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by about_help 5y ago
People want to be useful, and people don't want to do the same thing for the rest of their lives. These are statistically true generalizations. UBI would allow people to expand their career paths since basic survival would not be on th
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by about_help 5y ago
Liar
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by about_help 6y ago
That is a poor argument and not even really correct. He is advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy which would indeed take away from his own wealth. You can't expect people to sacrifice themselves completely to help others when the
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by about_help 6y ago
Universal healthcare and education at all levels. Strong worker protections, good safety nets. Return to mid 1900s tax rates on the rich, fund the IRS to make sure corporations and ultra wealthy pay their taxes. We have multiple successful
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by about_help 7y ago
You have been eaten by a grue!
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by about_help 7y ago
"(c) The SDK Software is licensed solely and exclusively for use with products offered for sale by Boston Dynamics, Inc. (“BD Products”). Use of the SDK Software with simulators and emulators is not prohibited so long as it is a softw
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by about_help 7y ago
The problem is that the "reason" was simply being associated with someone. We need to creste privacy laws, this assumption thst it is OK to go through someone's personal life merely for being in someone else's contact li
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by about_help 7y ago
We already know what it is, the centralized ownership of news media. Billionaires do not want Sanders to bring their taxes in line with reality. Thus the corrupt political elites and the corporate owned media marginalize him every chance th
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by about_help 7y ago
Just part of the panopticon, they are forcing you to make it super easy for governments to monitor you. Tracking email addresses and correlating amongst shared names makes for more false negatives, tie it to a phone number and you're d
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by about_help 7y ago
Money is an artificial construct used by humans to facilitate trading their labor amongst each other in order to get what they need to survive. Arguments about how expensive things are make no sense if we restructure our society where money
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by about_help 7y ago
"As long as data is not de-aggregated and de-anonymized there is no issue here" Awfully hopeful there. "The other political statements and comparisons he makes, well are unrelated and sincerely looks like political propaganda
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by about_help 7y ago
Some weird narcissism you're selling to convince people they shouldn't care about privacy. Immediately refuted by everyone's real world experience with visible privacy violations.
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by about_help 7y ago
"If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off." This is the primary problem. Managers exis
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by about_help 7y ago
And this is how fascism spreads. Thanks EstoniaTechLead for trying to seduce people into giving up their morality. These are bad actions but for "the greater good"? You don't get to have it both ways. Protecting yourself with
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by about_help 7y ago
Simple: disparate group of elites that realized monarchy has too many pitfalls and so they worked to create a better system where no one group could so easily dominate the others. The war itself went well due to the huge geographic separati
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by about_help 7y ago
Or possibly advanced civilizations had the same realization that many scifi authors have had about such probes. Something goes wrong and they cause widespread destruction. Or they work fine but still end up causing widespread destruction si
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by about_help 7y ago
This argument is tired. We can maintain 1st world living conditions while drastically reducing emissions. Throw away consumerism is literally a toxic force on the planet, but the wealthy do not want to disrupt their income streams and &quot
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by about_help 7y ago
Of course it is, he is embarassing their biggest competitor and ripping the band-aid off the gaping wound the US likes to call "freedom." Why mess with the golden goose? They just let Snowden do his thing, he doesn't have any
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by about_help 7y ago
Greed is not surprising, but understandable you might have thought this crowd was a bit better than the average.
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by about_help 7y ago
I have JS disabled and I see the article just fine. FUD? Even vanilla Chrome only shows a small nag box. TLDR: electronic voting machines are corrupt and US democracy has been subverted multiple times.
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by about_help 7y ago
Could you use a full web engine to scrape the info which would also load the ads?
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by about_help 7y ago
You should be, the Facebook app explicitly does listen to the mic unless you opt out. It has also come out that Google and Amazon are storing people's personal voice requests, and aside from that the mics are always on waiting to hear
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by about_help 7y ago
Institutional slavery. If there is no profit motive in any shape or form then voluntary prison labor would be OK with my conscience.
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by about_help 7y ago
You skipped right over "most likely" and only focused on "the ... cause". To me it sounds like they are saying statistically Mg deficiency is the most widespread underlying factor. Their language is strong, but it does n
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by about_help 7y ago
It absolutely is happening more on Firefox. I open Chrome almost exclusively to bypass CAPTCHAS, and I doubt they will get in trouble because Chrome gives more detailed data due to its invasive lack of privacy. You can't really blame G
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by about_help 7y ago
"I do not believe Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet's, etc, wealth impacts my inalienable right to life, liberty, and property." That seems simple enough, however there are a multitude of secondary effects that happen when you a
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by about_help 7y ago
We use separate channels for different projects and people join/leave as needed. @here is incredibly useful when you have a general question and not sure who might have insight. It all boils down to how people use the communications ch
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by about_help 7y ago
Security and privacy yet again traded for convenience. We need strict data privacy laws and then I would have a little more trust in large centralized entities that would otherwise have every incentive to abuse people's data. Such cent
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by about_help 7y ago
And yet you use the phrase "useless parasites". Keep meditating!
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by about_help 8y ago
It is an extreme example to illustrate the point, not a direct comparison of FB to atomic bombs. However, one might argue that FB is actually worse. It is hard to quantify widespread societal effects and determine if they would have occurre

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