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by wissler 14y ago
I was responding to the OP, he'll have to answer my "so", I have no idea what his point was.
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by wissler 14y ago
So? You can't claim certainty is per se evil without lapsing into hypocritical contradiction. Those who zealously preach anti-certainty are hypocrites, intrinsically.
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by wissler 14y ago
No, it's not with democracy, it's with the values of the populace. If you have a predominately good people, then many political systems can work; if you have a predominately duped and corrupt people, no system can work.
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by wissler 14y ago
It's uncertainty about the right values that permits the false ones to prevail.
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by wissler 14y ago
I am of course in the minority, but it's not the minority who's created these major systemic problems. We try to point them out and are ignored (and here, downvoted), and you bumbling fools keep doing things that wreck civilization. Inadver
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by wissler 14y ago
And this is different from the status quo how? How does running to the same group of "experts" who have engineered our social systems help? Note how conditioned the response is: you see a problem with the system, you're conditioned to trust
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by wissler 14y ago
At root this is a philosophical problem. The professional philosophers have created a disarray in the field of values, claiming that they are subjective and arbitrary, and that's resulted in the inability of people to rally around common, o
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by wissler 14y ago
With all due respect, I think your interpretations are inane, but if Lessig can't convince you of that, I'm sure there's nothing else I can say that will help you understand.
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by wissler 14y ago
Indeed. Yes, the system is what it is, but prosecutors have huge discretion over who they attack. "The system" is just a machine, like a gun, and she picked that gun up, aimed it at Aaron, and pulled the trigger.
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by wissler 14y ago
If you go to court and say "I didn't mean to break the law", he says "too bad." But evidently, you think she should get leniency from us for obliviously (you allege) ruining someone's life. Screw that.
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by wissler 14y ago
None of these sorts of problems will ever get fixed unless society decides to get back to basics and back to reason and principles. I don't see any evidence of that happening. The problem isn't with government per se, it's with the typical
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by wissler 14y ago
"Please don’t pathologize this story." -- Aaron's friend, Lawrence Lessig http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull...
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by wissler 14y ago
One might argue that good philosophy emerges from the datum of experience.
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by wissler 14y ago
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle
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by wissler 14y ago
Interesting article, but did nothing to explain the cost, it merely assumed that tight measurements means they would be that expensive or why they wouldn't keep getting better and better at making them such that the cost would go down over
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by wissler 14y ago
Your conception is, to pick a metaphor, straight out of "The Matrix." Check your assumptions, you'll find that one of them is wrong, or arbitrary (which is really the same thing).
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by wissler 14y ago
We can do better than create and maintain a system that intrinsically requires coercion of peaceful people, and in fact this underling violence has a plethora of unintended consequences. We can do better. We must strive toward the ideal. Th
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by wissler 14y ago
You're begging the question, which is: is it legitimately "your land" to tell me to leave in the first place? (The answer by the way is "no.") If the property legitimately belonged to you, then I'd have no problem with "my house, my rules
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by wissler 14y ago
"If you don't like it, leave." Might doesn't make right. This land is not all your land. You may have total and utter domination of it, but that's not a moral argument.
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by wissler 14y ago
I didn't agree. There's no concise way to answer why your underlying political philosophy is wrong, unfortunately. One thing that should be a clue though is that the majority agrees with you. That's always a bad sign. As it happens I did wr
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by wissler 14y ago
Likewise, I decide to live in a community in which we reject the idea that we are all barbarian animals, fighting for scarce resources in a dog-eat-dog world. Your world is one where you point a gun to my head (using the government of c
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by wissler 14y ago
The system has been screwed up to the point where it certainly appears as if we need it, as if that is the most just solution to the problems. However, that appearance is a mirage. Unfortunately, we are so far down the path of doing thi
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by wissler 14y ago
If Kickstarter wouldn't support micro-investment then someone else would, and if they also supported the Kickstarter model, I see no reason why Kickstarter would prevail in the long term. I've read that Valve Software would like to fund gam
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by wissler 14y ago
I can't tell whether you missed my point or are making a nitpicking remark about how I chose to express it. Of course, it's the same cause either way.
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by wissler 14y ago
Congress needs to allow "poor" people to become investors, that'd make Kickstarter 1000X more effective because you'd be able to purchase shares in these companies rather than merely being promised a one-time thing.
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by wissler 14y ago
I am on the developers side, and if I can do it myself, certainly Blizzard with all their resources can. Or perhaps I'm just so brilliant and supremely competent that they'd need 40 engineers to do what I can do with a few hours here and
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by wissler 14y ago
Can't say I've tried every distro out there but my OpenGL+X+audio system has worked fine across the several popular ones I've tried, it's getting better. And anyway, the point wouldn't be to support all platforms, just the prevailing ones,
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by wissler 14y ago
Yes, if you're going to target Linux, all of that's part of the deal. A game should primarily depend on OpenGL+X+audio, and while these do change, if the program works on one distribution of Linux, it tends to work on the next. The worst is
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by wissler 14y ago
can easily run to 40% of the cost of the project If, over the long term, it's costing you 40% to keep the popular versions of Linux working, then you're doing something wrong. Could it hypothetically cost that much? Sure, but only if you'
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by wissler 14y ago
Yes, if you have the resources and client base of Blizzard, it's a lame excuse. Most of the time if you want it to run on different versions of Linux all you need to do is recompile.

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