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by ue_ 9y ago
I personally respect them for if I did not respect them then it would be an affront to freedom. As much as the concept of "tolerance" is criticised (more recently from those people who, I think rightly, are tired of only being &qu
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>Also Posmodernism and Nihilism create this context in mass making narrative and hysteria be the new source of life meaning Have you read anything by Adorno, and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle ? This kind of thing is taken f
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Although privileges granted by the State to "crony capitalists" excarberates issues, I do not consider it the root of issues, and to me, capitalism would have the same issues even without a government, or with minimal government.
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There have been advances in economic planning since the time of the USSR, even during the time of the USSR research was being done on technocratic planning systems, however they were never realised, partially due to lack of sufficient hardw
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The idea that competition is some kind of holy grail which we must as a society aspire to maintain, I think, is very narrow minded and suffering from tunnel vision.
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What do you mean by direct links? My friend can link me to things, but they display in the "dropbox viewer", and I can download them by clicking "download" in that webpage.
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My friend links me to pictures he's put on Dropbox all the time, usually screenshots. Is that what you're referring to?
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It's worth viewing in the larger context though - it shows that the legislature has no problem censoring things, even possession of certain things, without evidence. In my opinion that sets a rather big precedent, whether you disagre
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Are you implying that the restriction is right, because of the content, even how disgusting as it may be? I don't think drawings should be censored, and I see no basis behind censoring them.
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That's an interesting point and I'm inclined to agree with you there. I don't know if it's an urban legend or not, but apparently when Thatcher was questioned on what her greatest acheivement was, she answered 'New
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It's unfortunate that various European countries have similar limitations on our freedom of expression and their attitude toward privacy isn't that much better.
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As a loony lefty myself, I find it really disappointing that Labour has decided to take the turns it has with regard to protecting civil liberties. This is just about my only qualm with the leftist parties in the UK; they have little or no
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>I'm going to guess 36.1% more power, to be exact. Where's this figure from? >We could always start performing eugenics to get rid of them. I meant more like what we could do to improve the more powerful languages to make th
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Unfortunately this is less about the marvel of the pencil than the global capitalist system and free market evangelism.
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A better thing to answer would be why people prefer less powerful languages to the more powerful, and what can be done about it? Framed that way,this seems like an XY problem.
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Unfortunately I'm on an ideologically-bent and rather inactive instance, so I'm not sure if I would do much good here. mastodon.xyz seems to be the "canonical" way to get into the fediverse, though; you can look at the g
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Mastodon is a really great piece of software, at least from the point of view from a user like me, and I really wish more people would use it. There's so much content out there, so many things to reply to and see, from different corner
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Can you explain to me how this works, please? If it's just selecting a random person, this seems as though it would be liable to all sorts of problems such as the person not even having to demonstrate to anyone that he is capable of ho
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>These concepts (especially Ethereum) are the digital manifestations of the theory of democracy - unhindered by loopholes, corruption, indecision, and private-interests. The kind of democracy where having more money means you get more vo
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> and like all domesticated animals we demonstrate the canonical properties of neoteny, or the adult retention of childlike traits What does domestication have to do with that? Artificial selection of those animals which retain such feat
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I don't understand this. Sometimes people don't want a perfectly flat frequency response. Sometimes other qualities matter more, especially things like noise isolation. The idea that a particular frequency response is the thing th
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If anyone needed further confirmation that the State exists almost solely to ensure the safe flow of capital, this is a big hint. Won't someone think of the rights holders!
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With regard to passing on to one's descendants, here's an interesting excerpt from Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread : In virtue of this monstrous system, the son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may
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>various pomo terms and theories are written about as if there were anything behind them. What do you mean? Because I don't think there's anything wrong with post-modern theory; it's a topic that's actively discusse
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It's worth noting that RationalWiki can be extremely biased on certain topics, to outright unresearched and amateur content on others. I would be careful taking anything from RW (or Wikipedia, but to a lesser extent) at face value. ht
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I don't really understand what he means by this. Just beacuse you're choosing to have a certain job, or because you can leave, it doesn't mean you're not entitled to compensation. If that were true, anyone with any choic
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It's interesting to note that Marx's concept of exploitation (which is a much, much broader one than the examples you're using here, though they certainly qualify) does say that it would be within the best intersts of the w
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Do people really use romaji on keyboards in Japan? This strikes me as an odd way to type, as it means that you first need to learn romaji in order to type. I thought that hiragana keyboards (hiragana mapped onto the normal layout) were the
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I'm a little ignorant on this, but how can you own the rights to instructions? Isn't that the same as owning the rights to an API, or the naming and operation of functions? I mean, would I be infringing if I re-implemented the C s
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>but this idea is something that economists have already discussed to death: google "the Socialist Calculation Debate" I wouldn't say it's been "discussed to death" at all; have you read Cockshott's &qu

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