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by msiyer 8y ago
If you extrapolate a bit you can see that we can get rid of governments and have private companies run our lives completely. Public money should be spent on making FOSS better rather than making private companies richer thereby helping them
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by msiyer 8y ago
I totally agree. I have come to realize that capitalism is a narrow-minded approach towards progress. It does not work in the long run. Capitalism and democracy are incompatible.
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by msiyer 8y ago
Humans cannot perceive a lot of things. However, given the right conditions (post-apocalyptic world?), it would not take a lot of time before humans become perceptive again. A lot many will be wiped out, but as a species we will find a way.
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by msiyer 8y ago
"Self loathing of the human race needs to stop" I completely agree. "Humanity has just as much right to exist and be as any other species" I completely agree. "Are you aware how many countless people have and do wor
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by msiyer 8y ago
"The big point here though is that this is not a coincidence. When people contribute to society, they tend to be rewarded." Getting rich and contributing to society are very different things. A footballer is almost always going to
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by msiyer 8y ago
Tesla, Ramanujan, Gutenberg... "Poverty" is a strong word. I could have used a different word. What I really wanted to convey is that Gutenberg, Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, Tesla, Gauss and plenty others deserved to be billionaires
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by msiyer 8y ago
Being a workaholic is not much different from being an alcoholic. These are different forms of addiction. All workaholic societies are destroying themselves due to health complications and declining birthrates. Also, the problems of poverty
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by msiyer 8y ago
If Jeff Bezos' contribution to society is so immense that he deserves all the billions he has amassed, what about the scientists and mathematicians of the world who died in poverty, but on whose shoulders the modern world is built upon
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by msiyer 8y ago
The pursuit of profit kills society. All our social suffering exists because we have been trying to merge two incompatible ideas. We expect our lawyers, doctors, technocrats, politicians... to do the right thing. However, the right thing is
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by msiyer 8y ago
Government is a corporation. Corporations are the government.
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by msiyer 8y ago
"Google Allo was Google's attempt at a WhatsApp clone, and it launched just a year-and-a-half ago with a laundry list of deficiencies." With the greatest talents working in tandem, I fail to comprehend how they can ever creat
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by msiyer 9y ago
I agree with most of what you say. We know of no "better way". Nature is infinitely more intelligent. If Nature wanted us to not know or do something, we would not have been able to. Our ability to edit genes is a result of Nature
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by msiyer 9y ago
Some questions that have always bothered me: Do mentally sick people have "consciousness"? What happens to "consciousness" during episodes of extreme rage\trance\trauma? Sometimes, I think that we are simply machines col
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by msiyer 9y ago
Any species that has survived for a considerable period has to be intelligent.
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by msiyer 9y ago
Facebook exists because it works for a section of the population. I do not like it. I do not use it. If someone likes it, I let them use it. I throw in a word of caution regarding privacy concerns etc. I, however, do not expect them to hono
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Software backward compatibility, undocumented APIs and importance of history(msiyer.com)
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Software Engineering – Drawing inspiration from Nature’s bag of tricks(msiyer.com)
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BITNAMI LAMP and Wordpress – A Portable CMS(msiyer.com)
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C# Delegates for beginners(msiyer.com)
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Bitnami LAMP Stack and WordPress Module – A Portable Content Management System(msiyer.com)
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A small tip to clean C# code(msiyer.com)
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Understanding Delegates in C# for beginners(msiyer.com)
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SUSE Studio: Create a Custom Linux Distribution with an OpenSUSE Core(msiyer.com)
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Conic Sections and the Double-Napped Cone: History of Mathematics Etc.(msiyer.com)
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Project Euler problem – Multiples of 3 and 5; Small yet insightful (Part 1)(msiyer.com)
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Understanding Delegates in C#(msiyer.com)
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