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by toolz 4y ago
step 1. retire early (which to me just means becoming financially independent) step 2. get physically active, probably lots of backpacking and camping to serve two purposes: 1. better my body/mental/emotional health and 2.
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If we were already in a mass extinction event then we should stop all forms of conservation biology and redirect that energy towards entertainment. A mass extinction event isn't a line of dominos toppling over, but can be stopped. A ma
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Yeah, sometimes it's best to just ignore people at the first sign of hostility. If I had done that here I could've avoided being called a racist, which would've been nice. Oh well, it's hard to tell when the person on th
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by toolz 4y ago
> I have no comment on the absurdity of your last sentence, btw. The only absurdity here is that instead of attempting to interpret my questions hospitably, you immediately went on the defensive and then refused again to address my quest
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because the whole context was around a farang tax that you clarified was for white people, not just any foreigners - I see now that you never said you had to pay that tax, but this isn't some "hidden racism" twitter keeps goi
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> And, I want to make it clear that I only received racist attacks (physical and verbal) from cops in BKK and one where else in the country -- but of course, everything became fine once they realized I was an American... you said you ex
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by toolz 4y ago
wait, which white people would thai people have not liked (since you've implied being white was bad except for being a white american)? My time vacationing in thailand has always been overwhelmingly friendly...like the most friendly lo
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> The sooner we show some humility and realize that we’re the problem Why do people just love to hate on their own existence? How many extinction events have there been that just wiped out the vast majority of species far before humans
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by toolz 4y ago
The boogeyman isn't whether or not people want to use the data, it's whether or not they can use it, so if they aren't effective there is no monster that needs slaying.
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I don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people. If Washington would have spied on his own people he probably would've been worse off by wasting those resources and sowing discord. Further, we alr
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That's a hypothetical, not an example. An example would be "US has been worried for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, now we see Russia invade Ukraine and US supports Russia" Instead, what do we actually se
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When you talk about spying on people to know everything about them in order to learn how to manipulate them, you're talking about brainwashing. Not the sci-fi concept of literally taking over their mind, but knowing everything, public
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> Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and which of these countries have successfully controlled their own citizens? If you successfully control your citizens you don't end up in economic shambles, you simply manipulate lay-people to a
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Rather than address these questions, I think you have an extremely important question to resolve. Do these boogeymen exist? Are they capable of social engineering to the extent we should be worried? It's obvious they don't when y
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> but you have to accept the costs of dealing with all the externalities. cost benefit analysis seems rather simple to me. You either pretend you can govern money into a better place using vast amounts of precious resources, such as time
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by toolz 4y ago
This is a value judgement. If you find crypto to be unfair, there's a very simple solution that doesn't require bringing in guys with guns to deal out punishment. You can simply just not participate. In an ideal world we could get
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A jury can decide if something _should_ be illegal and base their verdict on that. Meaning that the jury is also considering point 1 and whether this specific case should be illegal, regardless of how clear the law is on the subject.
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by toolz 4y ago
When you have people claiming the vaccine doesn't work and a public figure goes to the press to overstate that the vaccine not only works, but it is essentially, perfect, then it's not a bad mistake - it's a knee-jerk respons
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by toolz 4y ago
You make a very strong argument, but if you take fischers score vs the top 8 in the interzonal and double it, fischer would've had 10/14 to nepos 9.5/14, which given it was just 1 game vs the top 8 and given the ELO spread wa
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by toolz 4y ago
nepo at candidates was in my opinion favored to beat magnus...he dominated the candidates harder than anyone else has in the history of the candidate matches - and it was not an easy pool of candidates, either. Sure, there were a lot of slo
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by toolz 4y ago
> Authority, and specifically "centralized" authority, is a necessary component of any system that can effectively serve more than a nominal quantity of human beings. It would seem bitcoin, a global, massively successful crypto
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by toolz 4y ago
I'm sure it's rare, but when it does happen it makes waves. The chinese lab leak theory is the first thing that comes to mind, but also the CDC director going on TV to tell the nation if you got vaccinated you wouldn't catch
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by toolz 4y ago
I mean the mainstream has done more to promote conspiracy theories than any tabloid regurgitating individual. When you put top experts on TV denouncing things as conspiracy theories that turn out to be valid, you drive more reasonable indiv
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incorrect, those imports paid in fiat are traceable - that's how we enforce sanctions today - we fine companies like banks for violating sanctions all the time - you know how they're caught? Financial audits, every time. Companie
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limiting peoples ability to trade isn't justice anymore than limiting their ability to speak. Sure you could conveniently stop many crimes if you could just monitor and censor everyone's ability to speak - but I think the conseque
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Flawed logic, censorship can be a mistake just like anything else. Adding the ability to fix mistakes with censorship also adds the ability to make mistakes with censorship. Censorship, however is centralized power and therefore trades fixi
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by toolz 4y ago
Ignoring the fact it isn't tax evasion - just because it's against the law, doesn't mean it's unethical. Further, obeying laws can be (and often is) unethical. Not everything is on the level of requiring people to turn i
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no country _wants_ to reduce trade - they simply accept that sanctions are necessary. Reducing trade necessarily hurts both countries, and there aren't likely to be any functioning developed countries that want to act against their ow
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by toolz 4y ago
There are people bypassing sanctions with bitcoin that aren't suffering as much because of it. As for why everyone isn't using bitcoin to bypass? Good question.
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They don't have to be smuggled out of Iran - Iran explicitly wants to enable that trade. Who inside of Iran are they smuggling the fruits away from?

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