hanshan

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by hanshan 8y ago
>So which do you prefer? Foreign manipulation of public will, or democracy? That's a false dichotomy which implies you missed my point. There is no such thing as sovereign democracy in a globalized world with omnipresence and instan
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by hanshan 8y ago
One could indict every major world power for foreign election interference. Laws are meaningless if no one follows them.
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by hanshan 8y ago
>The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways,” >“Together with our law enforcement partners, the Department of Justice is resolute in its commitment to locate, identify and seek to bring to jus
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by hanshan 8y ago
>Money gives you time. Being alive gives you time. >If you aren't being paid to do the journalism then you are getting paid to do something else Yeah, you're getting paid to do whatever it is you're a subject matter exp
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by hanshan 8y ago
If everyone can watch everyone with equal transparency, that would seem to imply a distributed system with information symmetry, which is antithetical to centralized authority. If there was a central authority/super admin in such a sys
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by hanshan 8y ago
Their best for you, or for advertisers?
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by hanshan 8y ago
Care to elaborate on your concerns? We're obviously speaking theoretically here at a high level of abstraction
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by hanshan 8y ago
>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. -John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went (1975)
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by hanshan 8y ago
>we could watch the people that watch us. If this were possible, there would be no authority
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by hanshan 8y ago
>This is literally Google donating money to charity. I specifically said "product" donations. >Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their products away for free And they would be ignor
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by hanshan 8y ago
That's a lot like saying FB and GOOG are charitable because they give their products away for "free". How much money/data are those product donations extracting from the people they donated to?
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by hanshan 8y ago
>The negatives are less tangible: giving up your personal data (this is complicated by the fact that the data didn't exist until you used their services), targeted advertising, I'm not sure what else there is. You forgot about
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by hanshan 8y ago
Time is more important than money, and expertise does not depend on the funding of a newspaper or media company
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by hanshan 8y ago
So, a subject matter expert with a cellphone video?
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by hanshan 8y ago
Where the problem arises is the degree to which one is affected by these emotions. Too much anxiety can lead to paranoia, schizophrenia and anti-social behavior, too little can lead to life threatening situations. Too much aggression can le
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by hanshan 8y ago
In case you didn't realize, my comment and the parent's comment are satirical.
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by hanshan 8y ago
"The internet would not exist without advertising"
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by hanshan 8y ago
>Emotions are part of the biological machinery that keeps meat-machines alive and active in the world. Not all emotions are valuable, some are indeed quite harmful and anti social. Which brings us back full circle to the original point o
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by hanshan 8y ago
No you didn't, you spoke of "responsibility", and being around to "take care of them", which implies an unfulfilled or unending paternalism
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by hanshan 8y ago
>no evidence that total biological death would entail anything but You seem very certain of your hypothesis. Is there anything that science has had a harder time defining, quantifying, or understanding than the nature of consciousness as
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by hanshan 8y ago
Yes, I understand why atheists are so fearful of death, but also see the illogical and impractical nature of it. >death for atheists is the loss of everything Atheist logic should lead to the realization that from an individual standpo
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by hanshan 8y ago
>When the brain is damaged or undergoes chemical changes, we know that consciousness seems to disappear. There is no strong evidence to think this is different upon the death of any organism. People often have dreams under such circumsta
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by hanshan 8y ago
>If you thought you'd never wake up again, how comfortably would you go to sleep? If we have no choice but to go to sleep, why would we want to spend those last moments feeling terribly uncomfortable? If we face the facts that death
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by hanshan 8y ago
Is the goal of parents raising children not to prepare them to be adults that can take care of themselves? That's the problem with "helicopter parents", they hold on so selfishly to their role as a parent that they stunt thei
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by hanshan 8y ago
It seems your logic has been overriden by your fear. If, as you hypothesize, one loses "conscious experience forever" when they die, how could they consciously experience "endless oblivion"? How is fearing nonexistence
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by hanshan 8y ago
>Western culture simply understands the reality of the situation. What is the "reality of the situation" in regards to death that they are so privy to?
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by hanshan 8y ago
It's pretty well documented how terrified western culture is of death relative to others. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell is an excellent book which goes into insightful detail on this subject.