torthrowaway999

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by torthrowaway999 5y ago
>If I steal an apple from you and grow more apples from it and give them away, there is no difference to the act of stealing your apple and eating it. Certainly, but we talk about digital good here, stealing the first apple harms me (unl
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by torthrowaway999 5y ago
What about neither? Have you accounted for that option? Possession of CP is not an accessory-after-the-fact. CP is also not a physical good. This argument is similar to the argument comparing piracy to stealing a car.
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by torthrowaway999 5y ago
Pronouns are just a way to refer to an entity in your text, the issue with classical pronouns like he, she, and it is that they imply certain properties about the entity that they refer (that they are a single entity, their gender, and whet
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by torthrowaway999 5y ago
He refers specifically to possession, which is true. The arguments against it tend to be very similar to the arguments against piracy (they even include the whole "illegal prime" concept). He does not say that producing child porn
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by torthrowaway999 5y ago
Is there anything specific that you disagree with? I personally find his comment totally sensible.
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by torthrowaway999 6y ago
No, it is rather a defense of skepticism rather than of specific opinions. It does not say that both of them are the same. >RMS deserves all the rejection he is getting for this sentiment alone How so? He posts his raw thoughts in his bl
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by torthrowaway999 6y ago
Could you please publish your results? Exploring this would be interesting. Did you account for non-english and gender neutral names? So far it seems that Americans are over-represented in the open letter.
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by torthrowaway999 6y ago
It is a joke on "business or pleasure" and he gave it to both men and women https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26574720 This is the first time that I read that "he was asked to stop".
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by torthrowaway999 6y ago
>But without citing the untrue claims they're debunking I can link you a few, such as the titles of https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r... and https://www.vice.com/en/ar
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by torthrowaway999 6y ago
Did you ask him? Surely he knows more about it than some random person on HN. I am glad that he did not remove his previous statements though, it would be akin to rewriting history, although I think that a note saying that he changed his op