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by whytaka 8y ago
Thank you!
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by whytaka 8y ago
Surely no, not at least in the United States. Are we really going to talk about the internet as though it made all the difference? We're going to forget about: - The military industrial complex, the backlash against their never-ending
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The fact that the response started with it means that it was a sufficient cause.
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How do you do this?
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by whytaka 8y ago
Thank you!
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by whytaka 8y ago
What proposed changes to Go are you referring to?
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Could you elaborate a bit on the obvious weaknesses in Go?
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by whytaka 8y ago
To be fair, a blockchain is the data structure, the mining software, the client wallets, the protocol of broadcasting and collecting transactions, the network of computers to make this work, and the people who use them. Not to mention the v
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by whytaka 8y ago
Could you tell me which of his publications you refer to here?
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I notice that greedy people like to characterize all of humanity as greedy so they feel justified in being greedy.
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I appreciate that you are satisfied with your income and that the desire for more irks you. However, I think one thing to consider is that capitalism always means that people are making money on top of the cost of your labour. Maybe the cap
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by whytaka 8y ago
To be annoyingly precise, the second says: "Maybe, well... yes."
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Yes, but to Google, the proper representation of facts is related to their economic activity.
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> Providing food is meaningful, providing shelter is meaningful, extracting raw resources is meaningful, taxation and welfare are meaningful, taxation and government services are meaningful. I could go io but that covers the basic point.
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Time and time again, I cannot believe people recommend a company that installed spyware in their hardware. I will never ever buy a Lenovo. It doesn't matter that it didn't affect the ThinkPad line.
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How exactly do I do this?
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The Fraser Institute that the article cites is a notoriously conservative leaning Thinktank. You can refer to this tax calculator for a more accurate estimate of a single persons tax obligations at $44,348. https://simpletax.ca&#
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by whytaka 8y ago
As a Canadian who's had two immediate relatives undergo surgery to remove breast cancer, survive, and had paid nothing, while I pay a very reasonable $35/month to be covered by this care AND the provincially run health insurance s
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> I've never understood how the classic interpretation of milgram that "people can become monster under authority" were remotely relevant. > "hurting other people" is just a natural tendency inside at least a
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So will Facebook take legal action against these companies who violated their service agreement?
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But why make up such irrelevant questions that have no connection to reality?
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Everything corrupts over time so it's best if at least the corruption is at the decision of the majority. And if the power is dispersed wide enough, there is a hint of the possibility of a peaceful revolution if things need to be chang
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> if we're going to have to make up a definition of free will we might as well So we've begged the question. To me, the way this is worded, it lays bare that compatibilism is about the ethics of 'free-will' and not it
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What about information theory excludes a love of wisdom? All disciplines stem from Philosophy and Math.
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Beat me to it! I started whistling it just as the video ended.
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Oh, what was it... I'm sure I wrote it down in my Google Keep somewhere.
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It's an oft-repeated argument but I lean heavily towards Math, as notation and application, as something discovered not invented, while Math as that which is seemingly present in everything that ever happens, as the fundamental basis o
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by whytaka 9y ago
Isn't that by the company that put spyware at the hardware level?
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I second this. The Apple Watch lasts all day for me while on LTE. It's all I need and want.
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The quick dirty answers: 1) Because determining eligibility has administrative costs. 2) Because if you have a job that pays you well enough, you're basically just getting your money back.

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