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by wtdata 7y ago
What is the difference between having the share holders taking decisions for the users against user wishes, or having the heads of a non profit organization doing the same (like Mozzila did quite some times)?
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by wtdata 7y ago
Western fertility rates are already below replacement rates. The problem with the world's population growth is exactly in the undeveloped countries.
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by wtdata 7y ago
For a - very - humourous social critic related to the theme, I highly recommend: Flatland, by Edwin Abbott. A book from the 18. cen. with very actual insights to it.
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by wtdata 7y ago
This is scarily Orwellian. Not only for the obvious aspect of having a supposedly free state now policing everything I said in my life. But also, part of the data Facebook has on me is also made by aquaintances (tagged posts, locations phot
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by wtdata 7y ago
I know, that was my point, I probably explained it wrongly. I meant that by stating that social sciences aren't actual sciences and have profound problems, one is in no way stating that disciplines that aren't sciences (like Histo
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by wtdata 7y ago
Exactly. That's also something that is used as an argument, which is a strawman: You are refuting the validity of a number of fields if you don't accept them as sciences. There are plenty of very valid disciplines of human knowled
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by wtdata 7y ago
Sure, I can give you a good example about linguistics. Noam Chomsky’s theory of a universal grammar [1] in linguistics which is the de facto accepted theory, although there is data from other researchers like Dan Everett that totally dispro
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by wtdata 7y ago
I don't think the real problem here is even this example of pro gender bias. For me it is really the sham social sciences are, and always have been. A big amount of their publication either follows political bias or, the academic bias
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by wtdata 7y ago
Although I do think that education should be mostly free (which also means that the university degrees will be at according to the country needs... so there it goes most liberal arts degrees out the window), I think it's a very bad ide
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by wtdata 7y ago
I think you just don't understand how things work in India (neither did I until I lived there for a while). The authorities don't police anything (the locals literally argue with the police, and carry on what they are doing even
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by wtdata 7y ago
Well, no, because in Portugal - for instance - the environmentalists are also protesting against Lithium mining.
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by wtdata 7y ago
Exactly how were these policemen supposed to get these people to stop (or even attacking them since they were in the clear minority there), since they aren't using guns?
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by wtdata 7y ago
Same reason they are using DEB in Ubuntu at the moment: it's the one that best integrates with the particular OS.
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by wtdata 7y ago
I can't understand the drama. Why doesn't Valve just provide Steam as a Snap and saves us from installing all those dependencies anyway?
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by wtdata 7y ago
I tried the preemptive kernel and didn't make a difference. I also tried Bitwig and it's great, but I use a Push I. That creates an issue (Bitwig support for Push fails in 2 major points: note repeat, and delete functionality... a
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by wtdata 7y ago
I do use Wine (and Steam with it's various levels of Windows API calling), and I am happy about this. Sure, it will create some issues during the first stages of this migration, but, more than once, I botched my system in the past with
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by wtdata 7y ago
Trump's commercial war on China (how clueless as it might be and having totally different motives) is at least finally contesting China's autocratic government power grabbing in all the Western world that has been unchecked since
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by wtdata 7y ago
Meritocracy is the worst form of societal organization, except for all the others.
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by wtdata 7y ago
But, liberal parties have been loosing an awfull lot of elections lately, clearly this is no "hack" to win elections because it is not working as you state. It's their ideology and it is up to the democratic process to judge
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by wtdata 7y ago
Actually, almost all of the democratic acts in the West lately (don't mistake the echo chambers which one of us is submitted to in social networks for the will of the majority), show a clear support for parties that - amongst other thi
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by wtdata 7y ago
One thing that constantly puzzles me about PKD is how far ahead his societal and philosophical imagination was, but how backwards his technological views remained. He has androids being run by punctured cards (i.e this story), advanced civi
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by wtdata 7y ago
> if abortion is outlawed then a father abandoning their child should also be outlawed Men are forced to pay child support. Either if they want the child or not. Woman in almost every state, can choose to abort if they don't want to
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by wtdata 7y ago
Woman are now 33% more likely to go to faculty than men. So care to explain how woman are being held back (unless your are proposing there are clear intelectual and cognitive differences between genders)? https://www.theguardian.
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by wtdata 7y ago
The EU reduced their emissions by close to 30% in 30 years. These actions were obviously sufficient. Problem is that only the EU (what what are now the EU members) took the effort. The EU should be praised as an example and instead we have
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by wtdata 7y ago
UK is already diminishing their CO2 emissions for 30 years now and is set to continue decreasing them. China increased them by 300% in 30 years and is set to continue increasing then. All in all, UK seting their emissions at 0% wouldn'
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by wtdata 7y ago
I disagree. It's certainly not a fair comparison to look at these issues per capita. I should not be morally responsible for people that have way to many childrten with no regard for sustainability (be it environmental or economical).
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by wtdata 7y ago
Sorry but those actions where clearly sufficient. If all countries had reduced their CO2 emissions like the EU block did, we would be in an excellent state. The reduction needs to keep happening in a steady pace, not have a sudden shift lik
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by wtdata 7y ago
> So what you're saying is, the fact we were wrong about how long it would take to recover proves that the whole thing was a farce? It proves the all thing was an exaggeration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_
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by wtdata 7y ago
My stance on the current global warming is that it is real and that it is serious, but not nearly as catastrophic as the media and these more extremist environmentalists, present it. i.e. If all other countries would go on a steady course o
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by wtdata 7y ago
When counteracting what I said, you conveniently left aside: 1: The part where we, at the time, were told that the hole would take hundreds of years to close: It didn't. (Pear Reviewed article from 1996: https://www.nap.edu&

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