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by deciplex 9y ago
The desktop experience is awful just from an aesthetics point of view because you've got two flavors of look and feel and you've got to jump from one to the other constantly to get anything done. You want users to develop an intui
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by deciplex 9y ago
> This only works with people who are already anti-corporate. A normal conservative would say "Because they're entitled to run their business and use their property as they see fit, and if you don't like what they're
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by deciplex 9y ago
all the time fucko
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by deciplex 9y ago
> On this and everything. What on earth can we do about it? Try brute force.
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by deciplex 9y ago
So is yelling fire in a movie theater, then.
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by deciplex 9y ago
The afterword seems kind of weak as it tries to return to the question of what quantum mechanics "means" and then... sort of doesn't really do that. It goes on to describe an "ethereal" influence distinct from causa
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by deciplex 9y ago
Reading ithinkinstereo's post ridiculing the increasingly unsteady optimism / deluded thinking of "millennials" (it's always millennials now isn't it) I couldn't help but think "once that optimism or
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by deciplex 10y ago
Currently that's the "???" before "Profit!" but I'm sure they'll figure something out.
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by deciplex 10y ago
(The joke is in supposing that Windows would ask first.)
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by deciplex 10y ago
"Planned society" is so vague as to be meaningless anyway. "Planned society" certainly can include UBI, though you appear to suppose it doesn't. It can mean basically anything where you have a government that enforc
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by deciplex 10y ago
I meant it isn't "worth it" for Jason Furman to mention it, because he can assume that virtually everyone listening (or, at least, his intended audience) not only assumes it as a given, but has it so ingrained into how they t
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by deciplex 10y ago
It might fix it, but I think not directly. UBI alone won't fix the productivity-wage gap because giving everyone a flat grant isn't going to stop employers from paying low wages. However, it will remove one bit of leverage employe
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by deciplex 10y ago
Only if you think businesses that rely on extremely low wages in order to be profitable deserve to exist. Frankly if the only way you can make widgets is to pay your widget-makers just enough so that they don't die, or perhaps less, th
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by deciplex 10y ago
The idea that people will stop working without the constant threat of total destitution lingering on the periphery, is so totally ingrained into the American psyche that it isn't even worth mentioning.
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by deciplex 10y ago
I guess to believe this you have to believe that all so-called liberals and leftists are actually just authoritarians who use the promise of "free shit", as the saying goes, merely as a means to secure power for themselves rather
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by deciplex 10y ago
Anyone who has gone to the gym after a protracted absence and loss of fitness will have some intuitive understanding of this. Your brain hasn't quite gotten the memo that you're not in the shape you used to be, and it's reall
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by deciplex 10y ago
You are confusing "Nordic" with "Scandinavian". Finnish is a Nordic language by definition.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Finland is Nordic, and Estonia is not, so Estonia is not as Nordic as Finland.
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by deciplex 10y ago
What if over half the population is racist and stupid, though? I don't want to get into an argument about whether that's actually true of Britain, but if you would indulge the hypothetical: what do you do at that point? Is it righ
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by deciplex 10y ago
"On balance democracy is a good thing" and "this electorate is utter shit" are not contradictory beliefs :-) On the face of it this seems like a terrible idea, and certainly the politicians promoting it are fucking creti
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by deciplex 10y ago
hmm ctrl-f "biden": zero results Of course as a Senate Democrat he did take part in any blocking of judicial appointments by Bush where applicable, which did not rise to the level of the Republican blocking of Obama appointments,
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by deciplex 10y ago
Yes, put off until after the election, and then the nominee considered at that point. There are a few Republican Senators who have publicly gone on record as being receptive to that, but on the whole Republicans in the Senate have made it c
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Let's also remember what that VP Biden (as a Senator in 1992) stated about Justices in an election year (no). Yes, let's try to remember, since you have apparently forgotten: > "Should a justice resign this summer
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Ride-sharing apps are just apps, and the barrier for adopting a new one is low, for both sides of the market. It's easy for two people to start using a new social network as well. That doesn't mean they'll want to do i
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by deciplex 10y ago
This has nothing to do with copyright. If a person performing at a private venue does not want her performance recorded (or, wants only certain people to record her performance) that's entirely her right.
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by deciplex 10y ago
"If the Flying Spaghetti Monster did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
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by deciplex 10y ago
That Kasich is considered a "moderate" in the context of the contemporary GOP sorta illustrates your point.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Mere "political incorrectness" does not rise to anywhere near the level of actual hate speech. It's the difference between advocating against abortion or even protesting abortion clinics, and actually calling for the assassin
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by deciplex 10y ago
I agree with you in principle however as far as I can tell people are being banned for what is essentially hate speech, i.e. speech that incites to violence. That is not the same as banning for political views - Google and Twitter are under
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by deciplex 10y ago
Once "the bad guys" are in control what makes you think they are going to give a shit about the regulatory tradition of the internet up to that point?

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