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by musage 9y ago
Only "a boot stamping on a human face, forever", will survive that. Not a human foot, not a human wearing a boot, just a boot -- I think these words were chosen carefully.
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> Good luck talking to them about it; you'll be labelled a green wacko one step removed from eco-fanatics who firebomb SUV dealerships. Yes, and? That's them projecting the weakness they actually do have inside them on you. To
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> Why compare text on paper to text on a screen? Compare text on a paper to rich interactive content on screen. How would a "rich interactive" version of, say, a historical speech or a short story look like?
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by musage 9y ago
First off, stinging insects hardly make up 100% of the biomass of a meadow, so if it's full of stinging insects, it's a bowl filled with stinging insects, not a meadow. Secondly, http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/hort
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Maybe they're trying to tell you to stop mowing the lawn and start enjoying the meadow?
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> In either case, not protecting things also wastes huge amounts of resources Why "also"? It's not about wasting resources, it's about producing poison. When you spill milk, you waste resources, but you do zero lastin
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You could replace capitalism with Nazism in a world ruled by it and you'd have the same "point". What you call understanding is obedience and sophistry, merely trying to get your subjective self out of the picture and trying
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I once found Hannah Arendt's "Ursprünge und Elemente totalitärer Herrschaft" in the street (in a small box with books). With newspaper clippings about her between the back pages... a book I had been meaning and then forgettin
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> 1) there are now an infinite number of URLs for every one of your pages that may end up separately stored on various services (mitigated for only some kinds of service if you redirect to correct) No need to redirect, that's what c
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No thanks, people like their abuse systematic and shiny. When everybody becomes more pathological, nobody becomes more pathological.
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That's only because you can't see RF pollution. In comparison, it's tidy.
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> "We reap what we sow" assumes an old testament concept of multi generational collective guilt Nah. Here are some thoughts on it: https://medium.com/thinking-action-for-ethical-being/critica... I also hav
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by musage 9y ago
Even if you provide a shortened link, nothing would stop one from adding the longer link, too. > as evidenced by your post, no information is hidden "not made obvious is a bit of a strong word, as your comment indicates, it does ac
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> We usually just tell them "shut up Bob and take your meds" and that's it. Other times, Las Vegas and we shut up because we come up empty -- at best talking about gun control as if someone choking 3 people on a bus was su
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They're saying they think it was unreasonable to stay, you say it was reasonable to leave. Both are judgements about the decisions of others.
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It's nowhere near that clear cut. http://www.radiohamburg.de/Nachrichten/Deutschland-und-die-W... One of the "unwords" nominated for 2017 is "sozialtot". That's "socially dead" a
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I think it's projection of the negative traits of what one is subservient to on those who see through it.
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How is "but it's optional" a forceful challenge or a healthy debate?
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Abrash's Zen of Graphics Programming was my first programming book I really loved.. still thanks, but no thanks. > Well, Google has some new, ridiculous thing, they're marketing glasses which have a small computer on them. So y
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> the context in which the statement is originally made could be very different than the context her The context I replied to was gaining from the injustice (and suffering) inflicted on others, and being smug about it. What could change
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> Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. --Julian Assange
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by musage 9y ago
In this case it's probably just for fun and exercise, but generally don't think of speedy code as extending more effort, but as making the computer waste less effort. Well, unless the program isn't blocking anything any just
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> maybe prove that democracy is optional for economic prosperity, a blow to Western values and ideal. Huh? It was never about pure economic prosperity. The point is the human being that any prosperity is useless without. Also, I had to t
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> Living in the past I see Starting with a straw man right out of the gate I see. > I used to hate Apple. [..] I stopped living in the past. Yeah, and now you're in the present where you're talking past actual self about you
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> These actions are a direct admission that their previous monopolistic practices were bad for business Yes, and? When a butter thief finally stops stealing butter it's a direct admission that the butter shop security is catching th
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> companies with only one product, aka startups. from the top of my head: http://renoise.com/ https://www.gpsoft.com.au/ https://www.ultraedit.com/ Incidentally, they're the best in
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Microsoft never really owned up to any of it. If you trust them, I cannot trust you.
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Don't see many horses at all. That is, the offspring of those working horses certainly doesn't roam about in pastures, to pursue happiness because there are no jobs that require them.
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Humanity isn't unfree because of there's too much work to do, but because too much wealth is going to those who already have it. Automation, as we employ it, will seal the deal and remove most people along with the need (from the
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That web of bullshit still informs you what to think, and being bullshit, it's abusive. It has all the drawbacks of oppressive authority, without a clear oppressor to resist. That's even before it being a veritable playground for

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