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by postingpals 6y ago
But this logic doesn't explain why we need the NSA to spy on its own citizens? I mean, sure if someone else is spying on you, you need to spy on them. But if someone else is spying on you, you definitely don't need to spy on yours
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by postingpals 6y ago
Is it time we question whether or not we actually need these groups? Or at least whether they should have this much power? The CIA, the NSA, even the FBI sometimes, I feel they all have horrific stories attached to them and it's questi
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is illogical to say that you cannot criticize something if you don't offer a solution. Why don't you put in the work to find a solution instead of demanding others do it for you? Besides, plenty of work has already gone into
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by postingpals 6y ago
I think there are technicalities to bitcoin that make typical economic reasoning futile, and as a result non-tech people argue for things they don't really understand. The energy consumption argument alone should completely destroy bit
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by postingpals 6y ago
Personally I assumed they meant exchanging money in secret if you are a whistleblower and the government is after you.
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by postingpals 6y ago
I disagree with the 'store of value' argument. I got into a similar argument with someone on here before, and I believe it is an insufficient economic principle to justify a currency. A good currency serves as a medium of exchange
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by postingpals 6y ago
The easiest solution to number 1 is humbling yourself by making mistakes. Sure making mistakes itself will teach you stuff, but it's the humbling process that is really important. I've learned from years of argumentation and failu
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by postingpals 6y ago
I'm more inclined to believe the organisation literally called 'our world in data ' as an authority for data research. Your analysis just seems incomplete and I highly doubt they would just leave something out or use bad dat
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by postingpals 6y ago
Sorry, as you know it's a contentious issue and we get tired of repeating the same information. Then again, I'm sure you get tired of repeating yourself too.
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by postingpals 6y ago
99% of people who invoke the labour theory of value misunderstand it. Welcome to the 99%.
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by postingpals 6y ago
He starts his entire essay with a faulty premise, that in order to be a billionaire you have to be exploitative, and then goes on to argue why Y Combinator doesn't look for exploitative people so therefore this must not be true. Look,
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by postingpals 6y ago
Of course you don't look for people who are exploitative to become billionaires, that's like looking for someone who has grease stains on their shirt to become a chef. Graham is way off here.
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is exactly right. You would think a scientist wouldn't sloppily throw out weak arguments like this. I guess he hasn't been a scientist for many decades, though.
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by postingpals 6y ago
The gold standard was abandoned precisely because it was inferior. It was pretty useful up until early 20th century as a medium of exchange too. People used to use gold coins to buy things, didn't they?
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by postingpals 6y ago
A store of value is just one aspect to what makes money, money. It also has to be a medium of exchange and a standard of value. Bitcoin's value changes so wildly that it cannot be a standard (right now) and no one uses it to buy things
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by postingpals 6y ago
I was planning to argue with this, but I only feel sorry that you see something as historically useful as unionising in such a light.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Heh, soon you'll be able to do that too when the vaccine comes out. What a great end to the year.
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by postingpals 6y ago
President Hassan Rouhani was elected democratically.
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by postingpals 6y ago
You can tell it's an issue that warrants more than one sentence to come to a conclusion, because there is an entire wikipedia article dedicated to every country's viewpoint on the matter, meaning this is mostly a matter of opinion
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by postingpals 6y ago
The problem with this statement isn't even that the web is bad, it's that traditional education is a number one priority for any country that wants to progress. They suppose that in an industrialised country, everyone is educated
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by postingpals 6y ago
Do you have a source for your second claim?
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by postingpals 6y ago
In many ways this is just an extension of his 4 quadrants of conformism essay, so I'll argue with it using ideas from that essay. I would argue that people vastly over estimate their degree of independent mindedness because although it
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by postingpals 6y ago
I have every reason to believe that countries protecting the name of their products has only helped local producers from becoming beaten out the market or losing their culture with virtually no cost to anyone outside of those markets, since
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is the kind of thing that is used to stop unionisation and in most cases to check if there's a serious productivity bottleneck, it is probably more valuable to microsoft than sales in the long run.
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by postingpals 6y ago
It appears as though it can think, which for most purposes is good enough, but clearly insufficient.
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by postingpals 6y ago
If there is a distrust in government misusing taxes, i wonder why the solution is to have less taxes, as opposed to fixing the government? I'm not being snarky I'm just genuinely curious why that is the knee jerk reaction.
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by postingpals 6y ago
twitch.tv has started doing this very thing, so it's definitely possible. Twitch and youtube respond to each other's actions so youtube could easily end up doing this too.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Salaries are determined by the market, but no one ever mentions how the market determines it... which is usually some combination of scarcity, quality, and, more realistically, how many connections you have, etc. These things give you bar
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by postingpals 6y ago
A technologically illiterate company going up against the EFF, the leaders in tech litigation. That's not going to go well for the RIAA. Also, the EFF have github on their side now.
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by postingpals 6y ago
There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube, you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube. There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said. What I think this comes down to is

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