Male, female, transgender, white, black, straight, homosexual, rich, poor, country of origin... Again, this is my point. Any time there is an overabundance of straight white males, and only straight white males,…
Why do you assume that I am a straight white male? Why do you assume I lived a life of priveledge because of the color of my skin and my gender? This is exactly what I'm describing. One cannot fight racism with racism.…
I think there is a growing problem in our society, or at least what appears in media, wherein any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility…
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…
> 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.
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?
>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…
How long until Facebook literally asks for my soul?
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…
So leave Cali. What is with this entitlement to live anywhere we want for any price we want?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
I remember when CNET was trustworthy, and not a giant, malware ridden advertisement...
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?
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?
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,…
Male, female, transgender, white, black, straight, homosexual, rich, poor, country of origin... Again, this is my point. Any time there is an overabundance of straight white males, and only straight white males,…
Why do you assume that I am a straight white male? Why do you assume I lived a life of priveledge because of the color of my skin and my gender? This is exactly what I'm describing. One cannot fight racism with racism.…
I think there is a growing problem in our society, or at least what appears in media, wherein any systematic discrepancy is blamed automatically on some kind of discrimination, without consideration of the possibility…
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…
> 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.
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?
>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…
How long until Facebook literally asks for my soul?
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…
So leave Cali. What is with this entitlement to live anywhere we want for any price we want?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
I remember when CNET was trustworthy, and not a giant, malware ridden advertisement...
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?
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?
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,…