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by zeofig 10y ago
Of course, it costs even more to instead put the rapist in a "privatised" supermax where he is subjected to various state-funded tortures that quickly turn him into an even worse kind of animal...
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by zeofig 10y ago
I was thinking about this the other day as the neighbour's car alarm went off and yet again disturbed my peaceful ruminations. My mind was soon swirling with passive aggressive fantasies involving mean little notes, permanent markers,
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by zeofig 10y ago
Ah yes, the nefarious anti-patent lobby, attacking our freedoms again! You seem to imply that patent trolls don't exist and are not a problem. Sure, there aren't many letters on that tiny web site you've cited. Why does this
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by zeofig 11y ago
>Now, it's the FBI sending a giant "screw you" to Apple by not only letting them know they were able to hack into the phone without Apple's help but at the same time, making a mockery of Apple's entire security c
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by zeofig 11y ago
So the community itself should have no say in how things work? It's this sort of attitude that leads me to make comments which get downvoted. More logically, Ycomb gets a lot of prestige and "free" marketing from the quality
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by zeofig 11y ago
Before, I was worried about facebook spying on me, but then I just asked all my friends to switch to spiderwizard (or whatever it's called) and now everything's fine. Meanwhile, in reality...
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by zeofig 11y ago
I'd say you're making the assumption that it will be used for good, when so many charities are indeed used for tax evasion (and other more nefarious purposes). When you condition these probabilities on how most charities actually
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by zeofig 11y ago
It's less clear cut with Gates because he has a quite different personality to Zuckerberg. Gates has a genuine desire to understand and fix things, although that is amongst his more positive traits. Zuckerberg/Facebook, on the oth
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by zeofig 11y ago
It astounds me that people are taken in by this. There are so many ways that Zuckerberg can manipulate this to his self-worshiping benefit that I can't even guess which ones he'll pick. Consider the type of charity Zuckerberg has
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by zeofig 11y ago
I agree. The concept of petrodollars explains everything in the OP and more.
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by zeofig 11y ago
What AI?
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by zeofig 11y ago
Seems cool, although it's quite misleading to say the fuel is generated form water when the energy really comes from sunlight.