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by lopmotr 6y ago
> he also tried to remove health care from the transgender. How on earth could that be possible? Exclude them from the free government health care that other people get? Prohibit them from paying for their own healthcare? That's fa
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I don't understand why mobs don't form against the employers who fire people because of internet mobs. They often have a lot of supporters if it's a partisan political issue. The employers are the ones doing the actual harm w
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How can people be motivated to put the mental effort into understanding the other person's point of view? Participants are still volunteers, not workers, and that's unpleasant work.
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There's also a large study showing that binge drinking in early pregnancy is beneficial for the child's IQ. But the only statistically significant result was if it was done in the first 2 gestational weeks which turns out to mean
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It's rather that they're not distributing it (either source or binary) so the GPL doesn't apply to them. Not having access to the source doesn't exempt you from the GPL.
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There's obviously a balance to be made with incentivizing inventing though. Some inventions are expensive and nobody would do them without patent protection. Some are trivial though and it's those that are a problem. Perhaps wheth
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Enticing makes you happy, inciting makes you angry. Both persuade you do to something.
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That's an interesting view about it being hostile to copying. I suppose it often is because it needs practical experience. I often hear that "real world" term used to prop up the status of uneducated people by making their kn
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If they're really random, that's not so bad. Just like other computer failures. But Youtube alters people's behavior out of fear. You see Youtubers replacing "dangerous" words with joke words even though they'r
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Surely most people know that private jets exist. I don't understand your shock. Using the word "inequalities" suggests you feel it's unfair that some people are much richer than you, but so what? Some people are also muc
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Those kind of issues are typically only universally seen as bad after technology changes so they're no longer necessary. Children now end up as more useful workers if they go to school first, so child labor is bad today but compulsory
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Yes. Like I said, if the law allowed it, he would support racial discrimination too, according to his statement.
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Sure. But Paulchap made a general statement without any of those distinctions. People often make such broad statements of belief when they're trying to make their position sound powerful and important but end up contradicting their act
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>perfectly reasonable for them to cut off your access to their service, as long as it's within the legal bounds of the ToS. I don't think companies should be directly regulated/penalized for banning users. I don't bel
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> In what world can you imagine video game creators not being able to determine what kind of content is acceptable in their own game. You're over-generalizing. If a game explicitly banned players from creating characters that look
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The list of "bad" ideas blows this way and that with the wind. It's not about what it was used for in the past or how much bad was done. It's about whatever mobs with pitchforks demand. They can always come up some reaso
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Imperial Japan was extremely cruel to the people in the places it invaded - which was a lot. Human experimentation, massacring civilians, torture, comfort women. They were basically the Nazis of Asia. They also didn't apologize for it,
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Nevermind privacy. How are favicons so complicated that they need a special service that understands edge cases. Just do it one standard way and if a minority of websites don't work, then exclude them. We've been through this mess
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They don't stop so quickly in crash. It's how fast you stop that makes it dangerous.
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2. is just people exercising their freedom. Unless you want to disallow poor people access to products that rich people can have, or make them pay more! 3. Technically it may be true but it's obviously not an honest argument because th
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Isn't it the police's responsibility to prevent violent crime? Perhaps they just need more policing. How does a shop prevent a person from shooting somebody else in its carpark? Even then, won't they just shoot each other in
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It's happening in the UK. Google "I need to check your thinking" for an example. You need to have some clear boundaries between speaking-crime and thought-crime otherwise they get blurred and you end up with something like Mc
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It's hard to find the point of the argument other than "poor people shouldn't be allowed to buy cheap stuff." These shops cause poverty by being cheaper than traditional chain stores and attracting robbers who kill staff
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He's pointing out the contradiction people hold in their heads, not saying that it's immoral. Many people believe in mutually incompatible ideas like this. I think it's because they get more satisfaction from fitting in with
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On social media, people choose who to listen to so nobody can "play loud music" to those who don't want to hear it. Censorship is to protect people from wrong-think that they want to hear, not to protect them from what they d
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Yes. I'm kind of pointing out how even that "positive" vision was naive because it actually did come true and it was still bad. Just creating democracies isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Everyone wants to limit what other people can read and write because they want to impose their beliefs onto the rest of the world. No. Your ideas aren't the "correct" ones. Just censor your personal information instead. Stop
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It did, didn't it? Facebook and Twiter took credit for creating a few democracies in the middle east during the Arab Spring.
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OK. I didn't realize that trick where you multiplied by 4 there. So it works when you're starting with any integer number of feet if you do a little multiplying. But I still doubt this has any practical use. Can you give me a conc
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This comes up a lot but is it actually a valid argument at all? In what real life situation would you want to divide 1 foot by 3 and get an integer as the result? If you're cutting materials, you usually want a given length, not 1&#x2F

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