johnmarius

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by johnmarius 10y ago
Could you elaborate on the difference between mafia members and politicians?
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Arguman: An open-source platform for organized discussions(en.arguman.org)
3 points by johnmarius 10y ago|1 comments
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by johnmarius 10y ago
"(One wonders how they managed to post to Twitter without internet access.)" I don't think Assange runs the wikileaks twitter account. So probably he messages them every day and when they don't get a message they know so
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Suppose someone decides whether he wants to join the military or not. Isn't it important for him to know, that either a moron or a psychopath will decide where to deploy him? That he'll be deployed either because a foreign leader
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by johnmarius 10y ago
With Bitcoin there is no central agency that can simply confiscate money with a call. The government would have to torture you for the private key. But there is not even a way to see, let alone prove, how much money you own, as long as you
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Using encrypted communications and bitcoin you can make sure that all your physical interactions are with people you can trust. Dark Net Markets are an example.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
The womb, her body, is her property. It's unfortunate that the child can't survive outside of it, but that doesn't make throwing it out comparable to Orwell's examples.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and who turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” But how do these others desire in the first place? Have the first d
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Some people are in fact motivated by money. Lots of things will begin to make sense to you, if you consider them from that perspective.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Why don't you start your own? Do you have to become a perfectly neutral angel to run any platform?
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by johnmarius 10y ago
That's the things seen and unseen fallacy. Suppose some parts were buried, you wouldn't know of them.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
you mean, amazon is better than whatever other places people could work instead?
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The Utilitarian Meme(medium.com)
1 points by johnmarius 10y ago|0 comments
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Is happiness unnecessary? Doesn't it matter what people like? I don't mean the masses, I mean people who evolved to navigate meatspace. Shouldn't designs make people happy?
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by johnmarius 10y ago
torrentz.eu
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by johnmarius 10y ago
It would be a bus-factor problem if any one person ran all these things. But they're all run by different people, none is essential.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
"But I don't think it is a path to meaning." No, it's not the path to meaning, but it is one.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
And yet you comment on this, and presumably read the article.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
In what sense can something be said to exist if it's "outside our observable universe, or even outside our universe entirely"?
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by johnmarius 10y ago
It's like saying that it's all just pixels, therefore these words you read don't have any meaning.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Why?
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by johnmarius 10y ago
One could publish such a software anonymously. All the data is already publicly available from trackers.
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by johnmarius 10y ago
Seeding IP-protected stuff is already illegal everywhere, yet people do it.
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Ask HN: Is there a torrent client that suggests torrents ...
2 points by johnmarius 10y ago|6 comments