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by sam0x17 5y ago
We need the following: 1. $500 campaign donation limit, per person, per candidate, per year. 2. Corporations not allowed to donate to politics in any way, shape, or form. Subject to a fine of 20% of the corporation's deductions or taxa
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I'm in no way against capitalism. As I say in my post, the only way forward is capitalism with extreme regulation. Without regulation, capitalism won't get you anywhere good. It should be treated like a bratty child with no moral
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by sam0x17 5y ago
The strongest example is the opioid epidemic. Whoops.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
You don't seem to understand what liberal means. Liberals are pro status-quo, pro lobbyist, pro deregulation of corporations. They are the centrist monolith that stands in the way of leftists and real progressives at every corner of go
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Right. By that same token, directly selling fentanyl or oxy to consumers without any regulations would surely sell well, as does nicotine, etc., but this doesn't mean it's good for society.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Capital is far too short-sighted to look beyond this year or this quarter. Many of the important groundbreaking ideas or projects take years, even decades to formulate. As I've said elsewhere, capital will just take the easiest road it
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> As long as companies are driven by profits Capital really doesn't drive innovation at all except in very specific situations where there are sufficient regulations and guardrails to coax companies in the direction of progress (and
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I miss it. On the javascript side there was just jquery and a mountain of vanilla js that everyone could at least understand (and no npm dependency issues, ES6+ weirdness, etc) and on the PHP side, all built-in functions were in the global
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I love that Python is unique and strange enough that merely seeing "__init_subclass__" in this headline is enough to know exactly what language it is talking about ;)
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by sam0x17 5y ago
So he plagiarized himself?
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> If you want a review for something that came out today, there is no way that work could have been done, so there simply isn't anything to find. I think in practice this is actually largely untrue -- with technology products, video
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> don’t dismiss it by calling it privilege There are literally millions of people who deserve / have "earned" this privilege, but aren't given it. The word lucky comes to mind.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
An entity that experiences all of time at the same time would be pretty used to suffering, as all suffering that has ever and will ever occur is experienced by this entity all the time, so hardly a sacrifice. Jesus's suffering is a sma
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Right, and the puzzling implication is even God isn't powerful enough to simply write off sin without there being some sort of sacrifice. IMHO this combined with the fact that God regularly violates his own moral codes in the bible tel
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Pure negation.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> Because dirt exists all over the world all clothes are in need of washing at some point Being gay this one made me really laugh. People can hardly agree on what dirt is, and when they do, they often change their mind 100 years later an
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I'll never understand people who, when given the infinite moral and ontological agency that would be afforded to them by atheism, would rather do something as infantile as saying "fuck it, I should just die then". You can lit
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> e.g. USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941: Anti-religion campaigns are still in effect caused by religion, since they wouldn't be necessary if it weren't for religion. Next!
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Thinking all there is is moral relativism is a tiny baby step in the long journey of deriving your own objective basis for making moral judgements, and C.S. Lewis's works are essentially religious allegories but with better character d
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by sam0x17 5y ago
OP here. I am an atheist with zero spiritual beliefs in the sense you are talking about. When I say "spiritual" I mean "dopamine-inducing", full stop. There is some cool stuff in math, science and in our crude attempts a
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It is quite possible to find the negation of belief in God itself be a spiritual/freeing experience, especially if this follows prior subjugation/belief in an organized religion. Relinquishing religion can itself be a "spirit
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I always found this whole bit farcical. Firstly, if God is the one who exercises judgement in the first place in the form of who goes to heaven and who does not, then (as is written elsewhere in the Bible) what God says is good, is good, an
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Genetics, cultural values, chemicals, hormones, electrical impulses, all conspiring to create the illusion of objective morality
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by sam0x17 5y ago
100% atheism. Was raised some kind of protestant I forget which one, and derived tremendous spiritual and psychological relief when I realized all of that was absolute nonsense at the age of 9. I knew I was gay at the time and wouldn't
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by sam0x17 5y ago
They detect VMs
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I do use Dark Reader so I get an interesting dark mode for HN
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Just work on some cool open source project and enjoy the lack of startup pace for a bit. These situations tend not to last long in my experience.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Would be cool if they, ya know, built a search engine first. They just serve bing results with a few sponsored things thrown in.
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That said, standardized testing _would_ make sense if it determined where funding is allocated, i.e. lowest scoring areas get the most funding and the highest paid teachers.
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Yeah there's actually powerpoints from the snowden leaks showing how much they ingest per month and how much of that they keep, etc.

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