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by twobits 13y ago
" Really sucks sometimes, too, because I hear about many similar "new" problems on here that we were dealing with years ago." Humanity is so pathetically wasteful :-/
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by twobits 13y ago
"Life originating only after some 15 million years after the big bang, would by any means be extremely super intelligent by now." Who needs (super) intelligence, when one can be happy?
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by twobits 13y ago
"the germans have a saying [..] if the laws don't fit, the laws will be adjusted, or the terminology will change" They are correct, and it happens worldwide. It leads to the conclusion that unless you are too big to fail&#x2F
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by twobits 13y ago
Agreed. I think everyone will move to canvas eventually (for the whole site), and get over it.
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by twobits 13y ago
a) You are amazing and inspirational. Congratulations! b) As a person struggling with procrastination, and goal setting/choosing, I would like to ask you some qs about the 1 site / day for 180 days, thing. It seems to me as an int
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by twobits 13y ago
"I believe that any presidential person in power [..] they are also partially aligned with my protection" Citation needed? If you were a eg a google employ at the time of wage fixing, would you think it cared about you, cause &quo
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by twobits 13y ago
"the days of anonymity are over" Are they over for the NSA? No. That's what should change.
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by twobits 13y ago
The answer is not trying to protect ourselves. That's a losing and lost battle. We should try to tear down anonymity, hiding and protection of the powers that be. ..Make Obama, and any "Obama", wear a cam and mic, open all th
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by twobits 13y ago
"The one X you need to understand Y", written by Z. The one thing you actually need to understand is: How much do you trust Z? Who are they, what do they represent, what are their interests, what are their motives, ..? Generally,
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by twobits 13y ago
Imo, there is no infinity in the real world.
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by twobits 13y ago
It's scary that the fees where so high. (Not in the sense "I am a corp, I throw millions in my legal dept", but in the sense "if I, a person, gets sued, I am so f ing f ed".)
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by twobits 13y ago
"Small" compared to what?
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by twobits 13y ago
All these "revolutions", are foreign secret agencies' creations. ..Downvote all you want, and ask for impossible to find evidence. Just read history.
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by twobits 13y ago
Well, when I was a child, my chess playing future was taken down in flames by the chess program I had. In the easiest setting, I would lose in a few moves. That proved not to be very motivating.
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by twobits 13y ago
"We can't have 100% anonymity and we can't enforce that." We can and should have pseudonymity. "That's why the fault is on the NSA [..] The burden of maintaining privacy is on the person who could violate it.&q
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by twobits 13y ago
How nice is living in Thailand? Quality of life wise, people wise, tech wise?
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by twobits 13y ago
"it's not just 'vapour'" Citation needed.
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by twobits 13y ago
"Economic Freedom is the freedom for you as an individual to follow your own path. It has nothing to do with individuals vs corporations." On the right, we have the toddler. He is 2 years old. On the left, we have the heavy weight
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by twobits 13y ago
"Perfect enforcement would rapidly reduce the number of stupid and nonsensical laws on the books" And if that doesn't turn out to be correct, we end up in a totalitarian regime.
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by twobits 13y ago
"Perfect enforcement also puts pressure on lawmakers to make reasonable laws" That's where you made a mistake. a) They want eg money from tickets. They don't care about "reasonable". b) In a meta level, rules d
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by twobits 13y ago
You misunderstood me. The losses are to companies of the country, and the gains are again to companies of the country. I am saying that the gains to the companies by the spying must be much more.
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by twobits 13y ago
Well, you'd also have to know how much you gained from spying, to know the score. I bet the wins are much more than the loses.
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by twobits 13y ago
AI = infinite (almost) totally free labour force. Top rate, from digging mud, to nobel prize winning scientists. No one is exempt.
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by twobits 13y ago
"As somebody who may travel to the USA one day" Well, if you remove this requirement, I have a solution for you.
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by twobits 13y ago
So, not having prostitution, will create opportunity?
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by twobits 13y ago
Amen to that. The real world is discrete. The real numbers in our equations are just approximations.
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by twobits 13y ago
This is wise. It's not govs or corps that are too blame. It's the "too big" part.
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by twobits 13y ago
What can't one understand about "infinite 'free' labour"?
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by twobits 13y ago
I am not arguing for bitcoin or dogecoin. I am arguing against the dollar, and the notion that the dollar isn't backed (just) by force.
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by twobits 13y ago
"Since your salary, and taxes, and almost all goods, were paid for in USD, it didn't matter if all the numbers crept up together slowly." The key word is "together". They don't go up together. There is a time d

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