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1. 31.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   I feel like you're saying that basic income is extortion? That seems like a bit of an extreme stance.
2. 32.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   So a bloody bolsheviks style revolution is ok as long as they do it inclusively?
3. 33.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   Why are your morals the ones that deserve free speech?
4. 34.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   If democracy can't stand up to a laughable idea then it was a nice run. If we start taking away fundamental human rights the moment we hear some words we don't like, they probably deserve to destroy our democracy.
5. 35.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   What's the point of liberalism if everyone does not get to express themselves?
6. 36.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   To be fair the poor tone is the most notable part of the article, the rest is just a short "We don't like what a private company is doing"
7. 37.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente, I felt like it really introduced emotion in an AI context,
8. 38.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   I feel the opposite way. In my mind raw nature is chaos and unpredictability. It's hard to relax when I'm not at least in medium sized town.
9. 39.▲
   by thescribe 9y ago

   If you are ideologically opposed to large and powerful nation states you'd almost categorically support breaking them into smaller states.
10. 40.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Personally I find the idea of setting out to muddle the perception of reality terrifying. I've had sleep deprivation hallucinations and I think everyone should do whatever is in their power not to hallucinate.
11. 41.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Given the article this basically comes down to "We don't know".
12. 42.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Taxes may be inherent to society, but so is crime. I believe we have a moral obligation to minimize both.
13. 43.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I use feedbin, and I love it. At this point I tend to stop visiting sites that don't support RSS.
14. 44.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    So taking away a conservative's guns or forcing them to pay into a social safety net are equally immoral?
15. 45.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    At the many companies I've worked at there has always been one side that doesn't think this applies to them.
16. 46.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I'm glad you agree with my super conservative grandmother.
17. 47.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I feel like this is a strange position, because every single political issue does this to someone. Raise my property tax for schools? Time to blacklist you, I needed that money for elder care.
18. 48.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Just like income tax, inflation will eventually push this down to everyone.
19. 49.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Politics has been very good for WIRED click rate.
20. 50.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I prevent a lot of things from phoning home, but I have no pirated software on my computer. I just don't want to send out analytics and all that other traffic.
21. 51.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    All this work to get around providing RSS and letting the user control it themselves.
22. 52.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I don't think it is an official part of the language but the Pragmatic Programmers Elixir book does this in one of their examples code sections.
23. 53.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Yes, but advocating for the (peaceful) establishment of entho-states is not. Even if it makes me think less of them.
24. 54.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I guess I'll be buying a lot less software.
25. 55.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I agree as long as your ideas are equally mocked. Otherwise your position boils down to "No one should be able to disagree with me as long as I say the topic is sensitive"
26. 56.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    While bigotry is generally a bad thing, the calling out has long since past any usefulness. The terms have been weaponized beyond any usefulness, and will probably lose their sting.
27. 57.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    This is not data, but in my peer group there is a strong connection between those who dropped out and those who had self control issues with any of those.
28. 58.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    I've worked at least one place that did Microservice as a trendy tech salad. How do you write microservices without lots of lock in?
29. 59.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    As someone who consciously attempts to replace cyclical costs with fixed costs, I hate the push for X as a service. At the end of my month I want to pay the minimum number of recurring charges possible.
30. 60.▲
    by thescribe 9y ago

    Socialism is government ownership of capitol. Communism is a hypothetical end state where everyone collectively controls the capitol. In my mind they are fairly easy to confuse.