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by zxcdw 13y ago
First one. I would assume UBI is only available to adults. The third one isn't really much of an option since it assumes that politics is more black and white than what it actually is. 50 shades of grey and counting. And of course peop
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Maybe he meant Go Forth in disguise?
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> Automation reduces costs and prices, creates new job fields, and permits for specialization. Specializing(education) takes time and effort. At what kind of rate can the technology make jobs obsolete that thesociety and workforce can ke
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On which fields is it obviously false that the status quo is to work 40'ish hours per week?
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I don't understand how people oppose unconditional basic income without also opposing the fact that automation decreases the amount of working hours available for a person(or in other words, the amount of jobs ), and thus decreases th
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Automation. Can you imagine the consequences of a driverless car on transportation industry for example? Or automated cashing machines on cashiers? Or cleaner robots for cleaners? You see, simple jobs are going to be replaced in the future.
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I thought it was a good thing that you don't have to work unless you want to do so for additional income . Which one of us is wrong? Which one of us will be wrong in the future, as more and more jobs can be automated and thus di
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Human readability too could mean base64 encoding. Instead of ACKNOWLEDGE you say ACK or mere A. Instead of REQUEST PAGE FROM <path>, you say RPF <path> and so on. This is my main point of hatred towards "human readable form
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My point was that a average programmer does not understand a thing about assembly languages, because they are abstracted away by well working implementations of compilers and debuggers. I live under an assumption that such is also the case
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Hi, I'm a programmer. As a sysadmin, do you really have to deal with HTTP protocol by hand on such basis that a tool could not do the task for you if the protocol wasn't human readable?
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> * but human-readability is very useful.* For who, how often and when exactly? As far as I have understood, we are doing something wrong if we have to deal with debugging protocols which implement an abstraction, rather than just let
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EFFING SPOILER! God.. :(
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This, definitely. Of course the said sports are a good addition to us runners too. I personally find it actually even more rewarding to do the longer aerobic workouts by swimming or cycling than always running. Mixing things up is hardly ev
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A foreginer here. Would you like to elaborate why they seem unelectable?
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> That is like being shocked and horrified that animal control puts down stray dogs. People don't like to talk about it, a small number of people might be upset by it, but it is a necessary part of civilized society. In Finland we d
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What about it, exactly? Doesn't affect your life, shouldn't make a difference.
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This is one of the problems with total surveillance, everyone has said or done something stupid at some point . If not during the immediate past, then during their teens. It seems people don't even find it an issue.
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How does person's citizenship matter in their views? Is it nationalism a.k.a. " our rights are more important than theirs "? When you think of something like that, how can you morally justify it? You can't. Nationalism
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This. Thousand times this! No other words needed really.
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What are they needed for? Who do they benefit, how, and at what cost? Who/what decides when the cost/benefit is acceptable? Nationalism( our rights are more important than theirs )?
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That doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for "moral absolutism" however. As a foreigner I don't really consider USG spying on its citizens any more or less unjustified than spying on us foreigners. Just because you are bo
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Is something like this an accepted tradeoff when using fertilizers for farming?
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Please remember that these concepts apply outside US too, where gun ownership and constitution defending the citizens aren't as available. This is one of the reasons why the "but we have guns to take 'em down if needed"
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Sure, and this is most probably an expected possibility, but also the only way to operate safely. Exposing your name and your political stance along with activism can get you killed. Of course the reliance on US based(of all Western count
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This is a huge problem with a surveillance state. Everyone has something which you can use against them. This means that if you piss off wrong people you're going to jail. Otherwise not. Possible implications to politic balance are a
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It is not only about people buying sense of safety at the expense of privacy and it's obvious problems due to shifting powers and vastly greater opportunities for abuse with decreased chance of ever being caught of such abuse. It is
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This. And perhaps even your whole identity. The world is so different place in unsafe countries, people might be playing with their lives(and lives of their close ones) for doing this stuff. It's not unlikely for a totalitarian governm
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US citizens(as citizens everywhere) vote for whatever the media feeds them, and media is at least to some extent controlled by the US government(as in every country) or other political influence. I would also disagree with politicians contr
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Funding someone does not make one responsile a single bit. I am not responsible for an act you do with the knife I sold you last week, unless I did it in consent of you commiting the act. My parents aren't responsible for the acts I do
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They are not responsible for the actions of the military. Just because they are born in US doesn't make them responsible for the actions of the US military any more than someoe born in Canada, Brazil or Japan. People who have power ove

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