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by devoply 9y ago
That's the thing buses and trains are more expensive than driving because of sunk costs of owning a car and at the same time they are not usually as efficient to use, i.e. add another 1/2 to your trip time. Time is something in ve
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by devoply 9y ago
A lot of that stuff is just virtue signalling. You don't actually have to believe in any of it to become its champion. That's what's wrong with a lot of stuff in the world, there are lots of champions of stuff that don't
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by devoply 9y ago
The refugee situation was created by bad middle east policy mainly by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Germany for some reason felt like bearing the cost of other people's bad decisions. If Germany was more American it would've
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by devoply 9y ago
The King realizing this created a fake person called a corporation that gives the people jobs. Good luck killing any of those.
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by devoply 9y ago
Well that's the article's point, a think tank serves one of the factions of the plutocracy and on the global and national stage public intellectuals have also been replaced by puppets of the plutocracy. They all serve money and pe
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by devoply 9y ago
umm the brute force more or less learned from the humans, that's how it narrowed down the search space to a manageable level. it's not as if cracked the entire search space all on its own as the search space on its own is quite a
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by devoply 9y ago
From Wikipedia: "Economists regard seigniorage as a form of inflation tax, redistributing real resources to the currency issuer. Issuing new currency, rather than collecting taxes paid out of the existing money stock, is then considere
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by devoply 9y ago
Though your intent is admirable, programming is something that can be very easily thought, and yet quite difficult to master depending on your aptitude and inclinations and personal commitment to learn. Should everyone be able to write a si
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by devoply 9y ago
noted.
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by devoply 9y ago
They also control the currency and as a result eat up a few percentage of global gdp via signorage.
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by devoply 9y ago
All middle men are destined to be automated out by the system, if they add no value then sooner rather than later. However, people selling stuff online in niche markets are still somehow surviving, but sooner or later someone will figure ou
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by devoply 9y ago
Yeah I think I've seen that before from the know-it-all mailman who was wrong about most things but very convincing, sure, know-it-all.
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by devoply 9y ago
That's because people don't actually value free things, until they come to depend on them, and then there is no way for that to continue unless they pay. And even then they will pay the bare minimum to keep it going. That's t
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by devoply 9y ago
Is there any proof whatsoever of this? It assumes that the natural behavior of cells in the brain is dysfunctional. Herd culling is a normal part of ecology in that weaker animals become prey to predators. Humans add their own complexity to
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by devoply 9y ago
We're pretty much living the century of Minority Report. Pre-cogs are machines that read your thoughts from social media.
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by devoply 9y ago
Alcohol even at low doses is toxic that's why your liver has enzymes to break it down. Many other things are not nearly as toxic and most things that don't belong in the brain don't cross the blood brain barrier. Those which
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by devoply 9y ago
Well why wouldn't it. Alcohol is not a health food. It crosses the blood brain barrier and is toxic to cells. So yeah put toxic stuff up there, there will be some consequence.
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by devoply 9y ago
On operating systems you set preferences for which service/program to open when a certain extension is clicked. Similarly Google should be forced to allow you to set your preferences through your browser, i.e. not forcing you to login,
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by devoply 9y ago
99% of the population. Last time checked significant portion of the population uses various tools including ad-blockers, and other privacy tools to decrease their online foot print. So that point is wholly incorrect. You mean significant po
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by devoply 9y ago
Okay say that this is true, then if you want any sort of decent user experience you MUST let Google track you and analyze your behavior. So many ways for Google to win. So many ways for the user to lose. I do run a bunch of stuff on my Fire
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by devoply 9y ago
Say that this is true. Google can only use its own data from its own browser to improve the web and penalizes everyone who is not using their browser. The result is the same. Google has a monopoly on your experience of the web... because it
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by devoply 9y ago
At this point they are also apparently abusing their capcha. You use it from Firefox, solve like 3 different captcha, my most recent experience with Cloudflare. Use it from Chrome, instant check after failing a login. And it's from the
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by devoply 9y ago
i lol'd
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by devoply 9y ago
$20 for a spring of basil plant grown in your local grocers, though sounds very expensive, there is probably almost definitely a demographic for that. And it does not go stale, you can keep it there indefinitely. What is likely to happen th
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by devoply 9y ago
Do you have a special algorithm to determine Canada/US and not Canada/US.
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by devoply 9y ago
> made it easier than ever for entrepreneurs to raise large sums of money without dealing with the hassles of regulators, investor protections or accountants. Umm no easier than raising funds for any other venture, in fact probably more
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by devoply 9y ago
Well there is thinking and then there is thinking. Consumers on the mass consumer level, my self included, think about how we can get the most benefit from the limited amount of resources that we have. So how can I get good shit for the che
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by devoply 9y ago
Well you can't discount online shopping either. But yeah the local economy is a system set up like that. You have a main industry which has most of the money which then trickles down into the rest of the local economy via jobs at the b
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by devoply 9y ago
> people need to take the rise of companies like amazon and really think hard Consumers don't think, they consume. Much like zombies. If you want consciousness in the system that has to come from gasp government. But that would be
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by devoply 9y ago
See I am a smart scientist therefore I know what makes me smart and these few pithy words can make you smart as well. It's more or less appeals to authority...

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