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by vilmosi 9y ago
How would you have a right to property without society? Property, like money and other social constructs, require a society to recognise it. You can't "own" anything of other people don't recognise the fact that you own
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>>> Rights exist for humans regardless of whether or not they are being governed I don't know, I mean rights as we know it didn't exist until relatively recently when they were recognised and enforced by governments. I do
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>>> that asked if i wanted to upgrade to youtube red I really wish I even get that option...
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Sounds like Cineworld's Unlimited Card, albeit cheaper.
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I was born in communist Eastern Europe and grew up in the years immediately afterwards. What's your point. It's still not even remotely similar.
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> If "being conservative" becomes a "fireable" offense in most large tech valleys, then we are in a path to similar stances It's not similar. It's not even remotely similar, that's what you don't g
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No, I'm pretty sure they are all listening to Rush Limbaugh or similar characters as there is no-one else in the world thinking this to be true. If you follow all their links, they all converge to a few right wing, US based, sources. I
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> Like how the policy makers protect the public from Alcohol, tobacco, and over-the-counter meds? ... Yes? Those are all heavily regulated and/or massively taxed.
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> Also, I do have a vague impression that making access to the NHS more difficult PLUS raising age of retirement EQUAL MOAR PROFITS for someone, somewhere. In the case of NHS, wouldn't that be the tax payer?
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Having said fortune, as you describe it, is luck. Nobody chooses their ancestors.
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This. I was super confused for a second because Germany was dark red.
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> And so, after eliminating all choices from one's existing in-person social network, people with bad social networking skills look for dates on the internet. What, no. That's not the kind of people using online dating. There&#
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Well so is eating meat everyday or looking at a screen 30cm away most of the day or not dying from an infection or having hot showers... Who cares at this point, just live your life, you owe nothing to "evolution".
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>>> now still video games are predominately marketed towards males, and I would be shocked if there isn't a strong correlation between interest in video games and computers in general I don't buy that. If you include mobi
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As far as I can see, those statistics are from the US. Which means there might be more to this INTJ-engineer relationship beyond sex. Such as cultural expectations that an engineer is an introvert, which may not be true. I don't rememb
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Same in London
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> Commenting on articles is a terrible method of interaction. Anti-spam is hard, and spammers always win. Trolls always win. But that's practically what HN is, yet I like to believe it's a good platform without too much spam or
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Your argument can easily go the other way. What if your app wastes 30 seconds a day for 100k people? By, say, building addictive mobile games, or a social network dedicated to watching food pictures, or gambling websites, or, like the pa
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Well it's not more awkward that the initial "can I have your phone number" or "can I add you on Facebook". You only do it once when you need it and never again. Also, there's plenty of alternatives, bank transf
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> In other words, the typical German was more likely to engage in crime than the average migrant. That's not what your source says. It's not the typical German, it's "comparable groups among the current population&quo
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> I guess this may be not popular opinion here, but I don't see anything wrong with legally avoiding taxes The problem is that you can legally avoid taxes. Are we so used to this concept that we don't see its own hypocrisy?
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Can't you do all that without the pointless waving, faster?
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Stop calling women "females".
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It doesn't IF it doesn't provide for said things. That's the point.
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Well yes, I consider who your ancestors are as part of being lucky, as you don't do anything to deserve who your ancestors are. What would you call it?
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> Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck. I genuinely thought you were sarcastic. Being born in circumstances
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> 100 thirsty people in a desert are much more pissed off if you add 1 person with excess water The analogy isn't entirely correct. If the thirsty people got all the water they could drink and a guy joined that owned a lake... They
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I think the point is that $1 a day is acceptable if it provides shelter/food etc.
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> One thing I like about HN is professional discourse and debate, rather than the utter chaos that conversations in other fora devolve into. I agree. I actually don't think we disagree on a lot besides pedantic disagreements outside
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I think you misunderstood my comment, I'm sorry, I did not mean that. > It most certainly does. You need to be educated to manage all those factories that make everything from toys to factories. You need educated engineers to design

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