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by leftyted 7y ago
Of course there's a way to separate them. Let banks do what they like and obstruct everyone else in some way. As another poster phrased the argument: "Corporations should have access to strong encryption, just not little people.
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by leftyted 7y ago
I disagree with the tone of the comments here. Encryption is scary. Of course law enforcement is dismayed by the possibility that certain kinds of crimes could leave behind no trace at all. What these people, who want to regulate encrypti
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by leftyted 7y ago
To me, dried coffee residue from black coffee smells absolutely delicious, sweet, almost pastry-like.
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by leftyted 7y ago
The idea that "you know" what would happen if, overnight, everyone started using ublock origin, is silly. What part of Google's revenue comes, indirectly, from "display ads"? I have no idea. I think it's safe
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by leftyted 7y ago
Parents necessarily experiment on their children. No one knows "the proper way" to raise children and if you trust psychologists, nutritionists, or the social sciences to "scientifically" tell you how to raise your chil
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by leftyted 7y ago
That's a utilitarian definition of "goodness," which can be useful (though not always). But it's not how people actually experience "goodness". It's like suggesting that everyone should give gifts of 100
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by leftyted 7y ago
Either way, indirectly or not, Google makes money from people looking at ads. What would happen to "advertisers" if everyone blocked ads? Would the whole industry collapse? It's hard for me to see how that wouldn't af
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by leftyted 7y ago
> That really isn't an argument worth taking seriously. I think it is. I've used Google search, gmail, youtube, and Google docs since they've existed. I've paid $0 for them. My understanding is that these services
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by leftyted 7y ago
> To me the current option is no participation because I see no explicit ads. The web is pull and not push, and my browser renders whatever I want it to. Yes and Brave's argument is that if everyone acted like you, the web as we kno
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Unfortunately, the only reasoning I can see that "a union for programmers is a terrible idea" is that you "don't want to read newsletters or listen to speeches or be involved at all in the grubby etc". Really?
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by leftyted 7y ago
> You can feel however you want about power, about not joining a union, about not paying dues, but the employer always has more power than the employee; they pay you a small fraction of the value you produce for them, you collect a paych
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by leftyted 7y ago
> What if your punch in, put on the blinders, work 8 hours, punch out, go home; emotionally-deatched approach has you building tools to enable censorship in China? If I thought that the company was doing something deeply unethical then I
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by leftyted 7y ago
My empoyer doesn't have a lot of power over me. I'm a programmer not a coal miner. I don't want to be in a union. I don't want to join some club. I don't want to pay dues. I don't want to read newsletters o
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by leftyted 7y ago
Gattaca never explains why the genetically-superior humans are such assholes.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> It completely weakens the meaning of these words and turn them into insignificant weasel words because after all they apply to anything... Exactly right. "When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the bes
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by leftyted 7y ago
The bit about the impossibility of doing good in public is from The Human Condition. She gets it from Machievelli, who dared to "teach men how not to be good". I'd recommend a collection of three essays called Crises of the
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by leftyted 7y ago
More power for you is directly linked to making society better. What a fascinating coincidence.
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by leftyted 7y ago
Yes. This is why ascetics are considered saintly.
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by leftyted 7y ago
My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted. > Let's be clear here: humans banding together to accomplish goals greater than that which they are individua
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by leftyted 7y ago
What's really illuminating is that you equate quitting with "running away". Quitting isn't "running away" -- it's the correct course of action if you object to what the company is doing. Sure, make your
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by leftyted 7y ago
Clearly there are bad bosses. But there are also bad employees and a good boss probably seems like a bad boss to a bad employee.
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by leftyted 7y ago
Time will tell. Either way, I'm fairly tired of interacting with people who seeem to think they have exclusive access to a mainline from the future.
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by leftyted 7y ago
The idea that people in the developing world won't benefit from fossil fuels is a horrible lie. All of the claims you made (regarding flooding, wars, etc) are unfalsifiable, two-points-make-a-line gibberish. Carbon emissions may very
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by leftyted 7y ago
Humans don't get to "change the world" to meet our imagination. All actions are contingent upon things we cannot understand. We are constantly acting into an unknowable future. The man-made world (which is a much thinner v
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by leftyted 7y ago
You envision society as a battleground for various moral perspectives. I think there's some truth to that. But are there any ground rules? If so, what are they? Are you giving me license to firebomb ICE facilities because I "b
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by leftyted 7y ago
> I don't get why Sparta seems to be so fetishized, particularly by people who are not pleasant to be around. The "fetishization" of Sparta goes back to Thucydides and Xenophon, Athenians who admired the Spartans, and Plut
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by leftyted 7y ago
A different framing of this is that politics is, more and more, intruding into science. Paul Romer: > Politics does not lead to a broadly shared consensus. It has to yield a decision whether or not a consensus prevails. As a result, poli
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Free speech is good" is not a "blithe techno-utopian narrative". The internet makes people uncomfortable because it lives somewhere in between the realm of public discourse (heavily regulated) and private discourse (mos
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by leftyted 7y ago
Thanks, that's fascinating. Relevant part from wikipedia: > Their discovery and subsequent characterization has triggered some debate concerning the evolutionary origins of giant viruses. The two main hypotheses for their origin ar
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by leftyted 7y ago
> That arc bends towards increased fitness in a given ecological/economic niche, but no more than that. We went from single-cell -> multi-cell. Has the reverse ever happened? Maybe "fitness in a given ecological niche&quot

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