winston_smith

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by winston_smith 6y ago
OP already addressed that. When it's time to vote or choose your charitable donations or whatever, you can: > ...go read Wikipedia for 30 minutes and be just as caught up as anyone else because you know the end result of the news c
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Gaining acceptance by a tribe and finding ways to not die if you ever become disfavored seems like part of the whole hunter-gatherer package, don't you think? They tend not to be very wealthy by modern standards. Maybe you could ingrat
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by winston_smith 6y ago
It's true, hunter gatherer societies have a way of getting out competed.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Plenty of hunter gatherer tribes still around for the people crazy enough to want to join them
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Go try it and let us know how it works out
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by winston_smith 6y ago
And you too can go live in the bush and do all those things until you get a toothache, parasites and lose a few kids to infant mortality.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Ethically, everyone deserves all the blackjack and hookers they want, because we're all beautiful and precious creatures. Practically, giving someone a direct incentive to do worthwhile things works out far better than some central pla
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Separate variables. Either kind of test can be done with a nasopharyngeal swab, or without.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
You can have an okay economy without tech heavy hitters, but the point is that being dependent on US internet tech or Russian natural gas or whatever can be a significant vulnerability.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Now that we see what ad based, centralized social media / surveillance companies lead to, more and more people have reasons to take their business elsewhere.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
You're assuming government regulation is the only solution. When Facebook or Comcast or Google start censoring opinions they don't like, I want to hear about it on other places like hackernews so that I and my friends can use them
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by winston_smith 6y ago
The Atlantic: It's Time to Stop Using the 'Fire in a Crowded Theater' Quote https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Regulated utilities have their own failure modes. https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/18/...
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Wikileaks is a pretty grim example to include in that list.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Take a deep breath and step away for a minute. You're not alone, and lots of other people right here in this thread are also opposed to censorship. Dying on a hill isn't what we need, and in fact given that you're here, you
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Huh, that's pretty crazy, especially with AOC herself writing up impeachment papers: "Sunrise planned a sit-in in Pelosi's office and asked Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to help them publicize the event, which
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Not at all certain. Major outlets have cut him off on several occasions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/cnn-msnbc...
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Wikipedia reports four shootings. And this killing sure looks like it was part of CHOP: https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/murder-charges-filed-a...
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by winston_smith 6y ago
You're the one using ridiculous examples: dentists, boulders, canyons, rolling rocks up hills, pouring water on fires. The original topic was that various charities are saving lives in measurable ways, yet most people make excuses not
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by winston_smith 6y ago
I too have seen the Facebook chain letter about how we could end world poverty for only $XX billion. But yes, let's definitely not fund malaria relief in the meantime.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
> I'd absolutely sign up for a wealth-proportional share of a tax Very gracious of you to be willing to help but only if all of society signs up to do it with you. > system that's designed to punish me for doing so above and
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by winston_smith 6y ago
The key is correctly assessing what part of the life cycle you're in. If you're building a bridge for millions of cars to drive on, that's something we've done many times and which needs to be done correctly and carefull
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by winston_smith 6y ago
(wp: "Popularly known as the "Butcher of Uganda", he is considered one of the most brutal despots in world history")
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by winston_smith 6y ago
I've tried white lies like that and had them immediately backfire, plus they make me feel dishonest. "How is the conference going? Oh, great. I thought about going myself but didn't see any when I googled it. What was it
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Now you're the one misrepresenting him. We can have society without a school system that abuses kids, and for that matter, a prison system that's much less abusive as well.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Well the ussr had its chance and collapsed into oligarchy. But maybe the Chinese system of authoritarianism and reeducation camps for uighurs can still save us.
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Advice nudges people in a direction. Carnegie's advice is good for nudging people in the direction of being less self centered. For people pleasers who don't think of themselves enough, it is bad advice. For people too wrapped
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by winston_smith 6y ago
And if you define paper cuts as murder, then libraries are the real killers. Do you really want to put your insurance paperwork on the same level as innocents getting bombed?
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by winston_smith 6y ago
As a Canadian you pay up every time you pay taxes, and you don't negotiate because you take what the government gives you. If they say your orthopedic surgery happens in six months, then that's what you get, or you start shopping
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by winston_smith 6y ago
Ironically the proposed solution is usually to put the government in charge, which is far larger and more violent than any private company.

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