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by yunwal 4y ago
> I have a feeling there's a lot of suppositions or beliefs one must have prior to making statements like these that I don't share. Do you agree that you can choose to not follow the law? Would you also agree that if enough peo
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by yunwal 4y ago
You can farm in the natural world as long as you can set up a system to protect your crops but also arguing about the precise amount of resources and agency afforded to you in the natural world is also missing some of the point. By followin
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by yunwal 4y ago
> governments don’t have a monopoly on violence. Yes they do. Any violence not conducted or sanctioned by the government is illegal and is theoretically punished. When you say there exists violence with no government, you’re agreeing wit
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by yunwal 4y ago
No, you forget that a governed society has no right to exist. It only gains its legitimacy when it’s preferable to an ungoverned society and other achievable alternatives. In an ungoverned society, it’s rather trivial to build yourself a de
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by yunwal 4y ago
If you exist and are able-bodied, you could build yourself a shelter and gather/kill your own food. The reason you can’t do that now is because of property rights.
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by yunwal 4y ago
No, natural law is that which would exist without a government monopoly on violence. The only reason people can maintain property is because the government will protect it for them. Otherwise, a group of homeless people could easily band to
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by yunwal 4y ago
Thank you, someone had to mention it. Violence is part of natural law. The natural state of the world says you can’t hoard more resources than you can protect. Without a government monopoly on violence, billionaires get killed and their ric
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by yunwal 4y ago
> People always claim this, yet with ever increasing population, we continue to find work for people to do. Ah yes thank god we have more paper pushers in hospitals than doctors. Otherwise who would push the paper?
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by yunwal 4y ago
This is gonna sound dumb but an ice scoop for my freezer. Always just used my hands or cup but it would make it slightly annoying to get the right amount of ice. Plus if I’m making cocktails for other people it’s just so much easier and mor
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by yunwal 4y ago
Only issue with AirPods is that they trap sweat in your ear. Usually fine for normal workouts but for long distance runs they’re not usable.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Once inpainting is sufficiently good they'll be ubiquitous in concept art as well.
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by yunwal 4y ago
I've never been all that interested in early VR, but for a truly seamless VR headset I think 3K would be perfectly reasonable. For example, being able to take a laptop onto any train and have the equivalent of a 360º monitor with me se
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by yunwal 4y ago
> I get bored or distracted easily, I don't believe in ADHD, but according to the definition I definitely have it. ADHD isn’t some genetic on/off switch that determines whether you can focus or not, it’s a threshold for commonl
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by yunwal 4y ago
There are plenty of lawyers who are not competent at their jobs, but can be convincing to uninformed laypeople.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> A crucial question is, is this part of the deliberate attack on democracy by the (unnamed) coalition of wealthy and corporations, or truly just an investment These things are one and the same. There is nothing to do with billions of do
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by yunwal 4y ago
If enough normal people invested in Bitcoin early the Peter Thiels of the world would find a different technology to hyperinflate so they can have a larger share of the profits
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by yunwal 4y ago
You do because instead of resources being diverted to building mega-yachts and private jets, they will be used on resources for the non-ultra-rich
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Nothing prevents you from deleting your Facebook account What does this have to do with the article? FB will track you and erode your freedoms with or without your consent or participation
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by yunwal 4y ago
> How is this different from Coca-Cola paying influencers to post negative stuff about Pepsi? Coca cola can't have millions of influencers on their payroll (or at least, it wouldn't be economically profitable for them to do tha
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by yunwal 4y ago
But you can tell that it's happening. And also it's still only half, and not the entire internet, because human marketers don't scale as much as AI.
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by yunwal 4y ago
There's some good advice in this article, but like any metric system that attempts to define a complex thing using a few dimensions, it will be gamed. The best way to decide which charities to donate to is to volunteer with them or get
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by yunwal 4y ago
Hmm, no I think there's a very good reason why Lynch is considered the master at this kind of thing that's pretty timeless or at least still holds up. There are a lot of imitators, but they often fail for the same reason that addi
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by yunwal 4y ago
You don't really need to focus on Twin Peaks at all to get enjoyment out of it, but if you describe yourself as " fine " with weirdness, I'm not sure you'll get much out of it. The weirdness is the point, and comes
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by yunwal 4y ago
It still seems it was the wrong choice to enable it by default. I had this happen despite not knowing the feature exists.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Everyone who's saying this has clearly never had a job that requires an on call rotation. At a certain point, you start treating these things as non-emergencies. Doesn't matter how much you initially care or want to do a good job,
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by yunwal 4y ago
> they are just doing their jobs Probably my least favorite phrase. If you help make a bad thing knowingly, you have done a bad thing. Period. There’s no 1 evil dictator CEO that deserves all the blame, devs have agency, product managers
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by yunwal 4y ago
I would personally give up the “thriving” market if it meant software was developed with users interests in mind. Much of the tech growth in the U.S. doesn’t actually result in higher quality of life in the long run
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by yunwal 4y ago
This is absurd to me. Of course your choice matters to the mom and pop store. Just because you can’t single-handedly keep a mom and pop hardware store, grocery store, and bookstore afloat on your income doesn’t mean they don’t benefit from
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by yunwal 4y ago
It likely wouldn’t. But natural disasters, like tsunamis, on a similar scale large enough to threaten well-engineered power plants may become more common.
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by yunwal 4y ago
My strategy: 1) Make bigger decisions - instead of buying a skillet, design your ideal kitchen (or if that's too big, just your set of pots/pans). You will either find that the skillet doesn't make all that much of a differen

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