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by wfo 11y ago
If you really haven't ever heard a good argument in favor of an enormously popular economic policy that's been endorsed by hundreds of lauded and respected (even nobel-prize-winning) economists then you haven't been looking,
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by wfo 11y ago
I think a better analogy would be if a library accidentally placed a paper copy of their members' records in the library alongside the books, you found it, and instead of informing the library of the horrible mistake you took it over t
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by wfo 11y ago
Also it seems to me it's pretty important that he is not affiliated with the school. If a crazy person comes onto your campus and starts screaming racist profanity at your students it's certainly your right to have them removed. I
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by wfo 11y ago
Interestingly enough the person the article about was convinced and jailed for making GET requests on publicly available websites, because he knew he did not have permission to access them. I think a print server at a university is pretty o
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by wfo 11y ago
They should care because they've created an excellent community and a wonderful forum for thoughtful discussion, not many of which exist on the internet. It's something to embrace and be proud of. It's not perfect but it puts
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by wfo 11y ago
Yup, everything bad that has ever happened or will ever happen to you is your fault. In many places in the U.S. "look like they will" is synonymous with "having dark skin". What a horrible attitude and personal choices t
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by wfo 11y ago
Except this doesn't happen. In fact there are wide swaths of people all capable of doing this one job (in fact any job, even CEO) roughly equally well, and they are all desperate for jobs so THEY are the ones competing, racing to the b
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by wfo 11y ago
Sanders describes campaign finance reform as a return to democracy as opposed to the oligarchy we currently live in; I'd suspect this is what he's referring to. "reclaiming power" is essentially a paraphrase of his entir
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by wfo 11y ago
The article suggests intellectual activity extends beyond fact-collecting and saying "wow, gee whiz, isn't space incredible? And isn't it great that only dumb people believe in God? I'm so much smarter than non-sciencey
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by wfo 11y ago
Sure but also consider the amount of advertising: in Television it's pretty standard to have about 2/3 content 1/3 ads: half hour time slots are filled by 21 minute shows. The article is describing that 50% of the data is spe
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by wfo 11y ago
It force-upgraded me and I declined the terms when it finally booted up, it rebooted and went back to W7 luckily working correctly but with un-closable popups everywhere demanding I either install W10 now or schedule an update within a week
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by wfo 11y ago
The president has an enormous amount of power. The executive branch has been steadily expanding its power since the beginning of the country. Consider, for example, a Sanders DOJ vs. a Trump DOJ? (I suspect a Trump FBI would be primarily in
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by wfo 11y ago
Are you suggesting google doesn't employ people with guns? Are you suggesting google and the government are fundamentally separate entities? Are you suggesting the government does not have access to everything google has access to? An
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by wfo 11y ago
But in a global economy, who cares about being intelligent or being good at anything unless you already also inherit? Inheritance is the best way forward to economic success, and failing that companies are primarily interested in obedience.
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by wfo 11y ago
Or, alternately, everyone gets a vote in the planned economy of the government. It is transparent, observable, and democratic. Only a tiny elite group of capitalists get to vote on the planned economy of corporations, which are as you say o
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by wfo 11y ago
The article is certainly not being even-handed between the human perspective and the business perspective, but can you blame it? It was written by a human, not a business, after all. It focuses on the circumstances for young Americans now a
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by wfo 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger Anslinger was one of the most serious bureaucratic prohibitionists, immediately after its repeal was appointed to commission the agency associated with drug prohibition,
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by wfo 11y ago
The propaganda was not particularly effective while aimed at children since its primary vehicle was tying opposition of drug use as a way to signal and support racism which was a particular societal trait the children had not yet learned. O
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by wfo 11y ago
The drug prohibition is a direct effect of the lift of alcohol prohibition: officials and LE officers needed something to do after there was no more alcohol smuggling to go after, so a new target was invented. Public opinion does not drive
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by wfo 11y ago
The HN forum is also populated by a large number of humans, who are wholly capable of understanding the intent of speech and text produced by others in an attempt to communicate.
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by wfo 11y ago
Much of this trial is being held in the court of public opinion. If the FBI does not win this case, there will be a massive push to pass a law giving the FBI these rights, which requires popular support. The FBI have wisely decided to explo
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by wfo 11y ago
The funny thing about law is it doesn't matter how it's meant to be used once it becomes law; power is power. I'm sure when the trade agreements that allow tobacco companies to determine Australia's cigarette laws were s
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by wfo 11y ago
I am not a lawyer and I don't know how federal court works so I'm genuinely curious: FBI forensic "scientists" are essentially always lying on the stand -- not out of malice or intentionally, but because their techniques
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by wfo 11y ago
ITT: plenty of silly speculation from people in armchairs about what they would prefer the causes of extremism to be (ignoring the well-researched book full of evidence written by experts). A lot of "No, all of the experts must be wron
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by wfo 11y ago
The bar for being an engineer is so high these days. Even being an engineer isn't enough. I know some Scotsmen who might be upset, but they aren't true Scotsmen.
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by wfo 11y ago
Again -- "People currently do not do this, ergo they should not" is not an argument.
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by wfo 11y ago
If you don't treat people with respect in a discussion they won't respect you. If you act childish as you have people will treat you like a child, as we have. The community's general response to you has been very kind conside
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by wfo 11y ago
What you've described is the case about any law or policy. And yet people debate them. Details of them. On the floor of congress, around the dinner table, on talk radio, on TV news, all the time. In public. And people don't whine
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by wfo 11y ago
If they had to negotiate in public, they would no longer be able to argue this way, you are correct. They would also be unable to make concessions and compromises which are bad for the voting citizens of the country. And they would have to
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by wfo 11y ago
If you have a proposoal that is so vulnerable and weak that it can't handle being in the public eye, or (in this case) the process that crafts it ensures it is so obviously corrupt and blatantly anti-citizen, then it shouldn't eve

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