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And why would any positives matter, if there weren't actual people and their lives, and suffering inflicted or avoided, involved down the line? Lots of appeal to robots here. I'm n…

> As the prisoners collapsed, choking and retching, the police opened fire. Over the next several minutes, officers poured hundreds of rounds of gunfire into the yard, including, a…

Does the US lending both hands to fucking up the Middle East make anything more stable? What stability was achieved by Vietnam, or all that stuff in South America? Not disastrous e…

> There is such a huge gap between your incredibly bleak image of Japan and the lively, optimistic and impressive Japan that I live in. Yet you manage to tackle not a single one of…

Disobedience would be refusing to take part in such scummy schemes, and making a huge stink over it. > Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws PROF…

> arbitrary State regulations They're way less arbitrary than Uber's action, so that's just projection. You want out of the social contract, be my guest.

While I don't like the company either, I wouldn't be surprised if competing companies had some PR peeps trying to stoke the flames. Why would they pass it up?

If they're successful, it means they managed to survive on their craft even before a lot of people wanted to see them. So why wouldn't they be able to continue to do that after the…

Speak for yourself, I find it super simple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4l7eASeOk

Since when do street magicians shill for products? The way I see it, it's an attempt to capture forced attention from people who do not have an interest in the product by intermixi…

> In talking that way about a device plugged into a wall, Yarmosh’s son was anthropomorphizing it — which means to “ascribe human features to something,” Alexa happily explains. Hu…

> Link gets more health and stamina as you progress, and you can acquire stronger weapons and armor, but he never gets stronger himself. He doesn’t learn to swing a sword or shoot …

> If the number one motivator for internet privacy is so that if there is someday an oppressive totalitarian government I will be safe, then I'm not convinced. That's not the argum…

> Sometimes we need to make decisions as a society. That's why we don't have anarchy. I'd say that's individuals outsourcing their decisions to the perceived or real pressures and …

> They'd all need to stop, simultaneously. Plenty of people stop all the time, plenty never started. > In the meantime our world is such that any company or person who refuses on e…

Speaking of that, as of now on the front page: 23. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision (googleblog.com) 2882 points by pfg 1 day ago | flag | hide | 488 comments second page: 37. …

On the other hand, the random nature of the overflow plaintext also means it's perfectly possible for one or several keys to various kingdoms having fall into unsuspecting laps. Wh…

Also, use "pointer" on them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

> I argue that political love needs to be particularistic in this way, but that care must always be taken to harness that particular love to good moral principles and keep people m…

So DOS are "clearly bad" when it comes to providing "armour" against them, but a matter of taste, something a person could not possibly have an opinion on when it's a client of the…

The game is the medium, the people are the message. Other people say the same about an online forums, some people might even say it about war. I'm not being snarky, but I thought a…

Games are fun, until some dude in Path of Exile hands out free items because he'll delete his account after his wife divorced him for playing 24/7. And such.

Change "the" reason to "one of the main reasons" (and going from the top left to bottom right, the second of their four main features), and notice how my point remains untouched?

DOS attacks being a bad thing is the whole reason the service exists, so to then group it with "things some people consider offensive" is just double think. If Cloud Flare didn't w…

Nothing (in the league of things we are discussing) is inevitable, it's a result of choices, sometimes masked with rationalizations of how things are inevitable. For me good times …