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gekkeboom
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gekkeboom
7y ago
This is called rent seeking. Just siphoning money from society without any benefit.
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gekkeboom
7y ago
And I'm so happy I live in a country that permits Euthanasia. And the rules for it are clear: (some of them) 1. Intolerable suffering 2. No outlook on any improvement There are cases where people recover after years being in coma. Howe
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gekkeboom
7y ago
death for sure.
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gekkeboom
7y ago
I don't think that life in and of itself is valuable even under terrible conditions. Especially if there is no positive outlook, that things will be better, no reason to hang on. I think only one thing really matters: QUALITY of life.
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gekkeboom
8y ago
As you know with security, it's very difficult to predict in advance how flaws/loopholes will be exploited. So the key thing here is to setup a society and government that can quickly respond + adapt and fix loopholes. Cities don&
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gekkeboom
8y ago
The key problem is the rich buying property for literal rent-seeking to become even richer. This drives prices up for homes in the city to a point that only if you are in a relationship and over 30 you might be able to buy your first '
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gekkeboom
8y ago
What whould be the case today anno 2019 to use Debian over CentOS, Ubuntu or one of the other distro's?