, so I crafted my analogy to app
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by consonants 13y ago
Imma gonna make a software analogy. Society is like a framework you build upon, without the scaffolding there to hold you up and none of what you accomplished would be possible. None. In turn, it is our responsibility to manage the upkeep o
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by consonants 13y ago
>If you feel your wages are too low, negotiate for higher ones. If that doesn't work, accept it or quit. Labor rights in this country are so laughable that this isn't a realistic an option. Any attempt towards that end such as
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by consonants 13y ago
Enterprise software is about long-term maintainability, compatibility, and comprehensive support for all included components. Pulling packages from npm and the like unfortunately will not satisfy those prerequisites.
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by consonants 13y ago
Tell me more about how the non-aggression principle absolves you of any social responsibility. You didn't earn your money in a vacuum outside of society, you earned it with the implicit knowledge that you will be taxed while reaping th
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by consonants 13y ago
Machines are predictable and trustworthy; humans are shifty, fickle, and expect things like 'rights' and 'livable wages'. First they came for the computer janitors, and I did not speak for I was not a computer janitor.
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by consonants 13y ago
It's clear that you have a very limited view of humanity. Go out and meet some people, and learn their motivations and what drives them.
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by consonants 13y ago
>Being a single mom in Western nations is mostly a business model anyway Can you expound on this?
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by consonants 13y ago
Tell me again how taxation is theft.
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by consonants 13y ago
If you think the majority of people would just lay their lives to waste because they don't need to doing the bidding of others just to survive, then you are wrong. 99% of able-bodied and able-minded adults would not succumb to idlery.
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by consonants 13y ago
Okay, that puts this into perspective: >> This has nothing to do with socialism. >Redistribution of wealth is a core concept of socialism, and that's what this program effectively achieves. The resources come from heavier taxa
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by consonants 13y ago
Genuinely curious, at what point does taxation become socialism?
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by consonants 13y ago
I'm the conceited attitude that implies that poverty exists as a function of population and not, you know, because of a class of wealth hoarders.
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by consonants 13y ago
>But many have chosen it, often in part due to (alcohol) addiction. It's a crime that a person with a disease can be literally left in the gutter by society and then be told they chose to be there. >I've given a bag of food
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by consonants 13y ago
I love threads like this because it brings people like you out of the woodwork. It's like gazing into the abyss. An appeal to nature (an untenable one at that) and a lack of understanding of scope on how natural selection works is just
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by consonants 13y ago
It's telling that you feel you can deem some people as being beyond help from a position of absolute rationality as if being an observer grants you a minutiae of perspective into their situation.
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by consonants 13y ago
Stupid? Effectively intercepting telecommunications from not only within and with the consent of the 'big players' networks, but also assuring they achieve total surveillance through compromising undersea cables is quite the feat.
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by consonants 13y ago
This is easily the most insightful post in this thread, it is unfortunate that anyone downvoted you.
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by consonants 13y ago
You are mistaken. This is the landing page for the leak: http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html Linkbaiting is on the submitter. Wikileaks has done no disservice here.
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by consonants 13y ago
Counterpoint: capitalists and the growth of inequality. I find it hard to believe that a group of people who act in complete self interest can or should efficiently and effectively distribute vital resources. See: oil, diamonds, and commodi
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by consonants 13y ago
Can you provide evidence that a centralized economy is inefficient?
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by consonants 13y ago
The labor system is not at all comparable to socialism. Try feudalism.
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by consonants 13y ago
Not at all. Incan society had a caste system, nobles, royalty, etc. Nobles owned estates and laborers. Workers did not own the means of production.
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by consonants 13y ago
Sounds like feudalism to me. Your friend seems to have a tenuous grasp on what Marxism is, but still uses it as a pejorative; which is unfortunate. >There was no market because that culture was run by theocratic totalitarian blood thirst
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by consonants 13y ago
That doesn't prevent the 99% of Tor users accessing hidden services exposing the location of the service to whoever is operating the majority of honeypot nodes. It also doesn't prevent owners of relay nodes from construing the ori
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by consonants 13y ago
That's a red herring. It's the network that is compromised. If you operate enough exit and relay nodes, you can be pretty damn well sure of where the traffic originated. Anonymity hinges on the nodes, if an entity controls most of
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by consonants 13y ago
>My favorite part is his earnest naivety in somehow thinking he wasn't the mark
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by consonants 13y ago
My favorite part is his earnest naivety in somehow thinking he wasn't the mark and in believing that Paypal would ever side on his behalf. This just further confirms my suspicions that you have to be retarded to get involved with bitco
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by consonants 13y ago
It's not a completely logic-motivated decision, but that does not make it any less valid. Having your sense of privacy and safety breached is incredibly disturbing on an emotional level. I've been robbed, you end up feeling rightl
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by consonants 13y ago
>Your premise that if people's needs are met they will do nothing I feel is plain wrong - people will be bored then, and there are other societal pressures that can drive people to do, to improve themselves, to be productive. My poi

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