Simple_Guy

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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
>where they almost use the momentum of the rocket to "fling" this is compulsory anyway due to physics.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Freedom is an end in and of itself. You don't have to show that a freedom will benefit a person in another way for it to have value.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Did all the dictators get together and decide on the phrase "national security" as the go to when implementing authoritarian laws?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Why should anybody take any chances when another person is one swipe away?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
If this was true, why is photoshop a thing? You don't have anything to backup your assertion (or even have the possibility of evidence, before what you are assertion is what's in the mind of people). When I browse through a fashio
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Your reasoning is that people are stupid and therefore you should manipulate them 'for their own good' because they have no self-agency and self-responsibility. Needless to say, people who think like this make terrible dictators w
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
If you surrender control to a doctor to perform a surgery, and the doctor decides to stab you in the heart, why aren't you responsible for being stabbed, since you chose to 'completely surrender control'?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
The fines should be 100 billion. Make them itch a little.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Why shouldn't I be able to move from one place to another? If a bunch of goons will say I can't, why can't I hire another bunch of goons that say I can?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Because the US isn't a feudal state where the phrase 'a king's ransom' is used literally. And that's a good thing.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
the only people who hate middlemen are people who cannot into economics.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Only a matter of time before AI-powered 'prose anonymiser' is developed. Then you can just run all your naughty words through the russian styliser.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Because to do backbreaking work, labour demands $200 million. the current low price of produce is subsidised by cheap illegal immigrant labour. Just like how the spartans spent their time being warriors while their slaves toiled the field.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Are you even conscious? How do I know you are not a zombie?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
You can't admit fault or imply so. The legal department will veto it.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Well. People are known to be completely irrational when it comes to economics: minimum wage, welfare, healthcare etc.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
>The only change that's "needed" is increase in affordable housing to the lower- and middle-class which forms the support fabric without which the town can't exist. and how are they going to do that without allowing t
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
At this point you can figure out if a technology to reduce atmospheric carbon level will be effective or not by looking if oil companies are investing in it.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Probably a natural gas plant.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
This is not true though. Security is about mitigating threat at some cost. There are some threats you can't mitigate cost-effectively. Some are unmitigable at all.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Do you eat meat? How is killing chicken not worse than capturing lizards?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Would have worked without those darn meddling free marketers.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
That site says they are open to consulting, but I'm not sure if it's satire or not.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
There are still plenty of providers who don't use DRM. You just want the DRM users content but you want it without DRM. So what really happened is the content producers enticed the users into DRM with their content. It's the other
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Could the alternative be gasp not using facebook?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
that's the important point. DRM is the price one must pay to consume BIG MEDIA content. there's no getting around it. if you want it you have to play by their rules.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
so pride is killing their ability to access information. In this case I have no pity for them, then. If they want to feel better about themselves by cutting off their own ears because other people are using English then let them.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
Here's a step to fix your communication issue. Don't assume people know what OKR is, and explain it briefly at the start of your article about OKRs.
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
EEVblog and CodysLab are scams? Why haven't i heard about this? Do you have any source?
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by Simple_Guy 7y ago
When I was a kid I did dream of being a cyber-mercenary. Given that the US recognise cyberspace as being a battlespace, would being a hacker for another country count as being a mercenary. Would that make you a combatant?

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