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From the site you linked >>There are the obvious display problems: Wikipedia pages look like a dull grey textbook. Almost every page is an over-long stream of text with hardly any video or even images. Pages about movies don’t even ha
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>>You want a Donald Trump nominating one of his cronies at the head of the US intelligence services and starting to dig into untold amounts of already-recorded communications? Still a Donald Trump in USA is far better and very less
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I guess, the Snowden incidence is being used to hurl undue venom towards USA. But these people are ignoring or deliberately misleading other people to ignore the real dangers posed by extremists (including Islamists, communists, the far rig
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>>How is it propaganda if all that you said it's true? That's a good question as it raises a very important point, namely, the weakness of capitalism. But what I think is this weakness of capitalism can and must be tackled f
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>>You shouldn't need to particularly reward businesses for not breaking the law, surely. You should be able to punish those that break the law sufficiently harshly that breaking the law is not profitable. This point is very impor
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>>The question you should be asking is how we can accept that so many people are unable to save themselves because of actions we (developed world) have taken. Both recently and in the past. The developed world (mainly western) has inf
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>>With that in mind, your characterization of wisdom in this context will be a prescription of never changing anything radically. Your parent has said they should not spend too much on "tangential mechanical features". Can y
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How old are these kids? What age group? Curious to know and what kind of math do you expect them to know?
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>> watch movies??? How do you expect that person with meager income to pay for the network bandwidth and usage bill? >>Smartphones are really high-value! This I agree wholeheartedly. At least for people like me, who enjoy readin
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>>Computing devices hmm... only if I kid myself that the mobile phones (even the smart ones) are actually computing devices on which "I can compute whatever I wish to compute AND the way I can compute on a PC". Most of the A
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by tmptmp 11y ago
I am not saying "Land Value Tax", which basically is a levy on the "unimproved" value of land.[1] What I am saying is nobody (including corporations) should be allowed to own land for the sake of renting purposes. If you
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Get some land off from the existing land-owners who have it in excess over some threshold (by legislating some "ceiling on land-holding" act). Of course, that should not be done entirely in the "communist style" though,
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Can you please list some alternatives? That will help us understand the situation better.
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Maybe it worked for Israel, because it was run by politicians who cared about their people and not by those who cared for the interests of mainly the mega-corporations (e.g. USA) or the interests of mainly the party-workers (e.g. USSR). Suc
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I have a question: exactly what causes the piston to come back after the intake/power stroke? Let me write what I guess I have understood - 1. The intake stroke piston movement may be considered to be caused by gravity and/or atmo
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Some things in this article I would like to object and to point out are (although I am not here to support or argue for/against the current schools): >>But they won’t be publicly ranked and corrected nearly as often as in school,
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>>If you weren't making any distinction then I don't understand why you brought up cars/robots going berserk in the first place. I brought up the issue mainly for these reasons: a) safety issues in cars/robots are
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How does that compare to a Marxist/communist like Mao/Stalin killing and maiming hundreds of thousands just because they didn't exactly speak the way he approved?
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The Marxists and communists have tried doing that thing many times and have failed spectacularly. Business based market economy is the only (till now) successful and socially most beneficial type of society that has ever existed. I upvoted
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>> Maybe a sense of "money isn't everything"? That's all I've got, but then all the "77c on the dollar" talk puts money front and centre in almost every debate, making the "money is not everythi
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That's your notion of safety. For me (and I am sure for many others too) it means a product that is critical to my my workflow and the one on which my financial, health and other such critical aspects of life depend, if such a product
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>>Safety-related damages: these are important, and not what happened here. Please define safety. People lost their jobs due to this irresponsible prank. People might have missed replies from their doctors due to such foolishness. If n
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This is important. Most probably, the sports is proving a big factor that is killing the education in USA [1]. Excessive indulgence of US educational institutes (schools, colleges and universities) in sports has been a very big mistake made
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I did not say that this is impossible. It seems you are confused between accidental bugs and deliberate pranks. So, to address your issue: 1) it would not be unreasonable to expect that the "normal update" to their cars/robot
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What if tomorrow some fools at Google think it is okay to play April fools prank with their automated cars? or their robots? and the car/robot goes berserk due to that? This type of foolish pranks should backfire more strikingly. If th
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This is a good advice, at least for the geeks and even for the semi-geeks. I use mutt and never got stung like this. But mutt may not be much suitable for most users. Any other good clients (thunderbird) can do.
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For the downvoters: Please provide some evidence in comments to support the downvote. And I guess, they don't have any experience of founders and investers in Asia (China, India) and their exploitative practices. feeling sad.
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>>Of course, we will have tons of free riders but that's the price we pay. Also we don't care because any welfare system will have free riders. The price of what? What positive do we get in return? And how much price? The UK
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I am still confused. You said, >We'd still need ways to motivate people. I think basic income would be great. ... >I think not having to worry about starving would be great for humanity as a whole. Motivating a person who is not
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by sometimes if you mean anything more than 0.0001% (gut feeling, from the founders I have come across) then I guess you are misleading. In general, the founders and investors are hellbent to make the employees work 100hr/week for 40hr

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