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by twobits 11y ago
Because we are slaves.
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by twobits 11y ago
Linux = Freedom. Android is not "linux". Android is not free. (From experience) downvote all you want.
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by twobits 11y ago
"That would have broken me in mere months." a) You are being mean, with no reason. b) He is stronger than you.
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by twobits 11y ago
IMHO, having, and still confronting the darkness: a) Yes, everything is indeed pointless / "pointless". b) Think about what "pointless" means. It requires an agent to assign and remove importance. Who is this agent?
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by twobits 11y ago
You should have learned to fear and try to fight him.
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by twobits 11y ago
How do you argue "the earth isn't the center of the universe", when the current day technocracy, says that's not true? Merit, is absolutely important. But freedom, is equally and more so. Generally, people have a tendenc
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by twobits 11y ago
In that case, there would never have been war. What you say, is the "correct" solution. The good, the improving, what helps society. I agree with you. But it's slow, fragile, and you should acknowledge that your established,
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by twobits 11y ago
"It is a fact, that while monopolies are good for the monopolists, it is bad for societies at large." And you are correct. But something different was being said: Unconstrained capitalism, leads to monopolies (or oligopolies). And
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by twobits 11y ago
"What you describe, basically is monopolism. It is well known, that monopolies are killing a free market." Sure, but the problem is that unconstrained free markets lead to monopolies. The big fish eats the smaller fish. The big fi
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by twobits 11y ago
"The article gives some ways that the John Deere idea is bad." "Bad", is relative. "Bad" for whom? Deere or the farmer? Follow the money / power.
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by twobits 11y ago
"Can anyone explain why they're allowed to (seemingly) abuse this act?" Simple. It's not being abused. It's working as intended.
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by twobits 11y ago
The usa is realizing the sad pov that people are robots. It is becoming the first, past-human society. There are "entities". Powerful entities. And some other things, we don't care about. It is the first to realize in a socia
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by twobits 11y ago
"Moving bankers bad investments onto public books is a monumentally poor decision for everyone" It's a great decision for the banks, and the politicians that got their cut. It's (only) a bad decision for you and me, the
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by twobits 11y ago
No. Greece got money from german and french banks. (Like giving all your money to an old, sick, homeless, uneducated, drug addicted, person. Would you do it?) That, turned out great for the german and french industrialists. Greeks had &quot
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by twobits 11y ago
"forgot the free money that has been raining down on Greece" Which greece never sees, and the money go immediately to bailing out the german and french banks that created the problem in the first place. (Courtesy of the tax payers
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by twobits 12y ago
It's on my reading list. Have read "Report to Greco" by Nikos Kazantzakis, and it's my favorite book of all time. Very deep, very touching, very thought provoking, and at the same time very simple, easy, and accessible.
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by twobits 12y ago
"It made me realize I've never really hustled in my life. Reading it was a humbling experience. When I finished the book I was on the verge of tears, an odd mix of shame and wonder." There is a lot of survivor bias in that.
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by twobits 12y ago
Exactly. "For most germans". That's the truth. There is no germany, and no greece. You, a simple tax payers, me, a simple (greek) tax payer, all tax payers in europe, are paying for the german and french banks. Deutsche bank,
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by twobits 12y ago
"But Germans should pay for Greece?" There is no "germany" and no "greece". A german person, is not the deutsche bank. Likewise, a greek person, is not the greek national bank. "Germany vs greece", is
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by twobits 12y ago
"The EFSF owns 45% of the government's 315bn Euro debt." You should go back in time, and read the "details". The debt was owned by german and french banks. What essentially happened is that those banks were bailed o
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by twobits 12y ago
I am greek. In the real estate business. I have no debt or loans, always living well within my means. For last year, I payed 90% of my true income in taxes. I am, basically, being murdered. 'Nough said. When you hear about, or say, &qu
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by twobits 12y ago
"I'd really rather if the people in our government were mature enough to understand that death is the inevitable result of being alive, and it is futile to trade our civil liberties to attempt a 100% survival rate." You suppo
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by twobits 12y ago
Value is definitely and obviously not fixed. It increases with effort, creativity, work, inventions, etc. But you pay for value with money. And you don't control that, and someone else controls how much, or not at all, you have access
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by twobits 12y ago
"Why the obsession of economic growth?" Because central banks (CB) print money out of thin air. That "money" is debt. You print 100, you owe 110 counting interest. How can you pay the 10, if you only printed/exists,
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by twobits 12y ago
Joking speed for 2 hours? Possibly good health. Walking speed taking twice as usual? Possibly bad health. Beyond the obvious about who you know and hang around with (both, often, at the same place), what your interests or politics are (ever
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by twobits 12y ago
Why do people seem to think that central bankers are beyond self interest? Even more so, given their great power.
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by twobits 12y ago
" Each win we get against idiot corporations is a battle won, but the war rages on" a) We don't "win". We just "don't lose". Yet. b) You are doing a great favor to them, thinking they are "idiots
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by twobits 12y ago
Sure. Make an exception for 911 VoIP. But what else is there? Burglar alarm/panic button are in the same category, and what are we talking about? 5 bytes or 10? ..Self driving car? Put the computers on board. They are cheap. You can&#x
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by twobits 12y ago
Is this funny/good (movie plot)/interesting, or scary?
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by twobits 12y ago
TL;DR: Capitalism solves everything. /sarcasm. Some day humanity will realize that the freedom to say and pursue a different opinion, is not the same as "competition". The freedom to a diff opinion, and pursuing it, is good.

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