SpaghettiCat

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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Clearly VW engaged in deception of the customer as they cheated their test results. Customers are protected from such deception by the law. My point was to criticise the "Internet Dream" utopian fairy tale advocated by commenter T
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
That's where the government intervenes by legislating, thereby society is protecting individuals from themselves (and from harming others). I don't see how there is a need to do this with the internet in the way the "Internet
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> The end result is that web is more spammed, my advantage disappers, and the new solution probably costs more than the old one, but now no one can go back. These are not the only players in the game like you believe. Those who advertise
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> Satisfying someone's needs doesn't justify anything. Not all needs are meant to be satisfied - especially if they conflict with the needs of others, whether directly or by generating externalities. What cases are you talking
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
I prefer BitJam because some assholes keep requesting awful dance/gabber tunes on Nectarine: http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/radio/radio.php
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
It's not an editor, it's an IDE. Just look at the Python support they expect to add next year: "full intellisense, debugging, profiling, pkg mgmt, unit test, virtual env, multiple interpreter, Jupyter, etc. support.". Al
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
The problem with naming things "what they are" is that the scope of the project can change over the years, so that the name selected 5 years ago doesn't appropriately reflect what the project does now.
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
The good they've done is fill the demand of 1/6 of the world's population who use the site. > So far the data seems to indicate that internet.org is comparable to releasing swarms of burrowing parasites upon the poorest of
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Stupidest title I've seen in a while. I thought there would be underground beaches and carnivals.
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
And there have been at least as many cases of political abuse of the police force, should we also cut down on that just because there is a potential for abuse? Many instutions that are intended to good can be abused or used as political wea
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> Your very insistence that you have the only right point of view on this makes me even more against ever allowing anybody who thinks like you the power to involuntarily commit anybody. I don't know what made you think that I have t
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> Which people? "Mentally ill" people aren't a homogenous group, and the fact that someone is mentally ill and living on the street does not imply that they are incompetent to make personal decisions due to their mental il
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
By "crazy action" I mean for 2 years wilfully undereating, not washing, living in filth, not responding to basic communication (even to your own daughter) and standing for long stretches of time at road intersections. >And unde
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
This already happens with homeless people: they become diseased, malnourished, get drunk and hurt themselves. Once the trauma has reached a certain degree that they require hospitalisation, they end up in hospital and released once they&#x2
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Not every mental disorder warrants institutionalisation; I never said that. My point was to clarify that a medically diagnosed person who does some crazy action should be institutionalised, whereas a person who does the exact same crazy act
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
>Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder in the DSM until the mid-1970s. The understanding of relatively highly-occurring afflictions such as PTS and schizophrenia is evolving to this day and it's a near-certainty that the DSM
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician? Who is the most competent to make this decision? The medical professional. Of course government (advised b
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
The difference is he has a genuine medical problem: a mental disorder , i.e. it's in the DSM.
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> Schizophrenia is a lifelong illness. Do you keep someone imprisoned for the rest of their life so that you can forcibly medicate them against their will? No, until the mental disorder is controlled. After all avenues of curing are exha
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
These people don't have control over their mental faculties; they aren't competent enough to make a choice for what is best for them in the same way that minors aren't allowed to go truant or to consent to sex with an adult.
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> What gives you the authority to institutionalize him? A government has the duty to provide for the welfare of their people. It's every government's goal to make their people healthier. > How do you force a person to take t
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> The bill will not say unbreakable encryption is illegal. It's already being planned, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498280
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
How so?
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
> News tickers revealed which gates the army was entering from, where police were situated, and which areas were being cordoned off. Inside the airport, the militants were keeping up with the TV updates and adjusting their positions acco
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
You claim that some are not open-source and not for sale, then for what purpose are they made?
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Why barber shops? Don't well-to-do people also go to the barber to get their hair cut?
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Lemote: http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.htm... That Rev. Stallman uses their laptop speaks for Lemote's trustfulness.
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by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
Care to elaborate on how that is?