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by fnovd 10y ago
Digital identities are predicated on a having free internet. The digital world may be a more free place, but servers and network infrastructure must exist in a physical, territorially-managed world. Doing away with your birth certificate in
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Have there been any incredibly disruptive & profitable markets in the past 10 years? Would hanging onto cash help solidify your place in the next disruptive & profitable market? At the end of the day, the question for these companie
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It's like looking at mentions of the n-word and coming to the conclusion that NWA is the more racist than the KKK.
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The person you are right now will be dead in 20 years. In its place will be a person who has access to some of your more important memories as well as the resources you have made available for it. After a long enough period of time, the dif
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by fnovd 11y ago
>It is government not businesses who are responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in the past century alone. This is simply untrue. You cannot blame the concept of government for what people in governments do. I can be against what
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>As I said previously, I would love to hear the historical case you have in mind. Let's examine the facts and discuss further. Saying we disagree in the interpretation of historical events without even discussing any is a cop out an
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>In my study of history the case which government lays out for their new intervention is based on twisted truths, exaggerations and most likely downright lies. This has been the case in anti-trust, social security, medicaid and many more
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>You say "no" in response to my comment concerning socialism preventing two people from entering an agreement--then why can't I hire someone for $4 an hour, if that's what they and I agree upon? Socialism itself doesn
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>Socialism says two people do not have the right to come to an agreement on the exchange of property and labor. What is social about that? How is that in harmony with human nature? No, socialism says focusing on group cooperation optimiz
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Not everyone southerner has "southern" values. The south also has urban areas where people lean more to the left than their rural counterparts. There are just fewer of them. They (unfairly) get stuck with the same stereotypes.
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While the outright assertion that a black suspect would have been shot is unjustified, it seems counterintuitive to simultaneously make reference to one erroneous snap judgment (the cop assuming the white woman was not the shooter) without
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Actual interactions with faculty and other students are what the university provides. Watching lectures and reading books isn't the same thing as "getting your hands dirty" with other people in the same room who are intereste
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Logical reasoning is a tool we use to form an understand the world, but it is not the foundation of the understanding itself. To use an analogy, saying humans are fundamentally rational because we use reasoning to make decisions is like say
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You could argue that the goodness of awareness outweighs the badness of captivity, but you can't argue that the captivity itself is good. If there exist other ways of spreading awareness, then what is the value of captivity?
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None of your links touch on metacognition. Scientists are very sure that individual plants do not have metacognition. Sensing and communicating are not metacognition. >That's just moralizing. There is no basis in which to say that X
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Define the word "word" without using any words. Haha! You can't! Therefore, words don't exist.
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>Having few of them where humans could watch them is a good thing. For humans, maybe. How is it good for orcas? Isn't the issue here that we are denying agency from intelligent beings?
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If you are doing it yourself, it isn't captivity.
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By that logic, computers are alive. They let you know when they are 'sick' (they crash), scream when being overworked (loud fans), and talk amongst each other (the internet). Failing to draw a line between two things doesn't
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Most Americans know what to expect from Kraft cheese, and sometimes it's the flavor you're looking for. It's in the same vein as Marmite/Vegemite.
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Many useful mathematical proofs can be derived based on proving the impossibility of a contradictory assumption. I can try to disprove the triangle angle sum theorem (that the sum of the three angles in any triangle is 180) by attempting to
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I'm sure the researchers responsible for analyzing the data from this survey were familiar with the concept of an outlier and how to deal with them when publishing their findings. High school students have been goofing off instead of d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager The fallacy here is that there is no downside to belief and that finite losses spread over infinite scenarios are still finite. Applied to controlling one's own desti
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> they often suffer from health problems and lack of training to do anything else So do millions of Americans who did not have the chance to make millions playing sports in their twenties. A new tax plan would have the intention of mak
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Sickness.
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> "Implicitly racist" is completely subjective. "Implicitly racist" is far from being completely subjective. A law banning US citizens whose ancestors lived in Africa 500 years ago from voting isn't explicitly ra
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> The form of your argument seems to be that if a policy has a race/sex disparity in impact then it's inherently racist/sexist. No, the form of my argument is that a policy can be implicitly racist without being explicitly
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> The War on Drugs is disproportionately hurting minorities Agreed. > I don't think you can frame it as the machinery of minority oppression. Erm, what? So you're saying that, while the War on Drugs disproportionately hurts
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>Letting you keep your own money is not a subsidy. While this is semantically true, reducing taxes as a vehicle to put money in the right hands is by all means a subsidy.