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by nhchris 4y ago
> Well someone might come along and ask isn’t that judgement hypocritical, aren’t you a junkie? It's not hypocritical - the junkie considers also his own addiction and habits as bad. It only becomes hypocrisy if he makes an exceptio
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It’s not hypocrisy, you’re just powerless(theupheaval.substack.com)
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Of course. Freed from the requirement to turn a profit, they can redirect revenue to executive salaries.
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> That’s due to the biggest problem of all: finding buyers willing to pay more for a TV. The price is obvious before you buy it, the spyware isn't.
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Sorry, is someone getting free internet service? They don't have to pay for bandwidth?
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> So why all the pearl clutching? Because it's part of a trend of our possessions turning hostile to us. It's hardware that you pay for and supposedly own, that betrays you, spies on you and acts against your interest, covertly
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> Ada Ehmke went on to argue that open source developers cannot ignore their social responsibilities. "I believe that as technologists we have a moral imperative to prevent our work from being used to harm others," she said. A
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Could be worse - it could be named 'Files'. Good luck searching for help...
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You seem to be confusing desire with what is attainable. If a man can't find a woman that would consent, does that mean he now desires rape, when before he didn't?
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> the majority of men aren't interested in raping people. I'm confused. You're saying they are interested in sex, but not in rape, with their object of attraction. Okay. So does the same apply to pedophiles? Is the major
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Ickyness correlates well with risk of disease transmission.
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> It could be that some pedophiles refrain from molesting children because some internal moral standard tells them it would hurt the child, but it seems more likely that they only refrain when and where they could get into trouble for it
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She'd need a separate graph for missionary sex if she adhered to that definition. Like trying to do math without the number zero - you drown in special cases.
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Fetish tabooness vs. popularity(aella.substack.com)
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Since the topic is academia, Nature recently announced they will not publish some studies, not based on their veracity, but on whether they may further the wrong politics: Advancing knowledge and understanding is a fundamental public good.
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> So what are the police doing? Lancashire police say that in the past few months they have sent letters to 70 men who were believed to be spending an unusual amount of time with young girls. The letters warn the men that the girls are u
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"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."
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Before this devolves into a flamewar and gets locked, the voting rights question raised is interesting. > "[women] had no say in anything whatsoever [...] but all of a sudden, Islam allowed women to vote [..] and this was 600 CE.&qu
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> It's not clear to me why they settled IF they are actually innocent and would win in an actual court case. How would they pay lawyers to prosecute that case? All their money was seized.
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> You are quite right it is not just compilation that sets Python apart from C++, that was a bit of a simplification on my part. That's how I understood your post. Sorry if my post came off as a correction - it was not meant as such
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An unaddressed point: These things are usually framed as a change - communications are "going dark", law-enforcement is powerless, radical privacy-first ideology, etc... But it's not a change - conversations were private-by
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> OK sure, it is slower than compiled languages like C++, that is a concession we make when opting for the ease of readability, writability, usability, etc. Does not being compiled really help with readability? How? After all, one can
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Your comments are about what loyalty the people owe to their government, but I was talking about the reverse - the loyalty a government owes to its people. E.g. your example of the Black Panthers - they may not have been loyal to the US gov
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> In that sense, in contrast to the Nazis’ militaristic imperialism, the CCP has resurrected a more ancient form of imperialism in which they’ve bought and groomed foreign elites to be more loyal to them than to their own people. Loyalty
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> Its intent to treat Hong Kong like the rest of China? How is that anything like Hitler's intent to conquer Europe? Have we already forgotten Tibet?
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> Here’s a well-worn and simplistic reason: the crisis of representation happened. The crisis of representation arose from advances in photography that made traditional types of art like portraiture and landscape seem superfluous. With c
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Isn't that how competition is supposed to work? Eventually they won't be able to undercut while remaining profitable.