sageikosa

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by sageikosa 9y ago
Seriously, forward towards what? The "perfect society"?
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Towards?
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by sageikosa 9y ago
I can complain about going out in the rain and getting wet. End of story.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Protected in that you cannot be prosecuted for it perhaps.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
You're thinking investment markets, not philanthropic giving markets. Any think tank is competitively attempting to gain funds to stay afloat. Some do this by lobbying for grants, some by soliciting private donations. But there&#x27
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by sageikosa 9y ago
He's not silenced, they just took away the podium that says "sponsored by Google".
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code... And once you get big, you can't get any more revenue. And I want to be k
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Microsoft wasn't split. It was informed that they could only do so much product integration.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
People can only manipulate millions of others easily when they are led to believe that they should be led.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
I thought it was clearly stated. It's just not one of those things that adds to the conversation, except perhaps by demonstrating the same principles of the direct action via the downvote. It's so rare I get something I both dis
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Yes we can set definition of what is bad and what isn't. Enjoy my exercise of it with this downvote.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
To my ear that's like saying evolution cannot sustain itself indefinitely. As long as there are generational selective pressures on imperfect replicators, evolution will continue. Without a superstructure of omnipresent social dominat
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Not sure what the subject of that sentence was; it appears to be passive (and actorless) in the first part but the dependent clause (after "then") seems active voice. What or whom is causing society to go out of its way...? Litig
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Thanks for playing
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Tort reform. Some things should be kicked out of the courts at the front door by a legal bouncer.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
I believe litigation in the United States is based on the idea that access to the courts to redress grievances (against private individuals or public institutions) is fundamental for a civil society. This goes as far as preventing habeas c
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Portugal was more concerned with getting trade goods from the far east than trying to build up sub-Saharan Africa for most of it's history. It just so happened that when the Scramble for Africa started, Portugal already had toeholds a
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by sageikosa 9y ago
The "Scramble for Africa" was a particularly late colonization push (late 19th century). Colonization in Africa started after de-colonization was complete in the Americas.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Anyone can be an entrepreneur. It's having an idea that can be acted upon that should provide a positive return (in terms of comparable and calculable inputs and outputs). In the capitalist production order, entrepreneurs need capita
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Pegging "capitalism" into a teleological historiographic narrative (aimed at justifying non-capital producing collectivist dictatorships) has been around for so long that its retro chic again.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
That sounds like the kind of thing that would trip an algorithm.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Like a peacock, it signals the health of the organization that produced it because of the resources brought to bear on otherwise frivolous things.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
It holds butter real well, without it soaking in too much.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
Probably hormonal or sympathetic nervous system responses helping that along.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
She first noticed that she was feeling sick and started eliminating foods until we guessed it was the peanut butter sandwiches she was eating for lunch on tour. She did see an allergists who confirmed (with pretty obvious evidence) the rea
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by sageikosa 9y ago
business is accountable via money to its owners and creditors. which ultimately means its accountable to the market.
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by sageikosa 9y ago
When in her teens, my daughter developed a peanut allergy during her time in drum corps such that it was confirmed with skin patch tests and she had to carry an epi-pen. After about a year it just went away and she's back to "nor
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by sageikosa 10y ago
If we could put them in soundproof safe rooms after they've been detained so they do not disturb others (and monitor them so they don't hurt themselves), sure. Probably will increase the fines and taxes tremendously to do that.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
You are of course accepting completely that a belligerent drunk woman had sufficient unbiased recall to fairly assess the ordering and significance of events. If you're a belligerent drunk, its usually because you believe everyone is

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