nnfy

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by nnfy 9y ago
I understand that there are legitimate reasons that someone may need assistance. My problem is with this nonsensical mentality that, without any actual statistics, people automatically assume that anyone struggling is a victim of circumstan
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by nnfy 9y ago
> but when you're in a situation with no support things feel a lot different. The fact that things feel different in hard times does not change whether objectively they are right or wrong.
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by nnfy 9y ago
Are you sure that the problem doesn't actually exist in Europe and Canada? Are you sure it isn't offset by a culture where the young are expected to care more for their elders?
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by nnfy 9y ago
>Her savings long gone, and having never done much long-term financial planning And so again we are expected to pay for the mistakes of others. What incentive is there to save if you know you have a social net to save you anyway? Yes, I
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by nnfy 9y ago
How long until Facebook literally asks for my soul?
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by nnfy 9y ago
Awesome, but to me this stuff is also terrifying, and I can't quite place why. Something about dissecting intelligence, and the potential that our own minds process things similarly. Creepy how our reality is distilled into these uncan
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by nnfy 9y ago
So leave Cali. What is with this entitlement to live anywhere we want for any price we want?
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by nnfy 9y ago
Weird how you haven't considered population density, or housing safety regulations, or the state of the economy, or the average productivity of immigrants looking for a better life at the turn of the century compared to the homeless in
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by nnfy 9y ago
Right, the solution is to give addicts more money to buy drugs. I suppose that'll solve the problem when they inevitably OD and we can stop wasting our money on them. I'm not speaking from an ivory tower either, like many UBI supp
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by nnfy 9y ago
Maybe some of us prefer not deincentivizing work and creating an even larger subpopulation which is entirely dependent on government and won't be employable for generations? We live in a reality where resources still require effort and
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by nnfy 9y ago
But you're ignoring the fact that bitcoin is about more than simply moving money. There is value in security and decentralization. Further, GDP ignores consumption, it is gross product, not net product. Further indication to me that co
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by nnfy 9y ago
Everyone is happy to sentationalize the amount of energy that the bitcoin network uses, but no one ever mentions how much energy use is acceptable. Nor does anyone seem to attempt a thorough cost/benefit analysis. How much energy from
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by nnfy 9y ago
Of course. This kind of power is so easy to abuse. Unfortunately, google and amazon are a little harder to abandon than fb because of their utility...
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by nnfy 9y ago
That was one of the final straws for me. I don't think anyone should trust Facebook with enough information to completely take over someone's real life identity. FB feels authoritarian in a very Orwellian way, and it is even scari
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by nnfy 9y ago
You're right, I misspoke. My point I think still stands - there are something like 1-2 thousand different Cryptos, many without ICOs, but there is little value in purchasing them, be it via ICO or an ordinary exchange.
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by nnfy 9y ago
While I suspected the same, after reading the article, the author does not conflate the bursting of the crypto bubble with the price of BTC. After this realization I was able to set aside my indignation and observe that the author makes a g
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by nnfy 9y ago
I think many crypto-currencies (with and without ICOs) are rather obvious cash grabs that provide no actual value beyond speculation (e.g. dogecoin); was something comparable going on during the .com bubble? Were there many companies offeri
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by nnfy 9y ago
Isn't it bad science to suppress findings? Where does one draw the line? Suppression of results introduces subjectivity and allows for injection of agenda into what should be an objective practice. Not to mention, someone else will lik
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by nnfy 9y ago
I remember when CNET was trustworthy, and not a giant, malware ridden advertisement...
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by nnfy 9y ago
Serious suggestion: consider amphetamines. Dangerous in excess, but not unlike any other double edged tool, relatively safe when used responsibly. Edit: faceless downvotes? How about some actual discussion?
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by nnfy 9y ago
I wonder how many of those with the qualifications to be selected for a trip to mars would make such a sacrifice. If you knew you weren't coming back, would you still be willing to be the first person on mars?
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by nnfy 9y ago
No, the point is that in 1984 you had doublespeak, where people used words in ways that were contradictory to their meaning[0] - in the way that the GP claims that prohibiting filtering is somehow a form of censorship, when censorship is li
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by nnfy 9y ago
>Prohibiting filtering is also censorship -- it's telling people they have to see your thing in place of the thing they want. This reads like a paragraph straight out of 1984. No one is forcing people to view anything by prohibiting
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by nnfy 9y ago
Hold on, you dont think it absurd that, by the logic in your post, if I retweet something as newsworthy as the president tweeting "negroes are bad", that I will be banned as well? This is exactly the kind of myopic mindset that ma
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by nnfy 9y ago
>Actively spreading the harassing or inciting material is an implicit endorsement - you could stop it if you wanted. Hosting an open forum is not the same as endorsing ideas on said forum. In fact, I would argue strongly to the contrary-
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by nnfy 9y ago
Apparently this is the so called progrwssive prince behind the crackdown, the one who among other things allowed women to drive. I wonder what this could mean for the middle east and the Saudi export of Wahhabism...
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by nnfy 9y ago
In theory it sounds like a good idea, but I just wonder, what stops people from gaming such a system if it becomes commonplace? $500 for a couple hours of trouble, assuming I'm local, isn't a bad deal.
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by nnfy 9y ago
How does anyone expect high school graduates to make responsible decisions regarding loans and choice of major when the overwhelming majority of his grads exit highschool financially illiterate, with the nonsensical idea that any college de
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by nnfy 9y ago
I'm not sure I follow; the authors claim that paying job applicants for applying attracts better talent? And they further claim that Ethiopians cannot afford the cost of generating an application? Somehow I doubt that these results wou
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by nnfy 9y ago
I can attest, I have a 9 card mining setup which pulls around 330w per card 24/7. In the summer when it was 70-80 degrees outside it was enough to keep a large basement in the 90s, plus the rest of the house uncomfortably warm. I had t

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