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    Comment #26810555

    Europe != Obscure department of the European Commission issuing unsolicited opinions

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    Comment #26807115

    I think it's impossible to have a pro-choice viewpoint in discussion websites. People get too nervous and defensive.

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    Comment #26806885

    [flagged]

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    Comment #26806722

    What a bunch of retards you are :)

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    Comment #26806690

    As usual, advocating for personal freedom gets you downvoted. It's such a funny pattern.

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    Comment #26806653

    Good. But at the same time it should be possible to buy through private channels. So we can circumvent and get rid of the terribly inefficient bureaucrats.

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    Comment #26723080

    Exactly. He could donate 99% of his wealth, and still be billionaire. Yet he won't do that, he asks others to fix the public finances. While doing virtue signalling in public about…

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    Comment #26722363

    You see totally different demographics between software design/development and the politics of software. In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet t…

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    Comment #26715846

    We can compare the audience of an flamewar post about racism in US, vs the readership of a paper on fixed point theorems, and it makes sense that organizations that don't care abou…

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    Comment #26715814

    From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential. I suppose…

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    Comment #26624992

    Well you paint a very gloomy dystopian picture, with scarcity and fighting for every square inch. This issue is present in any political system, even full egalitarianism, increase …

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    Comment #26624456

    Who said we won't have nukes?

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    Comment #26624283

    Okay, you claim 50% taxation is beneficial for all. It's highly debatable. But the point it's that taxes should be phrased and understood for what they are, a whitewashed extortion…

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    Comment #26623474

    I know, I understand. Societies become mafias and they start extorting high-income individuals to guarantee the peace and the welfare. I just applaud fair countries that don't exto…

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    Comment #26622550

    I enter all of these interactions voluntarily I choose the family, I choose the job, I choose what I consume and where I live Unfortunately I can't walk away from being stolen 50% …

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    Comment #26621422

    Use the terminology you like. If it makes you feel better this set of words, it's fine by me! No individual owes anything to the bigger group. That's the principle. In practice you…

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    Comment #26620773

    Why? Nobody, poor or wealthy, need to be a servant of any government.

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    Comment #26620475

    Sounds awesome. Citizens don't owe anything to the government, we shouldn't be born with a liability towards the government, we should be born free and be in total control of our f…

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    Comment #26516829

    How will people be happy today?

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    Comment #26516113

    Hopefully they also stop exporting unsolicited people.

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    Comment #26502155

    [flagged]

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    Comment #26500905

    El Pais chooses the facts in a way that pushes a particular agenda. Read at your own peril.

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    Comment #26489157

    https://dtdg.co/pypi pypi servers receive 1 million requests per minute. That's likely more than wikipedia.

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    Comment #26489063

    Wikipedia quality has actually gone down since the donation campaigns started. A website like pypi gets much more server load and they have never asked for a penny.