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- "Google Drive scans your files and deletes what it believes to be explicit content."
Think about that twice before choosing where and how to back up your data, regardless if it's explicit or not.
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> Though I can't find that anywhere in any of the commandments, or the new testament. A quibble - while this negative view of sex may not be the view of other texts in the Bible, it is very clearly part of Paul's worldview, as evidenced in e.g. 2 Corinthians.
> while this negative view of sex may not be the view of other texts in the Bible, it is very clearly part of Paul's worldview, as evidenced in e.g. 2 Corinthians. A further quibble - Paul's worldview wrt. sex is actually, and very clearly, a negative view of Graeco-Roman sexual practices , which were by-and-large openly exploitive. And that negative view was broadly shared by philosophers at the time, especially wit…
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> some people have gotten left behind, which is certainly true. Yeah, which probably shouldn't happen in an 'elegant' system, you know? > I also don't understand the mindset that it's somehow somebody else's fault when a person accumulates student debt. Like, I'm sorry you made a poor choice, but nobody physically twisted your arm and made you take this loan. That's a grossly simplistic view of the matter. I am sayin…
Oh, and as for student debt, maybe it's possible that a human economic system where nobody has to do grunt work, heavy lifting, manual labor, or exist lower on a hierarchy than anybody else is completely unsustainable. In fact, I question why anyone _would_ think that would be sustainable.
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> some people have gotten left behind, which is certainly true. Yeah, which probably shouldn't happen in an 'elegant' system, you know? > I also don't understand the mindset that it's somehow somebody else's fault when a person accumulates student debt. Like, I'm sorry you made a poor choice, but nobody physically twisted your arm and made you take this loan. That's a grossly simplistic view of the matter. I am sayin…
Elegant: (of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple. I'm not implying any of the characteristics you think I am. Capitalism is simple and effective, and IMO beautiful in the way it works at a systemic level. That doesn't mean nobody gets left behind, not by a long shot. You know what else has been an elegant an unmatched algorithm/system for making life better? Evolution. In all…
It "works" because it has to, when it doesn't we do bailouts and then it "works" again etc. in other words anything works if a society is organized in such a way that it doesn't know or contemplate anything else. If you only know one style of music, that music "works" for you, because it sort of has to.
My point is, capitalism as it is today is one that even The Wealth of Nations doesn't agree with.
Now that doesn't mean every aspect of capitalism is bad etc. No, in fact when it works as intended it can indeed be quite elegant. the problem is it often doesn't work as it was envisioned. We therefore need to look at other systems, pull some positive aspects from them, tweak the current capitalist system so that it works more like it was supposed to, that's all am saying.
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how do you know which are the "correct" activist groups to support? there are many different groups that could be considered activist in most large countries. if you just pick ones that largely align with Western values, it doesn't seem much better than being uninformed.
Look for where their funding comes from. Puppet organizations will often lead you back to U.S. state-funded organizations like the NED or BBG or billionaire-funded NGOs
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Can you please not take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950484 ? They're off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Can you please not take HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17950484 ? They're off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't bring it as ideological flamewar material but as real psychosocial phenomenon that has truly similar dynamics to what was in discussion.
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I didn't bring it as ideological flamewar material but as real psychosocial phenomenon that has truly similar dynamics to what was in discussion.
Ok, but if you toss lit matches at a petrol station, it doesn't much matter what your reasoning was. The important thing is the effect.
This is interesting because in the HN guildelines you cited, it specifically says:
"Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it."
So how is it that this isn't a double standard?
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Some uninformed churches may have taught that (there are a lot of pretty wacko churches in the US.) If you actually read the Bible though sex and marriage is supposed to be a sort of alagory for the church’s union with Christ and it’s supposed to be pleasant.
It is the basis of the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception, and has been part of their teachings for over a thousand years now.
This doesnt make sense to me. Core internet community experiences to me have always been about smaller sites, message boards, mailing lists, chatrooms, voice chat groups, etc. Seeing large corporation websites like tumblr, reddit, facebook crack down on content doesn't stop any of that. it just means you need to get out of your internet bubble.
I was about to write an whole comment about how Violet Blue's perspective wasn't matched with reality. But you hit the main point dead on. I feel that her perspective is not very sympathetic to the average couple nor is it relatable with the average corporation. It hasn't been in the past and it isn't now. The closest that she can get to what she's asking for is Fetlife.
of course the new direction is worrying, but in the end porn always wins, it has won in the past after all. james joyce, larry flint, this list goes on...