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by kebman 6y ago
Sounds similar to how Romanians will often denominate rent payment and larger settlements in Euros rather than in Leis (RON). In essence, they're doing it for the same reason; because of the volatility of their own currency. The except
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I increasingly find myself using other search engines when looking up political contents. Google's seems to be censored, or wheigthed in a way that gives it heavy political bias. I wish they would just give good search results, like th
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If you want writing excellence, the paper also matters a lot. This is especially so if you're using more specialized equipment, and in particular if you're using inks that are more prone to seeping into the paper. The ability for
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Now that is old school! :D Using a fountan pen is definitively not continued where I live in Norway. The elementary school curriculum used to contain "løkkeskrift" up until the 70's, which is loosly translated to "curly
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The recipe seems to be to make moldbug-esque similes and exaggerations, and POOF! now people will buy your book and give it a one star rating. :)
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There's definitively a value in knowing about culture, and being able to categorize it and discuss it on many levels. If you simply want to get through to more people, the most direct approach I can think of is to study things like rhe
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Amazeing!
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Reminds me of that time I used a full week to raytrace some logo...
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Hi, there. I've studied Political Science, Film "Science" and IT. And Pedagogy. Why do I say Film "Science"? Because I had to use refuted "science" to analyze films, among other things (Freudian Analysis,
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by kebman 6y ago
> Right, so the point that it is a matter of degree stands, and the point that you are not powerless in a state where you are part of the government also stands. Not really. The more people who get to vote, the less individual control yo
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This is not a concept, but an observation. What you're talking about already exists. It's the capitalist cooperative, where people voluntarily come together to pool capital in order to build some company that produces things or se
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Thankfully, it's because a lof of politicians have read Socrates, and taken his lesson to heart; that majority rule is indeed dictatorial, and so we should strive to also let the minorities be heard. That doesn't mean it is always
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by kebman 6y ago
I didn't break into any system. I merely streamlined the gathering of restricted data that I was entitled to anyway through my work. Then I made graphical representations of those data for my own use, in order to do a better job. I fig
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by kebman 6y ago
Ah, yes. The majority that forced Socrates to drink poison.
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You are completely correct, Sir. This is why we must avoid organizing our states in ways that create such dependencies at all cost, and instead strive to create states that create voluntary sharing of resources and values that are mutually
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> There's no other reason you could think of to feed a hungry person? Free individuals might give something out of benevolence. But a state institution is not a free individual. It can only represent the collective, and you cannot e
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Before they scrambled the police radio in Norway, they would sometimes phone in stuff to the central when they wanted to deliver personal or protected information. Sometimes they'd omit the phone-in, though, to save time. Interestingly
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Because if you cannot offer anything of value, someone else will offer that value on your behalf, making you an extraneous cost which anyone in their right mind would want to remove. And then you are but a slave to whomever you are useful t
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by kebman 6y ago
To me it's pretty easy to understand. It's far easier for state organs to control large corporations, than many small and independent businesses. Meanwhile, it's far easier for coroporations with means to lobby for legislatio
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by kebman 6y ago
Isn't police radio usually scrambled? It is where I am in Norway. It was legal to listen to it before it was scrambled though. Not sure if it's legal to de-scramble it, if it's at all possible. AFAIK you can still listen to t
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by kebman 6y ago
Since no end product is guaranteed, you're taking a risk when you're helping people on Kickstarter. I think that is pretty clear from Kickstarter's charter. Thus I wouldn't exactly call it a scam. If anyone is scamming a
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by kebman 6y ago
A lot of hacking is done simply because public and private databases and systems just aren't good enough to serve those that they were made to serve. This made me a "hacker," in that I created programs, crawlers and spiders t
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by kebman 6y ago
This got me thinking about Limit Theory [1], where everything will be procedurally generated. Not sure if the project is still alive though. I remember getting so hyped over it in 2014 or something... [1]: http://ltheory.com&#x
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> Of course, AFAIK these people aren't paying Google, so to Google they're not customers, they're just users whose data Google wants to sell. It might sound different, but it's really not. For years the Norwegian stat
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by kebman 6y ago
This is true, but then Linux has a whole host of other issues that makes it nigh unusable for Muggles and non professionals. Thus, if they're not an avid gamer, I'd usually recommend OS X, until about 2016. Then I stopped doing th
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by kebman 6y ago
Once I tried out Mac OS X for the first time during the late 2000's it was really striking how much better OS X was, compared to Windows, epspecially for "creative professions," for video, design and the sort. But since then,
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by kebman 6y ago
OSX used to be the OS that started really quick, and ran really smoothly. Certainly far better than Windows. Also search was lightning fast. It was a selling point on its own. But recently it has slowed to a crawl. And I have to ask, what b
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No, some other local site. Was a real bummer, and pretty sad business practise if you ask me.
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I tried to register a really cool name. Suddenly it was registered after all. Funny how that goes... Thought me to never trust a domain name registrar again. Could I have sued them? Perhaps, but at the time that was way too economically ris
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by kebman 6y ago
I wouldn't put an idea on Twitter or Facebook. That's where I put a short joke, or a pun, or some political troll meme. Then I watch the mentions and likes roll in. That's not to say that it never happens, but they aren'

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