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>I believe this "job creation as priority" approach is inferior to both the "laissez-faire" capitalist alternative and the "basic income" social democratic one. How exactly is "basic income" superi
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>And terrorists aren't even the main threat. Surveillance of innocent people makes them vulnerable to anyone who has the data. Cartel hitmen, sexual predators, Richard Nixon, take your pick. I will not agree with your dumping of Ric
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Your thoughts are great, I could not have written them as clearly. Coding, even if not meant for job-work, should be taught as an essential skill in the modern world. Preparing kids at young age for this skill will empower them a lot.
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>>But the identification problem isn't unique. It's true of every crime there is. Criminals don't come with tags labeling them as a terrorist or a murderer or a pedophile. Correct. But terrorism (inspired by hate ideolo
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it reminds an apt proverb: missing forest for the trees. Too many modules do not necessarily become a good thing. They may appear to get rid of complexity but in reality, you will have to face the complexity some level above and in fact, th
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>And what of it? A lion has a difference of opinion with you about whether you're its dinner. Do we need to spend a trillion dollars and have a war on lions? What about Streptococcus? It's alive, it adapts, it wants to kill you
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>... if the level of terrorism remains in the "still kills fewer people than bathtubs" range, we realize we didn't need it. Comparing terrorism to bathtub is foolish at its best and outright dangerously misleading at its w
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>>So no, they have to justify that the costly and stupid security measures actually work. Or we'll have nothing but costly and stupid security measures that don't actually work. How exactly do you want them to justify. Your
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great advice. I could never have thought of this. Me, a silly and complete financially illiterate fool, must work hard now to become financially literate. Thank you again. Can't upvote enough :(
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>>People fear terrorists because the government and news media tell them they should. Not entirely true. There are genuine reasons to fear terrorism (religious and/or ideologically inspired). Some reasons are - such people terror
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>>The FBI has failed so long to meaningfully preemptively stop a terrorist attack that it seems like they're are just throwing everything at the wall in desperate hopes something works. How can you be so sure? What evidence have
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a "kitchen monad" may seem to be a overkill for doing what you (or your mom) may need to bake a small number of cakes for you to consume but bakery monads are what is needed if you want to bake hundreds of thousands of cakes of hu
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I guess, the GP intends to say some "celebrity" figure gets raped/murdered when he/she mentioned "high profile incident". The incidents of the women who have been raped or assaulted by Uber drivers, were not &q
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>>Are the same cities hanging around forever (and people complaining about them forever), or is it new stock every year? I guess, googling "ghost cities in China" may bring out many interesting statistics about this. From th
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Getting the almost parasitic "managers" off universities should be a top priority goal for the well-educated people. Managers should have no role in any funding, selection or other academic activities. The publishing related rent
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>>I don't see a reason to bring your political leanings into a discussion of straightforward economic cause and effects. That means, when they were going well, they shouldn't be boasting the "Leftist" government an
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>>when your entire OS is built from the ground up to be declarative and atomic entire OS?? I guess, the kernel is still imperative and not declarative.
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Exactly how do you propose the citizens should be informed and yet keep it secret from the enemies? Most people in USA (mostly the relatively younger generation) don't have an idea how the real tyrants (e.g. Russian communists, Mao in
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>>Most people have any interest in learning beaten out of them by our crappy factory/prison like educational system. Because you know what's not conducive to learning? Having no choice as far as subjects; having no choice ho
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>>Imagine people start education from start in society like this university, everyone will be excited, because they are going to do what they like. Anybody and their grandmom may be excited to do what they like; it takes education to
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Critical thinking is a must, besides we need some STEM knowledge also because you cannot do much of meaningful critical thinking without it, especially in today's world. So high school is definitely a must and college if you can.
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Hello FSF, I want to kick off LibreGulag [0] :( Please support me too! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
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It is true that's what 99% of us will see/do. But that doesn't change a basic fact about good engineer - being able to solve "yet unknown/unsolved class of problems" and not just be able to solve "JUST yet
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the CMS example is kinda wrong here. What about something that you don't find "off the shelf"? e.g. video processing with hard memory/cpu constraints; in such situations, the real 10x engineer will outshine most others.
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I didn't say scientist didn't work for communists or other tyrants. Also, AFAIK there is no loud and unequivocal criticism published by these academics on the same scale/volume as they have for the western systems. Can you gi
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You can engage in philosophy without having to have a humanities department sucking up tonnes of state money. You can prepare yourself for philosophical and critical thinking without some people leading cushy life doing nothing in state fun
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I disagree. Far many times it has been seen that the humanities have just sided with the rulers (especially true in case of communists) so that they be spared. It is a fashion amongst many humanities people in the western world to criticize
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>> untestable and unverifiable ... As someone has pointed out above, these theroies are surely "untestable and unverifiable" for now but that doesn't make them unfalsifiable so we must not critisize the theorists jus
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>The people who make the most (founding CEOs) often have the wimpiest coding skills of all. What makes for a status hierarchy where the closer to the machine you are, the higher the status? Continuing your analogy a bit further, we can s