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by ponow 3y ago
That inflexibility must end.
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by ponow 3y ago
For the love of God, please no mandatory licensing. Voluntary certificates approved by trusted institutions are sufficient. Businesses should choose which certificates they trust; politicians should have no power to define technical compe
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by ponow 3y ago
> Why should free speech be a right? You cannot be serious.
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by ponow 3y ago
"You're" quite right with your comment ;)
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by ponow 3y ago
> capitalism forces us to become resource-oriented This doesn't ring true, if only for the simple reason that even sub-median wealth people are now much more materially wealthy than, say, a thousand years ago, even two hundred years
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by ponow 3y ago
This is the only comment that's half-way realistic. This intentional relationship stuff seems better tuned to the successful or the childless.
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by ponow 3y ago
Intellectuals in the US love the state, or at least act like they do.
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by ponow 3y ago
> Money and status fall by the wayside when you get past 50. When one has these things.
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by ponow 4y ago
No, the killer kills physically. Being told to is no excuse.
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by ponow 4y ago
People choose to use social media, as they choose all media. People are individually responsible for the physical actions they make, even if a little bird told them what to do. It may be easier to control people by limiting what thoughts
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by ponow 4y ago
You'd think so, but an array of regulations makes that increasingly difficult. Fixing your own house or car can put you in legal hot water.
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by ponow 4y ago
It's one thing to say that about very young men, and quite another who followed society's and especially goverment's pushing and funding of higher and higher education. Only later do they find out that their crazy study hour
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by ponow 4y ago
It does if you got a serious education that goes woefully underutilized.
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by ponow 4y ago
I barely talked to any of them after some of these exchanges. I refuse to explain myself.
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by ponow 4y ago
Bull.
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by ponow 4y ago
You had said: > Damore said that women biologically were inferior at science, that's what I am reading second-hand so might _also_ be filtered through a lens already. That's a confession, or totally misleading. He stuck out his
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by ponow 4y ago
Java will collect sets of objects with circular references: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1910194/how-does-java-ga...
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by ponow 4y ago
It is true, just incomplete. Preaching to the converted doesn't require this evidence and argument, but _in general_ you need that capability. If you want popularity you have to customize your pitch to the audience.
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by ponow 4y ago
You didn't even read his paper, got him wrong, and yet you dismiss him. You're exhibiting the very trait that caused the injustice against him. After having studied that paper, look in the mirror and ask whether what he wrote w
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by ponow 4y ago
Way to dismiss and mischaracterize that moment. Not only did he not claim any such inferiority, his post was in the context of discussions going on inside a private company that seemed to encourage such reflections, until they turned on hi
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by ponow 4y ago
Yes, Germans do not take liberty seriously. You could handle the color constraint by contract, but it's easier to force people than bribe them to sign voluntarily.
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by ponow 4y ago
What does it mean to own property? Does that meaning depend on a democratic majority? If so, then you don't have private property. Whatever restrictions you want to impose on neighbors due to high density can be done using contracts
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by ponow 4y ago
Those people concerned about the potential for some new neighbor's junk cars can get everyone now to sign an agreement (attached to deed) preventing said. Of course there will be some holdouts, which you'll have to bribe. So it&
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by ponow 4y ago
Exactly. Since all member property owners voluntarily restrict their own deeds, nobody is forced to do anything. It's completely voluntary, unlike town bylaws that can oppress minorities, like those who fix cars on their own property
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by ponow 4y ago
No, you can bribe your neighbors to sign contracts to avoid whatever non-violent behavior disgusts you. Getting some majority of your friends to make a local law to do it is just a subsidy, paid for by the people whose behavior is physical
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by ponow 4y ago
This is so depressing.
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by ponow 4y ago
> you're not american so I assume you're not morbidly obese or other issues Had to slip in the insult, didn't ya?
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by ponow 4y ago
This argument needs to be made more. Thanks!
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by ponow 4y ago
Your point was that, now, "it is socially unacceptable to wear the same thing for days in a row, even if you change your undergarments", ergo, society has upgraded (its expectations of acceptable wear), i.e., moved the "goal
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by ponow 4y ago
Boo hoo. The fact that society has upgraded is no argument against clothes getting cheaper, an absolute gain. The issue of repairability is mostly one of demand: almost no one wants to repair his own clothes, given how inexpensive they&#

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