lopmotr

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by lopmotr 7y ago
The arguments against chapter doesn't mention what seems to me to be the killer reason - that people are very bad at enjoying life without a compelled purpose. Doing work gives us the motivation to pursue our hobbies. Being useful keep
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by lopmotr 7y ago
For the vast majority of Chinese, the government is doing good to them. They keep getting wealthier and their quality of life keeps going up. You might think it's better to be a starving peasant in a country with western values than a
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There isn't a clear definition of what counts as part of a country. For this purpose, it's about access to intelligence. By that standard, Britain is part of America too because they share intelligence. If it's decided by the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You have a high standard for being convinced so more news stories won't convince you than normal people. That's fine, but be careful that the ones which do convince you (Snowden stayed in Hong Kong, for instance), really are stron
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by lopmotr 7y ago
OS makers have that magic software and seem to keep it secure enough. They can update your device and potentially hack if it they want to. If you think that's a bad idea, what alternative would you propose for automatic security update
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by lopmotr 7y ago
A couple of things you're missing: 1) Motivation. How many of these have you or anybody you know built and regularly use? 2) All the details. They require many skills, tools, experimentation, time, and spending of money. As an example,
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> a drug company that specializes in traditional Chinese medicines to fight cardiovascular disease A bit off topic but that's such strangely positive wording for an industry that's a complete fraud. You wouldn't describe h
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think people are over-worried about fake material. We've been able to say lies since we became human. We've been able to print lies since printing. We can already edit photos. People routinely make fake screenshots of messages t
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Not good because the population is consumers who indirectly pay those workers. In my country there's a relative shortage of builders. So house prices are higher so tenants pay more rent than before. The western world also has a chronic
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Well there isn't really a customer. It's the whole world judging it. The people who actually make a decision won't have a profit motive but are also responsible for satisfying all those general opinionated people everywhere.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It can still happen without any central control. Popular culture changes. People generally don't respect churches as much as they used to. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's kids rebelling against their parents and wantin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
How about whatever they do, wait 100 years before starting construction just to make sure the fashion of 2019 really is as timeless as it will need to be for the next 1000 years. There's no hurry. It took hundreds of years to build the
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> not be outright hostile to the truly marginalized No popular party can do this or they wouldn't be truly marginalized. By definition, it's impossible.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If there are enough candidates, you can encode a unique ID in the pattern of your individual votes to prove who you are to somebody reading anonymous ballot papers. I've heard this is possible in Australia with a huge list of candidate
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> ISIS sympathizers, Nazis, Stalinists, or pedophiles do not have a right to be protected > If a minority calls for violence, [or ...], then the general duty to protect minorities need no longer apply to this minority. That's qui
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Unfortunately, it's hard to find a way to allocate land without using the market. Yes it's unfair that rich people have to pay more to live where they want than poor people who are happy living near other poor people, but how else
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Not at all. Colonization used violence to take over people's land and enforce the incoming people's laws on the existing population. Peacefully buying it with no duress is a perfectly acceptable kind of colonization, but that&#x27
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You misunderstood me. You've described the same self-perpetuating phenomenon that I was referring to. By "fundamental", I meant something stable that isn't a consequence of gentrification or white-flight. For example, be
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Perhaps by national governments preventing local governments from artificially restricting the supply of housing? Local governments will always want those restrictions because their local homeowner voters will want it.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
In a lot of America, the scarcity is kind of artificial or unstable though, so it's still a risky investment. Look at California City - land there is anything but scarce. Or Detroit where the seemingly indestructible world-leading indu
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by lopmotr 8y ago
This doesn't sound quite as scary as the title. You still have to do one of these things that will all be nearly impossible in general. It's not like you can just set up a website and wait for victims to visit it. - XSS on one of
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by lopmotr 8y ago
I avoid those problems by never turning my TV or monitor off. It does mean they light up the room at night so it wouldn't work if you had it in a bedroom.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
People who think like me by not wanting discrimination based on race? You'll need to find a reference for your claim because it seems obviously wrong. I can think of two ways you might justify your view: A) By assuming that every membe
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What is the general rule you use to distinguish > ISIS sympathizers, Nazis, Stalinists, or pedophiles from > gay couples, catholics, or divorced mothers with three children ? Without a general rule, it looks like you're just repe
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You've forgotten the main lesson from the history of civil rights. Let me get Martin Luther King Jr. to explain it: "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That Colorado baker didn't want to effectively participate in their wedding ceremony which he was opposed to and couldn't stand behind with his conscience. He was happy to sell them other things. So it wasn't because they wer
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's a problem of recycling, not of using the local landfills. Though not being accepted by China is kind of funny because they tightened their standard for contamination so if western households actually put the effort in to correct
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by lopmotr 8y ago
In my country, you can. I expect most developed western countries are the same. They won't let people starve to death. There's always a safety net of free food and housing no matter how destitute you are. I guess that's what
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by lopmotr 8y ago
If I can find a paper showing the sex-IQ relationship and another showing a IQ-software engineering performance relationship, will that satisfy you? Though, so save myself time, do you really doubt the 2nd one? Yes, I think they probably do
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What's wrong with creating a new political philosophy? Plenty of old named ones have proven themselves not to work - Confucianism impedes technological growth, Marxism is Marxism, and liberalism doesn't have a long history of stea

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