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by etherael 11y ago
Plenty of people were better alchemists than alchemists back in the day, too.
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by etherael 11y ago
Cancelled my subscription as soon as I read the tweet from @_danilo. If the races and genders were switched and the context instead was some horrendous civil war in Africa, it would be outrage fodder in the mainstream media for weeks, but b
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by etherael 11y ago
I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, one does not need to formulate an alternate strategy to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Strong encryption cannot be back doored in an effective way, this is just a fact
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by etherael 11y ago
This argument could've been used to justify Belgian involvement in the Congo, as well as criticise ever leaving Africa to it's own devices. Sometimes, y'know, you've just got to beat civilisation into people. I really wi
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by etherael 11y ago
Actually, no, it turns out this is in fact false. http://douglasernstblog.com/2014/01/17/white-privilege-artis... TLDR; a 4.0 GPA is not equal everywhere. Also, affirmative action means that you actually get
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by etherael 11y ago
> Reliance on FDE more or less made the DOJ's case against Ross Ulbricht, for instance. I was under the impression that the FDE used by Ulbricht complicated things a lot, and took special measures to get around, and that they were p
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by etherael 11y ago
They might consider killing someone who has threatened to reveal information to a brigade of killers that will kidnap and imprison, or outright kill people who have trusted and relied upon them to protect those people from such actions as a
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by etherael 11y ago
Just like the atheists, who to this day insist the lack of adherence to a religion is a legitimate alternative to spiritual guidance from the church, then crow that they're not subject to canon law?
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by etherael 11y ago
Just because there must be a human in the target designation loop, does not imply that there must be a human in the target elimination loop. After the targets are designated an entirely autonomous swarm may indeed be the perfect way to
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by etherael 12y ago
> May be in the end game biodegradable 'computanium' that is killed and reborn daily right before it becomes obsolete? Server side from the client perspective, that's effectively what "the cloud" really is.
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by etherael 12y ago
I agree that the individual question is less interesting than the collective, but it was indeed the collective that I was referring to. If we recall context; we're discussing a person who has allowances made for his religious observanc
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by etherael 12y ago
I really like your thinking here, however I'd point out that the converse could just as easily be argued as well. That by embracing things like religion, we're actually getting worse outcomes, and therefore we should not do it.
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by etherael 12y ago
I'm much more familiar with "Here is this problem space that there's great rewards in addressing successfully, we don't actually know how to address that problem space, we can just see that it needs to be addressed becau
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by etherael 12y ago
> Programmers as a blue colar job ?
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by etherael 12y ago
"The Cloud" Can Go Fuck Itself. Addendum; If you ever want it to be taken seriously you must urgently fix two things. 1) Telcos. Being constantly subject to obscene per megabyte usage charges with miserable reliability and speed f
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by etherael 12y ago
This is my experience too. I was just a garden variety minarchist libertarian before I had travelled widely. Seeing the common thread throughout the world that everywhere you go the people calling themselves the state exhibit the same total
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by etherael 12y ago
You might have a point if you apply those arguments to actual censorship rather than expressed disagreement or disinterest. Even there though, to say that censorship should be seen as violence obscures more than illuminates.
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by etherael 12y ago
Here's a better reason; speech has value, some less than others, a feedback mechanism allowing the audience to make a judgement on how much value a given piece has is no more evidence for the innate psychopathy of men than a mute butto
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by etherael 12y ago
Interesting perspective, I agree with your observations, but I don't know if it's really a manifestation of those people not caring about torture so much as it seems like a problem with which they do not have direct experience and
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by etherael 12y ago
I'm confused here. You said something that was on the surface absurd, got downvoted on it, which I would assume would at least cause you to re-examine your original premises, and then came back doubling down on your original statement,
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by etherael 12y ago
Nobody wonders this at all.
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by etherael 12y ago
Why are you so incensed by this? Does it make any difference at all if you know that the only other country in the entire world that taxes based on citizenship rather than residency is Eritrea? Even assuming you grant that the state is a re
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by etherael 12y ago
Where? Rules instituted by force of arms (which you refer to as "regulations") and extortion backed by same (which you refer to as "taxes") are global. Short of war, Antarctica or establishing a seastead, you cannot esca
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by etherael 12y ago
I hope I haven't been baited into responding to pure snark literally here, but do you have any citations for the statement that only sociopaths can control who influences them emotionally? Because that sounds completely wrong to me.
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by etherael 12y ago
You see more female objectification in the tech industry because it's a male dominated industry. That's just demographics. If you think there is just as much outrage over the sexual objectification of men as there is over the same
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by etherael 12y ago
You don't find it the slightest bit interesting that you're intimately familiar with the foremost examples of female objectification that spring to mind, but male examples of the same are so beneath your awareness that you don&#x2
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by etherael 12y ago
It's a deliberate attempt to force people into consistency. If you object to sex being used for marketing of unrelated products that should always be true. Whether that's uber with avions, car or game companies with booth babes, o
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by etherael 12y ago
Avions was a marketing promotion for uber lyon where people could sign up for a free 20 minute ride with one of the models. I don't know if I see how that is "pushing" the service on the unwilling, but I acknowledge its not t
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by etherael 12y ago
Manservants is explicitly not an escort service ( http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/07/the-manservants-service-... ) ( http://manservants.co/become-a-manservant.html ), though. In both instances
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by etherael 12y ago
Let's flip it again; what are signs that various female dominated occupations have a misandry problem in the same fashion? The thing we were just discussing with avions de chasses, why is that intrinsically misogynistic while the simil

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