jasonisalive

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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Hmm, yet people overwhelmingly agree that slavery is nothing to be proud of, and somehow I'm sure you'd never play the "difference of opinion" card in defence of slavery... Anyway, I'm proud of myself because I know
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback! For your other points, it's useful to draw a comparison with slavery here I think. 1) Our stable, successfully post-slavery world (which I would argue ours largely is) isn't a world where everyone
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
It's a shame to see the conversation here bypassing the real issue, which isn't taste, technological wow-factor, production efficiency, environmentalism, or entrepreneur chic. The real issue is animal welfare. Remember, every time
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
For users of Karabiner, a keyboard customising utility for OS X ( https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ ) Karabiner enables users to extend its features by writing custom xml to a private.xml file. This is my private.xml
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Show HN: My private.xml for Karabiner - enhanced keyboard controls for OS X(github.com)
3 points by jasonisalive 12y ago|1 comments
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Hinduism: an inexhaustible, ever-reshapeable resource for Indian nationalism.
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A Bitcoin battle is brewing(techcrunch.com)
60 points by jasonisalive 12y ago|42 comments
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Great, so they were nomads, so the whites just pushed them out of the way... and into the way of other nomadic tribes, sparking chains of dislocation-driven conflicts... and when they fought back they were slaughtered, and they kept pushing
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
The same is true of any fiat currency including the American dollar.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
The Übermensch realises that the pre-existing god-based morality was in itelf fully arbitrary, as it was invented by the weak to defend themselves against the predations of the powerful. There's not really any way to avoid the necessit
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I think what you're really saying with all those fancy words about pre-existing moral validations (which is really just an argument from authority) is that you agree with Gandhi/MLK/Pussy Riot that the laws they willfully bro
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
They outrightly express resistance to laws-as-is Here, I found another arrogant law-defying übermensch-wannabe for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Isn't one supposed to select a scale which allows the compiled data to be clearly and informatively expressed? And doesn't the data compiled so far fit comfortably on a linear scale? Would you recommend
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
It seems utterly reasonable to me. What could be more reasonable than wanting your medium of exchange to be out of the control of incompetent, corruptible governments? What could be more reasonable than wanting your medium of exchange to be
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Eventually when no one will accept fiat currencies anymore it will be worth infinite [pick your fiat currency]
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Sorry, in my experience white South Island culture is generally pro-hunting and anti-Maori. I've also met plenty of rural North Island people who are cut from the same cloth. I take back the implied characterisation of you but I'v
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
An example from my understanding: I want to buy something off an online merchant. I send them the payment, but I make it a multisig payment that needs to be authorised by their signature plus the signature of the delivery company. I expect
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I was just reading this. Excellent resource, probably the first time I feel I am starting to grasp how all the different pieces of Bitcoin fit together. There's also: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference - t
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
News to me, but I haven't spent much time in the North Island so maybe I just haven't seen it. I'm not really a North Island/Maori expert.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Hunting is a traditional activity among Pakeha farmers and farming communities in Aotearoa. These people came from lower and middle class British communities, and enthusiastically began hunting in Aotearoa because in Britain it was traditio
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Just for background, there's an ideological divide in contemporary Aotearoa. On the one side are the proponents of "traditional" (pre-late 1960s) white Pakeha culture. They tend to be pro-farming and hunting (good vigorous ma
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
It's always the small fish who suffer the most from socialist policies. Only large organisations can justify the resources to out-maneuever punitive legislation. It's a shame that this irony isn't more widely understood.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
If you think about what they're implying instead of just being snarky, they're really saying that bitcoin/gold/other monetary commodities have no intrinsic value beyond their a) suitability as exchange technologies and
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
we need to restrict the ability of delivery companies from determining whom they provide service we cannot regulate minimum terms of service to end consumers Sorry, those two conditions are completely mutually exclusive.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Now that the Germans have been firmly put in their place as the footstools of the Anglo-Saxons, it's safe and trendy to orientalise aspects of their culture and language.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I work in customer service (telco) and let me say, you could sort the wheat from the chaff, but there is a lot of chaff.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
1) As a customer, I don't care at all what insurance my driver has to protect him or herself in the event they cause an accident. Should I? 2) The requirement that road users have insurance is in my opinion completely separate to what
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Here's an outlandish idea: let people choose whether to take rides from insured drivers or not. Hell, why not let drivers openly advertise their insurance levels to attract customers! Letting people choose their risk level for themselv
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Everything you have said is completely invalidated by the simple fact that nobody is forced to be a Uber driver.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
You may be familiar with a thing called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience . It's a crazy theory that, if you are intelligent and believe that laws and civil arrangements in your society are against l

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