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by milfot 14y ago
Not 'our' privacy. Just people who have political influence who receive political 'donations'. Ie. Journalists, politicians etc.
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by milfot 14y ago
That's cool.. i get your point here. That is one thing I like about monbiot, he references his work. I check his facts. Not all polemicists are the same. I have never seen a fox 'journalist' reference facts.
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by milfot 14y ago
Interesting aside, monbiot actually publishes (publically) all his earnings. So you can find out exactly how (not particularly) wealthy he is. He started a campaign to encourage other journalists / columnists to do the same. Not many have,
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by milfot 14y ago
Fucking everything is political! I am sure HNers have no problem discussing politics where it directly effected them - that's news. But where it effects others 'that's just politics'. This is relevant because it is related to your / our act
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by milfot 14y ago
I am but one of the many. I did notice, however, that the average monthly spend for people 'like me' is more than the monthly income of people 'like me'. Curious.
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by milfot 14y ago
Exactly! It's a parser, not a substitute.
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by milfot 14y ago
Fair cop.. I was just trying to be inclusive ;) Point I was trying to make is the militancy is an end in itself and the belief structures are simply bent to serve it.. in refutation of the idea that militancy in the muslim world is peculiar
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by milfot 14y ago
Yeah, that is a good point. I had this idea that it most ethical questions are to do with other people. Like stonemetal alluded to, in a pretty esoteric sense you are harming yourself by bringing yourself into disrepute.. but that is just q
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by milfot 14y ago
Yeah, you got me there, I actually have no idea.. I just assumed there would be some people with other beliefs in the armed forces in US, UK, Israel, Australia (ie. the west).
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by milfot 14y ago
At this risk of getting this all out of order (since you edited rather than replying).. The west is RUN by militant christians (and militant jews and militant atheists etc). They use armies to inflict their particular brand of extremism. Th
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by milfot 14y ago
"Almost the whole world that is islamic became muslim through military occupation." This is just plain bullshit! The introduction of islam to much of the world was through trade, just the same as the christians. And if you take slavery, tra
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by milfot 14y ago
The hostility and philosophical differences of muslims or militants? I think you also misunderstand. Militants are a small subset of society which also includes some muslims, some christians, hindus, atheists etc. Point is, vast majority of
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by milfot 14y ago
Quick question, do you actually think it is the 'militant' or the 'islam' that scares the west? And once you figure out the (right) answer to that question, please rewrite your post to replace 'islamists' with 'militants'. The real lesson h
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by milfot 14y ago
Is it actually true that real loss isn't necessary to be unethical? You couldn't possibly provide an example? I am having trouble imagining such a situation. (I would argue in terms of importance, ethics > crime)
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by milfot 14y ago
I think it is a little more nuanced than simply being 'not okay'. Whether it is 'okay' or 'not okay' is a personal moral decision, which though I might agree with you (for myself), I would not push that morality onto someone else. I would h
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by milfot 14y ago
I always find it a little staggering when people start tracing back profits or motivations to prove a point, but stop as soon as their point is made. If you want to employ a systems thinking view of the world to make a point, you need to ch
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by milfot 14y ago
Would this not prompt every paranoid government / organisation to DDOS them?
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by milfot 14y ago
I always found it slightly jarring in London that people always asked if I was alright.. 'you alright' I would reply with, why is something wrong, do I not look okay? Took me ages to realise this was just the equivalent of 'how are you' or
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by milfot 14y ago
To come at this from a slightly different angle.. any situation in which an agent gains wealth without creating wealth is at the expense of the market. Two questions, first are HFT's creating wealth? second, are HFT's gaining wealth at the
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by milfot 14y ago
What the hell are you talking about man? They bombed the crap out of Iraq during Clinton's term.. 93, 96, 98 And almost continuously from 99-01.
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by milfot 14y ago
I think it is instructive to look at Duchamp in this context. In a very clear sense, the transformative with regard to art lies in changing it's meaning. However, this can be a very subtle thing. And it may be that the subtlety is not reali
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by milfot 14y ago
Absolutely agree! ..and from my experience, three clicks is about optimum for speed and opening the board. All my sub 80s games have opened 'gashes' across the board, the three clicks gives you the best chance of jumping the 'wire' (as the
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by milfot 15y ago
Not to mention the fact that any person alive today is potentially the root of a vast ancestral tree of countless millions of those future unborn, each of which is potentially the root of other vast ancestral trees, and so on... Ill effects
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by milfot 15y ago
I failed the thought experiment too..
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by milfot 15y ago
so perhaps the very best solution to stop the flow of jobs overseas is to start campaigning for Chinese work rights?
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by milfot 16y ago
The problem, as I see it, is over the top access requests to access elevated privileges and personal information is the norm. This is not a user problem. There must be a way for : 1. third-party developers to use the api to access informati
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by milfot 17y ago
i'd rather make something...
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by milfot 17y ago
The moral wording of their argument, the appeal to morality, comes simply from an understanding of risk management. Risk being directly proportional to both the probability and to the impact of the event. The higher the stakes the less yo
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by milfot 17y ago
Having family in the UK (and living there for a time myself), I can assure you that whatever Thatcher meant to say - that unspoken implication was (and remains) that society is whatever the BBC says it is. The fact that the people collectiv
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by milfot 17y ago
I just wanted to point out, two sentences in your edit actually cut directly to the heart of this issue. Is the base starting point for society moral fairness or at least its amoral approximation of stability? The question of who benefits m

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