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by flomble 8y ago
Antihumanism is an edifice wrought of unsubstantiated assertions, self-contradictions and wilful ignorance of evidence.
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by flomble 8y ago
Because it's almost the same thing copy-pasted repeatedly; textbook boilerplate. I know it's a matter of taste, but the last one also looks by far the best to me.
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by flomble 8y ago
This is a frustratingly common but utterly confused viewpoint stemming from the naturalistic fallacy. Facts about our evolution do not entail that we should strive to embrace every human tendency which it has imparted to us. People are appa
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by flomble 8y ago
The linked article is about how despite those services obviously having value to their users, they aren't accounted for in economic statistics, e.g. in measuring productivity, because they are "free" (i.e. paid for by subject
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by flomble 9y ago
Heroin and meth addicts regularly commit violent crimes in order to procure more heroin/meth. The only reason they need to is because prohibition makes those drugs orders of magnitude more expensive than they would otherwise be. The on
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by flomble 9y ago
I'm sorry but I can't let this one slide. Yes, children have been subjected to a slew of execrable sitcoms but at least in the realm of cartoons children's there is much that is of high quality. Adventure Time, Gravity Falls
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by flomble 9y ago
I'm not wholly on one side of the fence or the other on the fork. But since the decisions made by the community involved can affect your holdings, it's reasonable to advise people to choose the community that has similar values to
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by flomble 9y ago
The dev team for Classic is much less likely to attempt to do so, and the miners less likely to adopt such a fork, since they declined to accept the fork the first time it happened. If a fork happened in Classic to protect some party's
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by flomble 9y ago
Your Solidity contracts can run on Ethereum Classic, which you can be confident won't be forked since its users tend to believe in the principle of the immutability of the code.
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by flomble 10y ago
Because your brother shares around 50% of your genes. Helping your brother reproduce therefore helps to propagate some of your genes. The principle behind this is that evolution operates at the level of genes, rather than individuals. I rec
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by flomble 10y ago
This is a very thorough and informative post, and there's nothing in it which I would outright disagree with. I was under the impression that Mao's unorthodox approach to revolution built on peasants rather than the industrial pro
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by flomble 10y ago
The reason Deng Xiaoping had to use a coy phrase about cats to avoid admitting to his policies running counter to communism is that communism is at the core of the Party's identity and history, and that abandoning it openly would serio
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by flomble 10y ago
Yes, since Mao's death and the complete reversal of his economic policies and embracing of capitalism by Deng Xiaoping, whom Mao disgraced for his unorthodoxy, the economy of China has rapidly developed. There is a reason this article