EggsOnToast

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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
And if you read my replies you'll notice that I gave two examples. In response to your fixation on nuclear weapons I pointed out that developing better designs could be helpful with regard to maintaining an awareness of if modern techn
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
If you don't agree with a part of what I've said then you're more than welcome to articulate your objections instead of asking a series of rhetorical questions. It's clear that you have strong feelings on the topic but a
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I'm not sure I see the relevance of your question since what you're asking for is a necessary quantity not a necessary level of innovation. There could be lots of reasons to develop a better thermonuclear weapon even if it's
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
There's also an argument to be made that remaining on the cutting edge of military science is a form of national security. Being one of the first, or only, nations to develop and test a new kind of weapon means that you'll also be
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
This could still be a grey area. Obviously pornography of young children could be identified by most people 99% of the time, the 1% being bizarre situations like mistaking a collection of cherub images for child pornography. But what about
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I always imagine an unspoken "at a certain price" when people say they believe in buying locally. I live a short distance from a grocery store in my neighborhood, but I rarely go there because I like to cook and their prices for m
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I agree that there's definately a need for more dialogue. >Then there's I think a unique angle to this specific case. If you're going to work for Lockheed Martin or Blackwater you at least know what you're getting int
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're so dismissive of moral relativism in this context when it's incredibly relevant. Someone who believes that developing and exploring this technology will enable us to save the lives of soldiers and bett
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
From what I've gathered of the context I think the original presentation is correct. I read it as a joke criticizing an implied absurdity of tech groups being concerned specifically with what we use to kill people rather than whether w
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
>I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states. I'm not sure if you're criticizing that this happens at all or if you're
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
The upside of crypto currency is the amount of agency it currently gives to the holder. The downside of crypto currency is that as personal agency increases the protections from making bad decisions usually decreases. Ulterior motives aside
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Slight tangent, how's the Tesla semi-truck been doing? When I was looking over the specs the range seemed low compared to a regular semi but I wasn't clear on if that was acceptable because they're targeting a particular subs
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
>You start by saying how a personal care assistant is rather unspecialized work and then go on to ruminate on the peculiarities of the job that most people wouldn't want to deal with. Correct. Being willing to endure undesirable wor
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Was the food log from Supersize Me ever released? It's been a few years so maybe things have changed, but the last time I checked there was a severe lack of real information in Supersize Me to support the claims the guy was making.
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Those numbers make sense at a glance. A truck driver, despite the popular image, more closely resembles specialized work than un-specialized. There are specific skill and documentation requirements to become a Truck driver. The healthcare w
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
It might just be too risky in their minds. I can't speak for every user, but if Spotify dropped the big labels I'd just go elsewhere. There's already enough platforms for discovering new or different artists, Spotify's v
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
It sounds like what's missing is a bad faith mechanic. Assuming it could be implemented in a way that's not terrible or outright ineffective, it would be interesting to see a legal framework for barring a party from filing patent
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Thoughtful content is good when I want something to mull over in a car ride or when I'm actually feeling curious. When I'm worn out and just want brain candy thoughtful content is effectively trash. It's not as simple as thou
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
From a systemic perspective, we can't correct for bad science until better science disproves it and becomes common enough knowledge. Unless you're both a parent and a cutting edge scientist in the field being employed against you,
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I don't agree. I think that while it can be difficult to defend every instance of a patent or a particular implementation of patent law, this doesn't mean that every patent is bad or that the concept of patents is bad and needs to
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Those are both really broad statements. Developing innovative software costs money as does developing an innovative product or technology. The point of patents isn't to incentivize implementation it's to incentivize innovation.
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I don't know that your conclusion really follows. Technical progress rarely happens in completely isolation form social mechanics. Things like government funding for research, subsidies for deploying or developing particular renewable
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
The only two words that are beyond what's taught in highschool in those quoted passages are "indemnify" and "pursuant" neither of which is actually too complex to understand from a cursory google search. The sentenc
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Is there a reason why it's such a binary choice though? I understand why a master tradesman would take a big pay hit. But what makes it so difficult to have a tiered system where pros train midlings who train lowbies that train newbies
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I agree that it's worth acknowledging the effects of 401ks as having some downsides for retirement in general. That said, I don't think it's fair to consider it a "significant" downside at face value when the upside
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I'm not sure why your tone is so hostile when I was just asking a clarifying question. More to your point, I don't see what part of the ToS you found especially convoluted, but since your estimate about the length is so exaggerate
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
Do you have a link on that or are you talking about the current article? I believe you but I wasn't one of the early adopters of MoviePass so by the time I joined I skimmed the contract, nodded, and thought "Got it, you spy on me
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
This was my feeling too. I don't want to live in a world where everyone is expected to freely give away their data, but if I can do it voluntarily to get get a deal as good as MoviePass then that's a win/win to me. It's
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
It can be used as an argument against both. But that's irrelevant to a discussion about what the presentation of this evidence says to a jury.
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by EggsOnToast 9y ago
I think there's a second angle to this, which is that the assumption in your example is that the tech company is the one distributing the good within a particular country. There's an argument to be made that, unless the company ha

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