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If the views on morality in the West were so great, how do you explain that you have all these people trying to suicide-bomb the West out of existence? There must be something very…

It's like demanding that people encrypt their communications with ROT13. That request is fundamentally broken. A system that does not work, and can impossibly work, cannot be part …

Could a rule like "Everybody must go up to the 12th floor, jump out of the window, and die." be part of morality? No, because that would be self-defeating. In the same way, demandi…

If paying taxes were part of morality, it would require to fix the tax rate once and for all. Otherwise, such moral rule would simply hand out a blank cheque to the ruling class, w…

If two parties negotiate a deal, and one of both parties gets to write the contract, then, the other party will pretty much be screwed. That is why the contract must be written by …

At some point they'll junk the in-house program and buy something off the shelf.

> There is programming that is hard, it's just that that is not the type of programming most people do, and it's becoming more and more rare. One major difficulty in programming is…

Can someone get the imbecile media to shut up about the misnomer "artificial intelligence"? Either an outcome is computable, or else it is not. If it is computable, it is not "arti…

> they can go after currency converters Only in their own jurisdiction. The US already goes after those, but it won't help as long as other countries don't. > They can make holding…

Users would still need to be able to transfer control over such energy to other users in order to pay them. For bitcoin, you can just use the internet. What is your practical propo…

> We can hire 'ten for one' in a country A. Rather: 'two for one'.

A web user interface is just a user interface to the actual program, which I always construct as a commandline (cli) program. It should also be easy (or at least doable) to build a…

With IPhone's market share of just 9% in China, WeChat should drop support for the IPhone.