oren_thrall

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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   I guess the key difference is totalitarianism. Totalitarian governments are so all-consuming, and the deceptions that sort of society uses are just profoundly different, because of the way such a deception must be approached. With everythin
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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   I guess it's satisfying if you aren't into thought provoking media.
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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   Everyone looking at their phones. Who else?
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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   I think we have yet to see the worst of it for now. But make no mistake, huge sections of jobs are going to evaporate if not by 2019, then in the decade thereafter. Not just elevator operators and dirigible pilots. A massive chunk of econom
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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   I generally get the feeling that people were way more wreckless before the 80's. The level of technology at the time is surprisingly low. Card catalogs and the dewey decimal system represented a nominal level of information technology,
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   by oren_thrall 9y ago

   Solve a murder? In what sense? By finding the killers? I doubt that very much. By identifying the corpse? This alone doesn't quite solve the murder, but only unravels the depth of the incident. Really, to do so, someone has to spill th