howaboutnope

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by howaboutnope 5y ago
All pro endurance sports could end this instant, forever, and humanity would be fine. Humanity will not be fine if some of the points raised in that comment keep getting ignored.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the mac
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Something wrong doesn't become one iota better, or acceptable, because bigger evils exist. By that logic, persecuting homosexuals is perfectly fine, because bigger evils than that exist, too. And no gay person suffered millenia of pers
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
That's not even moving the goalposts, that's like walking off the playing field to do something else entirely. The people who took photos of my parents in their childhood and youth are most likely dead, so at this point not even t
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Yes, and gay people were pissed about it, too. Your point? It was an unjust way to treat homosexuals, it's an unjust way to treat supposed "bigots". Especially when it turns into vulgar Gesinnungsschnüffelei combined with dou
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
No, this absolutely does need attention. Probably not yours, but that's fine. https://old.reddit.com/r/fakedisordercringe/comments/lz83c2/... > young people have massive egos and little awareness
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
The movie "Walk on Water" comes to mind. I think you might like it.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
"anticipatory obedience" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorauseilender_Gehorsam Sadly the article only exists in German because, well, the most well known example of it is how people acted under Hitler.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
I oppose ruling via violence and murder. And generally, I think coercion needs to be justified, and often can be. When a child runs into a busy street, and yelling "stop" doesn't suffice, then you grab that child to keep it
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> Once the platform is in place, money is supposed to flow through the system without much extra effort at all. In other words, rent-seeking behavior.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
So my original comment was flagged. Why? What rules did it violate?
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
And "retry" what? That "all states are based on coercive violence" doesn't mean Nazi Germany and modern Sweden or Finland are essentially the same, and when someone pretends that's a good argument, that even n
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
I don't take issue with the criticism of American imperialism, but with the straw man that it's all just another Yellow Peril Cold War US thing, seeking issues where there is none to distract from domestic issues. Leica and Merced
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Nothing of this hinges on taking me as a person seriously, at all, and that the stuff I didn't quote is hundreds of pages, and not always super exciting, is hardly an argument against what I did quote. It's just an excuse. "I
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
I didn't mean to contrast the two with each other, but both with "disingenuous", of which they're synonyms.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Even if the US was perfectly saintly, that wouldn't change the nature of the totalitarianism of the CCP, and the ambitions that are inherent in it by necessity (since you cannot control and rewrite history without controlling the globe
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Oh, you're right. But still: "you are being deceitful" 1 result "you are being dishonest" 42 results ... if I tried them all they might add up to over 100, but still. It's hard to make the case with a few searc
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
It's my translation from the first German edition of "Origins of Totalitarianism". It's on page 683. > Wir kennen keinen vollkommenen totalitären Herrschaftsapparat, denn er würde die Beherrschung der gesamten Erde vo
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Nice try, but I see the huge difference between something like " don't rape people, or we all agreed you should be locked up " and " don't mention the Tiananmen square massacre, or the unaccountable rulers will lock
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Ain't HN the king of that.. "you are being disingenuous": 110 results "you are being stupid": 4 results
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
That wasn't a top level question though, it was a question to a commenter saying " We wanted to obfuscate this bit of code, to make life just a little bit harder for reverse engineers. " That you obfuscate code nobody other t
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
What % of the money youtube makes on ads goes to artists? If I pay some random goon 5€ to listen to a song they didn't make, I am technically "paying for entertainment", but that's hardly "doing the right thing&quot
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations too I can reduce all the music in the history of the world to the phrase "rhythm, melodies and lyrics". So? That'd say nothing about al
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Do you take issue with the validity of the test or are you just making observations?
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
So some grown man play acting as a fighter to help keep people's mind off anything that might improve their situation reacts with violence to being called out on it, but Stossel is the "whiny baby" doing "cutesy stuff id
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
I didn't say it's perfect, but it's surely better than it's presented by people who get nothing about it right.
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> GDPR do make a lot of things cumbersome, not only if you are doing "bad" things. That's a far cry from "they make these cookie banners necessary". Tracking people without consent on first visit is what makes th
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> crap like GDPR (which makes basically all normal interaction cumbersome) Only if you count "tracking users on first visit before they do anything else" as normal. Otherwise, there isn't a banner needed; sites could simpl
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
This wouldn't be a "distraction", this would be him owning his shit. The distraction from that is what he fills the rest of his life with.

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