monort

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871.
Younger Dryas(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
872.
Salton Sea(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
873.
by monort 10y ago
Am I correct that you invoke a social contract as a justification for involuntary actions? 1) You are forced into this contract without your consent. 2) You can't quit this contract with your property intact. This conditions wouldn&#x2
874.
by monort 10y ago
Yes, the property enforcement is involuntary, but in the absence of property slavery is not unethical. If there is no property, then why slaves have a better claim to their body and work, than someone else? Either the idea of property is ac
875.
by monort 10y ago
I agree that arguments against slavery were stronger in 1865, than against taxes, but absence of something is a bad predictor about possibility. You couldn't point to a liberal democracy before 18th century too.
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by monort 10y ago
Yes, it's more similar to a forced labor slavery, than chattel slavery. The forced labor convention (which for some reason wasn't ratified by US) specifically makes exception for civic obligations and compulsory military service b
877.
by monort 10y ago
Taxes are involuntary and people are locked in prison for not paying them, that is resembling a slavery. Some rationalization for slavery was similar too, e.g. people thought that it's not possible to have prosperity without enslavemen
878.
Android N Combines AOT, Interpretation and JIT(infoq.com)
3 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
879.
by monort 10y ago
The price will go to zero gradually. It's already doing it - it used to be that you had to work for a several months to buy a shirt. Today you can do it with a several hours of a minimum wage, and in a "scary" future you will
880.
by monort 10y ago
In libertarian system you can sell your "mountain view" to a developer.
881.
An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State(cei.org)
1 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
882.
Why Aren’t Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes?(fff.org)
10 points by monort 10y ago|7 comments
883.
Genome-wide study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment(nature.com)
2 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
884.
New Research Suggests Outdoor Cats Kill More Wildlife Than Previously Thought(wildlifemanagementinstitute.org)
7 points by monort 10y ago|3 comments
885.
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote(hbr.org)
5 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
886.
Tulare Lake(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by monort 10y ago|0 comments
887.
50'000€ Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge(prize.hutter1.net)
2 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
888.
Magic Instruments – A new type of guitar anyone can play instantly(magicinstruments.com)
3 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
889.
Humans are scary(miniver.blogspot.com)
3 points by monort 11y ago|1 comments
890.
“Nico-Nico-niii” Is Not Allowed on PayPal (2014)(zakitakubu.com)
7 points by monort 11y ago|2 comments
891.
Fluidics(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
892.
Firewall (physics)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
893.
Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Affect the Universe at Its Origin(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
894.
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics [pdf](colyvan.com)
41 points by monort 11y ago|67 comments
895.
Bremermann's limit(en.wikipedia.org)
57 points by monort 11y ago|21 comments
896.
Rind et al. controversy(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
897.
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown(nature.com)
1 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
898.
File being appended right before outage ends up with trailing zeros on ext4(plus.google.com)
3 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
899.
Disaster Trends(emdat.be)
2 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments
900.
Editing and match-cuts in VR(medium.com)
2 points by monort 11y ago|0 comments

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