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by mola 7y ago
No, this mentality causes over regulation. You'll be hard pressed to draft laws that take all consequences into account. When players are activly searching for loop holes instead of trying to follow the intended spirit of the law, they
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by mola 7y ago
Any textual write up available?
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by mola 7y ago
Policing without investment in education is just oppression
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by mola 7y ago
There was no real ad-tech concept before Google. We didn't really realized the problems with this business model and its effect on society until much later. I do believe that Google's claim to actually try and create good products
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by mola 7y ago
Welcome to the hype cycle
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by mola 7y ago
I think these people didn't care about individual liberties in general, but on their OWN individual liberties.
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by mola 7y ago
I was assuming OP is not from Russia where stakes of corruption are higher and the price for heroism is death.
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by mola 7y ago
Maybe living with knowing about the thing was worse than the one time event of death?
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by mola 7y ago
Vulcans are not real, we have no proof such a society could survive.
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by mola 7y ago
So we could call this guy stupid, or hail him as a hero. In which society would you like you and your children to live in, the one where heroes are acknowledged or the one they are dismissed as dumb and irrational? Mind you, calling someon
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by mola 7y ago
This is why humanity invented the Hero. We recognize that irrational selflessness can be extremely beneficial for society. The more heroes we have, the less corrupt the system, the stakes of corruption would be lower and the price of herois
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by mola 7y ago
Does the last paragraph still holds? Today a lot of public talk is about the manipulation (as opposed to genuinely convincing, i.e. presenting the actual argument and not the most effective and machiavellistic argument ) of public opinion,
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by mola 7y ago
That's not really accurate. Israel accepted the division plan the British offered where part of the land was to be Israel and the other Palestine. The Palestinians didn't accept it, and 5 Arab armies attacked the newly founded Isr
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by mola 7y ago
Why the down votes?
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by mola 7y ago
Being born right, number one factor of success.
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by mola 7y ago
This is currently true for almost all human endeavors. We're beset with PR people deliberately promoting misconceptions and out right lies. A recent article about "beewashing" is another good example of subverting human atten
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by mola 7y ago
Ali g was full of social commentary of the type that culminated with the Borat movie. You must also take into account that that show was some time ago, his awareness and opinions might have changed since His current stuff mostly deals with
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by mola 7y ago
What about Israel? Israel isn't expanding, all lands it conquered were in wars it didn't initiate. when a chance for peace came, it gave these lands back. Did you see a map recently? Do you grasp the size of Israel vs it's ne
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by mola 7y ago
Realpolitik is a sham, it got us two world wars. After these, rule of law became, for a short prosperous time, more dominant, at least in Western Europe. These things (laws, ability to peacefully cooperate, ethics) are like religion, if you
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by mola 7y ago
> funding/promoting the Arab spring. Details? By whom? What for? Is this claim based on anything?
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by mola 7y ago
Yup, it seems US citizens pay crazy amount of hidden tax because of inefficiencies caused by fanatical anti government propaganda. This isn't only about freedom it's about keeping power in certain hands. Too bad it's being ex
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by mola 7y ago
To be clear, there are many issues with this industry, most players are very sketchy especially how they treat the performers. Thats part of the reason why mainstream businesses don't want anything to do with it. Maybe if they'll
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by mola 7y ago
Talk about one sided agenda driven reporting... Vice is such a sad excuse of journalism. Too bad it is so representative of the entire media world. Most of us forget something different can exist.
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by mola 7y ago
They didn't use free trade against you, they used the American corporate greed and bottom line mentality. It was a cooperation. We got plenty of cheap shiny plastic nikanks to keep complient while corporations sold out on local economi
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by mola 7y ago
You could never prove evil. Because it's a matter of values. You could easily say, that holding negative opinions on something strongly enough that you act upon them, without any proof of that thing being dangerous or bad is a sign y
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by mola 7y ago
I still don't understand, how would gays being allow to marry have an effect on hetero marriges? By the way today a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, or whatever, can have children , and in that case should provide a stable home f
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by mola 7y ago
What is A genuine reason for being against gay marriage that does not include hating the concept of gays, or the concept of marriage? Two adults want to share their life, with the burdens and rights that non gays get. Really, why would you
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by mola 7y ago
This always happens, someone compare X to Nazi Germany, he means it's similar in points Y, and then everybody says but X doesn't have gas chambers or X doesn't want to kill all jews. I'm pretty sure OP meant that it&#x27
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by mola 7y ago
It seems you take your privacy very seriously. But isn't it futile? I mean, the common layman response to privacy issues is something on the lines of "I'm not a criminal terrorist so what do I care". They have a point, t
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by mola 7y ago
Masquerading as a tech company is deception. Pumping up valuation is deception.

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