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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by morelisp on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:32PM (#22560092)
> on the whole little more than a sophistical hustle.

Funny, this is also what philosophers think about modern tech companies.

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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by philwelch on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:07PM (#22564093)
They use the services provided by those companies to smugly advertise this attitude all the time.
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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by claudiawerner on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:50PM (#22564550)
That's a good thing - they're using the world as it is to their advantage. The idea that using something means you can't criticize it (or elements of it) has no logical basis.
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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by morelisp on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:28AM (#22565436)
This is conversely true also!
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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by philwelch on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:35AM (#22565692)
How do you mean?
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