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by grandalf 9y ago
I typically use those up on clickbait articles that I don't decide to read after all, and then by the time one comes along that I would read I get the paywall. I'm disinclined to pay for the NYT because of its role in getting Trum
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by grandalf 9y ago
Warning: paywall
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by grandalf 9y ago
warning: paywall
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by grandalf 9y ago
I wish it would end. I'd like to simply hide all paywalled articles. Why not offer a flag?
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by grandalf 9y ago
You can see this in person at the Bay Area Maker Faire today.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Carbon equates to gallons of gas used, so from an environmental perspective we'd want to reduce unnecessary use to reduce the carbon impact.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Great points, thanks.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Perhaps, but if new cars were cheaper then there would be more (and newer) used cars on the road. No matter who is driving it, an old clunker that creates 20x the emissions of a new car is harming all of us every mile it is driven.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I love these rationality links. :)
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by grandalf 9y ago
> am I right that you... support the fuel efficiency regulations passed in the 70's and 90's No I would prefer a carbon tax charged per vehicle based on miles driven per year and the pollution emitted from the vehicle. > If
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by grandalf 9y ago
First, the Libertarian Party is not "all libertarians". Second, environmental regulation falls out of property rights, since pollution spreads onto people's property. If you pollute a stream, the stream carries the pollution
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by grandalf 9y ago
Just as patriotic and humanitarian rhetoric is used to justify certain polices that are far from patriotic or humanitarian, libertarian rhetoric is also sometimes used to justify lax regulation, crony capitalism, etc.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Libertarians are not anti-regulation, they just believe that the good and bad consequences of regulations should be understood. Often, those who are not libertarians will support a regulation simply because they agree with its stated aim...
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by grandalf 9y ago
Maintain a perspective of openness about the state of what you've built. At any moment you might realize that a smarter person could build it in a few hours using a better abstraction. That smarter person might be you.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I'm no expert, but _attempting_ to prosecute and actually killing is probably a worthwhile distinction. You're being too charitable. Both have the same intent. The more asymmetrically powerful the ruler is, the less lethal th
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by grandalf 9y ago
While the prevailing narrative is that Federal intervention in this sort of thing is beneficial, I think that if you adopt the view that morality is largely a function of economic progress, most of the moral progress enforced top-down is la
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by grandalf 9y ago
Chances are nothing will happen all that soon, but it's certainly plausible that in addition to storing a 60 day rolling window of all calls, the NSA stores a 3000 day rolling window of calls explicitly describing intent to commit crim
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by grandalf 9y ago
> killing ... political opponents Uh, what are terrorists if not political opponents? Killing people who are deemed to hold certain beliefs without any judicial process linking them to specific criminal activity is simply killing politic
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by grandalf 9y ago
I agree that absurdities like this have their roots in the public's demand for backward things, but this is made easy by the consolidation of power at the Federal level for things like this. Imagine a world in which a concerned citizen
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I agree with Snowden's goals, but unfortunately I think he was somewhat naive in his disclosure approach. My understanding is that Snowden intended to flee to South America but was forced to end up in Russia by the Obama administr
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by grandalf 9y ago
Appreciate the correction. I knew the correct status but was multitasking and got sloppy. Corrected my comment.
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by grandalf 9y ago
While I'm very pleased that President Obama commuted the sentence of Ms. Manning, I'm also disappointed that he did not do more to change the policy about classifying information that allows classification to be used as a form of
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by grandalf 9y ago
I've noticed a chilling effect on speech among my friends who work for the Federal government. People just don't speak freely anymore b/c of surveillance.
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's deeply embarrassing to me that our government agencies are involved in regulating professional baseball and in being the morality/obscenity police.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> distrust of all government officials also elected Trump I think that if HRC had immediately addressed the potential corruption revealed in those emails and stood behind her past actions boldly she'd be president now. She tried to
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by grandalf 9y ago
Please offer more details on the harm caused by the foreign activities stuff.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> through regular journalists Regular journalists who had to flee the country and eventually start their own publication in order to continue to be able to publish the investigative stories spawned by the information. Greenwald did not r
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by grandalf 9y ago
> The Russian government has been loosely tied Keep in mind that there is a massive propaganda campaign being done by the US to make Americans think Putin is evil. Chances are, Putin is no more evil than any US president. Keep in mind th
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Assange has quite obviously become a stooge for Putin Think about the nature of Wikileaks. Assange is a "stooge" for the opponent of any government embarrassed by leaked information. In the same way, you might argue that if
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by grandalf 9y ago
> who got better. Many of us are now much more skeptical of the honesty of officials, even when they are under oath. This is overwhelmingly a good thing for democracy.

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