janeroe

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by janeroe 5y ago
> It is too bad, but it's your government. "Too bad, but it's your monarch. He's anointed by God. You must care about him". Not really a very strong argument. > Think of NASA - the greatest explorers in the hi
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Like the chemical weapons in Iraq, that kind of evidence?
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I'm not an American so have no this Democrats vs. Republicans dichotomy, cheering or deriding the very same decisions depending on whether they're coming from "our" or "their" people (as in "He's a So
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Too bad the government is terrible at all of those things.
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We are looking at it from different perspectives. You from the central planner's one. I'm from the position of an acting person, someone who doesn't believe anyone owes them anything, but at the same time preferring to keep w
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by janeroe 5y ago
Oh, I thought your "tax cuts not paying for themselves" is a figure of speech. And that's a literal quote. What is it supposed to mean? Like if you steal less from the people, you get less if that's your only source?
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> What if that's because "right-leaning" information is truly wrong? What if it's not? > What if cutting taxes doesn't pay for itself? If only we had some kind of experiments in the 20th century that showed wh
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> As someone who actually engaged with that story, I found the reporting and posited facts to be incoherent and full of holes. Was the story of Russians electing Trump coherent and without holes?
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> What if: the system is used to looking for dissidents ... / espionage ... / profiling ... Not if. When.
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> Australia is a joke of a country. It's just a Texas with ocean. It's called California.
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> Is this intentionally ironic? There is no contradiction. If you want to come to Canada, for example, you have to qualify for one of the programs, e.g. "Express Entry". That is, have education or better yet Canadian education,
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I had a chance to compare the systems, too but my conclusions are completely different. Teachers at the physics/math lyceum I studied at were emotionally unstable psychopaths with mood swings. They could switch from calm "kids, if
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> Does ISIS have an official twitter account? Probably not. But Taliban has one and it's more than 10 years old. Chinese tweets from a verified account about "reeducation camps liberating uyghur women" (an euphemism for st
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I never said that it's my (dis)agreement with you that makes you a manipulator. It's the way you frame your argument. You said "third of the population" but forgot to mention that it's just 7 people we're talki
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> Once they get Skylink it sounds like a libertarian dream Not just that. Other comments mention presence of some kind of external governance with "officials" intrusively poking their noses into someone else's business. Do
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And that's why author's practice survived despite the hostility of the US government. They started treating Canadian patients: > The first patients to arrive after we posted prices were Canadians. This was instructive, as these
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> It's absolutely an accurate use of statistics Nope, that's what phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is about. You're a manipulator.
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It's our cow and we're to milk it!
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> They'll only do it if there is a political benefit. This is also how it works with other countries (e.g., Russia). They'll help if they get something out of it, or won't give a damn otherwise.
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> For example, we're pretty good at getting our people out of thorny situations How thorny a situation has to be? Because I'm aware of a case when an American couldn't bring his own children to the states because his ex wi
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There is a relevant speech by a surgeon who along with other doctors started their own practice [1]. It's called "Why Aren't There More Free Market Surgery Centers and Clinics". > The last two payments I received from
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> - You shouldn't try to invent your own cryptographic primitives. > - You shouldn't try to design your own equivalent to (say) SSL. > - You shouldn't try to implement something like SSL, or parse ASN.1, yourself. Wh
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Why not? He was into computing. His lectures on computation (transcribed from his course in California Institute of Technology) are published: https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontier...
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He's not a CEO of American company, he's not a software engineer who could be fired. Being independent of all that crowd you don't have to care what they think. That doesn't mean they didn't try to cancel him. They
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> Why we crave internet justice We don't. If by "we" you mean yourselves (NY Times) or your buddies, then the answer doesn't have to be that long and convoluted.
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Are you a citizen of the United States? If it were possible would you swap your citizenship with an average Chinese?
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But Buddhism doesn't teach to give up the material world. Quite the opposite. It states there should be a balance. The middle way. Dalai Lama was even cancelled by twitter users for that. He said that his successor, if a woman, must be
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> there is no chance that it's being driven by some global factors and events, like avaliability of cheap credit There is no chance indeed.
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> How can a society allow What's the lastname of this Society guy? It's kind of hypocritical to wrap your personal wishes and desired in the veil of common good, care for others, etc.
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Well, when the youth wing of Lumumbians started practicing a nutritionary democracy (that is, murdered and had a nurse from the West for dinner) this was exactly the justification used by the socialists. "They are undoing the colonial

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