grondilu

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by grondilu 9y ago
There is a lot of buzz around virtual reality, but it seems to me this kind of business is scarier than any head-mounted display.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Well, I may have oversimplified when I wrote that rights were what you can't be prosecuted for. I'm no constitutionalist. But you can't just shrug on the idea that there is a difference between rights and entitlements. I s
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by grondilu 9y ago
If Law itself can't prevent you to exercise your rights, it usually also means it should prevent other people from preventing you to exercise your rights. Thus murder (someone preventing you from exercising your right to live) is a cr
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by grondilu 9y ago
Fair point. I guess Reality is what we make of it, so I stand corrected.
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> By the way, we are not at risk of going back to defending ownership with violence, for the simple reason that we haven't left that situation. Property is defended with violence and the threat of violence every day in the most civi
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by grondilu 9y ago
> In the wild there are no property rights In the wild there is ownership (or possession), and animals defend it with brute force. Property rights regulate this and tend to enforce the concept of ownership in a civilized way. Without pr
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by grondilu 9y ago
If they committed crime, they should be in prison, regardless of how numerous they are.
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"suffering", "agony". It's not like we're talking about people being tortured.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Societies need to take care of their citizens and ensure they receive, if nothing else, fair treatment under law and approximately equal opportunity. I'm not sure what you mean by "approximately equal opportunity", since
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by grondilu 9y ago
It seems so. Regardless of our opinion about it, it'd be nice if people could agree on using two different terms for both concepts. https://fee.org/articles/rights-versus-entitlements/
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I'd rather sum it as "live and let die"
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Why should the family I was born to determine wether I have clean water to drink or not, for example? Because of this thing called reality. If the circumstances of your birth are unfortunate, that's sad, but it does not have to b
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by grondilu 9y ago
> to social unrest / revolutions that causes problems for rich people as well. Some problems for sure, but it's probably manageable. Poverty is not and should never be an excuse for crime. Rich people can build as many prison
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Don't we all have the right to a basic level of livelihood? You have the right to it, but you're not entitled to it. To me, having the right to do something means you can't be prosecuted for doing it. It doesn't me
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by grondilu 9y ago
In my humble opinion, the job of the government is absolutely not to give money to the poorest people, not even to maintain a "basic level of livelyhood". I'm also fairly certain this has nothing to do with the concept of j
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by grondilu 9y ago
> politicians get off for things magnitudes more illegal than what they've done, That indeed demands justice. > I think isn't a bad thing as long as the poorest among us have some basic level of livelihood. The problem is th
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by grondilu 9y ago
Disclaimer : I never read the book, but it's so famous the character seemed to me like a decent analogy to what I was trying to say. Don Quixote has a goal, but he's also completely delusional. Is it ok to live in delusion if tha
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by grondilu 9y ago
> a constancy of purpose is key towards a successful and happy life. Shouldn't your purpose have a meaning per se? You don't want to be Don Quixote.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> It would be even fun to constantly fall; You wouldn't go far, though. There is more information to gain in exploring the environment than on perpetually falling.
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by grondilu 9y ago
It seems to me that if they can crack that, it's basically game over. They'll just implement it into a robot (either real or simulated) with cameras and arms, throw toys at it, and let it learn by itself like babies do. Am I over
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by grondilu 9y ago
Most of the population explosion is behind us. Many developed countries have sub-replacement fertility, and it seems to be a trend followed by developing countries. "As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population l
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by grondilu 9y ago
Yes, but as I wrote this desire doesn't seem to be enough to renew generations.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Well, no rule is written in stone. What you talk about could be a consequence of the fact that men and women are more or less built the same way after all. Kind of like why men have nipples, even if they are useless to them. My point rema
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by grondilu 9y ago
Maybe contraceptives are a dead-end against which evolution can't do much. Maternal instinct exists : it pushes a woman to keep her offspring alive at all cost. I suppose it also makes women yearn for having a baby to take care of. B
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by grondilu 9y ago
> IMO the problem today is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation . Worrying about overpopulation is short-sighted. Also, no matter what kind of problems overpopulation brings, it's hard to imagine
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Other events (if in the next decades) that might kill billions of humans: > > - meteorites. No asteroid large enough to kill billions of humans is likely to impact Earth in this century. After that, it's likely that humanit
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by grondilu 9y ago
> But our looming weight makes us vulnerable, vulnerable to viruses that were once isolated deep in forests and mountains, but are now bumping into humans, vulnerable to climate change, vulnerable to armies fighting over scarce resources
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It has to be, otherwise there is an arbitrage opportunity : hydroelectric power is the cheapest there is.
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> No one will fall for this again. Governments always print money to fund its own projects But if the total amount of money was publicly visible, things could be different. For better or worse, people build trust from the past. If they
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by grondilu 9y ago
The rotating cube is especially cute. I challenge anyone to now write a clone on the classic game Elite with this.

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