Volpe

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by Volpe 13y ago
I think first and foremost - relax. You are ignoring severity of misogyny, and instead referring to number of misogynists. Correct? I'm saying, magazine (female or male) editors are by far not the worst, nor that common, among the TOTA
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by Volpe 13y ago
When you say "today's world" I think you mean "today's U.S.A"... The rest of the world, doesn't seem to have as crazy anti-hacking laws, as the US.
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by Volpe 13y ago
There are countries where woman cannot choose who they marry. Where woman are beaten, Where woman are not allow outside on their own, where woman earn double digit percentages less than male counterparts... You are seriously saying that &#
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by Volpe 13y ago
... so you might of (very badly) shown that some woman are mildly mysoginist (if even that)... How do you get "worst mysoginists" and "often" out of that?
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by Volpe 13y ago
Javascript is the only language you can run on the browser (Dart doesn't change that). So if Javascript is "GOTO" then dart is: "function NotGoTo() { GOTO; }"
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by Volpe 13y ago
What are you talking about? Please clarify your position.
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by Volpe 13y ago
How about we break the whole world into false dichotomies. What's more important, saving children or commenting on HN? Choice made (Commenting on HN), you wrote that comment, rather than saved a child. What's more important, curin
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by Volpe 13y ago
> (unless you changed the default config). Lamest argument ever... Are you suggesting that the majority of postgres (say) installs are running default config with no changes? Or even better, Oracle?
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by Volpe 13y ago
In Australia, they have a similar 'Rememberence Day' as well as a bigger "ANZAC Day". In the ANZAC instance, they pay respect to all sides of the specific conflicts (Gallipoli being the main one) Australian, British, New
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by Volpe 13y ago
So people who bought iphones and macs just didn't understand the options available to them through linux? I seriously doubt that premise.
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by Volpe 13y ago
But then how do we know you aren't just making this statement up?
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by Volpe 13y ago
I didn't say they had to paid based on output... my objection was the capitalist shouldn't be given ALL their surplus value. Perhaps their surplus value should be shared amongst all of them? (Poor capitalist would lose out though.
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by Volpe 13y ago
So you have a new name for a communist country... That doesn't change the fact the old one exists still... So I can say: America isn't a democracy, because it's an oligarchy. (This statement isn't true, but is equivalen
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by Volpe 13y ago
State capitalism... you really want to go down the rabbit hole of language semantics. So it's capitalism where all the money goes to the state, which is the government, which is the people... which is exactly what "communism"
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by Volpe 13y ago
Except the largest country (by population) in the world is a product of that line of thinking.. So where is the "internal turmoil brings it down" happening?
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by Volpe 13y ago
No, the preferences can be controlled (marketing), or even forced (addiction). No one ever thought "I need coca-cola", it was a created "want" invented purely through marketing and addiction... EDIT: typos
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by Volpe 13y ago
> If you guys think that machines are going to decrease our standard of living-- that the separation of (production value)/wages is going to cause poverty No we don't. We just have to show that the benefits only go to a select
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by Volpe 13y ago
... you moved the goal posts significantly. We aren't talking about whether the internet has a positive effect on society or the economy. We are talking about uplifting the poor. Which is more formally known as "increasing social
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by Volpe 13y ago
You are confusing the meaning of life. Not the some of their experience, but the beating of their heart. Life is equal, the world over.
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by Volpe 13y ago
Show me the (at the very least) the correlation between internet access and social mobility. You may help educate some people, though the data says educational outcome is more correlated with socio-economic status. And education is correlat
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by Volpe 13y ago
wow. So because you'll never see it, it isn't a problem. You getting cheap/free internet is more important than millions of people dying [1]... [1] http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria&#x2F
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by Volpe 13y ago
> Our goal is to help everyone achieve a better life, right? No, I don't think it is. I don't think there is a collective goal that everyone subscribes to. As my earlier point pointed out... we have everything we need to achie
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by Volpe 13y ago
Why are they more valuable? You are saying they are more valuable because they provide more technological advancement. I guess my question is: Why are you trying to measure the 'value' of one (or many) human lives? Why are we not
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by Volpe 13y ago
There is more than enough money and resources to go around. It isn't a supply problem. We have heaps of everything. So being able to synthesise it wouldn't change that fact. The problem is we suck at distributing it. We have a
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by Volpe 13y ago
Some technology does uplift the poor, but not always, and not all technologies. Baloons giving internet access to people, doesn't seem to have an obvious uplifting effect on the poor? Could you explain how that will happen?
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by Volpe 13y ago
But I've seen no evidence that, that is what happened. There doesn't seem to be a logical reason as to why you'd need to increase sugar in order to lower cholesterol, so why would companies do that? Can you point to an examp
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by Volpe 13y ago
Those with higher cholesterol have a higher percentage of heart attacks. Doctors (in Australia at least) prescribe when your risk (calculated on your cholesterol, smoking, stress, exercise, etc) is lowered by reducing your cholesterol, and
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by Volpe 13y ago
Insulin resistance is caused by sugar intake (completely unrelated to cholesterol)... Arguing that in order to lower cholesterol you have to consume more sugar seems rather strange.
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by Volpe 13y ago
"Cultural revolution" is a basic component of Maoism (as in your culture changes drastically, as you attempt to remove the bourgeois. "The Cultural Revolution" was a horrible play Mao instigated through the Gang of Four
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by Volpe 13y ago
Well before we jump to conclusions, is it higher than other countries? There is obviously a lot of selection bias here...

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