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by nec4b 4y ago
If everybody would do everything by the book we wouldn't have this discussion about drunken cyclist.
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by nec4b 4y ago
I'm sure flying a plane with 300 people on board while being drunk is worse than driving a car drunk. But that doesn't mean it's now OK to drive under influence, because there is something even worse out there you could do wh
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by nec4b 4y ago
Hitting a pedestrian when riding a bike at 25 km/h has life threatening consequences for the pedestrian. Pedestrians do die when hit by bikers. Especially elderly which have worse awareness around them and are more fragile.
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by nec4b 4y ago
You do realize it's physically impossible for everyone to live so close to the office?
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by nec4b 4y ago
Your interpretation of history is upside down. Rich nations existed before slavery, that is how they were able to afford slaves in the first place. On the other hand a lot of African tribal chiefs earned a lot of money by selling captives i
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by nec4b 4y ago
>>That is possibly why there hasn't been a big push for FP in games yet, because they haven't yet hit the complexity limit of OO like others have. Are you saying the biggest and probably most complex software (OS-es, browser
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by nec4b 4y ago
Of course you can pay them, but they still have to come from somewhere.
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by nec4b 4y ago
Of course it holds. Desire for sex was what was under evolutionary pressure which was a direct proxy for procreation. Because of contraception this link was severed. Only recently procreation is under evolutionary pressure.
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by nec4b 4y ago
That fine as long as you realize somebody else's children will have to take care of you when you wont be able to. And if enough people would think the same way as you do, than there certainly wouldn't be enough children to take ca
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by nec4b 4y ago
No. Most of population has the desire for sex which leads procreation. It worked until we discovered contraception.
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by nec4b 4y ago
Understanding the laws doesn't guarantee we'll be able to solve the problem. But not knowing them almost guarantees we will not do a good job.
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by nec4b 4y ago
I hope you agree that human political will is bounded by some natural laws, the same way rocks and acorns are bound by physics. And if you want to do something useful with that political will, you better understand those laws.
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by nec4b 4y ago
With this kind of logic, you could then just as easily say the workers of google are exploiting the shareholder's capital to profit as they didn't bring any of their own with them. Just as soon as things will go bad for google, al
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by nec4b 4y ago
If the carpenter is poor and has mouths to feed, he can't pass the task even if he knows it will fail. He needs money. On the other hand google's developer has earned so much money the previous year, he can then quit any time he w
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by nec4b 4y ago
>> The former gets the fruit of their labor in full when the job is finished and paid for, the latter is suffering from a systematic exploitation as each time the stock goes up in price (or when dividends are issued) the shareholders
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by nec4b 4y ago
Sure it is. You and other passengers are trying to design the vehicle by ignoring human nature, scarcity, etc. (the physics). Because you are asking yourself why does the piston deserve all the fuel and not the headlights.
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by nec4b 4y ago
>> This is a silly question, so silly in fact that I suspect it is only intended as reductio ad absurdum (which can be a fallacy if based on a false or inadequate premise). I commend you for knowing logical fallacies. Though it would
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by nec4b 4y ago
>> Services, such as healthcare, public infrastructure, public transport, energy etc should be run by the state. That is a bold claim and from where I'm standing, it doesn't seem to be rooted in reality. The countries with t
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by nec4b 4y ago
And if the house depreciates, should the carpenter then help him with the mortgage payments?
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by nec4b 4y ago
I thought implying there was some sort of cosmic injustice when a software developers"deserves" more than a nurse, was some sort of sarcasm. We would never understand anything about the world if we talked like that about for examp
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by nec4b 4y ago
We design car and planes just as well with physics.
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by nec4b 4y ago
>> Why did I deserve to make more money than a teacher or a nurse? You should ask your clients or employers.
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by nec4b 4y ago
Can you build a house without a carpenter? If not, is he entitled to a part of your house even though you paid him to build it?
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by nec4b 4y ago
Do you have ethical opinions for example about Newton's laws in physics? Or do you accept them for what they are?
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by nec4b 4y ago
Amazing, a government agency paid by the taxpayers, voluntary combing through twitter and report users that violate twitter's TOS. Is FBI doing pro-bono work for other companies as well?
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by nec4b 4y ago
Basically you don't want to have a discussion about something because 50%+ people were wrong about something at some point in history. And you give an example of slavery when rayiner was making a concrete point about marriage. Would ev
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by nec4b 4y ago
No you couldn't say that about slavery! Because only a small privileged group was able to have slaves. On the other hand a majority of people gets married or live in a relationship. What a weird comparison you made comparing marriage t
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by nec4b 4y ago
Not one country in Scandinavia has anything like democratic socialism as its social economic system.
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by nec4b 4y ago
Where does this idea where you can only inherit looks and physical attributes from you parents, but anything connected to smarts is magically only defined by the environment comes from?
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by nec4b 4y ago
But if you pick fruits from trees you are taking away food for some other animals that also eat those fruits.

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