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by maratd 10y ago
> I noticed the discussion on natural resources so I just wanted to point out the obvious While what you said is certainly obvious, it had nothing to do with what I said. > That's why it's pretty natural to have corporate ta
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by maratd 10y ago
With natural resources. Which have royalties, permit fees, etc. Read what I wrote again.
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I was responding directly to the comment about natural resources. Your comment is entirely unrelated to what I said.
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And they usually pay royalties on said resources? Pay for rights to said resources? Trust me, we learned a long time ago how to extract $$$ for said resources.
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I was explicitly talking at the US legal system, so the proper link is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_law#Cases_in_t... Read that over. They did not have a lot of things go their way.
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by maratd 10y ago
In your example, you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government. You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than t
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by maratd 10y ago
> That's a template for private censorship by the rich. No. Contrary to popular opinion, you can't sue somebody out of existence if they've done nothing wrong. The courts frown on attempts to do that. For you to do somethi
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by maratd 10y ago
> This feels like the very definition of systematic failure and clearly needs to change. > It's all very depressing. Not at all. Because of this fiasco, every clown with political aspirations will be using an approved and encrypt
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by maratd 10y ago
> It's an unfortunate outcome, and it's all but guaranteed by the way copyright law works. This can be easily solved. We solved it with music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_Stat...
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by maratd 10y ago
It is the responsibility of the driver to check to make sure the car has a clear path. In other words, you get out of the car, check to make sure everything is clear, then engage the feature. The sensors are only there to tell the car when
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by maratd 10y ago
If you want to build a new house, you have to tear down the old one first. That's what people use wrecking balls for. I suppose the demolition in and of itself is not a positive. It is destruction, after all. But if your desire is to b
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by maratd 10y ago
That would be exactly what people would suggest, because they know from experience the "blowhard from marketing" will screw things up so badly, that the only viable option will be to start over with a clean slate. And that's
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by maratd 10y ago
All of the companies he's involved in receive government dollars, directly or indirectly through subsidies. Tesla, Space X, and SolarCity. That's 3 out of 3. Hence the moniker. To be fair, all of those industries have had and will
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by maratd 10y ago
> reduce significant problems Those voting for him aren't interested in reducing problems or fixing them. They gave up on that a long time ago. They're interested in breaking the system which gave birth to those problems. Will
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> Only available to the rich. That's where new technology always starts? Eventually everything trickles down. That's how tech works.
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by maratd 10y ago
> Also, is that really what you want to say on a public forum? You want to say that ending slavery was the slaves' responsibility? Interesting. Not what I said, you need to buy new reading glasses. Doing anything starts with the in
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by maratd 10y ago
> Equality is the goal That's your goal. I don't share it. I want equal opportunity , not equal outcome. We will never have equal outcome because we're all different and that's a good thing . And I don't care
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> but would you say "life isn't fair, deal with it" to slaves in the South in the 1800s? Yes, I would say exactly that. I would tell them to accept their situation, not whine about it, then break free and run to the north.
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by maratd 10y ago
> if it can be fixed why not fix it? Because your cure is worse than the disease. > you don't think any effort should be spent trying to correct something that's broken in the world. I think racism is bad. I think it's
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by maratd 10y ago
> Do you have a source for this? Yeah. It's called deductive reasoning. You scream about the evils of racism and what harm it's done to our society ... and your solution is more racism, just in the opposite direction? Smart. Ho
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> but 1- it doesn't compare to what, for example, black or chinese people or native americans suffered historically And that doesn't compare to what Jews went through 50 years ago. What's your point? There's always a
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> It jsut paints such a simplistic view of the world, not a real one, but one that is useful for rhetoric. Bingo. Race is just one facet anyway. We're all born with various advantages and disadvantages, none of which we have any con
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by maratd 10y ago
> needing to sell all of your time/energy to keep a roof over your head and food in your mouth and still being told you're not good enough is depressing as all hell. This is how it's always been. So that doesn't hold
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by maratd 11y ago
> Really? Yeah, really. Has a single one of them launched a rocket and then successfully landed it? No. That's why you're here, talking about Space X and AMERICA.
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by maratd 11y ago
> p&l is a silly goal when it comes to "Fuck yeah, progress!" Is it though? We don't throw money at people for building useless shit. If you make a lot of money, it's because you helped a lot of people.
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by maratd 11y ago
> the country has really not too much to do with this success Yes, it does. The country has a lot to do with it. Particularly our values, culture, etc. that enabled this to be possible here and nowhere else.
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by maratd 11y ago
> And here lies the problem.. What problem? Google is something that helps billions of people every day in substantial ways. No, it isn't revolutionary and exciting, but things that make the greatest impact rarely are. You either wa
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by maratd 11y ago
You can specify the time when the computer will reboot. Like the middle of the night.
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by maratd 11y ago
> With advanced autopilot tech I think this is reasonable No, it isn't. We've allowed people to mess with the brakes of a car for over a century and the world hasn't come to an end.
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by maratd 11y ago
I think rather than going back and forth, perhaps someone should explain the difference between average and median?

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