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Is a voice assistant the killer app for anyone? I haven't ever used them, and I've only ever seen someone use it as an ironic 'look at me' at a party.

Why mandatory? Why not let people do as they want?

Godel, Escher, Bach. I hated math for most of high-school, but I read this book between semesters and it changed my career choice.

So we should all reject tolerance wholesale if we think at any point in the future website could be in the out group? The point is to jostling and get along with and not murder peole who's ideas we despise at our very core.

Tolerance is radical "choosing to get along" or why bother?

How is this different than shutting down your phone at the border crossing?

I tend to lose track of time when I meditate, so I found an app that silences my phone and then alarms audibly every fifteen minutes. I guess that is my version of a mindfulness app.

I would love to see an RSS reader that was smart enough to follow links and make a 'source graph' so it the NYT and Slashdot write articles about the same source they both appear in the same 'thread' about that source. To me that would be the killer app for RSS.

That's how I feel about social sites, unlike RSS I have no control about items, they just disappear in a sea of tweets. To me it sounds like you subscribe to a lot of spammy feeds.

I do fine without an algorithm, everything appears at the rate it is published in chronological order, if I dislike a feed or discover I rarely read it I remove it.

The future is finally looking up from my perspective, hopefully this leads to an asetic culture.

Services that rely on post-industrial infrastructure don't work without post-industrial infrastructure.

I am probably what you would consider an extreme conservative, but I wanted to thank you for sharing your perspective. What do you mean by:

> The US is philosophically much more egotistical than other developed countries.

It isn't a criticism that I had heard before.

I have been using this site for about a month on every piece of spam that tells me to write back. But, I have not gotten any responses. How are they even making money if they don't respond to clearly interested potential customers?

If the justification for a tax is social engineering and not revenue for a budget or project it is probably not a just tax. This tax happens to align with commonly held values, but that alone does not justify the tax.

What about use taxes? Given it is a voluntary exchange, the government has the right to it, right?

I think you could equally say it allows bypassing oppressive taxes and allows citizens to bypass draconian snooping, it is all a matter of perspective.

I don't have much to add, but I think you have an interesting idea and it is worth exploring further.

Under anarchism wouldn't the right just form a block to dehumanize the other? Wouldn't there just be a far-right solidarity group and nothing changes?

The Intercept is doing great work. The media needs to be shamed for their blatant lack of integrity.

If the government cannot be counted on to use their monopoly of force why wouldn't everyone resort to vigilantism?

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.

I'm coming from a very opposite perspective. All corporate taxes are silly, just tax the people that make income.

Ok so I get that you disagree but how is it violence?

In my mind this is a feature, not a bug.

I have a suspicion that Russian bots changed very few minds. The kind if person who liked their propaganda was not already a progressive liberal.

I disagree with the premise that inequality is a bad thing, other than practicing a trade my goals are probably not your goals.

Well for one thing, I am an extreme conservative by American standards. I would be more than willing to join a trade advocacy group, but I would never give money to an organization that was going to push for "progressive" causes. The changes I want outside of trade advocacy are more than likely not the ones you would want.

>He is so afraid that he wants to build a twenty-billion dollar wall that everyone knows will accomplish nothing. So we’ve purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built.

So they are protesting the cost by making it costlier, got it.

The tech solidarity is at odds with the progressive causes. I would probably join a solidarity group, but I would not join one that pushed causes other than 'tech worker interests'

A European wrote a story largely about europeans. That's like saying "Journey to the West" is too Asian.