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I'm beginning to think you don't understand the words "argument" or "woke" either.... But anyway, I'm merely pointing out for the sake of readers that insurance companies are engag…

...What do you mean "cap"?

> Soviet programmers invented it in their spare time when they had access to computers, as enthusiasts. What did capitalism add? Capitalism created the computers whose Soviet copie…

Are the Americans in the room with us right now?

> the experience has been […] uniformly poor […] Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents Which is to say, not uniformly poor? > I'd also love to do aw…

> You can force insurers to cover folks they wouldn't want to otherwise by bringing more customers (employees) to the table. The word you're looking for is "convince," not "force."…

(Which you might be able to see)

Thanks to the hackernews community for flagging this and proving his point!

This seems like a strangely inverted observation, i.e. pretty directly backwards of what's actually happening. This is evident in the odd way you characterize your latter 2 of 3 ex…

This is at least the third HN post about this lol. Surprised it still hasn't blown up on HN.

Your analysis reiterates the popular but fallacious motifs. The real issue is that people don't read the contracts they sign, so when they buy something they imagine that it will d…

As an occasional amateur music transcriber I'd say the goal of transcription is not transformation. If I'm transforming, I've failed :) Inevitably the transcriber makes decisions i…

I'm not certain I took that dichotomy as a premise, but regardless I agree there is a middle ground of many patches occupied by real events characterized by mixtures of intentional…

You're talking about superiority of technology, not technology itself.

Could you elaborate? Esp. on the "more or less" bit. E.g. I can't imagine you take away porn and more than 100 people experience withdrawal.

> Are you truly curious as to how it might not be A Good Thing that those engaging in high-finance capitalistic money making programs would have access to forcefully engaging a hum…

Are you serious?

To flip the question on it's head, what exactly do you see as the "evil" potential? The most prominent comments to this effect are just scifi handwaving.

Really, I don't think you need to worry. A prevailing latent attitude in the comments is that the brain is somehow super malleable and subject to external control through some inca…

> I appreciate that this is scientific research, but there are definitely companies out there that will try to row-hammer everyone's brain if this sort of thing is not heavily cont…

> Talk to console gamers and they still think the PC is sweaty and playing on the PC is like putting your hands in the toilet. The kind of ridiculous sweeping generalization that d…

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

> Anything worth doing out of the kindness of our hearts is worth doing collectively without expecting individuals do disproportionately sacrifice. What are you saying here? Like, …