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by gress 12y ago
What proof do you have that religion is the template, and not just suffering from a problem that affects to all large hierarchies?
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by gress 12y ago
Proof of what?
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by gress 12y ago
You seem to have a specific view of what it means to be 'god', or the 'son of god', and are judging all religion through this lens. The Quakers, for example hold that 'there is that of god in everyone' Many for
814.
by gress 12y ago
People are robbed of time, money, creativity, and hope, by many powerful institutions, for example governments and corporations. There is nothing at all obvious about the claim that this is an evil caused by religion, rather than a problem
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by gress 12y ago
People are not told they need certainty, but they are subject to a great deal of emotional violence to get them to conform to systems. You bring up the topic of social belonging - being ostracized is the primary form of shaming that is use
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by gress 12y ago
I'm not skipping anything, and at least you are agreeing that shipping Android phones are not using open source software. I do not dispute that having a related system that is open-source can aid in reverse engineering. However the s
817.
by gress 12y ago
Not all religion is about 'believing' in gods and spirits. They are often used metaphorically to convey deeper ideas, e.g. In Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Sufism. The idea that all religion requires uncritical belief in gods a
818.
by gress 12y ago
How does it differ from Soviet full employment? Also the discussion isn't about a comparison with how the US is now. It's about how to deal with a future where much less work is needed. Suggesting that when humanity finally conqu
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by gress 12y ago
This is even more true for Android phones.
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by gress 12y ago
What you are describing is prison workshops.
821.
by gress 12y ago
Psychotherapy is not the same as physical medicine.
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by gress 12y ago
Almost none of it is open source.
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by gress 12y ago
The speculation is about whether it's accessible to US agencies.
824.
by gress 12y ago
No, we know the data is being examined by Google.
825.
by gress 12y ago
False. The software running on your Android phone's application processor is not open source. A significant fraction of it is based on a closed source fork of AOSP. The rest (both the Google Mobile Services layer, and the manufacture
826.
by gress 12y ago
This is just speculation, although possible. Whereas if you buy an Android phone in Europe, you know for certain that your data and behavior are being examined by Google, and are available to US agencies.
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by gress 12y ago
Do they really need that certainty, or has that been trained into them from an early age?
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by gress 12y ago
Who determines what 'real therapy' is?
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by gress 12y ago
This makes no sense to me. It seems like the major effort would be involved in examining the applicant is necessary in both cases, since that requires collecting individual information and exercising judgement. The difference between the t
830.
by gress 12y ago
Why is this downvoted to zero? Doesn't anyone else find the whole thing creepy?
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by gress 12y ago
I'm not saying it's a defense - it's clearly not. There just seems to be something creepy about using a representation that looks older and calling it a younger age.
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by gress 12y ago
Really? It sounds like the agency has to check that the applicant meets the criteria for the license in either case. Where is the cost saving?
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by gress 12y ago
Thanks. That answers part of it, but it doesn't answer the question of what age people would rate the Avatar at. The two should be consistent.
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by gress 12y ago
I'm in no way defending anyone who takes advantage of anyone who's age they are unsure of (or really anyone who is vulnerable), but I notice that nowhere do they talk about the age of the person they are modeling. I'd be curi
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by gress 12y ago
Aren't your last two points contradictory?
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by gress 12y ago
That only answers why they are valuable, not why they are property . It is the issuing authority that intentional makes licenses into property by honoring them after they have been transferred. The quesion is, why are these licenses honor
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by gress 12y ago
If you 'agree' with Chris Granger, perhaps you can name one of the mistakes. Also - what good is Rust being developed in the open if it can't be used for production apps yet?
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by gress 12y ago
Garbage collection causes problems with memory pressure and pauses. ARC is very little different for the programmer, but suffers less from these problems and is easier to integrate with C language code. No reason for GC.
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by gress 12y ago
It's a company that has changed the world repeatedly, and one that has never stated that it's only function is to maximize shareholder value. Misrepresenting it doesn't make your point.
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by gress 12y ago
Swift is designed to: * be safer and reduce bugs * be more concise to increase productivity * be easier for the compiler to optimize * introduce functional programming constructs to make algorithm development easier Objective-C is weak in a

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