janeroe

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by janeroe 5y ago
Too bad, "I have no other [ways to organize society] for you" (Stalin [my edit]). In a paradise there is no shortage of anything and everyone has whatever they wish. Not the case for the real world we live in. Take it or leave it.
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by janeroe 5y ago
> The idea that "normal people" will be able to use bitcoin at all ... is laughable. The idea that "normal people" will be able to use cash at all is laughable. The idea that "normal people" will be able to
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by janeroe 5y ago
It seems you believe that anyone who wants to come to the States (or any other country) can just buy a ticket, get there, and stay. I have to disappoint you, that's not the case for most of the countries in the world including the US.
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by janeroe 5y ago
> Democracies ensure that - politicians will act to ensure the interest of their supporters. Will they? I think they are more like adults promising sweets for breakfast to children if they behave (vote). Not really in their interest if y
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by janeroe 5y ago
> Should you really be fired for things you said 13 years ago? I think, you shouldn't. Unless you're a head of diversity. Then you must be.
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by janeroe 5y ago
Which comment exactly did you perceive as ideological? Criticism of Stalin?
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by janeroe 5y ago
> you really underestimate the power of smear ... campaigns Not much they can do really. Elbakyan is a Stalinist who thinks the mass killer was a saint sent by God. She discredits herself at interviews and on her personal web-site just f
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by janeroe 5y ago
Aren't you concerned that Californians will turn Atlanta into Little California by supporting the policies that caused the problems they are fleeing in the first place?
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by janeroe 5y ago
My favorite part of Mongolian history is when their head refused to mass kill monks... I mean fight with the enemies of the people, so he was invited to Yalta (or some other resort?) and killed. And a new head was appointed instead. Say wha
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by janeroe 5y ago
You can find numerous quotes by British and American politicians of the time approving Hitler or Stalin. E.g. Churchill praises Hitler in his 1935 book (after the purge of up to 1000 people in 1934). Roosevelt and his wife's enchantmen
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by janeroe 5y ago
>> Heck, that car and the villa? State-owned and attached to the position, you lose your place -- your successor gets them What country are you describing, pal? In Soviet Union it was "вольнодумство" ("freethinking&quot
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by janeroe 5y ago
> Deregulation has proven _not_ to work for internet service providers. Proved by whom exactly? It works perfectly in the rest of the world. I've got a choice of 5 internet providers. People living closer to the central part of the
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by janeroe 6y ago
>> governments baling out rich people >> the lives of the bottom 20% could be improved, and I think that we should ask those at the top 10% to help them out Governments are taking money out of people's pockets by running a
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by janeroe 6y ago
>> There is a very small chance that people in US would trust a revolutionary product built outside. Maybe it's not that revolutionary after all?
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by janeroe 6y ago
> an NKVD agent and vice-consul in Istanbul, requested political asylum in Britain ... [and] ... offered the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain, two of whom worked in the Foreign Office and a third who worked in counter-espionag
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by janeroe 6y ago
Jealousy is the most destructive feeling. Other activities not so much. Mining incites jealousy. So, if you ban mining there will be no jealousy.
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by janeroe 6y ago
> What's the point of an unstable, volatile, frantically manipulated currency I don't know, but for some reason people keep using USD. Even though in the long run BTC keeps growing and USD will only lose its value.
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by janeroe 6y ago
Nice, MSM is whitewashing Chinese inhumane practices basing their arguments on some semantic fraud.
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by janeroe 6y ago
No, they don't. They are too invested. There is a dev campus there with tons of people working.
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by janeroe 6y ago
> If you have any idea how google works you know this (two week advance notice of algo changes) is impossible. You do have some idea, don't you? Enlighten us how it works and why algo change notices are impossible. > some things
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by janeroe 6y ago
>> Tradition is a set of solutions for problems that don't exist anymore That'd be reductionist rationalists' position.
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by janeroe 6y ago
That's the modern justification. Surgery "in the middle of a desert in the insanitary conditions and no water" for "hygiene" is a very counter-intuitive practice, don't you think?
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by janeroe 6y ago
>> In many ways, this is more ingenious than American system, although more expensive Is it though (more expensive)? I've heard they spend 1.5 billion dollars per year for the president (flights, security, meetings, etc). And tha
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by janeroe 6y ago
> The GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia is around $23k - approximately half of that of Sweden Why are you mentioning nominal GDP, not PPP which is $55 grand according to CIA (which is more than Sweden's and UK's and just a bit les
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by janeroe 6y ago
>> The whole point of using biological weapons like these is that it's almost impossible to prove that poisoning actually took a place. No one would ever find out for sure if he would die and only reason he still alive is few luc
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by janeroe 6y ago
Stolen or copied as in a leak? Was the original copy removed?
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by janeroe 6y ago
> This is meant to be a completely different ecosystem, no? An ecosystem not controlled with the US. There is no such thing as an ecosystem not controlled by the US. You have any ties with the States (and Facebook, clearly, does), you go
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by janeroe 6y ago
What is this thread, a branch of /r/LateStageCapitalism? People, who are not aware that the questions they raise were answered centuries ago, are philosophastering about their "solutions".
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by janeroe 6y ago
> I remember a conversation about it, discussing perhaps there isn't such a thing as an individual. Sounds pretty Buddhistic.
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by janeroe 7y ago
And not just Polish, most (if not all) Slavic languages. What a perfect name indeed.

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