DarkKomunalec

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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> You also haven't answered why you feel this way. My feelings are irrelevant - they make my points neither more nor less valid.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> science is never final Why not wait till we're (more) certain? What's the worst that could happen? Catastrophic, runaway climate-change? I say we risk it - at least the science will have been settled... FUD works both ways.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
So the error is... where? If you think I am beyond saving, at least point it out for the sake of any not-yet-lost souls reading.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Ignorance? Well, please point out where I made an error - I'd be happy to correct it.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> stop having babies Most of the west has already drastically reduced the number of babies. All that happened is we were told we need immigration instead.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Left and right ideas are just stepping stones to profit. After all, the 'left-leaning' Google sure isn't pushing for unions, only for what will benefit them.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other." ..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot product' of both concepts with election
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
They can both be used by one or both parties to secure power - on that axis, they are objectively not orthogonal.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Whoopi did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115580/
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Data-gathering companies can and do co-operate, or someone wanting to learn something can just buy the data from several of them - price per bit of data should be the same. So breaking them up isn't really a solution to this problem.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
What he said was: Best case: NK government falls on its own. Least casualties. Worst case: NK attacks (i.e. the missile had hit) or gets attacked, massive casualties on all sides. How does your appeal to emotion change any of that?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> claiming that thanks to cryptography the world of intelligence was “going dark”. Quite the opposite was true [...] Twenty years ago it cost over a thousand pounds a day to follow a suspect around, and weeks of work to map his contacts
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
No 100% accurate license-plate reader exists - and that includes human eyesight. Showing license identification confidence levels, as the author's code does, is far better at dissuading the cops from over-reliance on the tool, than pre
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
You underestimate how much patents are used to impede competition - see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel... , and the many less public patent licenses and threats.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Imagine if some non-US government voided Intel and AMD's patents as a self-defence measure against these probably-backdoored 'features'. Why should they protect the profits of hostile corporations?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
So as long as the immigration was in the past, you're not allowed to criticize it?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
History was not the argument - it was to illustrate that what you consider far right has been and is common . > we live in a global market, Treating local businesses preferentially does not mean abolishing international trade. Just lo
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Holding the interests of your own country above those of others is by definition nationalism, and almost any opposition to immigration is labelled xenophobia. They are, and have historically been, the policy for the vast majority of countri
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Not in Germany, but pretty salient: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/09/geert-wilders-... Literally illegal to call for less immigration.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> calling for physical action against individuals They weren't raided for making true threats, but for letting the site become a "lawless realm" and/or for "sowing hate against different opinions and representati
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Shutting down a club seems just as oppressive. And the definition of 'club' is blurry and stretchy, so it's not unexpected a law against 'clubs' would get abused.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The site was closed for "sowing hate against different opinions and representatives of the country," I am shocked - shocked - that anti-hate animus would be used this way!
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Amazing how quickly the proportion of whites dropped in a mere 35 years, in every single one of those charts. Pretty soon they'll have to get used to being a minority in the US as well.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The US has already decided that the right to sue is fundamental: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/right-to-sue/ Such waivers limit this right. I struggle to imagine an ideology that thinks giving up a fundamental ri
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
That holds for all theories, not just conspiracy ones.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
There were no current decisions - such contracts are relatively new, and few laws were passed explicitly for or against them - mostly against, but were struck down by the Supreme Court. And it does not follow that a decision made by an enti
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Amazing to see what a steep drop of whites each of those charts show, in many cases their share more than halving in as little as 35 years. And despite such a dramatic decrease, it still doesn't keep pace with the demographic changes
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Included in the 1st amendment: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/right-to-sue/
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> A right to water, is different to free speech. Not entirely. Consider the case of water privatization, where there's a real risk of extortionate pricing of what used to be a common good. If carefully written, right to water laws c
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
As a society, we have to decide - do we allow economic pressure to be used to make people give up their fundamental rights?

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