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by kartan 8y ago
> We are talking of censorship conducted by the government, the worst kind there is. Why the censorship is done by a corporation is so much better than the one done by an elected government? I think that censorship is the wrong thing not
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> tens of thousands of important decisions I think of myself to be a well-informed person. I will not be able to cope with that level of decision making. Probably makes more sense to scale it up slowly, adding more and more issues to be
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by kartan 8y ago
> Privacy advocates stunned that explicit rules ignored, blame head of FCC A fox guarding the henhouse.
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> The problem is that unrestricted movement disrupts culture and lowers a lot of social statistics all at once - in a way that can be really disruptive to the host culture. So, free movement inside the UK should be restricted? The UK sho
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by kartan 8y ago
> The people who want to leave the EU and not necessarily the same people pushing for this. I think that you are right. But, why is not these kinds of topics part of the political discourse? It is elected officials the ones pushing for h
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by kartan 8y ago
> that pose money-laundering and terrorism financing threats So, Uk is fine with a country that finances terrorism in the UK itself as long as the elite gets a good chunk of money. At the same time, the UK wants to leave the European Uni
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by kartan 8y ago
> Well if people can keep justifying working for companies acting in unethical fashion. I see quite often shifting the blame to employees. Does not make more sense that is the powerful companies that are expected to do the right thing in
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by kartan 8y ago
Yes. In a perfect information market, this will not work. The people that can do the job for 0.40 will do it directly for that amount or they will get it for 0.60. But information is a scarcity for poor people and that makes the market very
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> Though market forces should generally push unskilled labor wages high enough to be livable I do not see how the market forces can do that. In the USA there is a lot of non-livable paying jobs that need to be complemented by public spe
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by kartan 8y ago
> What would be news is if Google were paying $11/hr + social security, etc. just to have people tell an algo which pictures have a dog in them. That would put them at a competitive disadvantage. Yes. Sometimes maximizing profits an
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by kartan 8y ago
> at what point does personal responsibility take over? Maybe a good approach can be: - When there are millions of people with otherwise functional lives falling for unhealthy behaviour then you blame the carriers. - When there is a very
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by kartan 8y ago
> While some workers point-and-call more enthusiastically than others Yes, I have seen this. Rail workers are great at it, but in other places, it can get worse. I saw a guy pointing to both sides of the sidewalk - to assure that it was
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by kartan 8y ago
> the subjects just answered a different question than the one the researcher asked them. I completely agree with your interpretation. And that is why science education is so important. Thinking like a scientist is not natural. It is a l
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by kartan 8y ago
> Year after year, followers of respective patron saints attempt to outspend and outdo their neighbouring parish in a contentious crusade for showmanship It looks like a set of very bad habits. A place where signalling power and wealth i
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by kartan 8y ago
I'm writing this from Japan. I do not have the numbers, but as I cross the country in the Shinkansen I see a sea of solar panels. Fukushima has been a lesson here. Strategically, Japan has to import it's energy, except for solar e
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by kartan 8y ago
> I think its because you feel included since most of the show is back-and-forth gossip on family issues where its common for the people in the scene to try and find a solution to a problem where the problem person is excluded from the
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by kartan 8y ago
> If the content creator chooses to optimize the money-making persona, it eventually leads to sensationalized content to generate the maximum possible number of views. In the past brand prestige protected the media from this to happen. A
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by kartan 8y ago
Ramsomware (like any ransom) is a typical "tragedy of the commons" situation. To pay is beneficial for yourself, as you get your data back that is more valuable than the amount of money that you pay. Society losses as a whole as y
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by kartan 8y ago
I posted this 1 day ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583017 ) "YouTube, for example, can show advertisements for well known companies in videos about Anti-vaccination, far-right conspiracies, etc. without con
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by kartan 8y ago
I always though that this was gonna happen in the future. That someone 100 years from now will check zettabytes of videos, pictures, posts and is going to create complete profiles of everyone that has lived in our time. Each time that you a
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by kartan 8y ago
> Stop enabling the destruction of journalism? My two cents is that advertisement is what is killing journalism. YouTube, for example, can show advertisements for well known companies in videos about Anti-vaccination, far-right conspirac
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by kartan 8y ago
> But a year later when he was arrested for his participation in what many assume to be a brawl, the knights imprisoned the artist at Fort St Angelo and expelled him from the Order. For the only things I know Malata now are gambling, as
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by kartan 8y ago
> EDIT: I read this wrong. I agree with what you're saying, "related to" would have made more sense as "leads to". Yes. Thank you. "Leads to" is what I meant. :)
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> To me, it feels like the alternative, even if you could fix it, would result in eliminating swathes of currently provided services. I see your point. But, in my experience, it is the opposite. I have worked in Sweden and Spain, two ver
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> Luckily, there is just such a concept: It’s called material security. This is really important. There are people that are one paycheck away from not being able to afford rent and basic necessities. I have lost my job in the past. I was
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> It’s down to individuals rather than culture in these things. By purely statistics, an organisation of any size has less than ethical people in it even if they have the best outward impression. How the organisations react to that bad a
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by kartan 8y ago
The solution looks good. But the remaining problem is density. The higher the density the easier is to provide services for the population. New York, Tokyo, Paris, etc, have several store tall buildings with people living in apartments. For
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by kartan 8y ago
That are good characteristics for anyone. Be a decent human also while at your job your life and other's life are going to be better. (And probably you also will get better products and be economically successful as a side-effect).
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by kartan 8y ago
"more curbs on the means of self-destruction" This means guns. And that is why right now this post is full of mean spirited comments. It is a shame that cannot be a sincere discussion about guns even when it relates to suicide and
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by kartan 8y ago
> It's funny how language shapes our thinking. Yes. We need to change "I need some rest" for "I need some introspection". I agree that is a change from "lazy" or "not-doing-anything" towards &

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