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by devoply 7y ago
Someone must not have hired a lobbying team and lined some pockets in Washington. Also the crooked US justice system, you don't have the right to defend yourself using your own money: > The asset freezes raise all kinds of thorny co
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by devoply 7y ago
after that, the fall of man.
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by devoply 7y ago
Our legal systems in all our countries are totalitarian like literally. The reason that very few people come in contact with them is libertarian philosophy. In that if nobody witnesses something happen or is not bothered by it then nobody g
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by devoply 7y ago
Moffett is wrong. If we can have 1-2 billion people rally behind a single religion we can have a cosmopolitan society. The question is how do we divide up things so people feel that they are getting their fair share... without destroying th
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by devoply 7y ago
America invents a boogie man to rally behind. There is no real boogie man. Hell go see Regan's speech where he's talking about ralling against alien threat rather than fighting the Soviet Union.
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by devoply 7y ago
When the Japanese Nazi doctors did this to the Chinese, medical experiments and murder, that was a huge tragedy, and yet the Chinese have no problem doing this to their own people that don't abide by the party line. How terrible.
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by devoply 7y ago
Hey wiretap show me my favorite show. Hey wall with ears tell me the weather.
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by devoply 7y ago
When the aliens want to destroy a planet they give them capitalism, science, and technology. The people do rest of the work. Because power corrupts. The greater the power the worse the eventual catastrophe.
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by devoply 7y ago
Replace with glass and aluminum, with what's left over burn it. That way it has no way of creating any other problems in the future. If you are efficient with burning it you could even capture the greenhouse gasses produced as a result
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by devoply 7y ago
Tax driver a respectable career that earned its drivers good pay until it got exploited by billionaire capitalists, I mean disrupted.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes we can't have them live poorly, they must be either paid fairly or denied any money so as to leave. In other news Gig Workers create jobs for underprivileged and unemployed immigrants.
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by devoply 7y ago
Roads are extremely expensive, adding sensors to new roads should actually be a rounding error.
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by devoply 7y ago
Ideally Westerners are gaga for the freedom myth where the history of the freedom is that the Roman empire conquered tons of people and then adopted the freedom myths of the people they conquered as something to be lauded, despite the fact
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by devoply 7y ago
Do I value my life or value my career?
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by devoply 7y ago
Post about random number generators, meh, post about TempleOS while stirring the pot... Top HN. But yeah, historically mental illness was closely linked to divine inspiration. Before modern times it is very likely Terry would have been some
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by devoply 7y ago
> At what point do we declare something a "rip-off" vs. an "homage" or simply be content saying it was "based on" or "inspired by" some earlier, original work? When it's done by a copyright ho
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by devoply 7y ago
Cut off from global markets. Cut off from probably most international suppliers. Cut off from all American patents. In its current state I doubt it will last very long as anything outside of China.
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by devoply 7y ago
US killed Huawei overnight, a world-class competitor which was basically beating US companies, using pretty shoddy justification. So I would not rule out no one can challenge China, China is not the US. And even if it were Vietnam still bea
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by devoply 7y ago
What does Google gain? Maybe some data, and that's probably what this is about, getting speed test data from lots of users. But revenue wise I don't think it gains anything and sties currently offering the service go out of busine
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by devoply 7y ago
It's a joke how trivial it is for Google to destroy these sort of sites.
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by devoply 7y ago
I am a critic of the US but in this case it's not as if Russian hackers don't keep screwing with the US power grid.
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by devoply 7y ago
It's a tit-for-tat response... until some treaty is signed which forbids it and then there is follow through from Russia. US plays hard ball if the other side is not playing fairly. You can hardly blame them.
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by devoply 7y ago
Did you read the article? That is not what the lawsuit is saying at all. And it would be pretty trivial to figure out if Alexa was recording all the time by putting a sniffer on your network and seeing how much data is being transmitted to
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by devoply 7y ago
Not only is this a period of great extinction, this is also a period of great sterilization where we are trying to kill everything that eats anything that we produce... as if we are not one of those things and somehow separate from it all.
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by devoply 7y ago
At the end of the day it's a con to bilk people out of more money or deny insurance to those that they don't like or maybe they have some "secret" stolen information that the person is a insurance risk.
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by devoply 7y ago
Phrenology makes a hearty comeback this time with the help of AI. Psychology based on the skull vs psychology based on the face and "micro-expressions" http://www.victorianweb.org/science/phrenology/intro
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by devoply 7y ago
I suggested a simple solution for the problem. Ask users to meet a certain fund raising goal and if they don't come up with it, either stop working on the project, or pull it entirely and let them worry about it. This is a capitalist a
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by devoply 7y ago
> is not healthy in the long term. Healthy for whom? Creator of Vue.js pulls in like 240k. Every open source contributor of any sort of popular project should be getting at least that much through various deals or pull the plug. Hold you
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If I had to guess it's something (socks) you might give to a homeless person.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes as long as there is a way to make positive NPV that's true. Take that away and the whole system does ground to a halt.

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