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Pure envy.

Grombobulous says "Paul Graham is out here giving speeches to rich kids at Oxford Union, but he could be spending his morning in the local soup kitchen or building homes with Habitat for Humanity. He could be mentoring people who are struggling to escape housing insecurity, or he could be working with advocacy groups to expand healthcare access and end childhood hunger."

Which of those would provide the most benefit to the world?

Grombobulous says "But he is one of the people who has dedicated his life to capitalism, even after successfully taking care of his family for many lifetimes, and that says a lot about him."

You're simply anti-capitalist. Please post about that instead of mounting personal attacks on people who make more money than you. And please cease telling other people what to do and not do! Try to put yourself into their shoes and think harder about their situation.


> And please cease telling other people what to do and not do!

This is the most ironic comment I've seen in a while.


Not ironic but perhaps somewhat self-contradictory. In any case it is very reasonable as an assumption for civil debate.

I’m not anti-capitalist at all, but all good things have limits. It’s a wonderful thing to eat a scoop of ice cream, or three scoops of ice cream, but I would never suggest that anyone eat 1000 scoops of ice cream.

Grombobulous says "I’m not anti-capitalist at all".

Nonsense. You are a simple study and you are envious. There are good reasons why envy is listed as one of the "Seven Deadly Sins". See Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy

Reading "St. Augustine on Envy" might help:

https://fountainofelias.blogspot.com/2019/08/st-augustine-on...

Thomas Aquinas on Envy:

https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3036.htm

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Envy:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/


> cease telling other people what to do and not do!

People like you are so sociopathic and unaware that it's simply comedy.

> people who make more money than you.

One of the things I realized, as I made more money... was how much _easier_ every aspect of earning gets, as you are already earning more, and as you need it less.

We live in a system that almost _automatically_ overallocates wealth to people who do little for society. It's pathetic.


Unworthy.

I thought most products had legal provisions that prohibit reverse engineering?

Yes, and most have the same legal power as the statement: By reading this comment you accept my terms and conditions and agree to pay me ten thousand dollars per word read.

Those provisions would broadly be civil (not criminal); the vendor would have to identify you had reversed the blob and then take you to court, and then win.

They could also try for criminal charges if you’re in a relevant jurisdiction.


Yet another bitchfest about "the current administration", i.e., Donald Trump.

The article's author is only the second person I have known to speak fondly of Derrida, the first being a young relative who lost his soul AND brain to various claptrap at university.

How do you know you are "Random"?

I guess I should say pseudorandom, shouldn't I...

solarhoma sez "it was illegal to burn the Israeli flag in the US before it was illegal to burn the US flag,"

It is legal to burn the USA flag in the USA.


Ok. Then my point stands even more firmly that you are able to burn the flag of the country you reside in yet cannot burn the flag of a foreign nation.

Nope. For the most part in the USA you can burn any flag provided you aren't violating some property law or safety statute by doing so.

Could you restate this another way: I don't follow.

WTF?

Paywall (I can't read the article).


No problem with Firefox. But I have ublock-origin and every paywall buster I could find.

Common fixes are to clear cookies, for "soft" paywalls and turning off javascript for the site. consult your browser for easy ways to do this. I use an extension with Firefox. I also have cookie-auto-delete for sites other than my whitelist.

I works for me with javascript turned on or off.

On ios Safari, I use an app Sheriff, that selectively disables javascript and/or cookies for sites you choose, and it remembers.


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