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by nezzle 9y ago
Politics are like medieval royalty. A complex inter-generational web of influence, alliances, and quid pro quo. Support of these influencers was required to earn votes, and policy had to repay these influencers - rather than voters. Throug
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by nezzle 9y ago
There is great irony here. These supremacists are the same type of bully they are seeking to correct for: people who abuse socially acceptable ways to oppress others. In the Middle East accidental innocent casualties create more enemies an
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by nezzle 9y ago
I'm thinking 'telephone network' rather than 'newspaper'. Phone companies were built as monopolies and faced strict regulation. Imagine your phone only working for company approved topics :) Speech was worthy of pro
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by nezzle 9y ago
> I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals. This is rather like saying you think it's fine for libraries to only carry books in line with their morals. Or perhaps that your phone only works for approv
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by nezzle 9y ago
voat has users?
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by nezzle 9y ago
It's not just about money, but the appropriate application of money. Sure the Dems may have bought some likes and upvotes, while CA applied information warfare technique normally reserved for military activity. From the Guardian: >H
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by nezzle 9y ago
irrelevant. In fact, knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, researchers calculated. https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com&#x
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by nezzle 9y ago
You can also commit crimes in novels or roleplaying games that are illegal. That's different from supporting a market that causes child abuse. Possessing digital/virtual information that required abuse endorses abuse. Entropy is
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by nezzle 9y ago
SMS 2FA replaced nothing for many people, but better solutions such as hard/soft tokens existed already - they're just unpopular.
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by nezzle 9y ago
"Liberal western-style democracies" were only the best option at the time to maximize productivity. So was the thinking that they are the "natural end-state of human societies".
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by nezzle 9y ago
Actually this attribution - internalizing success and externalizing failure - is important for mental health. Discussed in 'How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use'
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by nezzle 9y ago
We clearly eat far more meat than we need and produce/harvest meat in ways that create unnecessary damage and suffering. However, not everyone is like you. Some people develop deficiencies when they exclude meat from their diet. I have
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by nezzle 9y ago
This isn't about gender, race, political affiliation, or whatever attribute you use to separate people into 'us' and 'them'. This is about bullies and assholes. Bullies and assholes come in every race and creed. The
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by nezzle 9y ago
I shared the impossibility of making such a decision with any degree of certainty. But we have to eat. I'm no longer sure what's more ethical: eating something dead meat or vegetables that are still alive.
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by nezzle 9y ago
We could connect a nociceptor to a computer. Does the computer now experience pain? Just because the mechanism exists for sedation or pain does not imply the experience of consciousness or pain.
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by nezzle 9y ago
Further delay in advanced countries. The biological clock puts an upper limit on how long women can delay childbirth now. Groups that breed without control will continue to do so.
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by nezzle 9y ago
I, too, used to think conservative values were an old people thing, but it turns out that's not always the case. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/07/white... I think
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by nezzle 9y ago
> it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of diversity. I think Amazon disagrees with you. They include this in their job postings: >Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Di
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by nezzle 9y ago
Yet this is the same type of work people are using to argue that that crabs/fish can feel/experience pain. Proving or disproving consciousness is basically impossible. E.g. I feel like a lot of people aren't conscious :) Pro
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by nezzle 9y ago
I wonder how the profit/risk ratio compares between the poor, slightly better off, and wealthy. How much of these costs are appropriate economics (e.g. due to defaulting, management costs, etc) vs abuse of the relatively powerless.
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by nezzle 9y ago
You fail CAPTCHAs and get flagged as a robot. Are you sure you're not a robot? I have the same problem. To pass Google CAPTCHA you have to perform like an average human. This is different from getting it right. Once I started being la
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by nezzle 9y ago
I suspect that in a society without an endless convenient supply of sugar, the body is much more accustomed to using ketosis to generate fuel. We find it very difficult to turn on that pathway, typically through extremely aggressive carb r
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by nezzle 9y ago
As much as I'd like to turn this into social commentary about the patriarchy, this is the result of women like her buying these items. The return on investment for bra ads to her cohort is superior to other ads, so that's what th
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by nezzle 9y ago
Yes, it's homicide for both parties. Considering that this is the first swatting death, I have to disagree that it's an _attempt_ at homicide, which would imply premeditation/first degree murder. From the wiki page you linke
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by nezzle 9y ago
Reminds me of http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Entertaining but a bit sad. Clearly had bad experiences with collaboration and believe they are unique rockstars who only have to produce code, rather than a product that p
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by nezzle 9y ago
Yes, it's terrible. Make sure none of the following list apply to you or anyone you care for. >If you’ve ever taken antibiotics, had a vaccine, a blood transfusion, dialysis, an organ transplant, chemotherapy, bypass surgery or joi
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by nezzle 9y ago
Where did you go by any chance?
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by nezzle 9y ago
I've been ice training for a while but I'm basically always cold now. When does this change? Also: Freediving is amazing for forcing a meditative state.
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by nezzle 9y ago
My understanding is that the car manufacturers pushed the train system to convert to combustion over electric, as combustion was less reliable/costlier to maintain/etc. Thus rail lost a significant competitive edge. So basically b
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by nezzle 9y ago
Freedom exists because, for a while anyway, freedom was more effective at increasing the wealth and power of nations. This video has a great outline: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers

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