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by s73ver_ 9y ago
But then the thinking machines will make machines of their own to protect them.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Kind of. Middle Class Chinese have had their lives improved quite a bit. Worker class Chinese, well, that situation seems fuzzier.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Whether or not it's a good thing depends entirely on us as a society. We can either decide to free people up, and give them the freedom to do things without having to worry about bills or where their next meal is coming from, a la Star
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That doesn't mean it's not also bad for large swaths of humanity.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
It's quite not, actually. Humans have the ability to see nuance in things. Computers currently don't. So you see things like Google banning developers for innocuous violations of the rules, whereas humans (assuming they were given
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I think you're taking an idealized version of reporting that was never, ever true. Otherwise all papers would be the same, more or less. There has always been agenda pushing in reporting, both in what was reported, and what was not rep
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Unfortunately I don't have anywhere near the clout to be able to tell Microsoft to do that. And in the meantime, my users look at a broken site.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Why? When I design a page, I know what I want it to look like. I don't want to have to waste a bunch of my time in compatibility hacks to get around crap that they do different.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I can totally buy them staying home. But I just cannot believe that someone who believed in Bernie's ideals would vote for someone who represented essentially the antithesis of those ideals. The only thing the two of them had in common
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
There was no primary rigging, and Clinton didn't win the election. You're free to talk about her email server all you like, but she's not in power. So we focus on the people who are in power and how they got there.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"We now know that snopes.com is extremely politically biased." Do we? Or have you just disagreed with them?
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I believe quite a bit in effective moderation and community norms. However, I do believe there is quite a scalability issue with that.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I can't really see that. Even a moderate Democrat, it would be a pretty big stretch to push them toward Trump, I believe. I could, however, see many people like that staying home.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
We do also put the SSN on a form quite often.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Except Trump was known for saying, "Bomb the crap out of em." Not to mention, there's the current situation he's in with N. Korea.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Again, I need more than "not Clinton" to believe that. I find it quite difficult to believe that someone who was supporting Sanders would be able to vote for a border wall, repealing the ACA, a Muslim ban, someone who bragged abou
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Trump also campaigned on a lot of highly regressive points, ones which just about any Bernie supporter would reject. Things like the border wall, repealing the ACA, and reducing regulation on business.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Those aren't incongruent thoughts. My one person in Congress can only do so much, and I can believe that they are trying to do the right thing, while being blocked by groups from other states.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I cannot imagine that many who were in favor of Bernie would switch to Trump. The positions of the two were so far apart, that you'd have to not actually believe in any of Bernie's positions in order to vote for Trump.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Me too. Odd. I wonder if it had to do with the letters? The t and the h nearby?
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Have you ever written a letter to your Congressperson? Then you've probably engaged in lobbying.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
You're comparing two different things. How you feel your Congress people are doing, and how you feel Congress is doing as a whole.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The risk is not limited to online. And the use is most definitely not limited to online.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
No, it's not an edge case. They are people. And nowhere did I suggest sacrificing security. I said you need to be able to use the system without computers.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
No. Your tone is incredibly incivil, and ignores the entirety of my point. Nowhere did I say we shouldn't have progress. Nowhere did I say progress was bad. I pointed out that we need to watch out for those who are going to be displace
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Both Google and Apple have ways to associate installs with referrals.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Homeless people are not an edge case.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
What would the blockchain bring to this? Nothing but a dependence on computers, and an inability for those without computers to use the system.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
They thought, "Hey, we need an ID number for this national social insurance program." Then later, someone else thought, "Hey, I need an identifier to check this person's Identity. Oh, they have a taxpayer ID number. I&#x
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Homeless people have SSNs, too, and likely aren't carrying around wallets.

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