dumb-saint

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by dumb-saint 10y ago
> "We" is referring to something much broader. Yes, it's all very poetic. Can you define it though? What else did "we" do? Were "we" the nazis? Or were we the allies? Were we the indians or the european
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
"We"? I don't remember dissecting any bodies or making any discoveries in the field of anatomy. Do you?
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
If you hard-code group selection (setting the group as the unit of evolution), then you are already assuming what you want to prove.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
MacOS doesn't run on other mobile devices.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
They are the same for the purpose of the argument being made above.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
So you gave up on democracy?
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I don't blame the people who enlist at all. I also point my finger at the profit-makers. When I say "you guys" I mean "Americans". All of you. PS: What a weird thing to down vote th
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
With no lack of empathy for the veterans (of all countries) and the horrible things they go through... Don't you guys ask yourself how come you are always at war? Why you have "generations of veterans", even though you have b
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... (you're welcome)
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
So you "cringe on" Wikipedia?
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
> I said you were paid for your attention I get payed for my attention in euros, after signing a contract or entering an agreement. Maybe that sounds silly to you, but that is how I roll. I assume that you are implying that I have some m
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
You are using the concept of "relationship" with two different meanings. When I click a link, there is a relationship between me and some entity in the same sense that the term is used in computer science to describe relational da
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
So what you are saying is that, simply by clicking a link, I become obliged to execute whatever piece of code is served to me on my machine or render any media on my display without knowing in advance what it contains? That is not how the
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
Nope, they are not paying me for anything. Again, I did not enter into any agreement. I just clicked a link. They are expending their resources in an attempt to capture and profit from my attention. Those are very different things. Many tim
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
They are not paying for anything. No one entered an agreement or signed a contract. They are trying to exploit the content in a certain way, and the receiver of the content is free to take counter-measures.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
I don't see how 1. applies. People using this plugin are not securing any gain and no one is being deprived of any right -- unless you use it on a website that first makes you explicitly accept to be tracked and served ads in exchange
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
> It may well be true, but don't think that you're being filmed any less in any other first world country. In Germany there are strong laws against CCTV proliferation. They exist mostly in public transportation, and their prese
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
It all depends on your model of who is on the other side of the camera. If you think the entity on the other side is on your side, you probably have fuzzy feeling about cameras. If you don't think that the watcher is someone like you,
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
Thanks! :)
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
That is a great idea, but it will not work. People will say that only the government and big corporations can be trusted with that data, because of reasons.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
There's no point arguing over something we can't measure. Instead let me give you a scenario: Behaviour X is illegal. "No expectation of privacy in the public space" people argue that, well, stopping illegal behaviours i
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
> Not really? I don't look for cameras and I legit don't see them pretty much anywhere. I know they're in all the tube stations, but it doesn't make me wary? Are you saying or are you asking? > I'm sure camera
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
I have no problem with businesses having CCTV inside their premises -- as long as this is clearly advertised, so that I can decide if I'm ok with it or not. But I don't think they have the right to point the camera to the public s
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
Yes, I think modern airports are a good prototype for the sort of dystopian environments we can expect in the future. It will only get worse until the entire thing collapses, as it always does -- Stasi, McCarthyism, Gestapo, you name it. Th
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
I agree that more authoritarianism leads to less crimes. This is a well-known fact. But at what cost? Historically, we have been through all this before. Notice that it's never just the cameras. You also have to make it illegal for me
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
I find it extremely creepy to visit the UK because of all the cameras, sometimes actively pointed at me. It is one thing to not expect privacy in the public space, in the sense that others can see you. It is another to be actively targeted
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
Boring
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
What do you mean with the "nothing is so black and white" cliché in this context? The psychological reaction of onlookers has nothing to do with an action being ethical or not.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
And yet uBlock Origin pull it off without betraying its users. Go figure.
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by dumb-saint 10y ago
> Interestingly you accuse the other side of being unreasonable when you are the one confusing reason and ideology. Nope, I said zero things about ideology. All I said was this: an Ad Block program is a program that block ads. That&#x27

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