sentientmachine

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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Windows 8 came across as a kind of entertainment toy device that focused on content consumption and advertisement delivery embedded right in the start menus. Removing the silly game could be part of Microsoft's agenda to undo the damag
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
So let me get this straight, your mom died from alcohol and I still here you defending it? I guess I tripped your cognitive dissonance algorithms, your genetic line can't simultaneously be 'good' and the thing that caused gr
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
The fact that its addictive and damages people. That should be the illegal thing: using a factory to make things that people get addicted to and it harms them. People 1000 years from now are going to look at us in the way we look at witch
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Cross between ad hominum and straw man. He compared my argument to cars growing on trees the said ha! Look how silly you are. Cars don't grow on trees! Hmmm you don't say. Can we get back to the argument now?
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Because your sorry butt marches into our emergency room after you screw yourself up. Taking away extra nice things that could have been. And since we can't drop you off on a deserted island to get rid of you for damaging the rest of
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
If I was there when they decided to poison the factory alcohol. I would have advised against it. You'll never hear the end of it. All the victims will blame you for the damage taken, because it was more than they expected. I'd
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
An interesting analogy. However the victim in this case simply failed to take a precaution vs willfully went out the way to seek damage. Punishing people with deadly force for not taking precautions is unauthorized by my calculations. The
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
My compassion is earned by the victim at hand, not given away by individuals who like to appropriate other men's resources such as yourself.
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Health benefit? I'll be sure to tell the kids who's mothers drank during pregnancy that their obvious and life crippling birth defects that nugget of truthiness. Tell me again how much alcohol stimulates GDP and promotes health i
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
It should be legalized and then if you take it, it goes on your record, so next time you try to get a job the hiring company can decide based upon the reputation of potheads, whether or not to hire you.
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
You know an argument is good when the opposing party resorts to ad hominem. First you must explain where I have made a mistake, you pea brain.
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
I don't disapprove of drinking poison. Its the people drinking poison who are disapproving of the decision to make poison poisonous. The phenomenon to explain is why the blame is quickly shifted from people drinking poison and gettin
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Lets suppose some company hired scientists at great expense to make 10w30 motor oil incredibly addictive. Maybe they put some new chemical nobody heard of into it. Anyway, people are drinking it and getting sick and dying from it left and
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
What Snowden did, or more specifically what the faceless, unaccountable and un-nameable NSA directors did was what George Orwell was trying to capture in his famous novel. The notion of thoughtcrime and crimethink being the punishable even
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Also watch out for a bait and switch on Airbnb. I'm actually sitting in a nice apt now from airbnb. So I am happy with it. But there is another host who is trying to get me for an $1800 cleaning fee. What happens is you book a room
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
"Can you, at the same time, read this sentence and think about yourself reading it?" The moments before I fall asleep is when I sometimes can get a glimpse of how the machinery of reading and thought work under the hood. It looks
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
One way to help the government establish tight controls over what kinds of programs you can run on any of your computers is to implement a single point of control and a single point of failure for the internet through ISP's. That way
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
The programmer recruiting industry is counter productive, adding less than no value to the people who need coders as well as the the programmers who want to work. Less than no value means they are a net drain on society, as worthless as hi
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Perhaps it's a good idea to have random take downs of the internet in large areas for extended periods of time so that there is more motivation for people to create a second, non-centralized single-point-of-failure single-point-of-cont
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
I guess we should give up on trying to keep the definition of the word "Hacker" as "brilliant programmer and technical expert". We can't continue going around calling ourselves "Criminals", and that when w
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
You say Executive pay is not an asset. So if an executive owns the deed to a house, you'd agree that's an asset, but if the executive maintains a skill to be hired for 200k/day, that this is not an asset? Doesn't an exe
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
The vast majority of drivers also think they are in the top 10% of good drivers. The mistake stems from the fact that brains have a really hard time viewing themselves from the perspective of others.
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
But still, making your app/service compatible with IE6 is a hassle for you and preventing you from doing a better job in other areas which harms your profits. Perhaps we can take the hit for you. We could cause your customers to stop
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Ownership means a few things, it's the right to use, and the right to deny use of, and if someone opposes you on your rightful usage or denial, then the unlimited fury of a thousand policemen are available to correct the other person.
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
Some people own their own home and still can't use Airbnb because their HOA (Home Owner Association) made a rule that you can't sublet your house. And if you are found in abayence of this rule, they can fine you any amount they w
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by sentientmachine 12y ago
With Communism, a person's job is determined by an external power. How is the dealer network telling Tesla that they can't sell their car in NY not an example of communism? Put down that microscope citizen. I've already told
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by sentientmachine 13y ago
Imagine if government had the power to flick a switch place perfect earplugs and blinders on every human everywhere for a time for some political agenda. I wonder how far men would go (short of just killing people) to suppress the right for
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by sentientmachine 13y ago
But couldn't such an act be repealed as "enabling the terrorists" and be rendered inert?
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by sentientmachine 13y ago
How far does a government agency have to go in breaking law before the military is deployed to put boots on the ground to reel in the agency back under the rule of law? I'd like to think that if agencies started hiring their own armies
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by sentientmachine 13y ago
You don't ban pool halls because mafia members wink and nudge to each other all the time there. Banning the pool hall is not going to deter the crime. And banning links in chatrooms by making it illegal will not do anything either. Th

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