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by glesica 13y ago
The comment to which you responded never said we can make up any arbitrary rules we like, just that we can change the rules if they aren't to our liking... > We, as a polity, control the rules of the system in > which all this st
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by glesica 13y ago
So the economy, as it is currently constituted, is the one, single way in which things could be arranged and if they were arranged in any other fashion the whole society would implode and we'd run out of toilet paper? Is that your cont
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by glesica 13y ago
The key quote from this article is right here: "I think Thrun's elite background led him down a garden path. Any San Jose State professor who had taught an introduction to statistics could have told him that many (most?) of his st
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by glesica 13y ago
You can't necessarily know that a legitimate call is legitimate, but you can know that some calls are fake, though not necessarily until after you've checked out the situation, hence the last sentence my previous post: you may hav
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by glesica 13y ago
Who decides which calls are "real"? If I call to report erratic driving but the officers never catch the person, is it "real"? What if I report gunfire but they never find the shooter or a dead body? We WANT people to
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by glesica 13y ago
This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on the Internet (outside of Youtube comments). Are you kidding? First, many people who call 911 are calling on behalf of a stranger. Most people aren't going to part with $100 to re
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by glesica 13y ago
Yes, because making sure someone isn't buying a nuke on the black market and is paying the taxes they owe is just terrible. Don't get me wrong, the regulatory framework for money transfers seems to suck, but I don't want to g
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by glesica 13y ago
So maybe I'm ignorant here, but did they do the transfer over the Internet, or was it a thumb drive taken out of "cold storage" and handed off to someone else. Do we even know? Don't you think there are vulnerabilities i
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by glesica 13y ago
This is completely meaningless and unimportant. Unfortunately, real people don't generally act like the "economic man" you (and I) learned about in Econ 101. Real people value social ties and community, even when the dollar v
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by glesica 13y ago
This service really doesn't strike me as something the average consumer would use, at least not directly. This seems to be targeted at businesses, which are much more likely to care about potential NSA or other similar snooping.
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by glesica 13y ago
Value in government money gets inflated away. Sure, someday that will probably happen. Someday, our entire civilization will collapse (every civilization in history has done the same). Unless you think we're close to a total collapse o
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by glesica 13y ago
If Bitcoin becomes "civilized" then why would anyone use it? The whole argument in favor of Bitcoin is that it is the "wild wild west" of currencies.
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by glesica 13y ago
You mean like currency that is centrally controlled and physical and can be kept nice and safe in a bank? Oh wait, already have that, people call it "money". Most people don't want to live in the wild west, that is a fact, an
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by glesica 13y ago
So Vim is broken because you can't have a clock in your status line? Are you an idiot? Seriously, all that ranting and you can't come up with a single practical example of Vim being "broken" other than not being able to
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by glesica 13y ago
Which is one reason that Google Fiber is so interesting to me. People, even technical people, tend to see it as overkill, but a fat, symmetrical pipe into every house could be a huge game-changer.
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by glesica 13y ago
It cleans up your log files, that's why I do it. If you run ssh on port 22 your log files with be full of script kiddies with turnkey exploits spamming every IP address they can find. Change the port and suddenly that the logs get much
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by glesica 13y ago
College in California, for example, used to be tuition-free. The citizens of the state saw it as economic development and it seems to have paid off.
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by glesica 13y ago
If by "drift", we mean "get drunk and go to football games" then I am right there with you, not something I want my kid to focus on. But if by "drift" we mean explore the world and think about what it means to
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by glesica 13y ago
I fix typos or obvious errors when I see them (mostly grammatical rather than factual). Beyond that, the politics is a bit of a turn-off and most of the articles on subjects I know a thing or two about are well-maintained. I guess my knowle
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by glesica 13y ago
Why not just make the terms of service say something like "you agree not to edit the encyclopedia for money, and you agree not to pay anyone else to do so, etc." and then start suing people? As a bonus, no one could claim ignoranc
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by glesica 13y ago
No it isn't, somebody is paying something to someone. Square is just not charging the people who exchange money... yet.
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by glesica 13y ago
> Saying "no" isn't enough to claim she resisted. Actually yes, yes it is enough you sick, perverted fuck. "No means no" isn't just a slogan, and it isn't "No, along with some physical resistance
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by glesica 13y ago
I'm glad it was sarcasm, and I generally agree with you. But at the same time, I think there's value in outrage even if the only outcome is to maintain the status quo because at least things don't get worse. If we have to fig
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by glesica 13y ago
Assuming you weren't being sarcastic, this is one of the most brain-dead things I've ever read on HN. Pointing out irony or hypocrisy is important because doing so helps to weaken false arguments put forth by those in power. For e
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by glesica 13y ago
Yes, Norway is very, very wealthy. This is a fairly recent development... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=norway+wealthy
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by glesica 13y ago
First, I don't accept that the people killed are necessarily plotting anything. If you blindly believe what the government tells you, then why not believe the Russian government when they say they don't kill anyone. Because they k
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by glesica 13y ago
Not if Verizon is the only carrier with decent coverage where you live, which is more common than you might think.
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by glesica 13y ago
How is the comparison invalid? Both governments exhibit a terrible, immoral disregard for human life whenever it furthers their callous political goals. I really don't see how you can possibly say one is somehow worse than or incompara
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by glesica 13y ago
They know it happens, they refuse to change their actions. As far as I'm concerned, that is the moral equivalent of murdering children. In fact, the government itself might very well apply my logic if, say, a toy company realized there
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by glesica 13y ago
Unlike the US, which runs a sideline business murdering random children with drones in far-off corners of the world? Equivalent enough for me.

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