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by devoply 7y ago
Well the point is to protect founding myths because at the time of the invention of said myths they were very weak. And yeah if your myths can't survive criticism, maybe your myths are not worth believing in.
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by devoply 7y ago
It's likely just a system (credit score) invented to get as many people using credit as possible. But there is a credit score and that is a result of making payments on time to many different sources of loan and paying them on time ove
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by devoply 7y ago
Fake news and propaganda used to sow hatred against America's so-called enemies, small countries with little ability to do much to America hated mostly because of blow-back from America's imperial aspirations... vs. fake news prop
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by devoply 7y ago
The other study mentioned shows regrets follow opportunity. So yes it's very likely... as we don't know the results of taking the other road and never will. So maybe the lesson is whatever you choose be content with that choice...
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by devoply 7y ago
What about animal vectors like birds?
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by devoply 7y ago
What Google should do is just join the military industrial complex by forming a joint-venture with companies like Boeing, Raytheon, etc. Then everyone would just leave Brittany alone. It's easy to point your finger at China while turni
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by devoply 7y ago
Yet glass bottles are used everywhere from beer, wine, jellies, jams, etc. etc. Transportation cost is not much of a real issue.
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by devoply 7y ago
> I really wish we could find a way to not be so reliant on plastics. Aluminum and glass. We have ways, we only need the political will to mandate their uses and discontinue plastics over a short period of say 10-20 years.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah India wants all the stuff the British Raj stole from it back.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah bleed the piggy... then declare bankruptcy.
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by devoply 7y ago
Let's see 3% payment cost vs 30% fees... If they wanted to just charge the transaction cost. And yes there are cost centers and profit centers. If you want to eat the cost of something you could do it. And once it becomes successful ma
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by devoply 7y ago
Maybe. But really displacing any of those services is maybe 10,000 developers away... we already have F-droid what if you co-opted it to publish commercial apps for no fees. What if you set 10,000-20,000 developers to work on an open source
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by devoply 7y ago
Huawei is not an advertising company. They could use a completely different approach to openness and privacy and eat Google's lunch in the current climate... if they were wise and not trying to be authoritarian or controlling. And cons
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by devoply 7y ago
Population follows production which is a result of technology and progress which is intrinsically linked with capitalism. Take away the population and consumption will still not decrease (as those left over will simply consume more) and nei
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by devoply 7y ago
An algo or human being can only identify something as undesirable based on social norms of the times... There are many socially acceptable groups and ideas that have fringe or even mainstream elements to them that have undesirable elements
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by devoply 7y ago
A high-demand religion I would guess would be some sort of fringe cult? If so within every one of the modern religions/ideologies there are similar fringe cults that are hate-filled with dogma for everyone else not in line with their i
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by devoply 7y ago
> My experience was that established religions got hungry for tithing and thus optimized their messages with new ideas that ignore tolerance and abuse pluralism. Monotheism is against pluralism where polytheism was not. That was there fr
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by devoply 7y ago
People pushing those ideologies.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah the people pushing all these different ideologies basically engineered a culture to be like this. With various ideologies replacing religion (which are themselves really modern religions) that don't really work out the implication
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by devoply 7y ago
I guess it's probably a business play in that their packages keep getting stolen so if they did this they could stop their packages from getting stolen. But it's a stupid thing to do, where Apple is going for privacy as a competit
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by devoply 7y ago
Schools in certain parts of the US, usually with more unruly students from lower income backgrounds, are pretty much set up like prisons. You can't leave the premises as the exits are heavily guarded, there are cops present, there are
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by devoply 7y ago
With their moves with Nest I don't think Google's play is to be a platform... But rather they want to own all of that stuff and tell you what to do with it. They want to be an agent and not a platform.
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by devoply 7y ago
So you're saying it's a deer hominid hybrid?
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by devoply 7y ago
You can still depend on each other and have everything open source, open to scrutiny and audit.
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by devoply 7y ago
All networking gear and computing systems used for sensitive purposes need to be produced locally by each country. Or if they are going to be developed together then they need to be based on common open source components that are very well
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by devoply 7y ago
They should use this center for technology transfer... heh.
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by devoply 7y ago
> they care about other nations spying on their citizens No they don't give a shit about that. The US cares about other nations spying on their businesses and commercial interests and losing dominance of leading network technology t
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by devoply 7y ago
One thing I have learned about business is that this is not true at all. Hurting social norms or political ideas does not harm most businesses. People care about the benefits to themselves individually. They don't care about anything m
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah it did nothing to Microsoft. Business as usual.
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by devoply 7y ago
I know, but if that's trivial so is giving skeleton keys for all your network to the government for a fat contract (Amazon)... or they could just take it like they did with Cisco.

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