disposekinetics

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by disposekinetics 5y ago
Laws against hate speech are fundamentally censorious. You approve of censorship when it happens to people you dislike. You're just unprincipled. If homosexuals have their rights ignored in some far off country you must just shrug your
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
You're abetting the destruction of free speech through while you battle strawmen.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I feel like there has been a whole targeted campaign against SF recently. Am I seeing faces in clouds?
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
It minimizes the amount of taxes paid overall, which weakens the state.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
But isn't it good that companies shop around for the cheapest tax rate?
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
The big one in the news right now is voting, but Jimmy Carter formed the department of education at a federal level.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
It isn't a binary, the question is the right representation as much as anything else.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I like the way it was put. I love unions but I'm frustrated by the 'sins of unionists'
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I totally agree. I support the theory behind unions, but the practices by employers and unions make me wish for less coercion all around.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
The most important think is if Amazon workers want to unionize.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
Conversely if you keep your site simple enough the user can apply styling as needed.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I feel like you're conflating civilization and government.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I relied very heavily on Day One until they dropped most of their local-hosting features. It was painful and I still haven't found any comparable alternative.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I wish I could say the same for my home country.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
Same thing with forest fires. In the last 10 years we stopped any sort of fire mitigation, and we have seen the fires get far worse.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
So the rate of ad-fraud on climate news will be higher?
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
A bug worthy of Peter Watts.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
The problem is government overreach and the proposed solution is more overreach.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I think you made a jump from laborers should own their own labor to laborers should own labor collectively. Democratically control of individual resources appears to be less than ideal.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
That sounds way better than the current “parrot the right politics as you’re told”.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
California is anything but a low tax place to live, but they also have tons and tons of property crime.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
My dream is we move away from overly complex layers on top of HTTP and move to open simple protocols.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
One of the things I really appreciate about IRC is the raw simplicity of the protocol. I hope that does not get lost in an effort to modernize.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
In your estimation is having a zip bomb I'm proud of crafting on my laptop a boobytrap because it could cause problems for a malicious actor naively unzipping all my files?
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
Wouldn't the possession/spending of that currency strongly imply I run a node? I think it might be self-defeating.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I believe you understand why someone would object to the above, but are not willing to universalize it.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
If it's profitable, yes. Edit: If it's profitable we would expect to see it, not should in the moral rightness sense.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
A union that doesn't protect their members is pretty hopeless.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
I've never seen UML used at a company in any form, despite being required to take a class that taught UML.
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by disposekinetics 5y ago
Why would I ever join a union that didn't protect me from rampant undercutting via importing more workers? That is the whole reason I would join a union.

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