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To the people saying the local police do nothing even with a face or even the identity, you need to go up the chain. Start contacting the local prosecutors and your city council. If that doesn't work then it gets a little difficult, yo
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You just need to increase the number of representatives multiple orders of magnitude. Imagine if we had 10000+ congressmen, it would much much harder to buy influence or lobby. The votes would eventually start to resemble the will of the pe
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I do think bottom up is a good idea, but the democracy has to be fiercely protected at all levels. The fear is that eventually a party/leader emerges at the top and never lets go of control. Then they have enough power to control all t
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With the internet the cost is coming down. A candidate could be on youtube giving speeches and on reddit answering questions (or on twitter spouting nonsense), reaching millions of people without spending a dime. The question is more whethe
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Sortition takes this even farther. Imagine if the entire congress was drawn at random. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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Health insurance companies are running out of time and they know it, this is their last ditch effort to get as much money as possible. There is no point to lower prices, why gain market share if there is no "later" when you can ex
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The people overthrew the Tsar and had one free election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Constituent_Assembly_e... The authoritarians (bolsheviks) didn't like the results (thought the people weren't con
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That ranking has little to do with free speech. In most of the countries with the best scores blasphemy is illegal.
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I was just defining what free speech was, not saying the US has 100% free speech now, or that the US had good free speech pre-internet.
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The american colonies were not democratic, they needed a violent revolution to create a democracy. There was no peaceful mechanism for them to take power. Russia and China were already democracies before the authoritarian parties took over.
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Because so far every communist state has been created by violent revolutionaries side stepping the democratic process. The type of people who join a party that wants to shove the beliefs of 10% down the throats of the 90% are inherently aut
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Blocking a road is not free speech. Preventing people from going into a building is not free speech. This is just private citizens attempting to restrict the right of movement of other private citizens. The right to publish any media, no ma
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My solution is make a site called credit.gov This would be the final say in any credit accounts, accounts not listed here are not legal debt (ie they cannot be collected or sued for) You can still use SSN for identification but authorizatio
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win7 & debian. I don't ever plan on going to win10, so my next computer will be full linux.
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I know this probably goes well beyond the scope of your department but here is my wishlist that would convince me to buy windows: 1. Support for ZFS (and future open source filesystems as they appear) 2. The ability to control every service
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There is a category called left libertarian that describes them pretty close. Basically american libertarian + UBI (or other types of wealth redistribution).
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Property tax, its the only thing you can't hide and its not a friction on the economy.
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Definitely but I think goes into the marketing/advertising category. But either way almost every other car company has an end sales person used to jack up the price, while tesla can sell cars at a fixed price off a website. And this is
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It comes down to quality of product vs competitors. Where you have a very in demand brand, you can get away with no sales people (eg Telsa). In a field where your products are indistinguishable from competitors, you need to pay for sales pe
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Multimember districts need to be considered. In fact I'd like to see the entire house elected at large in each state. Maybe something like you can choose to vote for 50% of the seats, so a 10 seat state would allow voting for up to 5 c
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>I don't really understand comments saying that Dems need to focus less on minority issues to win back working-class whites Its just about strategy, they can still fix the civil rights issues when they get to office. But they don&#x
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Maybe protests do something, but they are less important than the primary elections every 2 years. The House can be completely changed every 2 years. People just need to get smarter with their voting and candidates will start to represent t
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Exactly. Its ironic his post doesn't even show up until I allow js loaded from multiple domains just to show 4 pictures and a couple paragraphs of text. Sites like his are huge part of the problem.
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I don't see how it can be sustained with them paying full price to the theaters. $10 a month Mon-Thur only and I think it might work for them. And how are you going to keep people from sharing the pass?
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Imagine how much they could have raised in an ICO. Probably could have got $40M without even giving up more than 10% equity and no strings or board members attached.
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From the study: "Thirteen first-person shooting games from the Call of Duty, Battlefield, Killzone, Medal of Honor and Resistance: Fall of Man series were chosen based on their highly similar gameplay tasks and demands. Participants on
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Things like this are the reason I don't think global warming will ever be a problem. Even if this example turns out to be a pipe dream, we will eventually figure out a way to lower the temperature or remove co2 from the atmosphere.
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Surely you think an employee should be able to quit his job, become a contractor, and charge the company more money. A union is just all the employees quitting and starting a consulting group.
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This is kind of ironic since Karma is also a sanskrit word with religious significance. But at this point it has been fully accepted into english.
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With GPU passthrough becoming quite usable I don't think I'll ever put windows on bare metal again. And in my VMs I'll just be using evaluation copies. I left MS office for open/libreoffice a few years ago and haven&#x27

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