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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
The same argument can and has been made for the economy, government, religion etc. But as we've seen, too much centralized power in the hands of the few has lead to some of the greatest mass human suffering in history.
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How would you know if that was happening?
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>I have more contempt for the lawmakers in front of him, who actually enabled Facebook to become such a monster by either facilitating or simply not understanding what it was doing. Does your contempt extend to the billions of non-techni
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Somewhat related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Seems like a false dichotomy. Quantum physics has shown that the mere act of observing fundamental reality changes it's state, so perhaps our consciousness of reality is much more subjective than we thought. https://plus.mat
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Even if we accept the questionable assertion that no study of any aspect of the mind so far has been objective, you have provided no argument that it cannot be so in principle. Perhaps if we had aliens or god study our minds, then it co
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Isn’t the problem more about users of technology blindly agreeing to contracts that very few actually read? Isn't this problem more about purposefuly obfuscated legalese documents that are impossible for users to understand and tha
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>one mind can study others - and plenty of people have been doing that. Of course , but that's not objective , hard science like biology (and protein folding) is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>there are valid, interesting questions to be asked and answered, but they are no more outside science than questions about how, say, protein folding works. Questions about consciousness are much different than protein folding, because p
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
Maybe another alternative could be a game in which developers are given more time and resources to develop and test instead of shortstaffing, overworking, and rushing to market? More of a waterfall than an agile approach perhaps
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, you can lose everything you own and you're only out $15. You can also lose your mental/physical health, family/friends, love life
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Again, why would I have to be explicit/exact on it Did I ask you to be "explicit/exact"? I'm just curious for you to describe, at all , the supposed "substantial difference" that you apparently know o
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Occam's razor says that these are all run by the various agencies of the United States Is there a more high value city for a foreign government to spy in? Seems foolish to assume occams razor here, at least for all of the devices
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
What is the "substantial difference"?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
IBM's state of the art computer technology was crucial to the efficiency of the Holocaust. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
I googled "nationalism", and it's defined as "patriotic feeling". What do you think the difference is, according to your definition?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
GDP is an erroneous measure for what we're discussing and falls into the same recursive logic that is noted at the top of this comment chain a la broken window fallacy. If you blow up a tank, and then build a new one, this is considere
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>it’s impossible to know the untold disasters that it may or may not have prevented. We do know , however, the type of disasters that mass data collection has created in the past. IBM's mass data processing technology was crucial t
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
External shame is quite prevalent in western civilization, especially with regards to sexuality.
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>If not, would be interested on how you expect publishers to make money? Why is it our responsibility to find a way for all publishers to make money?
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by wu-ikkyu 8y ago
>Many alcoholics are born that way. They do not have the same liberty with regard to alcohol as others do. This is a patronizing and disempowering statement with no scientific basis.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Are you implying ethics and morals are unrelated to politics?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Your earlier comment claimed the method for becoming a superpower was to "participate in the most wars and murder the most people." The number of casualties or infrastructure damage relative to the rest of the world shouldn&#x
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>What can we do to make not going to a top school less disadvantageous? Begin promoting and honoring good MOOC programs.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is your relationship with your coworkers?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>States would not have become a superpower, because they did not win the most wars, nor did they murder the most people, at the end of World War 2, when they gained superpower status. The US suffered less casualties than all the other ma
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
May I ask what you do for work? And how fulfilled you are by it?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Well that would be an inconvenience So in other words, restricting your liberty or freedom of movement?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Right. The one who participates in and wins the most wars or murders the most people becomes the superpower.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>A unipolar world tends to be more peaceful than a multipolar one simply because there isn't much opportunity for conflict. This statement ignores the mass murder it takes to become the number one power

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