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by re-al 5y ago
Shh! You realise downvotes are a big deal for managing information on certain sites that we frequent...
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by re-al 5y ago
I just don't see how a cell is similar to an insect.
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by re-al 5y ago
I don't understand the emotion, or even the idea that I have to feel something about cars or roads. What is it to do with me, why should I care? Its not as if I can do anything about it. The governance structure provided us with road
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by re-al 5y ago
"Our revealed preference seems to be that we'd rather have homeless people live in tents than have poor people get free or nearly free housing." Well, I'm sick of your preferences; they make no sense to me. I'm bein
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by re-al 5y ago
UBI is such blatant bribery by the existing governance structures, in order to ensure conformity to their ever increasing dictats. I don't see how anyone things this action is a good thing - it's inflationary, it's bribery.
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by re-al 5y ago
No. Blackrock and Vanguard are.
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by re-al 5y ago
"Pegasus takes advantage of so-called zero-day vulnerabilities of software running on mobile phones, meaning built-in flaws that not even developers and manufacturers are aware of." Vulnerabilities, eh - 'flaws'? Or back
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by re-al 5y ago
No one has 'the truth', it's just not that sort of thing. Everyone has opinions. Some opinions are lies. Transparency is the way to deal with the lies. But if you're the one lying and have your hands on the levers of
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by re-al 5y ago
"Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time.&
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by re-al 5y ago
You can't blame them! What seem like valid differences of opinion are political, national security threats, etc. Intolerance abounds. But please - that 'storming of the US Capitol' was a joke - those people were pretty well
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by re-al 5y ago
My thinking exactly! Do not extend trust - extend the attempt to try to verify, if you think the matter is important. On living with uncertainty - this seems to be our major struggle. We can't say "I don't know", we wo
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by re-al 5y ago
There are bad things all over the world, deaths, crashes, collapses, etc. But what does that have to do with technologists working hard to eliminate freedoms and privacy, not just for themselves but for everyone? Do technologists have the
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by re-al 5y ago
I'm totally fine personally with other people doing what they want to do. Buy a phone knowing you are being spied on. But do you forget that we did not know we were being spied on. Some of us suspected perhaps, but this only became b
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by re-al 5y ago
These are great questions. I am absolutely on the path to self-liberation - the policeman in my head is gone. Its been a work of years. Why do you say wild animal? Are you a wild animal if someone doesn't tell you what to do? I thin
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by re-al 5y ago
Isn't it amazing how easily people are controlled? Why force people to do something, when you can actually make money off whatever slave device or process you've got. This comes down to education. We have been educated to follow
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by re-al 5y ago
Thank you Mr Health and Safety!
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by re-al 5y ago
Well, don't stop investigating then, its your USP :)
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by re-al 5y ago
Is it not possible to talk about election fraud? I believe that this really has happened historically. I would be fine to agree with you if you have proven that there is not election fraud, but obviously having a different opinion is not p
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by re-al 5y ago
Many dark pattern designers, would claim 'bad design' as the excuse. Its hard to read intent, and hard not to suspect malicious intent when there is a cash value on the upside of the 'bad design'. I have another one - w
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by re-al 5y ago
Not doors, but there are many anti-patterns are intentional - they are there by design! Eg, "Accept All" cookies - always there. "Reject All"? No. Click preferences, scroll to the bottom, past all the minimised option
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by re-al 5y ago
at nomemerror (I cannot reply directly) I don't understand why your comment is flagged and dead! You are making a perfectly reasonable point. HN admins, what is unacceptable about what is being stated - I genuinely do not see it.
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by re-al 5y ago
Of course controlled burns have been known about for centuries - these are not mysteries! But why in the modern age do we NOT control burn - that is the question. Putting aside the climate change being out of control, can we try to conside
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by re-al 5y ago
Why cant we just plant more trees? Or let the trees we have grow bigger, to soak up all that extra carbon?
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by re-al 5y ago
Controlled burns prevent big fires??! Surely not. So, you're telling me, that if they don't do controlled burns, you could end up with a huge inferno?! Impossible. Next you'll be saying that the huge infernos are orchestrat
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by re-al 5y ago
These aren't fossilised - at least it doesn't say so.
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by re-al 5y ago
How can bones last 51,000 years?
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by re-al 5y ago
Just think, the science isn't in for vapes. But it is in for rna vaccines!
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by re-al 5y ago
Terms is how we communicate, hence my use. If you ask me, I'm calling a spade a spade, and Carney is saying a dog turd is cake. But I think its great you engage in the conversation - we can then establish what each of us means by what
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by re-al 5y ago
Yes.. Jack Ma got to the top doing business in China, but then proves himself to be a bad judge of the situation by making speeches against the Chinese authorities. I don't think so. I think Jack Ma is just a figurehead (like most bu
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by re-al 5y ago
And so do we, when we participate in voting - we legitimise the theater. But don't worry - we are at the end of the democratic time. We are moving/have moved into technocracy communitarianism, where all the meaningful decisions a

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