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by mmooss 9mo ago
It's not an unusual claim: Freedom breeds innovation - people are not only free to think for themselves, to ignore the orthodoxy and established power, but they are raised and encouraged to do it and admired for it (to a degree). I thi
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Regarding conservatives/MAGA, if you're saying the US hasn't changed dramatically since 2016 then I don't know what to say to you. And I think you're misremembering the world before #metoo and George Floyd. Regardin
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Just look around the world; they are the norm: East Asia (Japan, South Korea, China - Taiwan, Hong Kong, June 4 on the mainland); North America; South America, almost all of the region; Europe; Australia, NZ, Indonesia, the Phillipines; Sou
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> That's why the west was able to leapfrog other nations economically I tend to agree, though it's of course hard to prove. However, I'm talking about the present, not the past. > There are no human rights for the lowes
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Universal human rights is a very widespread belief and concept, extending to all continents and many, many cultures. It's not hard to understand why.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
These comments appear everywhere, as if people never made changes. Look at the enormous changes prior generations have made. Look at the changes from the conservative/MAGA movement, #metoo, and the George Floyd protests. The claim does
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by mmooss 9mo ago
IMHO when we choose ridicule, we destroy that relationship - we make clear we are uninsterested in what the other person has to say or in reason, or even in respecting them on a basic level, and that we lack worthwhile arguments. I stop rea
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> laughably Ridicule is the refuge of those without an argument. Maybe try standup or Twitter.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Speculation may usefully provide leads to investigate, but it's meaningless as a conclusion and won't be accepted by scientists or anyone else serious (including courts); they require evidence. > you can’t always make a definit
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Bram Moolenaar updated Vim periodically for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#Versions The complaint, including from the Neovim founder, was that Moolenar rejected their update.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
But what does the negative space indicate? It says something is missing - which few will dispute - but there are many possible answers in a sort of superposition. Speculation about this answer or that one isn't reliable. It resolves to
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> The Kamitakamori tools? Piltdown fossils? The pattern roughly seems to be "if you have physical artifacts that support a theory / fit a pattern they will be accepted (even if bogus) Two examples from over a century is not evi
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> archeology swings over the years from "we'll believe anything" to "we won't accept any claim without a preserved example". Could you provide some evidence of your own? Archaeology has always been tied to e
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> the effort to dig into every claim you read is an impossibly large amount of work. This “bullshit asymmetry principle” is one of the core reasons for the current level of misinformation in online discourse. The level of misinformation
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The OP covers this question at the bottom; donations still go to the same people in Uganda, iiuc.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> contrarians There is pressure to discover something new, to publish. That does not require being contrary.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The server isn't the one who configured the UI, and probably needs the money. You're punishing the wrong person.
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> Every checkout screen has become a guilt machine. Is bill-paying UI also a guilt machine? If you don't pay, you feel guilty! How about holding the door for elderly people? Going to your kid's event? Not running people over in
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> makes very little difference It does make a difference if lots of people do it. Nothing in the world makes a difference if only one person does it. > recycling Because something exists that you don't think makes a significant i
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by mmooss 9mo ago
I think that's more important than people realize: * The executive branch is doing its own appropriations, effectively - it's revenue they create and control, with little restriction (?). * It's a way of shifting revenue from
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> atomic ... arguments Why is that especially valuable, according to your vision?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
For many purposes, we need anonymous authentication. I haven't heard about much innovation on that and similar privacy fronts in awhile. Off the top of my head, a possible method is a proxy or two or three, each handling different comp
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by mmooss 9mo ago
Whether the money is coming out of US consumers and businesses or out of Chinese businesses, where is the money going? How is it being used?
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> It is baffling to me, as it is no different than thinking that "sugar taxes" are taxes that soda companies pay. There is even a straight forward analysis that shows it does impact the soda companies rather heavily. But it is
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by mmooss 9mo ago
It's very interesting and thanks for laying out the issues. One point I'd like to make: Grouping RSS feed items by similarity is much different than LLM summaries. In the former, I get the best (I can use economically), specific,
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by mmooss 9mo ago
The Taliban control what they and the US and allies fought for. That's winning. Your personal requirement of how it must be won is not important - nobody cares how it was done and it doesn't change the outcome. The Taliban don&#x2
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> It’s government’s fault for not regulating it properly. Who is government responsible to and responsive to? Individuals. > You can’t give individuals choice and then blame them. That is exactly how the world and responsibility works
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by mmooss 9mo ago
> The incessant pounding of the useless drum of individual action continues to go absolutely nowhere. We need government and industry to take action not individuals. It's the incessent pounding of your drum that goes nowhere, of cou
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by mmooss 9mo ago
It's a lot better; it's actually doing work: Things are accomplished by people acting together. The social aspect is the mechanism of how we do it. You can see how every step of the way, people try to tell everyone to quit. The fo
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by mmooss 9mo ago
It's another claim of powerlessness, which is exactly what the 'fossil energy industry' wants people to say - it's demoralizing, paralyzing, and like any disinformation it's a distraction from actually doing somethi

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