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by ythn 10y ago
So what's your point? Are you trying to argue the USA has the same level of freedom as China or Iran?
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by ythn 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-jcxSZGS-8
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by ythn 10y ago
No, that's where you are fundamentally wrong. There is no comparison because we have more freedom than China or Iran. We can criticize the president. People in China and Iran can't - at least not without high risk. I can say thing
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by ythn 10y ago
Trump is the worst president ever and I hope he gets impeached. Are jack-booted federal thugs going to kick in my door tonight and kidnap me now? Tell me more about my lack of freedom as I shoot my glock out my car window while spinning don
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by ythn 10y ago
> I can no longer proudly claim the West is free. We are living in a surveillance state. Anarchy is the only true freedom. Any social contract (i.e. government) limits freedom. Still, saying the west is not free is disingenuous. One can
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by ythn 10y ago
This is so badly needed in a world of video coding tutorials (cough Unity3D). Awesome technology
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by ythn 10y ago
> Except for Climate Change Denialism That's the flavor of the decade, yes, but back in the 70s there was "zero population denialism" which is roughly equivalent (there was a big scare that the earth's population was
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by ythn 10y ago
> It's just infuriating that the Western world has allowed the entire situation to persist for so long. It's usually lose/lose for whomever decides takes action. Does anyone ever get mad at Switzerland for always staying
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by ythn 10y ago
> NK didn't have nukes back then They still had artillery pointed at Seoul, no?
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by ythn 10y ago
Maybe not 100%, but Occam's Razor suggests disenfranchised voter groups are the underlying reason Trump won, not dank memes. Of course Occam's Razor doesn't always point to the correct answer, just the simplest one.
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by ythn 10y ago
Pretty sure everywhere but earth is going to be extremely inhospitable
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by ythn 10y ago
So who gets to be the ultimate keeper of truth? If CNN spins a story to be police brutality, but you happen to be an eyewitness who saw that it was actually self-defense, can you mark the CNN story as disputed? Who decides if you are right
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by ythn 10y ago
Anyone else own a Razer mechanical keyboard that doesn't work in GRUB/BIOS menus? I have a Black Widow Stealth and it works great... except not in BIOS menus or GRUB menus. In those cases I have to plug in my old keyboard to get a
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by ythn 10y ago
> Optimism isn't science Pessimism isn't science either. > and at the scale of the problem it is a mistake that gets to happen only once. The problem doesn't even exist yet. It's a potential problem. We are specula
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by ythn 10y ago
Not this apocalyptic rhetoric again. This is reminiscent of Steven Hawking warning us that we might not survive the transition to artificial superintelligences (ASI). The problem is that ASIs are fictional. Is there significant evidence tha
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by ythn 10y ago
American engineers are being overpaid, or Indian engineers are being underpaid?
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by ythn 10y ago
> You're asking an implicitly deontological question with an explicitly consequentialist answer. Found the philosopher
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by ythn 10y ago
The problem is that it is actually a "shortage of (cheap) tech workers". Quality is expensive, and companies don't want to pay for expensive american tech workers when they can cut costs by paying for cheap overseas tech work
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by ythn 10y ago
Wow, the creator of Dwarf Fortress doesn't use version control? I don't even know what to say about that. It's like when I heard the creator of KeePass doesn't use version control either... why are people so resistant to
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by ythn 10y ago
None of the things I listed are difficult. They just require the right tool and know how. For someone like me with Xubuntu, I had neither the tools nor know how for creating small jpegs. I didn't fell like wasting 30 minutes researchin
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by ythn 10y ago
> Generating some workable source images is trivial Everything is trivial if you know how to do it off the top of your head. Generating white noise samples is trivial. UV-mapping a texture to a mesh is trivial. Soldering resisters to a P
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by ythn 10y ago
I wanted to try this tool, but the upload requirements were so stringent (must be jpeg, must be same aspect ratio, must be less than 64KB) that I gave up. Would be nice if sample jpegs were provided on the page.
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by ythn 10y ago
No, I was accusing OP of setting a trap wherein no matter what someone puts, they will attempt to discredit it.
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by ythn 10y ago
No, I don't think so. But my (biased) view of the left is that they want to actually control and curate speech via censorship, safe spaces, "hate speech" laws (like UK), political correctness agendas, stereotyping (painting a
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by ythn 10y ago
I was just pointing out that your "question" was likely just a trap. If I say "Trump gets X right" you'll reply "The problem with this is..." and proceed to show why Trump doesn't actually get X rig
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by ythn 10y ago
Are you going to try and find "the problem" with anything he deserves credit for?
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by ythn 10y ago
> the problem Instead of enumerating all of "the problems" sometimes it can be healthy in a discussion to acknowledge that someone got something right with no strings attached. By always villainizing people you disagree with, y
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by ythn 10y ago
> Anyone would agree that this is a desirable thing, right? I absolutely think this is a great thing. I just think a lot of people don't realize how great it truly is to be living in the USA in 2017. I think we as a society have a h
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by ythn 10y ago
Obviously there are going to be pros and cons. Sure, a percentage of the poor today are sometimes hungry. But very few are starving. Maybe I'm alone, but I would rather be a poor person in 2017 than a rich person in the 1400s. The inte
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by ythn 10y ago
> Let all citizens live to a basic level, but not too good a level that the incentive to innovate or do more is gone. The basic income will, in my opinion, lead to a more entrepreneurial society where risk takers are supported - and also

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