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This reply doesn't make a lick of sense. You're just making things up off the top of your head. The point is that China doesn't "just crush" dissenters. This is ignorant Weste…

> China managed to go from peasantry in the grip of communism Communism is what brought China out of peasantry. They were literally peasants for a couple thousand years, then they became Communists…

"[...]" ----- edit: I suppose I have to spell this out. "[...]" = "When its under your control, and [you're] no longer being forced to hold it wrong," ≈ "libera…

I don't think this makes any sense. If this were true, payday loans would be the lowest interest loans, and ghetto grocery stores would have the lowest prices. The more money you have, the less d…

> Homes, not these buildings. I would bet that there is a ton of wood in these buildings that they are hiring thousands of carpenters for. They are not hiring carpenters to entertain the electricia…

> I think the issue of bad UX and OSS are comorbid because I think UX is simply harder when you're not leading the user by the nose to your most profitable features, and removing or obscuring …

People enjoy drugs, people enjoy sex. If your solution to driving fatalities is not to drive, you have not solved anything. Not having sex and not doing drugs isn't any sort of "right thing&…

> Same, every time I end up on a substack post, it's from an external source. I think the parent was talking about having a substack, not reading things on Substack. But I also think the dire…

> I wish there was a website or something that would help me know who everyone is Did you miss Myspace and Friendster? Orkut had a market, I think. The reason that Facebook succeeded later is bec…

> Does it show relevant snippets for each of the 9 URLs? If not, then it's as bad as Google's AI summary. Sounds like you're saying that the LLM isn't any better than Google…

> Superglue is probably two order of magnitude stronger, so I doubt that this will replace cyanoacrylates. Superglue doesn't work on Teflon, or most plastics you want it to work on. Wanting to…

It was an intentional propaganda strategy to separate references to the government of an official enemy country from references to that country (see also "the Houthis" and "the Taliban&…

> The reality is that most people who become subject to criminal prosecution are guilty. This is not the reality, but your own justifying premise. which is why you instinctively began it with the p…

Yes.

They used to put them all up on books.google.com until they were ordered not to if they were less that 100 years old. Most of the stuff that was accessible was copied to archive.org, and almost all of…

> Back in reality, the fraction of people who got into publishing books to get rich collecting rents is… not large. That's because the business is buying copyrights in bulk from those people. …

> Turns out that buying an old book for $5 and destructively scanning it for $25 More like destructively scanning it for $0.25, if you include the wear and tear on the machine, the salary of the gu…

The only nations against Russia are in Europe, or run by absurdly corrupt right-wing dictators. The problem with supporting Russia is that the US is psychotic, aggressive, and takes pride in causing c…

If you hate them, that's all the more reason to do a destructive scan on them and upload them somewhere. If you don't care about the book, you can make a beautiful copy, and somebody wants t…

A colony is a specific thing. It isn't like London colonized the north of England, or Paris colonized France, but the power of those cities resulted in a loss of linguistic diversity in the regio…

RMS headed a political organization, and kept his political campaigning to things directly related to the politics that his organization represented. The people who were angry at RMS's "poli…

> The only way to prevent deletion is to add a completely new, never before there phone number. Just happened to me. They "confirmed" it was me by getting a phone number they'd never…

> "Both sides are the same" is the last bastion of denial. This is hyperpartisan bullshit that you obviously wouldn't say if someone were choosing between a red shirt and a blue shir…

Only if there were a group of people who were angrily repelled by non-AI things.

The obvious answer is because the old, crudely drawn sign did (and to go deeper, you'd have to ask the janitor who drew it.) Now it's become completely detached from its origin and pointless…

Can this be done on boards with the same layouts as known commercial USB keys i.e will imaging just show this to be what it is?

> Most pornography is not rape pornography. I'm not taking a position here, but the total amount of pornography is irrelevant to the argument. If the amount of rape pornography available has i…

This is as goofy a response as answering the question "why did you make the decision to kill him" with "are you against people making decisions?"

Especially because the original criticism is usually a stand-in for an overarching moral condemnation. "Whataboutism" was a US defense for the fact that it was an apartheid state while cri…