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by daenz 4y ago
>Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made. -attributed to JRR Tolkien
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by daenz 4y ago
>In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. Is it any surprise that the ACLU has succumbed to the tide of public opinion? Their support of fr
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by daenz 4y ago
Active vs passive is where I draw the line. Passively being enticing is not the same as actively coercing someone to do something. If passively enticing is considered preying, then the number of things in the world that "prey upon&quot
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by daenz 4y ago
Is there a question in there?
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by daenz 4y ago
I think people bought into the idea because they were selling shovels in a gold rush.
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by daenz 4y ago
Do casinos prey on the vulnerable? Does the state lottery? That's not where I draw the line for "preyed upon." When I think "preyed upon", I think of a con artist who is orchestrating bad situation to make it very d
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by daenz 4y ago
You can believe that someone deserves negative outcomes that are the direct consequences of their bad decisions, but also think that neither their decisions nor the consequences are good.
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by daenz 4y ago
Yes, I grew up poor in a single parent household. Generic food brands at discount grocery stores, clothes from thrift stores, etc. I know what being poor is. >Do you really believe that it is a good thing that they are getting scammed ou
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by daenz 4y ago
>There's a lot of vulnerable people losing a lot of money on crypto I feel absolutely no sympathy for people who lose their money in crypto. If they're truly "vulnerable people" and they're dumping their savings
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by daenz 4y ago
"rent" != "a substantial part of rent"
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by daenz 4y ago
>The real question is whether employers will raise salaries enough to compensate for the additional taxes, once they're no longer providing insurance as a benefit. I don't think that's even a question. The answer is no, th
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by daenz 4y ago
There's endless discussions on the internet about these tired topics. If you don't feel they have been debunked, I don't think you ever will. There are others that feel the opposite, also strongly. That's why these are t
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by daenz 4y ago
In an article about taking away billionaire's wealth, this doesn't support that argument? It's just a non-sequitur that has no purpose in the context of the larger argument?
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by daenz 4y ago
And this justifies taking away his wealth? In other words, if Elon literally invented the Tesla car himself, would there be no arguments against him being extremely wealthy?
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by daenz 4y ago
"Doing Y without X is harmful" doesn't mean "X is harmful"
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm sure it's by design. I don't know the author's stance on nationalizing, but people who make similar arguments about "you don't need that much money!" also like to propose nationalizing all wealthy comp
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by daenz 4y ago
I'm not seeing any new arguments here. Summarized: They don't need that much money. It's not even that much money, relative to the world. That much money doesn't make you live forever. They didn't even bui
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by daenz 4y ago
There's a lot of social problems that you have to cope with, like low food, low healthcare, forcing workers to shovel coal at gunpoint or else the whole outpost freezes to death. It's brutal.
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by daenz 4y ago
It's not convenient to know that when your goal is to smash capitalism.
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by daenz 4y ago
Frostpunk is similar to this https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/323190/
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by daenz 4y ago
So it can identify disabilities, but not abilities?
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by daenz 4y ago
Did you purchase the study? Can you post the bit about religion, and also the bit about concussions please?
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by daenz 4y ago
Since it is such a bad test, what test do you recommend to replace it?
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by daenz 4y ago
>Why has this strategy been so profitable and painless? Well, because stocks have been in a bull market for thirteen years. If "buy the dip" works for a bull market, does "short the peak" work for a bear market?
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by daenz 4y ago
Given its impact on ML, for a single person to discover, yes.
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Is that why apple store employees are called "geniuses" ?
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by daenz 4y ago
It must be difficult to repeat the success of a once-in-a-lifetime finding.
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by daenz 4y ago
Many of the replies here are "but what if I lose my phone|my battery dies|my phone is destroyed?" and they are all valid concerns. The next logical improvement to this is an authN device that cannot be lost, forgotten, or easily d
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by daenz 4y ago
Just say you wish everyone was required to be chipped at birth with a NFC private key, Big Tech. I'm only being half sarcastic. There's a lot of outlandish conspiracies around this idea, but I think we all know it's heading i
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by daenz 4y ago
Everyone having a phone already is orthogonal to whether or not it is a good idea to require phones to function in society. I don't see it as a slippery slope argument because almost everything will eventually move to being online-base

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