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by techdmn 8mo ago
I agree with everything you've said. To me the next question is: If nobody has a job, who will buy all the robot-produced goods?
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by techdmn 9mo ago
I agree with all your points about Trump's actual behavior, and assure you that nobody dislikes him more than I do! That said, I think "Trump's voters are all assholes" is a talking point NOT of liberal voters, but of th
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by techdmn 9mo ago
I wouldn't be so dismissive. With only two choices, you get a lot of variation on both sides. I'm sure some people were motivated by animosity, racism, misogyny. Others were likely motivated by things Trump is willing to say ou
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by techdmn 9mo ago
Completely agree. Trump is selling the wrong solutions, but many people hear a truth when he tells them they are getting screwed. Democrats insist that business as usual is great and simply extort voters: "It votes for a broken healt
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by techdmn 9mo ago
I identify very strongly with this. More than once in my career I have gotten feedback along the lines of: > We really like your work! How can you help other engineers be more like you? The thing I think (but usually don't say) is
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by techdmn 9mo ago
How did Voldemort put it? "There is no g̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ law, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it." The law doesn't matter if there is no one to enforce it, or if enforcement is selective, etc.
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by techdmn 9mo ago
I've been reading Steve for a long long time. He's had a lot of good ideas, issued some solid advice, but has always had a quirky sense of humor. A few pages into it I thought "this has to be a joke". But I couldn&#x2
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by techdmn 9mo ago
Am American, can confirm. I largely disagree with the idea that U.S. citizens chose their government, there are many, many filters, restrictions and unnecessary complications specifically designed to prevent politics having too much influe
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by techdmn 9mo ago
I read this phrase in a Spiderman comic, probably 1990 +/- 5 years. If memory serves Harry Osborne said it to Peter Parker, something regarding Norman Osborne's activity as the Green Goblin. Anyway, it's one of those phases
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by techdmn 10mo ago
I have a theory, it would be great if someone would do a rigorous study to back me up! Ha. I'm most likely wrong, but anyway: The more effort a state puts into surveiling its population, the more effort law enforcement will put into
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by techdmn 10mo ago
If only there was a party on the ballot that supported universal healthcare. (I know there are third-parties that do, but they are pretty effectively excluded from the process.)
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by techdmn 10mo ago
It was set up the way it was because the founders didn't trust voters. Voters don't always make optimal choices. Nobody said democracy was perfect. It's just a lot better than every other system we've ever tried. Ben
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by techdmn 10mo ago
Hate to break it to you, you're on social media right now.
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by techdmn 10mo ago
I think the phrase "fair distribution on social level" is doing a lot of work in this comment. Do you consider this to be a common occurrence, or something our existing social structures do competently? I see quite the opposite,
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by techdmn 10mo ago
I continue to be of the opinion that many of our economic problems could be improved with more competition. (Depending on your definition of "problem" of course. The current state of affairs is fantastically profitable some.)
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by techdmn 11mo ago
I've been working in this direction as well. I treat it like a game. Sure I /could/ just order thing off the internet, but if it were a scavenger hunt, where could I find thing at a locally owned business and pay cash? Some
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by techdmn 11mo ago
I'm curious about a system where capital gains are 100% for the first... I don't know, let's say a month. Then you ramp down over the course of the next year until it matches the regular income tax rate. I'm less conce
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by techdmn 11mo ago
I've read / watched a few different stories now, where what happens is the police / ICE assault a protestor, then charge the protestor with assaulting the officer and resisting arrest. You don't bump them, you attack the
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by techdmn 1y ago
Speaking as a U.S. citizen, I think the problem should not be approached as "stop people from doing frivolous things", but rather "government should fund the commons". Of course this doesn't make government perfect
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by techdmn 1y ago
I had a similar experience helping a disabled family member. Without being too specific, it's amazing how much effort and expertise it takes to access benefits to which a person is legally entitled. It's almost as if the means
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by techdmn 1y ago
It's almost like one of the leading browser developers is also in the advertising business. (To be clear I completely agree, fingerprinting is evil.)
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by techdmn 1y ago
Slavery never went away, it just changed its name to Prison Labor. For fun here's a pair of stories about people being held past their release dates: * https://promiseofjustice.org/news/louisianans-illegally-kept.
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by techdmn 1y ago
Seems like a good time to mention my old stand-by: There is no such thing as a labor shortage. There may very well be a shortage of qualified people willing to work under the conditions and for the compensation a company would like to prov
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by techdmn 1y ago
Only free if you discount the costs involved in carrying out genocide against the existing inhabitants. But your point stands, that cost was frequently born by the government, so from the perspective of individual settlers it was often fre
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by techdmn 1y ago
One of the things I really miss about those days was the sense of optimism. We knew computers were getting more powerful, we knew they would change society, I hoped they could help make things better for people everywhere. What we got was
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by techdmn 1y ago
Apologies for a (mild) thread-jack. My opinion, one problem with our economic system is focus on short-term results, to the point that several notable companies' stock prices are completely divorced from the reality of their performan
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by techdmn 1y ago
I've heard a few things on this. One is that there were a few high profile but very bad cases in the 80s, kids getting kidnapped and trafficked with law enforcement not really willing to even look into it. The odds are infinitesimal,
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by techdmn 1y ago
My personal read on this is that everyone is still trying to recreate the "sudden success" of FAANG-like companies in their start-up phases. (Never mind how long it actually took them to become big.) Basically upper management i
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by techdmn 1y ago
Can't speak for anyone but myself of course, but I was pretty disappointed with the way Democrats under Obama tackled healthcare. One of the big differences between Obama and Clinton in the primaries was that Clinton was in favor of
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by techdmn 1y ago
Chiming in to add crowd-sourced flock camera locations: https://deflock.me/

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