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by wussboy 6y ago
“He’s a Marxist”. Ah. I’m out.
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by wussboy 6y ago
I’m not so sure. The third sentence on that web site is untrue: “Capitalism demands perpetual expansion”. It does not. If the author is going to be so free with facts right from the beginning, why would I trust the rest of his work?
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I think Hobbes and Darwin would both object to being grouped in with Rand. Hobbes would say the world is violent therefore we should take measures to protect ourselves (with a neutral external force or Leviathan). Darwin would say that ruth
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by wussboy 6y ago
This is a problem that is solving itself. As countries get richer, their people have less children. And this result holds true in every country for which we have data. The prediction is that the world’s population will peak at ten billion t
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by wussboy 6y ago
Paying according to which articles people click on has already failed as a model for determining truth and relevancy. We need to think of “one weird trick” that will have the same “stunning” effect but without the incentive to appeal to hum
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by wussboy 6y ago
When I really need to concentrate I’ll clamp on the noise canceling headphones and listen to bird song. Where I live there’s nothing but sparrows and crows and magpies most of the year, and almost nothing from October to April.
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I watch from Safari on an iPhone with an ad blocker and I rarely see ads
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Possible? Yes. Probable? No. The Air Force has a thousand better places to test such a prototype, should it exist.
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I think the money is the problem. Before Facebook was profitable, it was fun to use and I enjoyed using it. But any competitor to Facebook must be more profitable than Facebook, and if you can’t do that while remaining ethical, then you wil
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That’s fair enough, and sorry I missed that.
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Hard disagree. This is in fact how society advances. We do something and make mistakes. We learn from those mistakes and try again. Our current society is a system of rules and conventions built on thousands of years of humans trying things
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Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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Don’t worry. Copyright will be extended before that happens. It always has. It always will.
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Not with a freemium model, which is what would make the most sense for Mozilla, IMHO.
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Huge businesses are built on the freemium model. Firefox would only gain from embracing the same.
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This most common thing I write on HN is that I can’t believe I can’t pay to use Firefox. “How will we ever earn money here at Mozilla? All we have is this world class web browser that provides massive value to millions of people, but we ref
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“Why is it that when we see nothing but progress behind, we see nothing but disaster ahead?”
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I’ve never been so angry in my life as when I was chugging up a hill in lower gear just to have some lady in her office skirt blow past me, Louis Vuitton bag in her side saddle. I get the animosity. But kudos to her! I hope she’s still blas
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by wussboy 6y ago
“What are you? President of the Pedantic Society?” “Vice President, actually.”
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Sure. You collect stamps. I hate an airplane. A man’s got to live!
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Everyone thinks the other side is a tool. This is so pervasive it must be completely discarded as a measure of truth.
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Your plan is reasonable if human minds were genuinely and effectively open to letting the best ideas win. But they are not. Human minds care more about reputation than veracity and this has important ramifications for plans like yours: name
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The difference is in how the disinformation is propagated. In the past media companies would self censure idiotic or untrue ideas to protect their reputations and while you could find information if you looked hard, the things would tend to
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by wussboy 6y ago
These are fine questions, and their answers should sit uncomfortably in all humans. But unless we are content to let human knowledge dissolve into meaninglessness, we must look to something external to our own reasoning to help decide what
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by wussboy 6y ago
Is censorship really the greatest crime? Is there no intelligent way to facilitate the search for truth that doesn’t require us to get bogged down in accepting every possibility as equally plausible? Of course there is. One thing is certain
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On the contrary I think both scientific evidence and theory point strongly to the fact that all humans are racist. In group/out group is baked in to our genes. None of that makes it right, of course. But pretending we are not all prone
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What about the people who project themselves as being experts in a very believable fashion but are actually not experts? Human nature would tend to cause these people to double down on their own self delusion rather than admit they don’t ac
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This article was a seemingly randomly assembled collection of sentences and paragraphs, vaguely related to the plane and other travel inconveniences.
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The important thing is that we punish companies that are actively trying to fix the problems we all care about because they didn’t fix them perfectly the first time or in exactly the way we would prefer. Sometimes the users on this site sou
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Surely that has never been true.

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