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by whytaka 7y ago
If whistleblowers weren’t so often targeted by the government in retaliation or to silence, your argument would have merit.
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What this text truly reveals is the effect that nihilism and Wittegenstein’s philosophies has had on cultural studies. As the extent of philosophical inquiry through the written word was capped and the reins passed off to material experimen
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While I'm sympathetic to this definition, I think you've just condemned most of the world as evil.
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The fifth estate isn't an apparatus of the government. Sometimes, it must act counter to the interests of the government.
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The one thing that's necessary above all else is a strong Estate Tax regime that battles all the sneaky ways to avoid the taxman. Dynastic wealth is what creates civilizational rot. A mobile populace with fluctuating power centers spel
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> A sick society inclines people towards damaging the structures built around them because they see those structures as symbolising their own oppression in some capacity. Or simply the force of youthful rebellion that seeks to always cre
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It had been once. I laughed. But I can agree that it’s less enjoyable on residential property.
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> Not one graffiti in sight – a byproduct of respect for public spaces. I, for one, enjoy the occasional graffiti. Especially if it's poetic or clever. I enjoy the rebelliousness.
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Indeed. It seems to me that the more impressive bit is that the instilled neural pattern actually really correlated with the experience of the odor. But the association with the foot shock was real to the second mouse as well.
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It was about totalitarianism. An inescapable State. Public surveillance everywhere is a precursor to that. The surveillance within your home is very much already a reality. Now we have people welcoming this creeping totalitarianism with con
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> You mean you walk around in public spaces and you think you have a right not to be recorded? The right? Maybe not. But I surely don’t want Big Brother always watching. I gotta ask, have you read 1984?
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Occupy Wall Street and the Wisconsin congressional sit-in comes to mind. They both eventually ended without great violence.
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Managing people without means that you have to keep track of your employees’ mindsets individually and communicate to each one accordingly which is exhausting.
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Legislatures don’t give what the majority want. They give what the rich and powerful want.
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Oh god, I was hoping you'd say 42 or something. I'm 32 myself and you gave me some relief from my sense of urgency until you mentioned your age. Great to see you being an ace though! I hope you keep moving forward.
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But the difference is covered literally by just adding 'python' to your query.
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Thanks! I hope so too. My current learning material is “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” which seems to involve some data structures. On algorithms, I think being able to use the work of others is already very empowering. Perhaps one
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I had been a graphic:web designer since I was 14 years old. I taught myself Photoshop and Dreamweaver and became proficient with creating layouts with frames, tables, and of course eventually css. I graduated from college with a degree in P
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The Memory Hole [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole ]
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Having seen its proliferation first-hand, I don’t think I need much convincing.
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While the crisis with fake news certainly warrants suspicion of the citizenry's ability to make informed decisions, how do pro-government citizens of countries without even the cultural ideal of free speech attempt to claim objective s
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But there’d be another variable that is correlated.
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I wonder if these things have any causal effects for developing tinnitus.
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My own anecdote is that for 7 months I didn't exercise. My shoulders hurt as I slept on my side and rested my header on my pillow with my arm cradling it underneath. It went away just a week into me restarting my exercise regimen.
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I gamed a bit on my previous MBP, a 15" from 2012. The CPU and GPU got so hot, I suspect it reduced the lifespan of the laptop battery. Does anyone else have concerns about this for gaming on laptops? Would unloading to the EGPU mitiga
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I am part of a team that got recently laid off due to startup risk. I, a UX Designer turned full stack developer, turned Product/Project Manager, would like to find clients that are considering web and cross-platform native application
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Billionaires know that money is power is a weapon and that other billionaires would exploit the power vacuum begotten by a sudden loss in wealth. This is why it is important that increased taxes for the highest brackets are instituted gener
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Ah, so that is your work! I always found it amusing.
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Money is a weapon. Why would you disarm without others doing the same at the same time?
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There's a bit of a difference between talking to people who have asked to hear from you and obfuscating the way people find information by creating noise.

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