laotzu

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by laotzu 10y ago
Define sentient entities
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by laotzu 10y ago
Why should students be forced to use such outdated technology? If we are trying to teach students how to work in the real world, shouldn't we let them use computers that they would be using in the real world as opposed to obsolete comp
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by laotzu 11y ago
Vice laws
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by laotzu 11y ago
It used to be 90% of the population was working to produce food, now its around 1% and decreasing with increasing efficiency. So it is an increasingly negligible amount of labor needed to provide an already surplus amount of food. It is cyn
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by laotzu 11y ago
>You are saying it isn't my right to consume what I choose? That's what the law says actually. Not trying to be snide here but unfortunately the law does not allow for sovereign domain over one's own body (at least in the
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by laotzu 11y ago
>if it's only unconsciously influencing me a tiny amount If it is unconsciously influencing you how would you know if it is only doing so "a tiny amount"?
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by laotzu 11y ago
>At the moment the problem in the US is labor scarcity. Robots haven't replaced these jobs, these jobs just don't get done. Labor scarcity in the sense that there's not enough people who need work, or in the sense that the
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by laotzu 11y ago
It's really about being able to match growth with sustainability.
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by laotzu 11y ago
The measurement problem, if by quantitative you mean "relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something". There is no consistent mathematical standard of measurement by which money is created. Instead, the monetary
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by laotzu 11y ago
In my university finance classes we were forced to use calculators that were invented in 1976[1] to run calculations on formulas we had to memorize that could easily have been automated in Excel. Since then I've been prejudiced that &q
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by laotzu 11y ago
I think the author is referring to increasingly distributed networks as opposed to the more centralized legacy networks. So electric networks vs. Paper based networks.
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by laotzu 11y ago
They gave up because of general lack of opportunity.
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The self-titled militia organizations, however, use a warped view of history that glorifies their role in the American Revolution As a proponent of non-violence I have no real support for such activities but after having read much of th
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by laotzu 11y ago
Against zombies
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on t
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by laotzu 11y ago
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
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by laotzu 11y ago
"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough" -Lao Tzu Yes, I would agree that implementing a basic income is not a problem of technical feasibility or lack of resources but a problem of user buy in. I've read at le
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by laotzu 11y ago
Growth for the sake of growth is cancer
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by laotzu 11y ago
Yes, some people will be able to pay off the loan + interest but this anecdote ignores the others that by design cannot. As Hörmann explains, the amount of money in existence + the amount of money that is contracted as being owed is a neg
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by laotzu 11y ago
I am familiar with the credit-theory of money as opposed to the debt-theory which we currently use. David Graeber explains it in Debt: The First 5,000 Years [1], for anyone interested in further reading. [1] https://libcom.org&#
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by laotzu 11y ago
While it is a two-way street (both parties "agree"), what I'm saying is that in an honest, straightforward arrangement people should not be contractually obligated to run in the rat race their whole lives trying to pay off a
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by laotzu 11y ago
No. That would take infinite time to comprehend, right?
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by laotzu 11y ago
Is there matter with no space in it?
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by laotzu 11y ago
Basic income is an idea which has been made practical due to electric automation. Why is it then that everyone assumes the surplus created by electric automation should be distributed using such a primitive legacy paper based information sy
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by laotzu 11y ago
My question was in regards to fundamental basis and not the abstractions built on top of that basis.
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by laotzu 11y ago
The founding fathers had a lot to say about a strong executive who is primarily interested in providing security as opposed to liberty and its inevitable corruption: >In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given
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by laotzu 11y ago
They both said it. And no, Abraham Lincoln invented the internets.
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by laotzu 11y ago
Indeed. After winning the right to vote in 1965, King greatly redefined his scope of action targeting economic justice for the poor in general, regardless of skin color. >I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about
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by laotzu 11y ago
Ah, forgive my ignorance. But when you speak of amplitude and frequency, you are referring to wave-like phenomenon correct? Are not waves binary, or "black and white" in the sense that they go up and down and that the these two du
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by laotzu 11y ago
>It pains me to see my "right" and "left" leaning friends blame one side of the coin while completing ignoring the damage wrought by the flip side. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and many others expl

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