muuh-gnu

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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> Where I'm coming from we have this saying: communism is all about fixing problems that it created in the first place. As you will observe, HN is throughly infected with the communist delusion, commonly observed with atheist intele
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Arguing with communists is a waste of time. Predator species always existed and will always exist. The whole "inequality" debate is beating around the bush. It is the classical grasshopper-ant situation. They simply want your stuf
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
The same way you could ask why GNU Emacs still exists. Because there are people who for various tiny (rational or irrational) reasons dont want to switch the editor they've been using the last 20 years. It is the same thing as asking w
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
The decision to go either Common Lisp or Scheme was made based on RMS very personal reasons and conflicts with close-source Lisp machine companies during the first half of the 80s. GNU has had two common Lisp implementations under their umb
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Ultimately, it is rule of man, since man can change the law. However you call it, it is ultimately power (of man) that rules other men. Having to push it through the frictional and slow law process merely makes powerful men less powerful by
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
It doesnt matter, because whiteknighting.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Objectfying a person is admissible when the person is selling itself as an object.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Rational thought is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage per se. Morons believing in gods will pretty likely outbreed, outendure and outsacrifice you.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
There is no time left to debate any more, we now have to act or we're all gonna die. Suppressing dissent by a Soviet style thought police is a small price to pay if the future of the human species is at stake. I for one, fully and sinc
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Journalists arent supposed to involuntarily spread goverment mandated propaganda. If the vast scientific consensus isnt able to make their point even to journalists and have to force them to print state mandated "truth", then mayb
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
European countries are not directly threatened militarily by the US, but Russia is. Europe is being merely exploited economically. But even now that the Europeans are fully aware of being spied upon by the US, they can not do anything about
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> married the first person they dated > the marriage being very successful > I haven't quite figured out why that is It is not about software engineers, it is a general correlation to the "numbers" of pre-marital dat
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> Can you quote that argument actually made by anyone in the thread you are responding to? I can quote you quoting David Simon: "This is about sharing." If "sharing" implies forcibly mugging those people who do not _w
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> in this conversation you are one of the extremists. It is extremism if and only if refusing to negotiate with muggers also is extremism. > trying to frame it as the world threatened by the sword of communism Whether the world at who
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> One side thinks that it's vital to allocate resources fairly It is actually capitalism that thinks that it is vital to allocate resources fairly. Communists, on the other hand, think that resources should be allocated _equally_ w
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Lets set aside the fact that somebody has to build those robots and wants to profit for building them... Once we have that hypothetical robot slave army feeding everyone of us, the discussion would be over by itself because there would be n
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Because taking from everybody and building common infrastructure _everybody_ benefits from is different than forcibly taking from one group of people (those who do work) and giving to another group of people who dont _want_ to work. Like co
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> As for why a basic income makes sense Whether it makes sense for you or not, the discussion around this basic income nonsense regularly neglects the fact that in order for you to get money for not working, it has to be forcibly taken f
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
There is no such possibility.
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> All this extra value floating around All this extra value didnt fall from the sky, but has been produced by somebody elses labor. If you dont want to work to trade the products of your labor for the products of his labor, why should he
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
We can not remove the need to work, because there will always be a need to eat, and to be able to eat, you need to work because nobody will feed you voluntarily. If somebody else has to work so you can eat without working, thats theft and y
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
> we should strive Who is "we"? There is no "we". Capitalism exists because different people have conflicting desires and unequal abilities. Capitalism is just another word for natural selection. Any attempts to get r
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by muuh-gnu 12y ago
Thats the consequence of wasting effort rewriting the screensaver app (and all other basic apps) over and over and over, instead of focusing effort on writing more important things like Adobe CS and the like. Once they fix all embarassing b
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> What are the definite benefits of Basic Income? > It is the most efficient possible form of wealth redistribution So it is just another deceptive label for outright communism, directly out of Marx/Mao/Stalin's playboo
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
The main issue with Guile is the same issue as with any other Scheme, and that issue is that it is a Scheme. No single Scheme is widely adopted and the main reason for that is extreme balkanization. You dont write code in Scheme, you write
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
End users dont get their news from Wikileaks directly. What Wikileaks does is breaking the ice by publishing something that everybody else wouldnt touch, and keeping it in the open. Once Wikileaks took all the risk and blame, traditional ri
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
Can somebody explain to me why an SI unit has the "kilo" prefix already in it, making other SI prefixes unusable with it? 1 kJ = 1000 standard units of energy. 1 kg = 1 unit of mass. Was this just an unfortunate historical acciden
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
> the women's test is her looks. No, a woman's test is her chastity. Nobody but the most desperate beta is marrying and having kids with the town bicycle, no matter how good she looks or how young she is.
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
By your logic it would be wrong to prevent your kid from taking drugs (or partaking in any other personally destructive vice) because all of their friends take drugs and would bully her if she doesnt. Dont you see how taking the route of le
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by muuh-gnu 13y ago
The anti-copyright activists in Europe had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make a dent, and they blew it. They wont get a second chance to give copyright problems a wide attention as they had 2009-2010, because loads of other problems are no

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