ossobuco

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by ossobuco 2y ago
Lots of products society would benefit from are cut already with the current status quo as they wouldn't bring enough profits or VC style growth.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> Nice hand-wave. This presumes some people produce most value, and they bear the burden of carrying others (who receive value). I mean, that's actually how it works, only the people who produce most value are the workers, and the p
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> I don't consider "inferior" to be "I don't have a Porsche and they do". You keep fixating on luxury cars for some reason, I'm talking about fundamental rights recognized in the universal declaration o
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> We aren't the state "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Bless
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I don't see any other option. We should remember that we are the state, in theory. It's the whole point of a state. If that isn't the case anymore, we should fix it. The main problem is that nowadays states operate on the bas
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> freed of its shackles and allowed to appreciate again. Some of this would be immediate, as thousands of dollars in taxes shift away from land and back onto labour, enterprise, and commerce Oh not again with the trickle-down story. It d
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I don't think it's going to happen unless we decide to nationalize private services that are vital to people. Why don't we have a public maps system, or a content sharing platform? Services like google maps/search or you
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by ossobuco 2y ago
You can approach gambling in the same exact way. It's called hedging your bets.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
It's not an app store inside a messaging app, it's a mega app. You can do literally everything with it, from home banking to payments to filing for divorce and booking a doctor.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> Despite advancements, China still relies on key technologies from other countries, such as semiconductor manufacturing, where the U.S., Taiwan, and South Korea are leaders. Doesn't the US (and most of the world) rely on Taiwan for
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by ossobuco 2y ago
shhhhh! China bad, USA good
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Apparently you don't know how MAiD works. If assisted suicide is allowed for a specific cause (like poverty or mental illness) then doctors can actually recommend it to patients[1][2]. I hope this helps you realize that "allowed&q
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by ossobuco 2y ago
What an absolutely ridicolous way to spin this. Now I'm 100% sure you're not poor by the way. Weird that only poor people will get recommendations for assisted suicide. Why aren't middle class families recommended it based on
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by ossobuco 2y ago
No, this is not a slippery slope. There are already reports of doctors recommending assisted suicide[1]: "The practice of referring or recommending assisted suicide has also spread well beyond the traditional boundaries of the health-c
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> The state already has plenty of tools to kill those it disagrees with This is not about people the state disagrees with, but about the undesirable of society. The risk is we get to legitimize euthanasia as a way of getting rid of the p
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I know both pretty well, indirectly or not. Given how much they can influence your energy and "will to live" I don't think they'd pair well with having to fight for your life.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
somehow I doubt that someone with depression/bipolar disorder would be the best candidate to be a warrior
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by ossobuco 2y ago
How do you propose we avoid the huge waste of resources and pollution caused by the lack of durability of electronics?
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I don't see how that's going to work when greed gives a motivation to do the exact opposite of what we want. Mind, the fact that we have to push for repairability is an issue caused by greed in the first place, as logic would dict
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I like less and less this system where we can never aim directly for our goal (reparability in this case), but we must instead trigger some side-effect through complex legislation in order to push our corporate overlords to do what we wante
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> That's a crock of shit, look at how brutal early civilizations were compared to today. You have an argument over long terms (100+ year spans), but not in the near term. That's why I suppose anarchism as an ideology was born i
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> but if you try that you'll find yourself supplying an enormous amount of context you didn't expect to have to communicate. Context not even directly related to the code at hand, but about the broader business or industry, pas
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by ossobuco 3y ago
> Nimbyism at its finest: all gains are mine; all losses should be covered Nimbyims? This is corporate capitalism at its finest. Private profits, socialized and externalized losses.