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by plankers 8y ago
Or just take a bus.
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by plankers 8y ago
And IRC!
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by plankers 8y ago
You clearly haven't spent much time in a glass blower's shop. The torches alone are freaking awesome and it's a pleasure to watch the tradesperson at work.
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by plankers 8y ago
The groupthink is quite strong in China. If you agree with the policies of the government, you get to live happily in society. If not, you're gonna have a bad time. It doesn't take a genius to decide that you'd be better off
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by plankers 8y ago
I don't think they were implying that there are uncallous governments, just emphasizing that particular feature of the Chinese government.
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by plankers 8y ago
I'm not trying to "show" anything, just advocating for allowing other societies the opportunity for self-determination rather than pushing on them what we think is best. Self-determination is a long and arduous process. It to
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by plankers 8y ago
People had social lives before facebook existed... it largely consisted of going places and seeing people regularly. This still works, believe it or not.
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by plankers 8y ago
I'll probably come off as a spoiled Westerner here, but that's not my intent. Isn't it a bit presumptuous to assume that everyone in impoverished parts of the world even _want_ the kind of prosperity we have? It seems to be t
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by plankers 8y ago
On the other hand, the more humans that exist, the more people are available to solve these problems (and solve them faster!)
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by plankers 8y ago
Not having a better solution than lying to your customers is not a reason to lie to your customers. It's just laziness bordering on sociopathy.
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by plankers 8y ago
The guild could issue ReviewCoin and use this to pay reviewers, thus incentivizing them to work in good faith lest the public lose faith in the project, tanking the value of the coin. ReviewCoin could be redeemed at participating online ret
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by plankers 8y ago
That would also risk turning off new users who create an account explicitly to leave a review.
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by plankers 8y ago
> "In April [Xi Jinping] said it would involve helping other countries to build digital infrastructure and develop internet security. Boy, I sure don't like the sound of the world's most oppressive maintainer of internet i
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by plankers 8y ago
I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. The mad levels on income inequality are doing their part to obscure exactly what people's interests are in both the short- and long-term.
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by plankers 8y ago
For me, the major pain point is in what this means for our cultural values around privacy. The less privacy we have the less important privacy becomes, and our collective values around privacy become eroded. This makes it much harder to rai
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by plankers 8y ago
This has been said elsewhere, but for your benefit, you can't steal anything with a 51% attack, it just allows you to defraud others by double-spending coins you already control (and do other less-directly-profitable things like "
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by plankers 8y ago
I have the same experience every time I "select a default app for this action." Without fail, I'll get the same pop-up next time I want to perform that action (any action). I just stopped checking the box.
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by plankers 8y ago
I wasn't speaking of ethnic cleansing... The U.S. Civil War was fought over many things, but the desire to wipe out an ethnic group wasn't one of them. Yes, there were obvious ethnic issues at play, but I'm not sure where you
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by plankers 8y ago
"Alternatively—and more likely—Americans must wait for another of the political realignments that ended previous spells of intense partisanship, including the antebellum rivalry that stirred Abraham Lincoln’s appeal to “the better ange
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by plankers 8y ago
You can leave your car at home. You can't leave your face.
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by plankers 8y ago
This is an incredibly ironic comment.
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by plankers 8y ago
FamilICO -- pegged to the net worth of the world's poor. Not sure I'd buy that coin.
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by plankers 8y ago
Every year, the morning after my birthday, this metaphor plagues my mind.
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by plankers 8y ago
That was an interesting read. After reading both that and the other comments the only solid conclusion I can come to is that literary and visual intellectual property are handled differently, as evidenced by thid quote from the paper: Judge
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by plankers 8y ago
What would this mean for usage of the Mickey Mouse character? Would people be free to use images from the older cartoons in new work? What about more recent updates to the character's design?
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by plankers 8y ago
It could also mean that the project they were leading is transitioning into a phase that they're no longer interested in working on. Same thing happened as Waymo started ramping up a year or so ago and nobody was freaking out about tha
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by plankers 8y ago
Nuclear reactors won't be politically feasible unless either a) we find a country that will sell us the rights to dump our nuclear waste there or b) launching nuclear waste into the sun becomes economically feasible. I just don't
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by plankers 8y ago
Yucca mountain isn't a great solution... more of a stopgap really. Besides, how do you convince the fine citizens of Nevada to go along with having the nation's nuclear waste buried under their water table? We're not talking
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by plankers 8y ago
Spite is a reason.
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by plankers 8y ago
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