davidhollander

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by davidhollander 15y ago
You missed his or her assertion of logical equivalence between Facebook and camp: > Facebook = camp. If Facebook is oppressive and authoritarian, and Facebook is camp, is camp oppressive and authoritarian? The absurdity of internment c
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by davidhollander 15y ago
I agree to the existence of economies of scale and social preference for standardization but not to your ad hominems. Questions: Does Facebook constitute a monopoly? Is there a difference between natural monopoly and coercive monopoly? Does
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> no one who's signed up for it can ever free themselves from its grasp, nor their personal information from its database. I've personally deleted all my personal information from my first Facebook account a few years ago. There were
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by davidhollander 15y ago
To resummarize my position above: A 'violation of freedom' requires the use of force by an authority. A parent forcing a child to go somewhere in spite of their preferences is a 'violation of freedom'. A government forcing a citizen to go s
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by davidhollander 15y ago
I suspect the point of contention is lack of clarification of definitions and terms, particularly regarding 'freedom', the OP's phrase 'heinous violations of freedom', and the concept of violations of freedom in general. I would define 'fre
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Which an authority figure sent him to against his will. Authoritarian power is universally derived the ability to assert the right to legitimate force over others. This is in sharp contrast to voluntary institutions and businesses such as
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Calling Facebook an oppressive and authoritarian camp violating freedom seems extremely hyperbolic. Doesn't this disservice the experience of those who have actually died in oppressive and authoritarian camps? Is the mental pain individ
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by davidhollander 15y ago
All flora, fauna, and hydrocarbons are merely aggregates of either solar or geothermal energy, which appears to be virtually infinite for the next few billion years. The rise and fall of individual business models for energy conversion does
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> in light of China's 50-100 year vision for where they want to be, we are basically fucked. The chinese have been securing access to all major natural resources in Africa, as well as being the manufacturing hub for EVERYTHING - while
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Given that law enforcement officers are permitted to initiate physical force in mandating attendance, perhaps they could also involuntarily medicate students with mood altering stimulants to accomplish this? It might make them better off
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Cevin Soling: Why Public Schools Must Be Abolished(forbes.com)
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> increase the age of required education to 18 [2]. This sounds like a good idea on paper I would recommend reading Cevin Soling's "Why Public Schools Must be Abolished" for the opposite viewpoint: While it is possible for a North K
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> we will not know We could try checking the internet http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Fear is not always irrational. If we encountered a large tiger while out on a walk, it would be a very beneficial response. To discuss the pragmatics, the problem appears to be the near deterministic impossibility of shutting off the defens
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> so they have little to no basis for making an informed decision about their care or provider The problem with not allowing individual choice in regards to health decisions is illustrated succinctly by the War on Drugs. Additionally
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Yes, most agree that security against unexpected and unpredictable costs, such as emergency room visits and catastrophic illness, is the proper role of insurance. However, for drugs, chronic treatment, and preventative procedures, costs wou
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> A regular paycheck is like crack. > the cycle you get stuck in Is a behavior being "self-reinforcing" or "addictive" a sufficient definition that allows us to distinguish between things considered slavery, and things not considere
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by davidhollander 15y ago
The argument was invoked by John C Calhoun, Thomas Roderick Dew, and George Fitzugh in the beginning of the 19th century in their defenses of slavery. Additionally, any form of socialism advocating for the abolishment of capitalism through
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by davidhollander 15y ago
"Wage slave" is an anti-concept used by individuals to rationalize their belief that coercive slavery can be morally legitimate. In order to do so, they must conflate voluntary impositions on freedom (doing what your boss says to obtain the
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Unexpected maintenance costs can be factored into the consumer cost using expected value, similar to how one accounts for recurring costs such as fuel efficiency in the decision to purchase a vehicle. Your reasoning is similar to a company
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> is already partially regulated by one side: the US > while ignorant readers think this is a benevolent editorial in defense of Internet freedom Who is doing the external regulation is not the issue, the issue is quantity of ex
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Yes, that was my argument. I believe it stands until a semantic context for "completely peaceful and nice" can be proposed that is disjoint in meaning from "nonviolent and voluntary".
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> "communism" can be completely peaceful and nice Perhaps some forms of Anarcho-socialism could be argued to be both completely nonviolent (peaceful) and voluntary (nice). However any form of Communism calling for the abolition of capi
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Keep up the good work with regards to precompiled luajit binaries.
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> you're an outcast if you don't step aboard. If your professional environment standardizes on a platform Although employment and social circles DO limit your range of actions, you accept the tradeoff voluntarily in exchange for benefit
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Russian Social Network Refuses to Block Kremlin Protesters(blogs.wsj.com)
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> because the data are voluntary response data and are useless for modeling reality Unless the reality you seek to model is regarding voluntary responders. Just pretend the OP said "those volunteering information to Hacker News (comme
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Yeah, this is the reason I use a track point instead of a mouse. VIM + touchpad beneath space bar on a standard laptop works well too. I can left\right click with my left thumb and move the cursor with my right thumb without my prim
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Lying on the Internet could soon be a federal crime(digitaltrends.com)
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_science Conflation of genres imo, both science shows and "popular science"

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