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541.
by devoply 7y ago
To tone down those tendencies in yourself that are likely to cause you to get into bad situations. For instance perhaps you love to argue, often that leads people to dislike you. Find a way to be yourself and do the things that you enjoy do
542.
by devoply 7y ago
It's also very important to completely understand the implications of "be yourself". Which is often impossible. All of this is canon fodder for the narcissistic individualism which can easily make you into a curmudgeon that n
543.
by devoply 7y ago
cynic says marketing.
544.
by devoply 7y ago
It's good we still have doctors to provide oversight for this sort of thing. Imagine a future where machines take over because they are thought to be smarter than doctors and then start killing people and their mistakes are written off
545.
by devoply 7y ago
You already have other mapping options like Garmin. And you don't have to pay much for them either. They are 100-300 bucks. They work pretty well... and could really use a boost in what seemed like a dying market.
546.
by devoply 7y ago
That's the biggest problem of our time in that ownership of tech is being transferred from the user to the corporation in various ways and Google is on the front-line of that... mainly because they built their business on advertising a
547.
by devoply 7y ago
Funny thing is that this whole packaging problem could be much improved with some regulation. You could force brands to put their products in large receptacles in the grocery store which would take the place of outer packaging from which yo
548.
by devoply 7y ago
This probably also forwards the simulation argument. In that there are no other life in our supposed universe because it's a simulation like No Man's Sky. You can generate literally billions of planets and galaxies programmaticall
549.
by devoply 7y ago
This is not an expectation of privacy. This is a negative liberty from constant surveillance in public. This has something that has implicitly existed forever. Perhaps it needs to be explicitly stated now. And here I am not even advocating
550.
by devoply 7y ago
Data protection laws need to basically create this sort of ephemerality in collected data in that data is destroyed by law after a certain period of time. Outside of that we're a step away from a total surveillance state where everythi
551.
by devoply 7y ago
Should just call it NSA Bait to be more accurate.
552.
by devoply 7y ago
Population growth is a problem, not a competition. Even if you care about the people's rights and humanism, you should be concerned with how much other life each human displaces.
553.
by devoply 7y ago
No according to one theory the modern mono-theist version of Judaism was copied from the Greeks such as Plato. Before that Judaism was polytheist. The point is that all of these things were there together sharing their ideas with each other
554.
by devoply 7y ago
The roots of the Western world are Greco-persian. Persia was as powerful of a civilization as the Greeks and Persian thought was commonly used by the Greeks. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-iii
555.
by devoply 7y ago
Yeah pretty much. I was reading Debt the first 50,000 years by David Graeber and he also expounded that many ideas from Adam Smith's the invisible hand can be found in the economic thought of the Persians during Islamic times. There is
556.
by devoply 7y ago
I read the article and found it insane that figs are not considered vegan because their natural reproductive cycle may lead to them naturally having a bug inside them... which is a natural part of that insect's life-cycle. Hence I felt
557.
by devoply 7y ago
https://invbrain.neuroinf.jp/modules/htmldocs/IVBPF/General/...
558.
by devoply 7y ago
Ah okay so Google is the new Facebook walled garden.
559.
by devoply 7y ago
Yeah you can have all the channels you could want with nothing to watch... How's that? Only 66.60.
560.
by devoply 7y ago
Yeah don't worry you'll be paying that for the same Netflix you have now within the next 5-10 years.
561.
by devoply 7y ago
http://feedthedatamonster.com/home/2014/7/11/how-fungi-saved... The period of time is called carboniferous and it's the time where all the coal we use today was created. > Using a class of enyzme
562.
by devoply 7y ago
I sort of see this period as a similar period to when trees invented wood and nothing on the planet could break it down. Then millions of years later fungus figured it out. Eventually life on this planet if the planet doesn't become un
563.
by devoply 7y ago
The whole extradition process needs an overhaul. In that the jurisdiction should decide you are guilty before handing you over to some foreign power to be tried in their court system.
564.
by devoply 7y ago
If you go and look at all the sites that have implemented Facebook Connect and their beacon you know there was a quid pro quo there. You don't know however the nature of the deal. But Facebook seems very generous with sharing your data
565.
by devoply 7y ago
Much of society is built on lies and delusions. Stories. Human beings are incapable of unraveling truth or reality from the stories they tell each other and themselves. That is in fact metaphysics. And claiming that you don't believe i
566.
by devoply 7y ago
According to an M$ intern they did which eventually caused Edge to fail and for M$ to say hey we'll just be a wrapper around Chrome and then they can't screw us.
567.
by devoply 7y ago
Jack Ma is an idiot for doing this for very simple reasons. It's a country of 1 billion people. His company has 5 billion dollars in revenue, they pay their developers like 30k USD. Burning out your brightest is a stupid business strat
568.
by devoply 7y ago
Yeah this was what after 5 years and not saying much other than Russia is corrupt. And if he keeps it up then he may be sent to the US at any point.
569.
by devoply 7y ago
When you lose your freedom and become a political pawn, you should act the part. You don't see Snowden shitting on Russia do you?
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by devoply 7y ago
they trusted kraft: http://www.kraftcanada.com/recipes/layered-nanaimo-bar-chees...

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