eurleif

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by eurleif 14y ago
So it's ok to eat sufficiently mentally-retarded humans?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Right, killing is what I was talking about. This thread started with someone mentioning the morality of "eating chickens", and I just copied that phrasing.
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by eurleif 14y ago
http://infantici.de (NSFL)
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by eurleif 14y ago
But why is "human" the privileged class? We could use a subclass, like "human with an IQ above 100", or a superclass, like "animal". You're just restating where he or she is drawing the line, not explaining why that's the right place to dra
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by eurleif 14y ago
>It's seen as a bit of a social faux pas in our society though, so you might want to find a different society first if you'd like to enjoy tasty humans. Are you honestly this much of a relativist?
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by eurleif 14y ago
If I find a homeless person in an alleyway, ask him about his friends and family, and he tells me that no one knows or cares that he's alive, it's ok to eat him, as long as I don't tell anyone about it?
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by eurleif 14y ago
So it's ok to eat people as long as you only eat people who belong to a group which is different from you in some way?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Feeling less bad when someone dies is not the same as thinking it's ok to kill them.
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by eurleif 14y ago
How would a larger weapon change that?
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by eurleif 14y ago
So it's ok for the immune population mentioned in that article to eat people?
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by eurleif 14y ago
>I'm not against eating chicken mainly because of this experience. I don't understand your reasoning there. To me, whether it's ok to eat an animal should depend on whether it can experience suffering, not on whether it has a good perso
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by eurleif 14y ago
>But I would retort that FB and Google are the default market places for connecting with people and spreading ones ideas. "Default marketplace" != only marketplace. Was The Independent Journal, which published the Federalist Papers, the
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by eurleif 14y ago
The whole point was that there's an emotional component to how good recommendations seem.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>If you are self-employed (which is what the linked page is about) you are both the employer and employee and you as the employer of yourself get the decuction. Not entirely true. If you're employed by an S corporation you own, the S co
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by eurleif 14y ago
>One of the problems with US health insurance is that it is tax deductible only when "paid" by the employer. This page (which was the first Google result) disagrees. http://taxes.about.com/od/deductionscredits/qt/healthinsuran...
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by eurleif 14y ago
If a free software program decided to stop supporting X and Wayland, it would be because no one cared enough to contribute the code for continued support, which would imply that very few people were still choosing to use X or Wayland over M
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by eurleif 14y ago
I don't think anyone here is saying that what the US does is ok. But this thread is about North Korea, not the US. Why are we bringing the US into the discussion if not to compare it to North Korea?
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Based on that logic, the U.S. is 10x worse with 2.2 million people in prison right now. The US also has 13 times the population. And conditions in US prisons are not comparable to conditions in North Korean prisons.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Seems like it might be kind of a prisoner's dilemma situation: the best outcome is if everyone shuts down their tax havens, but you're individually worse off if you shut down yours and the other players don't, so no one wants to do it.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Individuals don't pay taxes even if they do. The companies they buy from do through reduced sales.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>There won't be a grand announcement of "AIDS cured". There might be if DRACO succeeds, and I would be surprised if some future medical advance doesn't cure it eventually.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>which talks about things that happened while the DMCA was being written, before it was a law at all "as part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking" is talking about something that happened before the DMCA was passed? Hint: the DMCA was passed in
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by eurleif 14y ago
>If you just make it to the middle of that same paragraph: "Apple's request to define copyright law to include jailbreaking as a violation was denied as part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking." Wikipedia's wording isn't very clear (although i
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by eurleif 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#United_States
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by eurleif 14y ago
Good point. But the reason jailbreaking is legal is because of a DMCA exception.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Notice that he's also saying that it's legal to jailbreak a phone (it isn't, anymore,) and that the reason it was legal was an exemption to the DMCA (which is completely incorrect.) Wikipedia says it was a DMCA exemption (and cites a s
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by eurleif 14y ago
>gmail got a new UI, but else? Priority inbox? It's pretty useful.
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by eurleif 14y ago
How is intentionally defaulting on loans (i.e., basically stealing money) possibly less unethical than buying services in a place where they're cheaper?
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by eurleif 14y ago
That message is generated by the __repr__() method, so it could get inadvertently triggered if it just exited automatically.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Consuming any amount of any form of pure sugar will spike your blood glucose. If it's a small enough amount, the spike will be small enough that it won't do you harm, but the human body evolved to handle gradual rises in blood glucose, like

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