mattlevan

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by mattlevan 10y ago
Agreed. It's really disappointing they didn't simply offer the TB as an option on the 15".
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Interesting to hear your perspective. As someone who'd also like to buy land and build a house for my future family some day, aren't there relatively inexpensive ways to do it despite potentially overzealous building codes? Surely
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Or perhaps we should drastically reduce government's role in education altogether. After all, we were doing fine before the Department of Education opened in the seventies!
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by mattlevan 10y ago
That may be true regarding physical encyclopedias, which are, of course, limited by space and weight (ha!). With an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia, though, those limitations are gone. I'm looking forward to seeing Infogalactic give
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by mattlevan 10y ago
If anything, it sure is nice to see that Microsoft might actually begin to become a real Apple competitor again. Competition is good!
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Perhaps without the safety net, children of seniors would provide more care for their parents rather than moving them into expensive senior centers.
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Hell-- even some types of Muslims in places where the other type of Muslim dominates.
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by mattlevan 10y ago
This is a common argument for basic income and, even though you say "Do not take the State as something socialist or communist", your argument is the same as it is for socialism and communism. You say, "Do not take the State
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Good points and very interesting, thanks. Once again, getting the state involved just makes things messy. Let people be responsible for their own well-being as they age. Without safety nets, people tend to be much more cautious and thoughtf
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by mattlevan 10y ago
What makes these beautiful to you? Such stark, spare design is not what I personally consider beautiful. Educational and clear? Sure. Beautiful? I don't think so!
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Honestly, I don't know why I hadn't thought of this. Good point!
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by mattlevan 10y ago
"Douchey" or not is for you to decide, but you're right that Assange's philosophy to release untampered documents causes collateral damage. It's a tough call, honestly: would you have your leaked documents' con
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by mattlevan 10y ago
WikiLeaks maintains credibility by being solely and entirely funded by individual contributions from the public.
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by mattlevan 10y ago
To be fair, Assange doesn't seem to release personally identifying information because of malice, but rather his stated fear of the leaks being thrown out in court due to WikiLeaks tampering. He purposefully releases documents in full
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by mattlevan 10y ago
Arguably, we would not have known about the mass trampling of our 4th Amendment rights were it not for Snowden. How could you deny the inherent merit in that?
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by mattlevan 10y ago
The reason Assange publishes documents which may contain personally identifying information is a philosophical one. Unlike Snowden, who advocates censoring documents before release, Assange maintains that censorship can discredit documents