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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury."
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Imagine a future where everyone requires an online account to use a computer, where every computer can only run software approved by the few large corporations that issue those accounts, and where a government or governments have those corp
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
In corporate and government environments, I imagine that they'll ban employees / civil servants from bringing camera(phone)s to work, and necessarily forbid them working from home. The only question is whether they will trust meta
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> They actually could easily enforce laws on banned content too Exactly this. As soon as governments (or lobbyists) discover that this level of control is available to them, they will introduce whatever remaining laws they need, banning
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> 1,000 times ... a rate potentially 10 times higher So with System 03 they would need to do 100 missions (and the missions take maybe a year?) but if they had funding for ten of these deployments and ran them simultaneously then the pro
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> If this precluded the ability to eg install a program via curl or brew, or even just a .dmg you download from your browser I expect that governments will offer a "compromise" which is that you can run these "unapproved&q
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> not fundamentally more difficult to get correct The fundamental difference is that we can predict well in advance how many days will be in a given month, and the rules for calculating that number can be implemented with a short lookup
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The first chart[1] in the article shows a stark contrast between the "price to income ratios" of even countries that share a border. That suggests that government policy plays an important role. [1] Reproduced here: https:/
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The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing entire countries(bloomberglinea.com)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I get the point that psychiatrists wanted to avoid over-diagnosing/over-prescribing, but what if they ended up over-prescribing societal shame itself, which is after all a very blunt instrument? This is particularly likely to occur if
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> psychiatrists felt obligated to restigmatize this mental disorder in hopes of limiting its adoption Or, to put it another way, they felt obligated to shame people into not seeking treatment, in hopes of not having to admit that they di
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If governments aren't going to ban or replace these "agreements" with standardised terms and conditions, then they should mandate that the app or website has to check that the user has read the entire text before they can con
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, I apologise. I should perhaps have added an asterisk next to "modest" with the explanation "at least from the perspective of some of the women who choose to dress that way (and some of them only have that perspective be
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Let me turn the question around: Do you think that France should allow sex-segregated changing rooms, and sex-segregated swimming competitions?
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Correct. Another example was "If you take the vaccine then the government will be able to track your location", which also turned out to be true, from a certain point of view.[0] Anyway, judging by the reaction to my earlier comm
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In France such lunacy is unthinkable because they have freedom from religion So by banning modest clothing and mandating mixed sex bathing, French women are "free" from having to see or accept the existence of Muslim women, w
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A simpler technique which already exists is embedding invisible unique watermarks in the video output of the game, which can be revealed with image processing[0]. Of course that doesn't prevent the image being tweeted, but it does mean
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Perhaps we need the word "agorocracy" to describe "rule by markets". That's not quite what you're proposing, since you presumably only want the market to rule over Twitter and not over the rest of society, but
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> this theory would mean that a state legislature could simply overturn federal election results it did not like based on its perception, no matter how unfounded, that the rules were violated. The question is, if a state legislature did
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> Youtube acts like a neutral party that won't cheat, because it has no reason to. Actually it has a huge reason to, and sometimes large advertising companies do get accused of such cheating. [0] You're right, though, that gett
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy, 1962 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/89101-those-who-make-peacef...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Allowing influence of a particular religious sect over laws is exactly akin to a state religion, which is expressly unconstitutional. But doesn't this argument also mean "Allowing influence of religious people over laws (e.g.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To be fair, when people answer yes to "should the Bible have some influence on US laws" what they mean is "the Bible, as interpreted by my particular sect". Fortunately the number of members of the Republican party who
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> What motivation does the capital class have in my pizza being late? You're asking what motivation do businesses have for taking your money and not investing enough to provide the service that customers want in return?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> No prosperity = no democracy. I'm not sure how you're measuring "prosperity", but democracies tend to be richer per capita, and I don't see prosperity "disappearing". Do you mean that countries are fa
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I see what you're saying, but I also think a case could be made that democracies rely on violence less than other forms. I'm assuming that solid democracies are less likely to have civil wars, international wars, or genocides, tha
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> Consequently, there are two main ways to protect American democracy. The first is to reform the GOP, so that it’s again a conservative, but not authoritarian, party (à la John McCain’s or Mitt Romney’s Republican Party). The second is
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> It was clear from the beginning. I don't remember anyone predicting that there would be an industry-wide effort to deliberately not comply with the rules, relying on lax national enforcement, with companies choosing to make their
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I'm not suggesting that the government should require all OSes to provide identical APIs for apps to run on them, for example, as obviously that sort of "interoperability" would place an unreasonable burden on companies. Howe
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As expected, this is the "Just buy an extra phone, 4Head" suggestion that we always hear. (I'm assuming users would still want to access the apps and media they bought on their iPhone). If switching from an iPhone to an Andr

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