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by skh 8y ago
The goals you mention between the governments you spoke are indeed different. This is not an unimportant point. I believe you are correct in that. I don’t claim that there are no moral people working for American intelligence agencies.
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by skh 8y ago
From my perspective too many Americans believe the mantra, “We are good and they are bad.”. We had a President that said those who are not with us are against us. We leaders say that we are exceptional, we are a moral government and that b
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by skh 8y ago
The U.S. should just go ahead and pass an amendment to the Constitution stating that only corporations count as people. That way when our politicians say they are doing something for the public good it will at least then be truthful.
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by skh 8y ago
The nature of the government matters. The style of government matters not to me when it comes to moral culpability. Catholic priests murdered in Central America with the approval of the U.S. government did not care that we have a represe
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by skh 8y ago
That is an interesting take. I'd not have thought of "legal compunction". I like the phrase and will borrow it without attribution!
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by skh 8y ago
...I'd have hoped that people such as Stroud that worked for US intelligence would have a stronger moral compass than what the article describes. It seems like you are saying it is moral to work for a U.S. intelligence agency but not
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t know Musk but from what I’ve read about him from an ex-wife of his and those who have worked for him Must is most likely not going to listen to anyone he doesn’t have to. He appears to have a Trumpian incapacity for admitting wrond
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by skh 8y ago
I would not want to invest in a company in which high ranking officers did not have the ability to push back against the CEO. Rarely is one person always correct. Steve Jobs famously did not want to port iTunes to Windows but angrily cons
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by skh 8y ago
I think it is noteworthy given the notoriety of Musk and the high pressure situation being CFO of a company whose CEO makes numerous unsubstantiated claims. If I were an investor in TSLA this would not be welcome news to me. Is this perso
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by skh 8y ago
Monitoring internet activity is FB’s business. That’s how they make their money. That’s the product they sell to advertisers. Since this is their product they have responsibilities in this regard, no? If I let you monitor all of my intern
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by skh 8y ago
I do not wish to live in the type of society you appear to be comfortable with. I hope your view does not prevail.
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by skh 8y ago
The solution is for all parents to be aware of potential for dark patterns and to put the onus on them to refuse to let their kids play F2P games? It would be nice to live in a society in which the government doesn’t view actions that Face
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by skh 8y ago
Have you ever misplaced something? Have you dealt with kids with curiosity or who desire something without thinking about the consequences? Facebook had an employee who gave the company specific steps it could easily take to prevent childr
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by skh 8y ago
Are you sure it’s wise to put the onus solely on the parents? Some kids are born into families with crappy parents. Are they to be exploited at the whim of whatever corporate goal is out there due to their bad luck of having crappy parents
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t normally check profiles before responding to comments. It appeared to be sarcasm to me. Sudan does have problems (both North and South) and U.S. politicians have commented upon them. Thanks for letting me know. And that last sente
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by skh 8y ago
I think you misunderstood the ...start asking for receipts part of nkozrya’s comment. nkozrya is not suggesting that U.S. politician’s are never correct in their assessment of evil. nkozrya is suggesting that they aren’t always right.
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by skh 8y ago
The author of the article does not stipulate that the axiom system has to be recursively enumerable. From the article: We assume it to contain the basic Peano axioms of arithmetic. An axiom system is complete, if every true statement can
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by skh 8y ago
I didn’t read that part but the statement is still wrong. Take as your model the standard model of integers. Collects all true statements of this model. Make this your axiom system. It is now complete and contains the first order Peano
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by skh 8y ago
Before I took Mathematical Logic in graduate school I believed all kinds of nonsense about Godel’s theorems. Even after the class I still had false ideas about what it really meant. It took a while for the the recursively enumerable part
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by skh 8y ago
This is incorrect as well. Take the standard model of the integers. Now take all true statements in this model. Let this be your axiom system. It is complete. It is not recursively enumerable and therefore not very useful. You can als
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by skh 8y ago
Number 20 in logic is incorrect. It’s surprising how often this is misstated. There are lots of complete axiom systems. Indeed, take as your axioms all true statements in a given model. Voila, you now have a complete axiom system. It’s
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by skh 8y ago
The rules should not be applied the same to everyone. Apple needs to look out for its long term interests and it can deal with small companies in ways that it can not deal with Google or Facebook without harming said interests. It's
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by skh 8y ago
I think this is a product of how humans think in general. A topic may remind someone of a related topic and then that gets brought up. Someone may say something that isn’t quite right and it gets pointed out that’s wrong. But then there
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by skh 8y ago
The evidence suggests that they can’t come up with a better analogy. Perhaps there are legal principles at play that prevent them from using something seemingly better. They are smart people. I think a better a question or observation wo
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by skh 8y ago
One of those benefits is generally spreading democratic ideals and promoting natural rights, such as free speech, private property, etc. I think your view of the last 50 years of American intervention in other countries is not based in fa
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by skh 8y ago
People who are going to be users of applied linear algebra would probably benefit from a traditional treatment of determinants. Axler's book is excellent for people who plan to go for more pure mathematics in their studies.
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by skh 8y ago
In my experience (math teacher at a community college for 20 years and former Ph.D. student who quit before finishing the thesis) the overwhelming majority of people can not learn mathematics properly from a textbook. They need a teacher o
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by skh 8y ago
You made the statement that it'd be slavery if they couldn't quit. I didn't make that claim. You did. I presented a subset of federal workers who can't quit and aren't being paid. According to your statement
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by skh 8y ago
Are you retracting your original statement: ...it'd be slavery if they couldn't quit. Coast Guardsmen are not being paid and are not allowed to quit. Therefore, according to your statement you think it is slavery.
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by skh 8y ago
The members of the Coast Guard were not conscripted. I don't know if that changes anything for you. But the salient facts are the Coast Guardsmen are not being paid and are not legally allowed to quit. So, according to your previous

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