delazeur

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by delazeur 9y ago
> Would you like it if the plurality of stakeholders in your ecosystem vilified you in a similar way? If I was having background investigations done on rape victims in order to discredit them for my own benefit, I would deserve it.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Throwing the responsibility onto individuals is DUMB because it decentralizes responsibility. Good thing I'm not doing that, then.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> I don't think it is a straw-man to point at a real problem and demand answers. A straw-man argument is creating something that doesn't exist then attacking that. "You are shifting the blame" is a straw man because t
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by delazeur 9y ago
... People with far greater than average power to change society. I can't make laws. Can you? Voting for representatives who will make laws that create the change you want to see in the world is absolutely not "relying on someone
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by delazeur 9y ago
> I never said that Perhaps that isn't what you meant , but it sure looks to me like that's what you said .
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by delazeur 9y ago
Yes, the free market approach is unlikely to succeed here, but that's why we have elected representatives.
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by delazeur 9y ago
You're straw-manning here. A lot of rhetoric about pollution implicitly or explicitly paints a picture of evil corporations polluting for fun and profit, but any successful scheme to reduce pollution has to acknowledge that corporatio
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by delazeur 9y ago
It's not a question of obtaining any loan. It's a question of obtaining enough loans.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> What a rude way to make a point. Let's all just savor that one.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Are you suggesting that there isn't something fundamentally inequitable about large segments of society having a harder time obtaining material wealth? I agree with what I assume is your position that material wealth shouldn't b
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by delazeur 9y ago
I've heard this claim a few times before (always from people trying to handcuff the EPA rulemaking process, funny enough) and I haven't looked into the specifics too closely, but my experience working with and around EPA on region
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by delazeur 9y ago
I love that stuff, but I have a hard time seeing it move beyond early adopters. I just don't think that more than 5-10% of the population wants to mess around with the guts of their tech. Some versions of those things may go mainstrea
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Meanwhile unemployment benefits in certain countries (e.g. Australia) legally require you to do this to keep your benefits. Literally applying. I had to document a certain number of applications per week to get unemployment in the U.S.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> But because I take some care in selecting who I talk to in the first place to make sure we're a match before even getting that far. My strategy and success rates are similar to yours, but I don't think that identifying good m
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by delazeur 9y ago
That's a fairly obvious dodge. I would assume that the primary purpose of the article is to generate advertising and subscription revenue.
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by delazeur 9y ago
If you are going to talk about a specific study, please link to it.
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by delazeur 9y ago
Your claim would be supported by evidence that the population of drinkers has higher suicide rates than the population of non-drinkers, which is notably different than evidence that people who commit suicide are likely to be drinkers.
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by delazeur 9y ago
No, you clearly did not say that the article may be full of misdirection. You very emphatically stated that the article certainly contained misdirection, but did not deign to tell us mere mortals what that misdirection might be: "
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by delazeur 9y ago
The term "monopoly on violence" refers specifically to legitimate violence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Governments do not protect everyone, or provide basic services to everyone, equally. That's true, but why is your response is to check out of society rather than to push for constructive changes? Why should I respect your choice
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by delazeur 9y ago
This is critical: clever math is not going to protect your assets from the organization that has a monopoly on violence.
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by delazeur 9y ago
In comparison: my recollection is that about 1% of natural gas in the U.S. is lost during extraction and transmission (it's been a couple of years since I researched this). Interestingly, around 5% of our natural gas infrastructure ac
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by delazeur 9y ago
> That was first time I needed to do that and they also asked for my signature which surprised me as it was first time in my life I needed to sign a receipt! That's wild. Here in the U.S., I sign a couple of receipts every day.
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by delazeur 9y ago
> Either it be by age, sex, religion, health I'm fairly sure those criteria are all illegal, at least in most U.S. states if not at the federal level. Also, it's a huge leap to say that discrimination is motivated by profits.
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by delazeur 9y ago
There is an extent to which culture fit is an appropriate discriminator, but writing people off based on their age is taking it too far.
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by delazeur 9y ago
What are you suggesting? That the Su-22 wasn't actually shot down? That the AIM-9X was actually successful, and the AIM-120 wasn't used? You can't just say "blah blah propaganda, blah blah misdirection" every time
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by delazeur 9y ago
Leaking is not inherently treasonous in the United States. I understand that you don't live here and probably don't understand how we do things; I suggest that you research something we call "whistleblower protection laws.&q
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by delazeur 9y ago
That's a very selective quotation. "You" in the original comment was very obviously a fry cook: "Uber drivers are entrepreneurs like the fry-station cook at mcdonalds is a small business owner. Except McDonalds can&#x
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by delazeur 9y ago
Making a loss on every sale, but making up for it with volume?
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by delazeur 9y ago
Do you or do you not understand the difference between a franchise owner and a fry cook?

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