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by scotchmi_st 12y ago
Assuming you're referring to Karl Marx, much of what he said of capitalism is very much true- it's a game of winners and losers. What he didn't give is what many historians would refer to as a 'viable alternative'.
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by scotchmi_st 12y ago
With due respect for you as someone trying to make money as a musician, your problem is that no-one knows your music, not that people are 'stealing' it.
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Basic Job will likely leave you little time to train in an area where you could be more productive for society. Basic Pay is designed to provide you the time to do that. Sure there has to be a bit of trust that you're going to not just
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Addiction is quite a vague word, and gets mistreated. It isn't a good word when we're considering whether continue with a particular behaviour. Instead, we should just be looking at whether something has a negative impact on the i
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand: surely we can just say that one kilo is a certain number of carbon 12 atoms, and have done? Would seem sensible to me.
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
While I agree that is a tad fishy, your stance also appears fairly cynical. Maybe he just changed his mind. I don't think we give our politicians enough slack for them to get better, which in turn means that they learn to bloody-minded
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
To the author of the article I say, "can't we have better legislation /and/ tech hacks?" I don't think anyone would disagree with the idea that we can't solve the surveillance problems just through technol
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
I don't think we do. There are lots of chemical reactions in the world, happening all the time. ~99.999% of them don't then beget further reactions. The rest are the ones we refer to as 'life'. I'm not sure if anyon
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
This argument really irritates me. Apart from all of the excellent reasons that other commenters have given as to why this is false, the fact that programs such as Instagram are as popular as they are, /that do nothing other than remov
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
The fact that images pre-date anything vaguely similar to what we call civilisation shows that the two are not causally linked. Words /are/ causally linked with civilisation.
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Absolutely. Godwin's Law is the sort of thing Hitler would have invented.
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
You could probably also help (2) by stop using livestock in agriculture, since rainforest and jungle are often cleared for animal grazing land, which then lead to flash flooding and drought as the soil can no longer hold the water. Which is
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Yeah I would certainly say that building a messaging system of any type with the features of XMPP /from scratch/ would be hard. Then again, just compare the config files of sendmail and exim to prosody or ejabberd. Given that tools for work
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Really? So there are no large-scale implementations of push-notification systems? Is there some detail I'm missing here?
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by scotchmi_st 13y ago
Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone could explain the technical reasons why, with minimal modification, we couldn't just replace all electronic messaging systems from SMS to email with xmpp, and forevermore li
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by scotchmi_st 14y ago
The UK managed the switch from imperial to metric okay. It's really not that hard.