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by martin-t 1y ago
It's actually not rhetorical - I really wanna know what leads to this to-me-obvious contradiction. One answer is obvious - every organization's primary goal is its own survival. So a democratic state will indoctrinate ("educa
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by martin-t 1y ago
The people in charge or corporations certainly are very often immoral. I don't think ascribing morality to a system is useful when it's comprised of many people who can be replaced at any time. But, I also think that top down hier
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by martin-t 1y ago
When I encounter this, it's usually a belief that a strong and implicitly good leader is needed so that he can somehow remove/punish all the bad people. What the people don't get is that: - Truly good people are incredibly ra
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by martin-t 1y ago
You're looking at it from a developer's POV. Your goals are a quality product that helps you with your work. Microsoft's goal is to make money by making software or ~~selling~~ renting services. You are a cost center. And wha
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by martin-t 1y ago
When all public code including GPL and AGPL has been stolen and plagiarized already and the fabled artificial intelligence is nowhere to be seen, stealing all the private and proprietary code will surely make all the difference. It probably
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by martin-t 1y ago
I've heard this story so many times. 1) A company starts by serving a real customer need, is driven by the people doing real (engineers, designers, mechanics, etc.). 2) The company gets large. The hierarchy gets deeper, decisions are m
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by martin-t 1y ago
I couldn't believe the number of people who were saying that "Microsoft are the good guys now" or "Microsoft loves open source now". Microsoft stopped openly attacking open source at a time when open source was clea
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by martin-t 1y ago
How soon are effects visible? Complete lack of food - days, chronic malnutrition - months or years. Lack of education - decades. Many people are not smart enough to think that far ahead. Lack of education is also generally desirable to many
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by martin-t 1y ago
Simplicity and usability are not the same thing. On one hand you have massive GUIs spanning the whole screen containing hundreds of controls. On the other you have airy GUIs with more empty space than actual content and every time you want
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by martin-t 1y ago
Of course, their job is to make their own job redundant. If they are true believers, this is the last paycheck they might ever get. After that, it's manual labor like the plebs or having enough savings to ~~last them the rest of their
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by martin-t 1y ago
Maybe fines should have two components, one determined by the harm caused, the other by the offender's tolerance to the penalty.
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by martin-t 1y ago
I hate that we live in a world where this feels like a remotely sane question but do you use an analog or digital device? Because these days with anything digital there's a risk of the other side claiming it's a genML fake. Are th
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by martin-t 1y ago
> I'm strongly inclined to believe women and I generally distrust men Is it based on personal experience or some statistical properties of the sexes? The most common drivers for consciously planned long-term anti-social behavior are
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by martin-t 1y ago
> According to your thinking, no one can "force" medical faculties to say that now anyone can buy a surgical doctor degree for 10$, that said if you have to get urgent surgery you'll pay for the consequences as the "d
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by martin-t 1y ago
I agree with the trans example because 1) it's a great example of one individual being allowed to do something that directly harms another individual; 2) it's fairly easy to prove that someone who grew up with male bone and muscle
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by martin-t 1y ago
Both points are true. I chose these examples in response because they are relatively simple, clear cut examples of "not your business", yet people still try to dictate other people's lives around them. These people are on one
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by martin-t 1y ago
Are you, personally, harmed by someone having an abortion? Are you, personally, harmed by someone watching porn? Maybe it makes society as a whole weaker compared to other societies but that doesn't mean your society actually loses any
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by martin-t 1y ago
Nothing failed. People always did things they had no right to, as long as they were allowed to do them.
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by martin-t 1y ago
If somebody things he knows better, he shouldn't be allowed to push his views on others from his position of power. All public policies should be subject to public scrutiny. Nobody has any right to dictate other people's lives. Fo
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by martin-t 1y ago
If it's LLM generated, technically most of humanity is in it because LLMs are trained on stolen code and data. But I feel the same. We already had more "content" than anybody could consume but at lest there was a change of be
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by martin-t 1y ago
IMO the reasonable compromise if write the post but make your experience level clear and make it clear you're effectively asking for advice. Very few people do that though.
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by martin-t 1y ago
That could even be a way to phase in UBI gradually.
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by martin-t 1y ago
There is no _we_. There are people who have a deep emotional need to control other people's lives and use all available tools to do that. There are also people who don't have that need at all and would very much like to use the sa
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by martin-t 1y ago
It definitely should not be determined by corporations because they not elected and almost untouchable by the individuals affected. The state is a less bad alternative but bad (unintentionally harmful) and malicious (intentionally harmful)
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by martin-t 1y ago
Absolutely. Some are really just sympathizers. I've known people who weren't rich by any means but acted and pretended to be and they supported greater inequality, less consumer protections, etc. Same goes with abusive individuals
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by martin-t 1y ago
> ethically or morally unacceptable What does that mean? For example if something can be shown to cause actual harm to innocent individuals, i find it morally unacceptable. But some people will tell you anything banned by their favorite
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by martin-t 1y ago
I agree with the fact there is hypocricy. I disagree that either should be banned. (Maybe you didn't mean it that way but somebody with us the argument that way) If group A wants to control group or person B, they should prove with ver
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by martin-t 1y ago
IME people who propose absolute freedom in any regard (speech, use of power, use of money,...) fundamentally don't understand the difference of power between individuals, let alone individuals and organizations. This is why anarcho- an
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by martin-t 1y ago
So you support greater inequality? If not, why the personal attacks?
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by martin-t 1y ago
Lying should be punishable according to max(expected harm, indended harm, actual harm). Making factual statements from a position of power without making sure they are correct is lying.

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