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mola
6y ago
Well, reality is not static, what's laughable today may be very reasonable tomorrow. EU generally would like to play ball with the US as long as the relationship is palatable predictable stable and generally cooperative. But a strong E
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6y ago
That's just not the same. A website is asking the browser to put a cookie. So the browser is just a channel. If I understand correctly The IFDA is an identifier created by apple, which they let third parties access. The phone is not a
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mola
6y ago
Because competition.
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mola
6y ago
This is just an argument against a straw man. Nuclear war, is bad, any mass killing is bad, any society collapse is bad. It means actual prolongated suffering for most humans. Nuclear caused extinction is actually a preferable outcome, I&#
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mola
6y ago
I think you missread. He said you watching this show would make you understand his point, not become a first class rhetoric.
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6y ago
Humanist perspective
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6y ago
So true, most of what spacex is achieving is 1960s government developed technology, yet it is herald as some proof for private sector being better suited for innovation. Most of the technological achievements of the last century we're
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mola
6y ago
Freedom of speech is not utilitarian. It's thought of as a right. The idea that freedom and free speech are important because they make certain processes more efficient is entirely missing the point of the humanist revolution. Freedom
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mola
6y ago
Yup, Think tanks devolved to (or started as?) propaganda machines. Nothing more.
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6y ago
Well, seems like the US is even more negligible, they let the whole financial system collapse before doing anything about it. It saddens me that a democratic regime became comparatively as corrupt as a totalitarian regime. We cannot let the
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6y ago
Why is homeless people in the tenderloin so bad? Is there a safety issue? Do they Rob or murder? (Genuinely asking) If not, than why is it so bad? Because you don't like seeing the poor? I mean sure people forced to homelessness is
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6y ago
Missing out is not necessarily meaningful. FOMO is the anxiety caused by missing out. which may cause you more pain than actually missing out on that thing.
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mola
6y ago
Stockpiling
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mola
6y ago
Because most workers in these jobs switch employers regularly, that's why they are contractors. The drivers have about 3 choices to get gigs from. They have zero leverage, there is no market. I don't live and california and if you
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6y ago
Since when is uber profitable?
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mola
6y ago
No, blame is spread also on consumer mentality, consumer love a new and shiny, brainwashing advertising, economic thinkers pushing the idea of continual growth. Etc etc etc. Our whole culture is culprit. Like, When people preach not to use
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6y ago
You under appreciate Obama's administration push towards renewables.
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6y ago
You cannot hinder developing countries from the comfort of living in a develop country. The fact that China agreed to a year is amazing. If the US would have kept part of that deal then maybe we would've seen improvements. But now that
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mola
6y ago
Well, what actually matters in reality is how they shoot their mouth off in newspapers. In this respect, they are mostly quacks. Peddling psuedo science on the basis of pretty weak while rigorous science. Economists should stop shooting the
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mola
6y ago
Because createding artificial scarcity that will kill people is wrong.
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mola
6y ago
But the scarcity was hand made, "entrepreneurs" would buy all stock to create scarcity in order to gouge prices. This is what free markets enable, in times of pandemic this is unacceptable.
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mola
6y ago
When I cross the road (to get to the other side) I use eye contact as a very strong signal for my safety. I wonder what will replace this.
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6y ago
In a democracy public perception of reality directly correlates to your ability to perform as a politician. The Bush administration used the full thrust of the office to knowingly foster false perception of reality in huge swaths of the pop
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6y ago
Obvious how?
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6y ago
No company would fight the good fight for the same reasons. This can only be fixed by changing the law. Not to mention find and persecute the parties who were paid directly or indirectly to pass this legislation. RIAA lobbyists (and all oth
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6y ago
People use it for many purposes. Researches downloading public domain material etc. Does any camera manufacturer showing a camera filming a live concert in some promotional video needs to worry?
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mola
6y ago
Shameful
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mola
6y ago
In other words, forcing universities to operate as businesses thus puting most of their effort in marketing and shiny crap. Competition is not always good.
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6y ago
The tuition prices are because of market forces. Ivy league schools created brands and market themselves across the world causing huge (not very justifiable) demand, together with their lobbying for the structure of tuition loans this situa
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6y ago
Bullet points deliver a certain kind of message, superficial and simplistic. These type of studies are not meant for advancement, they are meant for reflection and sense making.
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