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by tks2103 13y ago
Absolutely not. "Civility" when discussing colonialism is just stacking the deck in favor of the colonists. Read my post again. What is insulting? Describing behavior as cowardly, and then backing it up with two points that remain
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by tks2103 13y ago
The sense of injustice changes the way emissions should be cut across the population. Western countries just want to have more stuff at all costs. The developing countries know this, from direct experience in recent memory. So they are not
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by tks2103 13y ago
Bullshit, dude. You are being a coward. Does Rome or France conquering England have an effect on the way we should manage global emissions policy or not? Because if it doesn't, why are you mentioning it? Do the different circumstances
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by tks2103 13y ago
India was also colonized. You aren't being unbiased when you point out medicine and technology, but not colonialism.
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by tks2103 13y ago
The pull request was titled "Removed use of gendered pronoun". I think that's a key fact missing from your summary. I mean, there isn't really a whole lot of information from Ben here except two actions, the rejection an
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by tks2103 13y ago
Infrastructure is very complicated. Typically if you have a guy build a road and you let that guy control the pricing, he charges a lot because he has a monopoly. That transfers wealth to the road builder at the expense of all the would-be
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by tks2103 13y ago
No, I am not equating government and society. I am questioning the simplistic view that a person can exist today and succeed independent of the society they grew up in. What do you mean government is a foreign body on society? Society is ma
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by tks2103 13y ago
What? I'm willing to pay Apple for a smartphone. Why would I pay them for life? Even if I did pay them for life, what would that have to do with anything? Nowadays, everyone uses roads. If you claim today that you are a self-made perso
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by tks2103 13y ago
I don't understand what you are trying to say in the first paragraph. You can easily say that no one would be successful without roads or electricity, so there is always some percentage of a person's success derived from society.
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by tks2103 13y ago
Holy crap I did not even fathom the possibility that someone could be indignant about a person wanting to travel with his or her musical instrument. I mean, I really don't understand this. Do you like hearing music? Do you like people
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by tks2103 13y ago
yeah good service to point out. the playlists on turntable were an organic composition of the community in the channel. the user was directly involved in the creation process. the playlist changed to reflect the people in the channel. it wa
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by tks2103 13y ago
Turntable dunked all other music streaming sites in playlist quality for the simple reason that the intelligence behind song selection resided in humans rather than an algorithm. It was a specific application of the general idea that social
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by tks2103 13y ago
Nobody cares how hard doctors think they work. Goods are priced based on their value to the consumer, not based on their cost to the manufacturer. I don't know how health care is priced, but the idea I should internalize sympathy for t
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by tks2103 13y ago
Yeah, I'm a native English speaker. The sentence you quoted is not impossible to read, but it is more difficult to comprehend than it should be. A simple rewrite will make it more clear. Many of the sentences in the article are much wo
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by tks2103 13y ago
The writing style and grammar in this post interfered with my comprehension. In the end, I was unable to finish reading it. Some examples: "Giant, heavy electronics items that Amazon sometimes ships for free when the shipping cost is c
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by tks2103 13y ago
I am an Ivy League alum from late last decade. My financial aid grant was approximately 75% of tuition (before considering any federal loans). I filed a FAFSA, and some direct paperwork required by the University. The paperwork amounted to
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by tks2103 13y ago
I did not think the incentives for landlords through, it seems. I think I agree with you that the market would not find a solution that would practically preserve the right of a renter to AirBnB his or her place.
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by tks2103 13y ago
You are arguing more with an imagined opinion and worldview than you are arguing with the comment that you replied to. The comment you replied to refers to the perceived difference between what "the startup mythology" promises and
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by tks2103 13y ago
I betcha the market will take care of the "random people" thing. There will be some buildings that advertise as "No AirBnB places". They will capture some portion of the market that is interested. If the law does not sup
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by tks2103 13y ago
I believe I read somewhere that Edward Snowden tried to express his concern over the extent of domestic surveillance to his boss at the NSA, and in response his boss revoked his access to key systems. I can no longer find anything that indi
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by tks2103 13y ago
Do you believe that stating a problem clearly has no value? What about identifying the 'correct' problem? If you believe someone has the same goals as you, but is attempting to solve the 'incorrect' problem, is it pointl
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by tks2103 13y ago
OP and I disagree on what the problem is. OP believes society does not do enough to cause people to be creative. That kind of problem has one kind of solution. Perhaps the very grant that Phil Fish used to initially fund his development of
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by tks2103 13y ago
My greater point was that I don't think "we should actively encourage people to pick up a creative hobby" in response to those people making death threats. There are already people who are choosing to pick up creative hobbies
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by tks2103 13y ago
I'm not sure that the responsibility lies with people or society at large. Do you believe people on Twitter do not have the resources available to attempt creative works? Furthermore, do you believe that, without being creative, it is
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by tks2103 13y ago
"The question left me sick to my stomach." "I went to bed that night with my head spinning." "...I had been living... in the 'trance of fear.'" "I knew that I was powerfully unhappy..., but I was powerless to do anything about it" "That
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by tks2103 13y ago
"I didn't want to say anything, but, I heard this Greenspun guy is a maaaaaaaaaaaajor douche."
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by tks2103 13y ago
which book would you recommend? he's austrian right... are there better or worse translators for his books?
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by tks2103 13y ago
restating the thread: steve19: 'legally you cannot export blueprints about weapons without an export license' glenra: 'how did this manage to survive first amendment challenges?' nness: 'how would this be a first amendment issue?' in nness'
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by tks2103 13y ago
don't beg the question. there's no need for cursing.
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by tks2103 13y ago
why did someone downvote this? it's literally a one liner question, and some intelligent responses were posted as a result. im baffled.

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