Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by jjnoakes on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:34AM
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> this is HN, not Reddit.
Please don't do that. There's no need to smear other sites. Ending the sentence at "Please don't do that." should suffice.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by exergy on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:39AM
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It has nothing to do with reddit, and everything to do with rose-tinted glasses, since you still haven't given me an example that could serve as an inspiration. Words in a book and italicised quotes are great, but not how the world functions unfortunately. For ezanple, I'd introduce a worldwide carbon tax tomorrow and make preventing further climate change priority number one at the expense of just about everything else. One of my favorite environmental scientists, stephen schneider always used to say that we should never let the perfect get in the way of the good.
As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, virtually ALL progress is incremental. Technological AND societal.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by mindcrime on Friday November 11, 2016 @12:48AM
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since you still haven't given me an example that could serve as an inspiration
I'm sorry, why should I feel obligated to give you an example? Like I already said once, there are no examples of something that hasn't been done... yet. So your repeated request for something that isn't required strikes me as kinda pointless.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by kefka on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:31AM
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You're thinking of Greg Egan's idea of "Stateless", the illegal biotech'ed island. In that story, the technology and the island defends egalitarian principles and organized 'no-ruler-ship' (anarchy).
I certainly think anarchy could work, if the underlying technological stuffs were the enforcers of equality.
*The book is called "Distress", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel)
There never is, until the first time. If nobody tried to do things that haven't been done before, there would be no progress.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm sorry, but that sounds like the kind of thing an edy 18 year old would say.
Please don't do that, this is HN, not Reddit.