cornyNetHandle

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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Depends on the specific situation. Sometimes it is a damn good idea.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
You can charge them with murder all you like, but while brandishing as control is considered standard police practice, you will find it almost impossible to prove any intent.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
It may not be ideal, but individuals who amass power and then override other's collective judgement is a large part of how our society behaves.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Some politicians are guilty of mass murder and war crimes under exactly the circumstance you give. And part of the reason those from more powerful countries are not charged is they have made every effort to put themselves above internationa
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
The universe where someone else intentionally coerced badly trained and overarmed idiots into being there and made them think they might be shot at.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
They both killed the guy. The guy lied with the intent to get heavily armed people to point guns at someone. Anyone who does this and tries to claim that they couldn't possibly know that the risk is deadly, is either lying or lacks bas
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
If your retirement fund isn't leaving money on the table, then it is probably not going to be there when you retire.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Why?
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Making the Japanese and Nigerian elite look bad, could be a large part of the intent here. That $76M might mainly be a political comment. In perspective, oil and gas companies spend more than double that lobbying the US government every yea
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
The emotional reaction isn't wasted bandwidth. Consider; "Get some water now, please.", when compared to; "Get some fucking water now!". One of these will usually elicit a much quicker reaction.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
They are, on the second hand market.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
I come from somewhere where the opposite of that is the dominant culture, so I was explaining Crocker's rules as a method of us pointing out to each other when we are not capable of operating by them, rather than when we are. I had a b
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
It isn't about calling someone a moron, it is about being able to respond, "Thanks, I can be fucking stupid at times, can you show me where I am being moronic here?". It is also about being able top unguard your own language
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
More Silicon Glen, if you really care about origin stories. My family tends to conduct a lot of discussion at full volume with lots of swearing, so being able to say, 'fuck off, not playing by Crocker's rules', is pretty use
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
I showed 'Crockers Rules', after Lee Daniel Crocker, to my mum and my sister over Christmas, as I thought it might help all of us indicate the level of acerbic comment we are currently able to process. "Declaring yourself to
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Leave them on random people's voicemail, probably.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
I dunno, it seems fairly sane to stand first in places you are guaranteed not to win, if you want to get started in politics. Lowest risk method of getting experience and people are impressed if you poll anything at all.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
If blockchain based currencies prove themselves to be a significant improvement on current monetary systems then state currencies, such as the US dollar, will adopt the new technology, as they have done with all other previous developments
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
It may attempt to trend towards the dollar over time, but will it be trending that way during the time that you personally need it? "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", springs immediately to mind
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Do you mean anomie? I know a few Kropotkin fans who are fairly certain that they want anarchy.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Governments undermining their own monetary systems is hardly novel, both for stupid reasons and occasionally for clever ones. Governments often implement new economic systems or currencies, with fairly mixed results.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Governments are not superhuman either. I am not talking specifically about the difficulty of writing bitcoin, but the collection of circumstances along side that.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
That was an attempt at it, though one made in bad faith by many of the leading proponents. If you are genuinely making something obsolete, you don't usually need to go to the bother of banning it.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Satoshi worked online with a group of developers for more than a year while keeping perfect operational security. Developed a solution to the byzantine generals problem, but has no published maths papers, otherwise something would have come
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
The only 'solution' I can see to this problem, is to develop an alternative to the floating monetary unit, of solving the calculation of exchanging goods and labour. Money is useful, because it solves for the 'n' of a gi
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
What I never understood with the blockchain is the idea that it would change the politics of finance in favour of the little guy. As far as I can tell, financial institutions are exceedingly well practiced at co-opting new monetary systems,
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
No, just that the effect on safety seems minimal compared to other factors.
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
Requiring licensing for cyclists could indirectly result in more deaths depending on the change in other behaviours. Off the top of my head, walking is more risky per mile for the traveller than cycling while driving is safer per mile, but
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
And they are somehow managing to do so currently without licences. One thing to consider is how much effect licensing has on car safety anyway. Mexico city has no test requirement at all, you just pay for permission to drive rather than sit
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by cornyNetHandle 9y ago
I walk on the road all the time, having grown up in an area with plenty of rural roads without pavements. I would get into a ton of shit should I visit anywhere that had jaywalking laws, though in the places they exist and are enforced, the

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