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by waps 12y ago
> The solution in a nutshell? A man (or all humans) have got to know their limits. But if you look at animal or plant (or bacteria) species, they absolutely don't do this. They just grow to whatever the current capacity of the world
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Click baiting click bait(youtube.com)
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by waps 12y ago
Thank you for this insightful comment. It really was a joy to read. To some extent I feel you are avoiding the basic question, though. What do you think the solution is ? The only real argument in favour of capitalism is simply that it has
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by waps 12y ago
> There I will have to disagree. The three examples you provided are modern (post Enlightenment) economic systems. I am sure there are more examples along the world history, but it is far fetched to say it is common to all systems. I&#x2
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by waps 12y ago
What does this article have to do with capitalism ? When you go right down to it communism, socialism, even mercantilism are all trying to maximize productivity and consumption. I think it's probably the one thing all economic systems
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by waps 12y ago
You may think that you'll vote to stop this, but you won't. Think about the consequences of your position for 5 seconds. If modern law cannot guarantee people's freedom from large-scale violence, then nobody, not me, not you,
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by waps 12y ago
The article is bull. This happens because your brain is predictive, not because there are magical "high-level" areas of the brain that don't pay attention to "lower" details. That's not how it works at all. The
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by waps 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708 How NOT to do it. Not that China even bothered to check how many died, apparently.
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by waps 12y ago
And if you blast coal with it ... Guess what comes out ? (Granted you'd also need to make coal out of co2, which is so much harder. but every little bit helps)
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by waps 12y ago
Technically they cause a context-switch and a scheduler run upon return (I belive, not 100% sure), but you're right that does not necessarily result in getting put on the back of the work queue.
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by waps 12y ago
That's not true. Well it's true in a very narrow technical sense, but it's not really true. For example, the amount of housekeeping python does in order to execute a function call is staggering. It leads to all sorts of nice
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by waps 12y ago
I'm not talking about the people making the video. I'm talking about people recruiting new fighters to their cause.
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by waps 12y ago
I'm not arguing otherwise. I fear though, that that distinction only matters as long as the number of terrorists is small enough. Evidently, that number has been growing by a lot. So while I believe that every person has the right to b
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by waps 12y ago
> Yeah the threats about being arrested for viewing the video struck me as weird too. A police officer explained this to me. They do this because they want the ability to arrest the people who are recruiting muslims using these videos. T
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by waps 12y ago
Legally you are extremely wrong. You could mean either : 1) US freedom of speech, which is only freedom from government interference with political speech, and obviously US-only. 2) UN "international" freedom of speech. Has 2 majo
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by waps 12y ago
> What I find more outrageous was that the reporter apparently was held captive for 2 years... without anyone (in the public) knowing. Bergdahl was held captive for 5 years and luckily was returned in a controversial exchange. What is go
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by waps 12y ago
That is the exact problem with the 4 hour workday and other forms of part-time work. As I've heard many people describe part-time work : 40% of the pay for 80% of the work. Until that changes, I would not expect part-time work to happe
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by waps 12y ago
> When we find a leftist government/organization enacting extreme racist policies such as mass imprisonment, deportation or execution, we know there's something deeply wrong with it, and we usually denounce it ("how can th
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by waps 12y ago
Plus it'd be extremely stupid to give someone who is learning basic coordination control over a force that can severely damage things, including him/herself. Not because of potential defects in the exoskeleton, mind you, but becau
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by waps 12y ago
The unstraightening thing is actually because of the construction of the bones. The bones bend a little, just a little, more than straight and there is a muscle that can pull on the other side. This locks legs in place when straightened, bu
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by waps 12y ago
http://kivy.org/ Best you'll get, and quite good.
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by waps 12y ago
I appreciate the difference between what people claim they'll do and what they actually do given the chance. However at least in the case of the Nazis I'd like to point out the war. During this time in history, Germany, the Soviet
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by waps 12y ago
Your making the point that because they weren't outright communist, they must have been right-wing. I agree that they weren't communists, I disagree with the conclusion you draw from that. Most trusts were nationalized, just nazi
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by waps 12y ago
On the other hand, here is the Nazi's public face : http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points.... Read it, then tell me if you still don't understand why these people might get classifi
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by waps 12y ago
This is the "but it was never implemented correctly" argument. To the rest of the world, I assure you that Soviet-style communism definitely qualifies as socialism.
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by waps 12y ago
Given that they clearly did not have the church on their side, isn't that a massive conflict ? Also the wikipedia page states that because of the German (pre-nazi) agreement with the vatican that was seen as lending legitimacy to the n
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by waps 12y ago
Mein campf is ... well, it's rambling. Think one of those internet "we didn't land on the moon, climate is bad, boo immigrants" texts rambling. The quran is rambling too, but of a different kind. "you must do X, you
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by waps 12y ago
But that is true of all such literature. The little Red Book, The Communist manifesto, Mein Kampf, the Quran, all of these books are boring to the point that despite their historical influence, and the massacres ascribed to them, it is a re
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by waps 12y ago
> You can claim yourself to be a pacifist (left wing) all you want. But if your actions result in war (right wing), then you aren't a pacifist. So you mean "left wing" is anything that leads to peace and "right wing&q
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by waps 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_the_Soviet_Unio... Both the extreme left and the extreme right are very much opposed to unions. Ergo making a difference between them on that basis seems impossible. It work

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