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by elemenohpee 14y ago
That's great, unless he needs to drive to get to work in order to get a paycheck and keep his head above water for another week. Do people really not understand that there are people who do not have the luxury of a risk-free life?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
If you truly valued freedom from legal liability above your own life, wouldn't you just kill yourself rather than be exposed to the risk of say, driving a car around other people?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
You're entitled to say that you do in order to win an argument on the internet, but everyone knows you're being intellectually dishonest about it.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
No they didn't, all three have been very upfront about their unwillingness to testify.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Lubuntu is also worth checking out.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
The progress you mention did not happen on its own, it took decades of struggle against powerful forces of exploitation and oppression to achieve. Those forces still exist, but their maneuverings and their goals are more well hidden from t
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
s/anarchism/libertarianism/ While there are certainly strains of individualist anarchism, the dominant tradition has been that of socialism, which stresses the importance of community and social relations. You seem to be confusing the maxi
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
this...changes...EVERYTHING
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
A timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
On lawyers and other non-productive employees though, not in a way that would grow the economy. That's a huge broken window fallacy.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I probably overreached in that comment. Competition and cooperation are both important, I just think that we've come to irrationally overvalue selfish tendencies, while forgetting the cooperative basis of social behaviors that have made ou
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
You're right, and I attempted to clarify my thinking in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4107492 We just seem to use a shitty definition of selfishness these days.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
It can be. If you believe that you cannot be truly secure in your freedom and well-being unless everyone around you is also secure in theirs, then helping people could be seen as "selfish". The problem is that we use the term selfish to m
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
It is. It is only our arrogant individualistic capitalist ideology which pretends otherwise. Cooperation, mutual aid, these are principles that life on earth has found to be beneficial. Biologists and anthropologists understand this. But
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I don't see how that's different from what I'm saying. The seeds did accidentally get mixed into his own. Whatever steps he took afterwards to isolate them, plant them, etc. is just using the seeds.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
The difference is that DVDs do not make copies of themselves. Schmeiser simply used the seeds that ended up on his land (as far as I know, I don't know all the details of the case). Wouldn't the analogy then be, should you be able to w
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> Whether you want to say someone is acting stupid all the time, or someone is being stupid is just semantics. Actually I think there is a crucial distinction here that is not just semantics. When you say someone is stupid, it implies
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> So is the fact that you have a home as a child. Now you're getting it. Educational opportunities, nutrition, etc. It is exactly these institutional inequalities which lead to the un-meritocratic wealth distributions which are causin
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> Taxing rich people means punishing someone for his success. Why is taxing seen as punitive? Is it punitive when we tax middle class people? It's just a mechanism to collect funds for things that are better done with public money tha
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I don't get it, if he's not saving any time or effort, what's in it for the driver to not deliver your package?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> But some of this sounds too much like a defense of those whose dedication to learning stops at the office door. I don't think it's fair to characterize it that way, there are other things to learn about outside of programming. I spen
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Now he's creating a hole. He has to plan and make decisions at every step of the way, his will guides the progress of the activity, in contrast to TV which is a passive. I'm not making a value judgement based on the relative merits of the
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
>So Target got sneakier about sending the coupons. I love that logic. Woah, our customers are getting creeped out by this. Guess we gotta creep harder.
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious or not... He designed and built the system. It's not a question of how many calories he burned, but the difference between creation and consumption.
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
There would be no problem if advertisements were a good faith effort meant to inform you about a product you may be interested in. As it stands, they are attempts to manipulate people into making irrational choices. Giving advertisers eve
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
> But again, I can't think of any of the information on a social networking site being all that damning. Then you don't understand the concerns. What is perfectly routine today may be damning tomorrow. Yes, Nazi Germany was an extreme
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Could it be that it is not the information per se that is IP, but the actual type or structure of the information?
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Well when you're going at it from that angle, how can you prove to yourself that anything you experience is real? There are centuries of thought surrounding epistemology, I don't see why problems of how and to what degree we know what we kn
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
> I had mystical experiences where I thought I understood that the whole world was connected together, and I was connected to the world, and other deep insights. I think this was just brain-addled delusion, not any insight into how thin
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
> That's shown me. I guess the death of myself, my loved ones, my friends, and all 7 billion humans alive today isn't so bad compared to the sheer horror of culture staying the same. Unless you think we're perfectly adapted to all futur

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