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It was your “civic duty” to rat out your neighbors, too. Your framing something as the moral position does absolutely nothing to make it so

Do you think that is a valid metaphor?

> With the first sip of science one becomes an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you

- some mediocre scientist probably nobody has heard of

All he’s saying is that as a subset of the universe, whatever words you want to apply to describe your subjective experience, apply equally to the universe, since you are part of the universe. Not sure what “special” has to do with it

I think this is supposed to be a dig at antivaxxers, I wonder if the author legitimately believes it’s a valid metaphor. Like if I advocated against private prisons and someone said “LOL this person says we should all live outside!”, the leap in logic is equally big

You must have missed the year 2020

Why is that crazy? The point is tracking movements, how would that be possible if the government can’t see your location?

I saw a “dead” comment with the following content, but I think the mods were wrong to delete it. The CCP is accurately described as the Nazis of our time. This is technically relevant to OP’s technical question.

“ The CCP are the Nazis of our time, and currently have border disputes with all of their neighbors. There's an arms race in that region because they won't respect WTO rulings. Huawei's founder is "former" PLA, which is the CCP's military arm. Huawei has gutted Western telecom competitors by dumping equipment on the West, which reduces tech job opportunities. Any Huawei router is one firmware update away from giving the CCP access to your network.”

They are at risk of being canceled because of positions you are teaching them that currently seems reasonable to you.

Bias is relative to a null hypothesis, you are just begging the question. Predictive power is the final arbiter

> Any system that claims to work on that sort of input is almost certainly picking up socio-economic status of different races, or something similar, with no causal predictive power.

I wonder which will have more predictive power, the version where you let the AI do it’s thing or the version where you intervene to correct for things that are almost certainly wrong according to you.

So were coronaviruses

Based on the behavior from TPTB it’s safe to assume he is just the journalist in the equation and that’s why the whole thing looks so bad for the US

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, this is how far internet discussion has deteriorated.

> Useless to debate

It seems like you just outlined why it is necessary to debate. Think of how many positions used to have overwhelming majority in Congress, only to be overturned after citizens pushed the issue, by publicly debating it when it was unpopular.

I think the idea is that they would take funding in whatever currency they want, pay off the IMF with whatever currency they want, and then investors would get BTC, which is what they want. No need to sell $1bn worth of BTC.

That’s what “fiat” means. Did you have a Freudian slip wherein you said “fiat” when you meant to say “debt based central bank monetary system”?

I would buy some bonds just because of the idea that a nation could be free from international banking debt. Like a charitable donation, almost

I’m aware! Deciding to opt in to a vaccine pass system also harms others. Meanwhile we are warned that if you’re vaccinated, you can still transmit. To each their own!

Thanks for the info! This doesn’t change my mind but I appreciate it anyway, and perhaps it will change the mind of some reader who was on the fence.

Very interesting! But I would rather just get infected. To each their own, I’m sure we can agree!

DuckDuckGo gives vastly different search results from Google. Last thing we need is the government involved in “improving” search results.

> Reasonable people can come to different conclusions on what it means for speech to be "free", what counts as speech, what context around the speech matters, and what entities should get "free speech" protection.

This is why it is encoded as an absolute, so that one’s perspective on what is reasonable or not is irrelevant. If speech causes harm that person can be sued for harm in a civil case. But the government shall not make any law infringing on the right to free speech.

Agreed! Feels like two sides of the same coin

When entire classes of hypotheses are not allowed to be discussed, we will be perpetually confused by things like this

Can you show it in a pie chart next to other spending? Can you apply that % to your taxes and then fill in the gaps where all the rest went? There must be a name for the logical fallacy you just used

> If it means the US resumes its previous levels of scientific investment, we finally fucking go to mars and we all get healthcare?

Have a look at how government spends taxes now before suggesting such utopian disinfo

Crabs in a bucket.

Enough with these conspiracy theories

Bearing risk is not rent seeking, passive income does not imply rent seeking

These problems fix themselves given enough time. Less productive firms go out of business and take their cultures with them.

Social norms are evolved, not designed.