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1stop commented on Likely hack of U.S. banking regulator FDIC by China covered up: probe reuters.com/article/us-cy... · Posted by u/LukeHoersten

webXL · 9 years ago

"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

It's not so much tyranny that we fear these days but rather the consequences of ceding more and more power to such a corrupt and inept bunch.

1stop · 9 years ago

Or the realisation that WE are that corrupt and inept bunch. It's not like government workers are a 'special elite' class...

1stop commented on Zillow CEO Overpaid for His Los Angeles Home, According to Zillow la.curbed.com/2016/7/11/1... · Posted by u/prostoalex

douche · 9 years ago

How so? Zillow shows my house as being worth 50k more than I paid for it 11 months ago.

1stop · 9 years ago

Information asymmetry sometimes defines an entire market (like salaries!). When you take away that asymmetry you change the market.

I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but I assume that is what the GP is getting at.

1stop commented on How America Could Go Dark wsj.com/articles/how-amer... · Posted by u/msisk6

cylinder · 9 years ago

The grid powers a lot more than homes...

1stop · 9 years ago

Right but the same logic applies. Rather than 1 single point of failure you now have millions of mini power generators. The impact of one going is significantly less.

1stop commented on Is your personality fixed, or can you change who you are? npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/BDGC

chongli · 9 years ago

How do you define "personality"? Does the fact that you're capable of changing not get included in that? Is the "new" personality the true you? Or the old one?

1stop · 9 years ago

This is similar to the alternate reality counter proof: If alternate realities exist, and we can get to them from this reality, then they are no longer an alternate reality. If we cannot get to them, then they cannot "exist" as our reality is a prerequisite for existence.

You can say the same for a changed personality :p

1stop commented on What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany? spiegel.de/international/... · Posted by u/nkurz

cb18 · 9 years ago

The genetic distance between a German and an African is many, many multiples of the genetic distance between a German and a Pole.

1stop · 9 years ago

There is vastly more generic similarity than difference... racism is never about genetics, it's always about shared (or not) culture.

The genetic arguement is completely bogus, shouldn't you be removing all the dogs first before you start splitting difference between humans?

1stop commented on What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Germany? spiegel.de/international/... · Posted by u/nkurz

Frozenlock · 9 years ago

You are trying to dress up your genocidal thoughts of the German people as something politically correct and inclusive.

Try to make the same exercise with the Aboriginal Australians: It doesn't matter if they don't reproduce; there's plenty of whites around to take their place.

Why do you hate diversity?

1stop · 9 years ago

I'm confused about your reference to Australian Aboriginals. The majority of them were decimated by disease and out right violent attack from whites... how are either of those scenarios relevant here?

1stop commented on Scaling Mercurial at Facebook code.facebook.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/chairmanwow

honkhonkpants · 9 years ago

I love it when random commenters point out the obvious problems of the world's wealthiest, most successful companies.

1stop · 9 years ago

I know, do you reckon Facebook engineers are sitting awkwardly in a meeting with this comment page up:

"Why didn't we think of this!!!?"

1stop commented on Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus uploadvr.com/valve-shared... · Posted by u/T-A

comex · 9 years ago

Not sure you recall correctly. I checked the Kickstarter [1], and I didn't see anything along those lines in the video, the description (which doesn't seem to have been modified, per archive.org), or the first few updates. If Luckey talked about that, I think it was somewhere else.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-...

1stop · 9 years ago

The video you linked has competing companies all taking about how good it will be to integrate (valve included)... you are right there is no line like "it will be an open platform" but they heavily imply it will be an open platform

1stop commented on Please don't send me smart replies engadget.com/2016/05/19/g... · Posted by u/walterbell

cam_l · 9 years ago

So is it just me who types a reply even when the app knows exactly what I was going to say.. just because I find it morally repulsive.

..and still feel a little bit guilty for being so bloody shallow.

1stop · 9 years ago

Are you shallow? Or is Google's "Intelligence" deep?

1stop commented on Please don't send me smart replies engadget.com/2016/05/19/g... · Posted by u/walterbell

panic · 9 years ago

I think that's the point of the article: using "smart replies" makes it seem like you're so disinterested in your conversation partner that you consider coming up with your own responses a waste of time.

1stop · 9 years ago

But isn't that a pretty common use case?

Do people on chat with their nearest and dearest? Or do they chat with a mix of people who they may like or even dislike.

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