mellow2020

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by mellow2020 6y ago
Well, there's other sources for this, becauses it's actually true. I wonder what "armor" you think HN even has as inane tripe like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426407 is glued to #1, while some
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by mellow2020 6y ago
As a counterpoint here's something Franz Kafka wrote in a letter to Elli Hermann 1921, badly translated by me. > Parents have an animalistic, senseless love for the children, which confuses themselves with the child all the time, th
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by mellow2020 6y ago
For the totalitarian claim to rewrite history all territories are ultimately problematic. > We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. - Hannah Arendt I would
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Well, there's any kind of person anywhere, anyway. I think it's not wrong to be pre-emptively wary of that (and prepare arguments for it), considering the way F.U.D. about "cookie banners" [1] got many people worked up a
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Yes, I know, that's still shifting goal posts from > "being put in jail because you say publicly that tibet should be free" and if merely pointing that fact out is getting me downvoted, that's the problem of the peopl
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by mellow2020 6y ago
So what you're saying is, when I post that Catalonia should be free and go on holiday in Spain, no spooks would follow me around, and no pressure would be put on German companies to fire me, and this isn't even remotely comparable
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Maybe to people who made "rapey" part of their vocabulary because of internet "humor".
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by mellow2020 6y ago
If you remove "in a post-911 world" from that comment the point stays exactly the same.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The last guy who touched upon it On the other hand, people like Chomsky aren't being persecuted. Though all in all, I would also say they get ignored very efficiently, Chomsky still isn't exactly unknown either. Is there a
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The rationale behind that statements leads to the attitude of not even attempting to be objective. What is "the rationale behind that statement", other than intellectual honesty? The statement is true, not even attempting to
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the comment it was in response to, which does in fact not say that.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Nobody said you shouldn't try. But part of that is calling out those who talk of being "unbiased" or "objective" not as a shorthand, but as something they seen think is actually within their possession. > It is
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by mellow2020 6y ago
It's easy to explain -- just not to people whose salary whose salary depends on not understanding it, who keep shaking their heads as the predictable results of the boat they won't rock roll in. > people want some understanding
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by mellow2020 6y ago
The less agency people have, and the less expertise is teached to them and expected of them, the less capable and the more exploitable they become.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
The majority of people is fine living their lives as to ensure to destruction of all organized human life on the planet, just when it comes to the climate. Thinking of history, all the darkest hours of it involve a majority thinking they&#x
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by mellow2020 6y ago
We couldn't otherwise build, light and tear down walls with just our minds. Learning how to handle and accept emotions is possible with our minds and the help of each other, but in societies where the full range of emotions are mostl
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The answer is simple, protection from them taking it by force. No force can stand against an infinite amount of drones, to name just one thing. Those who own the means of production that no longer require workers will also own all mean
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> Non-repairability is not planned obsolescence. You already acknowledged that 6 year old phones are obsolete. And you also claimed claimed that "only someone who didn't work on Apple products" could possibly "buy int
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> The only people who buy the idea of planned obsolescence are the ones who haven’t worked on products like that. So, how many Apple products Apple said could not be repaired have you repaired? https://www.youtube.com/w
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by mellow2020 6y ago
She was arguably a bit careless in the moment that lead to them getting caught, and since pushing that stack of fliers wasn't really useful for their greater aims, that kinda proves your point as well. The idea of the White Rose not ge
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> I just sometimes ask myself if people in previous centuries thought and lived as superficially as today. Or if, piece by piece, as times fade, their bad aspects retreat to the background and their goodness shines especially bright? At
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them - regarding what settings are reasonable to have, what software they want you to use etc. Well, they think it gives them quality. Instead they kinda get fle
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Sebastian Haffner warned of it as early as 1940. Not of the internet itself of course, but still. Note the bit about a microphone in every house. > Yet another circumstance must be mentioned which proves favorable for the Nazis and thei
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by mellow2020 6y ago
How does unfreedom hurt freedom? In that any given person cannot be in several places of the freedom spectrum at the same time. If they're a serf, a mere set of eyeballs and a wallet, they cannot be a grown literate human being in an i
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> We need the clout we would lose, otherwise we won't be big enough to have any say when the next thing comes around. As John J. Chapman said in 1900: > I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their me
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> would you have sacrificed netflix or other stuff and continued to use pure OSS Yeah, in a heartbeat. I actually never used Netflix and probably never will. I won't be be party to destroying what is good and not-like-TV about the
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> it would be ~40% of the quarterly profit Another way to look at it is as just the cost to make that remaining profit, and that the cost has been externalized so far. If people had utterly insisted on decent customer support from day on
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by mellow2020 6y ago
> He's saying government spying isn't that bad IF the government can be trusted. Yeah, IF. In reality however, it's orders of magnitude worse than any crimes that could be prevented by it.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
So, not caring because because oneself is not being persecuted at this minute, and determined to err on the side of being no threat to any criminals or people who persecute others, ever, and to hand that "value" down the generatio
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by mellow2020 6y ago
I didn't say "it's the same thing", I said " As something that is likely to do good and isn't much of a sacrifice , it's the same thing" > I would obviously object to other people forcing me into a

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