devoply

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by devoply 7y ago
Western governments are covert about surveillance. China is overt about it, you continuously feel insecure and watched... and much like US's security theatre in airports that's the aim. So anyone who might wish harm to the communi
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by devoply 7y ago
I don't mean currently no one talks about China, I mean there was a period after 2009 where there were a number of hacking incidents that no one talked about until much later. As for a Smith refusing, yes, that could be the case. But t
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by devoply 7y ago
What if on the other hand this is the fundamental aspect of Capitalism... Where the people with capital are always telling other people who might want access to whatever they are holding, money, markets, production, whatever, that if they d
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by devoply 7y ago
Looks like though this is the future. It's Capitalism where you love a product, say freedom of speech or democracy, but the company that supplies it gets bought out. And now you can't get that product anymore because it's not
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by devoply 7y ago
Seems like a rip-off. Not only do you get to live in sub-standard housing you're making rent-seekers some serious profit margins for nothing. These places should be $250/mo. and everyone should be able to afford them if they need
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by devoply 7y ago
To quote dumb and dumber, so you mean there's a chance?
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by devoply 7y ago
One interesting rule might be to keep people with a certain amount of money from meddling in politics. Like you track all the money, and rich people are not allowed to influence politics at all. That would destroy the strangle hold that var
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by devoply 7y ago
Well when America vacuums up power if you are a European nation without any ammo you better watch out.
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by devoply 7y ago
> liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control Saddam was willing to leave. > Both were successful by the metrics set out for it. Because they were beat downs. > Afghanistan and the second Iraq war, and the various "police actions"
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by devoply 7y ago
You really want to make a must to punish children? If you get in there early there shouldn't be an in addition to. Prison is a final measure when all other measures have failed. Even with prison, first time offenders of non-serious cri
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by devoply 7y ago
Not only that, they will have wives, girlfriends, and children; they may eventually have employees. You can not stop them period. They are a part of the human population. They can not be weeded out.
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by devoply 7y ago
Maybe if you counselled them and taught them how to manage their own needs and emotions many of them would not become criminals saving society many ills. You can not eliminate the personality that needs bullying to validate themselves from
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by devoply 7y ago
How does banning cars and making cities more walk-able effect obesity?
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by devoply 7y ago
Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than the
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by devoply 7y ago
You can't wake up as that's all also a story. It's turtles all the way down. All you can do is tell a different story, to change the script so to say. So far we have gone through a few scripts... Polytheism (many gods) ->
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by devoply 7y ago
Humans live in stories not in reality. In modern times we have figured out how to sublimate reality with stories, but this process is as old as civilization and propaganda. So no matter how much stupid shit we do that makes no sense from an
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by devoply 7y ago
Okay imagine living with all the above + war + religious leadership that does not agree with your beliefs. That's a religious and tribal governance in our time.
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by devoply 7y ago
You see anyone killing anyone because they don't like the Apple watch? You seen a person who drives a Chevy Impala being hated on by someone who drives a Toyota? No. You see someone who works at Facebook being subjected to hate because
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by devoply 7y ago
The economy unites everyone that's what the West discovered. So if you focus on the economy and tempt people with their desires you can get them to work long hours, cooperate with each other, and create things that everyone in the worl
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by devoply 7y ago
Mobile use cloudflares 1.1.1.1 with vpn... free
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah it's a national security concern because if someone is leading so heavily they will destroy your lead and then you will never catch up. Just look at what happened to so many European tech companies.
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by devoply 7y ago
VPN problemo solved.
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by devoply 7y ago
US was already shown to be behind in 5g, China is already caught up. Heck they even helped AMD catch up to Intel, and see what sort of major success that was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%E2%80%93Chinese_joint_ven
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by devoply 7y ago
Why can't you bring back Congress?
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by devoply 7y ago
Zuck's views need some scientific validation. Has Bill Gates investment paid off better than similar amounts of money spent by the government... or philanthropy in general?
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by devoply 7y ago
Or AI drones that the US will soon be using to kill various people around the world.
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by devoply 7y ago
What was great about India compared to Pakistan was the fact that it was a tolerant multi-ethnic democracy that may emulate Europe and North American democracy and become a stable functional multi-faced growing democracy. That dreams seems
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by devoply 7y ago
Joel Spolsky says anything more than 1k is too much and require approval. Has this amount now changed?
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by devoply 7y ago
Not really Canada needed another source for selling its oil and possibly lumber because America loves strong arming it in trade deals because it's 1/10 the size. So geopolitically this move hurt Canada quite a bit. It could'v
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by devoply 7y ago
or don't. decisions decisions. if netflix can get a few good shows every month or a few movies... that's enough value for what they are charging and about the amount of free time i have to invest in watching tv.

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