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Could you elaborate on the difference between mafia members and politicians?

"(One wonders how they managed to post to Twitter without internet access.)" I don't think Assange runs the wikileaks twitter account. So probably he messages them every day and wh…

Suppose someone decides whether he wants to join the military or not. Isn't it important for him to know, that either a moron or a psychopath will decide where to deploy him? That …

With Bitcoin there is no central agency that can simply confiscate money with a call. The government would have to torture you for the private key. But there is not even a way to s…

Using encrypted communications and bitcoin you can make sure that all your physical interactions are with people you can trust. Dark Net Markets are an example.

The womb, her body, is her property. It's unfortunate that the child can't survive outside of it, but that doesn't make throwing it out comparable to Orwell's examples.

“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and who turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” But how…

Some people are in fact motivated by money. Lots of things will begin to make sense to you, if you consider them from that perspective.

Why don't you start your own? Do you have to become a perfectly neutral angel to run any platform?

That's the things seen and unseen fallacy. Suppose some parts were buried, you wouldn't know of them.

you mean, amazon is better than whatever other places people could work instead?

Is happiness unnecessary? Doesn't it matter what people like? I don't mean the masses, I mean people who evolved to navigate meatspace. Shouldn't designs make people happy?

torrentz.eu

It would be a bus-factor problem if any one person ran all these things. But they're all run by different people, none is essential.

"But I don't think it is a path to meaning." No, it's not the path to meaning, but it is one.

And yet you comment on this, and presumably read the article.

In what sense can something be said to exist if it's "outside our observable universe, or even outside our universe entirely"?

It's like saying that it's all just pixels, therefore these words you read don't have any meaning.

Why?

One could publish such a software anonymously. All the data is already publicly available from trackers.

Seeding IP-protected stuff is already illegal everywhere, yet people do it.

... based on the other torrents that people seed who also seed that torrents you leeched? If many people that seed some movie I leech also seed others, or if the same person that s…