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by m1sta_ 11y ago
UK banking is pathetic compared to Australia (and nobody in Austrlia is particularly proud of their bank)
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2hrs to skiing where?
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I have actually, but I've been lucky enough to live and work in particularly nice parts of the cities I live in. My comment was meant in reply specifically to "We [all] get accosted by mentally ill people, drunk people, high peopl
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I'm just disputing the claim that "We [all] get accosted by mentally ill people, drunk people, high people, strung out people, dirty people. We smell piss on the street corners."
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I don't have that problem. I've lived in lots of cities and have never had that problem.
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What makes you think this duty exists? Can any person on earth move to SF and expect this to be fulfilled?
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Part of the solution will be a realisation that not everyone has a right to live in SF. Just like not everyone has a right to live in Newport. A part, but not a big part :)
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Is there anyone here who does want a group of homeless persons lining the streets of their commute, or outside their homes and workplaces? He is being self centred in his viewpoint but he's also not unique. Most people pay extra, and
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It can be difficult to change an opinion that someone refuses to voice.
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The two ideas can work together when you're not being antagonistically extreme. Remember that without a government there isn't such a thing as property rights.
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I remember accidentally taking a massive pair of scissors onto three flights while travelling from NYC to SYD. Arrived in Sydney for an Australian domestic leg and they were immediately found. I was very confused as to how the TSA had misse
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Avoid taxes = reduce costs, as long as it's legal.
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Macbook 12 running Windows 10. Killed the graphics card driver but it restarted fine.
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I've only visited Japan twice but I have to agree that it's pretty yellow.
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This is where shallow discussion of racism can be damaging. If someone receives enough messages indicating that they will be mistreated due to race it is likely to have a major impact on their psyche, then on their behaviour, then on the w
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I do Australia/UK regularly without problem. It seems to be very dependant on the participants network connections, not surprisingly. It doesn't seem to recover from temporary network issues fast enough.
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I use a printer.
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We're into semantics here. Privacy provides a way to hide detail, to prevent confirmation, and to allow people to deny things. For simplicities sake I consider these, or more broadly, anything protected by privacy, to be 'secrets&
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by m1sta_ 11y ago
Governments are exceptionally powerful. In theory they have control of 50% of my income, as well as the police, legal system, and military. Genuinely corrupt government is one of the scariest things I can imagine. If the government is not c
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Why do I think privacy advocates have a list of 'secrets' they fear will be used against them? Because most of them are intelligent people who understand how society works. Society today is full of lies, secrets, and hypocrisy. If
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Bathroom doors are great. Let's not confound surveillance of interactions and privacy in the extreme sense. Bathroom doors allow you to interact with yourself with some level of privacy. People know you're in there. They know fo
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I'm of a similar (although not identical) opinion to miguelrochefort. The short answer is... if you imagine a utopia, do you imagine lots of secrets or lots of openness and acceptance? The reality is that I came to this conclusion thro
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> the military would have absolutely no problem whatsoever dispatching those I'm less pessimistic about that. I'm a big fan of gun control laws but I also think that the one positive thing that has come from the ongoing middle-
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by m1sta_ 11y ago
How do we get to a completely transparent society without massive collateral damage? I understand the rationale for the goal but the transition is so very difficult. I wish more thought was being put into it.
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Constrain government power by shining light on it.
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Are those really sensitive questions for most people?
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The right to bear arms is partly about the people having the same powers or greater, collectively, than the government. In the modern era it is information asymmetry that we should worry about. How to prevent such a thing pragmatically is t
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I'm more worried about a lack of government transparency than I am about personal privacy.
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If I were Microsoft (pre-coffee musings)(medium.com)
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I'd love for this to be native in the Netflix apps and to function between accounts in two different countries. Watching TV with friends and family back home would be wonderful.

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