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by throwaway218649 7y ago
The Dead Sea scrolls need a serious re-examination by modern scholars not biased towards mainstream Christianity, similar to the work on Jesus mythicism that has been done over the past 20 years that draws on Gnostic, Essene, and other hist
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
If you want to get involved in helping stop this in the United States, the Drug Policy Alliance is a good organization: https://www.drugpolicy.org/
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> Nobody really cared as the blacksmith, farm hand, or the secretary lost jobs. I am not sure where you got that impression. The loss of blacksmith (and nailmaker, etc.) and farm hand jobs in 19th century England was a huge social issue
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> Right now people view automation technology as being very expensive but if you look at trends in automation technology the price of that technology is actually declining so even small businesses can utilize the same technology as the m
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> The elites used to pay people to stand around and practically wipe their arses, that quickly diffused as more markets developed, and there were other, better things to do. That trend is very cyclical and depends on the state of the ine
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> For most of history economies were fighting against scarcity, working to produce as much as possible to keep people alive. It is only in the past 100 years that we have had a problem with too much productive capacity. That really does
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
The "rich will just live on their land without workers" seems like a hypothetical scenario, but it actually happened a few times during the colonization of the Western United States and Australia (post-Native American/Austral
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> How about employment stability? Used to be more common that you'd work at the same job your whole career, be rewarded for your dedication and seniority. Employment stability like that did not exist in the 19th century (in the US b
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> Then what are people taking about here? It is instructive to read Marx to answer this question. How much time do working people need to work every day to earn enough to reproduce themselves? College education is now expected for many j
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> You can't prove it's impossible to do what he did today. Others are actively doing it. There is a whole genre of get-rich-quick scammers claiming that exact thing: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-la
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
These algorithms are called "fuzzy hashing." Examples include "ssdeep," "smapsum," and "nilsimsa."
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
Your comment makes no sense. No one is passing around IP addresses by hand. It sounds like you have not heard of dynamic DNS, and don't understand how P2P software works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAA_record
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by throwaway218649 8y ago
> I have Google Alerts set up so I get emailed when people link to my site. A few months ago I started to receive an absurd amount of notifications, but I ignored them. I chalked it up to “Google is probably on drugs”. Between this quote