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by mowenz 9y ago
If someone downvote, can you point out what is incorrect? It feels like saying anything negative about Tesla/EVs on HN is just downvoted without regard for merit.
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by mowenz 9y ago
If this was China or Russia, our media would point and scold, calling them names and declaring them immoral, and the enemy. However, since it's the US, I doubt this will get much coverage in mainstream media outlets here.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Good lord that is a long-winded post. Not just in scope, but the writing style rambles and opines endlessly. For the record, I'm excited for the Model 3, and would buy a Model S if I could afford it. That said, the claim in that refere
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by mowenz 9y ago
The public value of the anti-authoritarian sentiment as an externality of psychedelic use could be quite high, depending on what it could prevent in our future.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Germany has been criticized by many for their questionable free speech. Snowden is one famous person to do this. The right to offend is also considered by many to be an important part of free speech-1. In fact, I'm not so sure why the
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by mowenz 9y ago
It was not too long ago that in Germany a political artist was prosecuted for a poem insulting a politician. In other words, governments have already repeatedly proven they should not have authority over what speech is acceptable, even in G
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by mowenz 9y ago
Just a different perspective to answer this (and I am open to being wrong): competition b/w societies is decreasing. We live in an increasingly bureaucratic, interconnected, globalized world, and I think it is an undiscussed reason for
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by mowenz 9y ago
By that criteria, everything from schoolyard insults to poems insulting Trump could be made illegal. I know you don't want to be insulted, or let other people be insulted, but it's a dangerous responisbility to give to government
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by mowenz 9y ago
The point was that both are unintended consequences of things which generally help people. If we could have free speech, or roads, with no bad side effects we'd have them. Once you eliminate speech just because you disagree with it, yo
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by mowenz 9y ago
The test to outlaw something should not be because it hurts someone. Just because you know some people will drive, or drive drunk, and this will kill people, does not mean you should ban driving, or alcohol. Another example is democracy. Ju
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by mowenz 9y ago
>where you think free speech was too limited in Europe and where this limitation led to a poor outcome for society? The test for what values we uphold should not always be what has proven to be a good outcome for ourselves or for society
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by mowenz 9y ago
It's politics that benefits the 1%'ers in NZ. Same reason why street crime is a real problem in NZ when it shouldn't be because it goes relatively unenforced, while they run arguably one of the highest War on Drugs cost/
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by mowenz 9y ago
>"We have not, to date, accepted that freedom of expression requires the facilitation of the unlawful sale of goods." That precise argument may be well-intentioned, but it threatens free speech because it sets a precedent placi
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by mowenz 9y ago
I don't think he is nitpicking at all. The US has too many conflicts, incl wars. 26,000 bombs dropped last year. Extremist fighters funded by the US Gov't (Syria, Iran Contra, and who knows what else has yet to be proven). We have
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by mowenz 9y ago
Ah. Yea I agree.
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by mowenz 9y ago
This is exactly right. Just to address the above poster: vanilla banking could still be guaranteed. By contrast, in essence the Fed is guaranteeing the banks' risky investments.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Schwartz said verbatim the Fed should be eliminated. Sanders has said much negative on the Fed, specifically that it's 'socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for everyone else,' and variations along the lines of &#
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by mowenz 9y ago
I agree that those are problems as well. However while you may not agree the Fed is a problem, unfortunately the Fed and central banking has an aura of group think around it that is usually only available for religious groups. I mean the f
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by mowenz 9y ago
The former and latter comments of yours in this post don't appear to agree with each other. Am I missing something?
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by mowenz 9y ago
>Does it seem to anyone else that the finance industry is increasingly distracted from actually matching up capital to fundamentally productive companies, especially new companies? This is somewhat controversial to posit, but I believe t
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by mowenz 9y ago
The above comment did refer to population studies. Most drugs are studied using clinical trials, which contain control groups. Not perfect experiment, but close to it. There are plenty of examples studies and trials published in scientific
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by mowenz 9y ago
Perhaps someone would explain why they downvoted?
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by mowenz 9y ago
I think what he means is the word Drug that is used in the War on Drugs. I.E. street speed (amphetamine) is a Drug while adderall (amphetamine) is medication. A lot of people in this country make that--indeed strange--distinction. The way w
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by mowenz 9y ago
You're correcr, but it's worth mentioning that studies != experiments. I'm not an anti-vaccer for the record. The studies vs experiments problem is larger in social sciences than medicine.
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by mowenz 9y ago
>Actually no - politics in democratic systems should transcend this immature behaviour. We actually agree on that. My point was that it is my observation politics in general suffers from the above problem, not just Trump supporters.
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by mowenz 9y ago
That is actually a pretty good point and not one that was obvious to someone who follows this topic and these are big figures in it (behind Greenwald, Snowden, Assange, etc.)
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by mowenz 9y ago
Isn't this just politics? Here is an example: After the DNC scandal against Sanders with DWS resigning I posted an article by Greenwald on this in /r/politics. It was downvoted with such reasons as 'Greenwald is an un-pa
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by mowenz 9y ago
This is the only understandable reason I can see that people would upvote thE parent topic. Other than that, the OP has provided no value proposition to his potential partner.
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by mowenz 9y ago
Is there any reason not to use whonix?

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