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by ythn 9y ago
> Most people don't even connect that capitalism is related to the condition we are all in. Like there are any provably better long-term alternatives to capitalism. Plus, "the condition we are all in" is pretty good relati
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by ythn 9y ago
Why does it have to be so black and white? On the one hand personal responsibility goes out the window and nothing is anyone's fault. Poor? Not your fault. Addicted? Not your fault. On the other extreme personal reponsibility accounts
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by ythn 9y ago
> I don't know how we do it, but we need to start rebuilding community as a social network of interpersonal support In my opinion, this is one of the problems effective religion solves. I'm betting one of the reasons Utah is go
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by ythn 9y ago
CSS and animations
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by ythn 9y ago
So what you meant to say was "Kobble is the only app available where we don't own any of your data."
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by ythn 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for. It sounds like you want camera traps which issue tickets unapologetically and with the relentless efficiency of a robot.
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by ythn 9y ago
That's an interesting question. I would say that articles are made out of two things: words and spin. The author writes the words, and the words make the reader spin. Words are like a poem; they have to follow certain structural requir
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by ythn 9y ago
Somehow I doubt this. You think publishers are just going to sit back and let this happen? Either publishers will lobby against this, or they will force exclusivity contracts with universities so that "open source" books are banne
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by ythn 9y ago
Guns come with downsides, true. But so do a lot of freedoms. Alcohol? Do the benefits of alcohol outweigh the downsides? I would argue alcohol has an even worse impact on society than guns. Of course you'll say "yes, but regulatin
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by ythn 9y ago
I don't see why audio manipulation would be any more nefarious than photo manipulation or video manipulation. Plus, it doesn't even matter. You can write an article with fake quotes and people will believe it without even caring i
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by ythn 9y ago
I agree. But just because education is the best defense doesn't mean it should be the only defense. Guns are literally the very last resort to prevent tyranny after all other safeguards have failed.
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by ythn 9y ago
> Are you sure about the correlation between the two? No, but can you point to any effective tyrannies where the citizens can freely buy and own guns? It seems as though a universal prerequisite to tyranny is gun control. > Off the to
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by ythn 9y ago
Guns are are more like mosquito repellent with tyranny being the mosquito. I.e. it's usually a passive defense against tyranny not an active one. I can give you examples of countries where guns are banned and the governments eventually
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by ythn 9y ago
> so maybe the US does qualify as a war zone. It sure does. We are constantly at war against tyranny and citizen owned guns are one of our best weapons. I don't think any other "developed country" has been democratic as lo
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by ythn 9y ago
Mostly intuition. I don't buy into hype as quickly as others because I've seen the scientific community in various diverse fields go through the hype cycle many times over many decades. A new problem is discovered (i.e. the earth
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by ythn 9y ago
Well, here's my prediction: climate change is real, but 100 years from now it won't turn out to be as apocalyptic as the experts claimed it will be. People will start reducing waste once they start seeing real consequences and tec
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by ythn 9y ago
I didn't equate them. The analogy is that weather is extremely complicated, so much so that meteorologists struggle to predict what will happen in the next 12 hours. If climate is an order of magnitude more complicated than weather, wh
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by ythn 9y ago
> The overwhelming consensus of experts is that its going to have an enormous impact. How soon? Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" predicted apocalyptic consequences in as few as 10 years. 10 years later and it turns out th
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by ythn 9y ago
Not quite the same. Climate scientists are notoriously bad at predicting consequences of climate change - kind of like how meteorologists are often bad at predicting the weather. Why is it okay to be skeptical of what meteorologists are pre
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by ythn 9y ago
Seems like that is starting to go away though, what with trans women being able to unfairly compete with cis women
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I don't want to start any flamewars, but how much responsibility does Islam have in this development? Are there any Islam-majority countries whose governments aren't garbage?
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by ythn 9y ago
> Your opinion piece is fine until your last line where you support using the state to ban other people from making the choice that you prefer not to make. What's wrong with that? Virtually every regulatory law does this. Unless you
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by ythn 10y ago
> The only real expense is the manpower needed for moderation. dang, who would want to do that as their job?
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by ythn 10y ago
> I don't see anyone getting anything remotely analogous to a lynching, When I say "lynching" I don't mean it literally. I just mean groupthink mindless bashing. Just look at /r/videos over at reddit. It&#x2
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by ythn 10y ago
> The idea that, in any situation that goes badly, exactly one actor must be at fault and all others blameless is distressingly common, but clearly wrong. So remind me again why we are exclusively lynching United and not potentially othe
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by ythn 10y ago
So if it's United's fault, remind me again why the security guard likely lost his career over this?
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by ythn 10y ago
> Still deserved, also for the comments they made afterwards. Maybe, maybe not. We don't have all the facts yet. We still don't even know the identity of the victim - only hearsay from other passengers. This type of viral emoti
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by ythn 10y ago
There's "bad publicity", and then there's lynch mob Streisand Effect bandwagoning.
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> In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate. At the place I work we offer paid internships to colleg
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by ythn 10y ago
Science is a PR game. If you lose the PR game, you lose all of your funding and your operation gets shut down.

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