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by w0de0 6y ago
This is also an argument for a gold standard. What is a society to do when collective debt can help? For example: existential war, economic turmoil. Do you contend that governments should never spend on credit? I contend that printing money
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by w0de0 6y ago
What of the social contract? The dystopia I see in your words: government as an efficient service provider providing for and competing for the patronage of the ultra-wealthy holders of cryptocurrency: the monopoly on force is broken because
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by w0de0 6y ago
Isn’t this just a reinvention of the idea of Open Standards? The fundamental problem is not that no one has formalized the idea, but that the baseline incentives for commercial software do not include optimization for interoperability. For
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by w0de0 6y ago
Are they truly as fungible as the parent comment suggests? If they are indeed "thinly veiled employees / contractors of Reddit" that would imply some not immediately replaceable value in their work, stemming from informal tra
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by w0de0 6y ago
Wouldn’t that imply that we’d find independent genesis of replicating molecules frequently even now?
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by w0de0 6y ago
Were private companies able to refuse to publish Ceausescu’s remarks? Were private companies even a thing? It’s not a purge, it’s a website. And it’s a website that can ban users, even presidents, because it exists in a free land. That’s no
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by w0de0 6y ago
I disagree. I think Donald Trump’s tweets were the gasoline. I have serious doubts this fire can go on without him. Hopes, at least.
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by w0de0 6y ago
It’s a free country, and that includes the freedom of private business not to do business with anyone they choose for almost any reason. That’s fine with me, and if the Trumpists and their apologists had any consistency, it would be with th
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by w0de0 6y ago
QAnon, Neonazis, Donnie and his fellow grifters, &tc are not a “side of the political spectrum.” God help us if they are. There are still plenty of conservatives around. If Twitter isn’t enough for you, you’ll find them also on the nati
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by w0de0 6y ago
You know what also couldn’t convince them? The courts, state election officials, and the constitutionally mandated procedure for finalizing the electoral college’s choice. You’re right the nytimes doesn’t certify elections. But insurrection
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by w0de0 6y ago
Fine. Escalation is sometimes necessary - otherwise one can be intimidated.
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by w0de0 6y ago
Since Big Sur is macOS 11, this is definitely so.
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The quote is a reflection of a Malthusian political economy's revolting conception of the poor. A Christmas Carol is a critique of the same. [0] The rich do not have fewer children for reasons of their superior ethics. [0] https:&#x2F
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by w0de0 6y ago
"'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'"
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by w0de0 7y ago
> I don't lose $100, but only my original cost of goods. If you shipped the product, you most certainly lost $100, plus whatever additional labor costs were involved in attempting resolution. There's also the opportunity cost
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by w0de0 7y ago
The correlation between Judeo-Christianity and lack of corruption is negligible. There are plenty of Christian countries with endemic corruption, and several non-Christian countries without (Japan comes to mind). The correlation between cou
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The Language and Writing System of MS408 (Voynich) Explained(tandfonline.com)
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by w0de0 8y ago
They have to worry about pirates _all the time_.
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by w0de0 8y ago
> There is something highly artificial about human thinking and desire Compared to the other forms of thinking and desire you have experienced?
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by w0de0 8y ago
Clear example of the prisoner's dilemma.
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by w0de0 8y ago
These are really, really basic. I was expecting something unique. Also, locate will not work unless you build the db first.
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by w0de0 8y ago
In the context of PVP, they are good as eager bodies. It takes only a couple trains of training to begin flying the simplest ships in an alliance's doctrine, and only a month or so to fly a slightly better ship. Get a couple hundred lo
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by w0de0 8y ago
Yes, you'd have to be insane to invade China. Their massive army makes it mass suicide. Maintaining that deterrence is the the actual disadvantage to China - not the risk of invasion, but the cost of preventing invasion.
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by w0de0 8y ago
Exactly right. Often for devices, but also for software (usually enterprise). Here is a list of kernal extensions compiled by the macadmins community: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IWrbE8xiau4rU2mtXYji...
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by w0de0 8y ago
Many, many people. Cash is the surest portable form of value, and banking can be especially complicated and expensive when international borders are involved.
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by w0de0 8y ago
Do 'Nakba' and 'Shoah' share an etymology? Their etiologies are mixed, at least.
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by w0de0 9y ago
What a joyful connection across generations: I did the same with Civilization III & a Compaq.
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by w0de0 9y ago
""" I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold
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by w0de0 9y ago
An interesting aside for the unfamiliar: Eve Online's server is a monolithic app built in Python 2.7 [0]. Anecdotally, it is a hellscape of spaghetti code, sparse documentation, and features whose implementation details are quite liter
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by w0de0 9y ago
> A dark UI pattern. I disagree. Dark UI is manipulation of the user. For example, hiding 'X' buttons on pop-ups asking for a subscription. (Is refusing to pay for value provided a dark 'pattern' on the part of users?

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