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      "body": "Hey @maynard, thanks for your reply! The comparison between the two situations was focused on whether an individual chooses for himself or for the community. We often intend to be self-focused and so we focus on our individual profits instead of our contribution to the community and to others. \n\nBut yep, you are right! We're not struggling with a Tragedy of the Commons problem on Steemit! Our votes aren't running out like the ocean's resources do. Anyways, we are individuals with the choice to focus on our profits or to focus on utility and other people. That's the same for fishermen, the focus on what others will do will help them estimate their expected income over years and the choice whether not to is dependent on utility factors like their own valuation of the community, the environment and other people. \n\nAnd so should we think about whether we would spend our votes on our own profit or on the community and other people. We are limited in votes as our voting power decreases the more we do vote. Otherwise we could simply vote up every post on Steemit  :-)",
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      "body": "I saw another video by Edmonds that was uploaded a day or two ago and she is suspicious of Greenwald now more than ever.  I don't think she can compete with Greenwald who is backed by billionaires so I was not thinking about them as competitors.  Edmonds' site is funded by a crowdsource (kickstarter) that netted them about $150k USD and that will last them the next 6 months or a year I think. \n\nI haven't accused Greenwald of lying.   I just don't trust him so I don't give any weight to his assertions.  Remember when the british border service (or police) detained Greenwald's boyfriend at Heathrow airport.  That was the intimidation.  Next came the offers of of huge sums of cash.   Greenwald may well be a fine and honest person but it is hard to know how one would respond under such circumstances.",
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      "body": "So you respond to the Trolley Problem by stepping outside the boundaries of it as a thought experiment and imposing real-world constraints. Instead of dealing with its implications. You've got the same problem with the Prisoner's Dilemma. \n\nBoth of these are commonly assigned in undergraduate theory classes. And I don't think the answer you provide here would pass muster. Regardless, thanks for the reply.",
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      "body": "I'd just like to point out that both Exodus and Phoenix are banned Kodi add-ons, because they illegally stream pirated content via P2P. See here:\n\nhttp://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_rules/Banned_add-ons\n\nFurther, they do so without a VPN. So your IP address is in the clear to any content provider who'd like to sue. Never mind the ethics involved in pirating copyrighted film and television. If such matters concern you, that is.",
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      "body": "The trolley problem always cracks me up. I've come to call it the clusterfu#% problem. There is no right answer. There's a long string of incompetence required to get into that situation. Why are these people on the track in the first place? Did the company know work was being done? You would think so since they're paying for it. Why didn't they inform the engineer, change schedules etc? If this fat guy is big enough to stop a train, the little dude isn't going to be able to move him. Was he airlifted there that morning by a chinook? Now we have a conspiracy on our hands. And what kind of pedestrian crossing could hold that kind of mass? It's just physics man:) If we are talking about gross negligence of all parties involved, no wrong has been done here. It's just an accident. If not, someone allowed one of the dominoes to fall on purpose and the simple ethical rule in the article applies. They are wrong. And what to do with the poor guy left to make the awful decision? I don't know man. Sucks to be you. Again, clusterfu#%.\n\nThe Prisoner's dilemma: See the chaos that results from stealing? This problem needs to be cut off at the root. They should have never gone to jail in the first place. Obviously they did something wrong or they wouldn't be in this situation unless the cops are corrupt in which case they are in the wrong and this mess results. There is nothing wrong with selfishness. Modern society has given it a negative connotation. If you're truly selfish, you would always do the right thing because it's the most beneficial to you. True selfishness is ethically doing whats best for you which is what most of us do anyway. I say most because we have government and criminals who don't, but I repeat myself.  Its only a wrong when you're stealing something from someone else; time, property, information etc.",
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      "body": "So your argument is that because his web site received capital financing to cover startup costs, and because Sibel Edmonds (who runs a competing alternative news web site) has 'concerns', therefore one should discount Greenwald's statement confirming communication with Snowden? A man who clearly has been in communication with Snowden before. One who clearly has direct access to him. \n\nCan you point to any statement Greenwald has made in print or in an interview that has been proved to be a lie? Why should anyone assume his statement is a lie?",
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      "body": "I agree with you about MLordandGod on youtube.  However, I would not trust Glenn Greenwald since he is financed by some big insider money ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar ).  Also, Sibel Edmonds has mentioned concerns about Greenwald.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-nC36D3nBk&t=280",
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      "body": "I've had plenty of experience with Linux. It's a fine operating system. But it lacks many crucial commercial applications that makes it unviable for producing many kinds of deliverables to clients. \n\nYou want to do graphic design? Or film production? Or photo editing? Or animation? Or 3D rendering for anything from architecture to criminology to television advertising? Or music production? Or even plain accounting? Then you will not be running Linux. Because the tools in commercial use typically require Windows - and sometimes (if you're lucky) MacOS X. The Adobe suite. Autodesk. Avid. Fruityloops. Etc etc etc. (MSOffice cough)\n\nIt's not fair. And you could argue there are free tools that perform many of the same tasks. Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Ardour, LibreOffice, etc etc etc. All fine tools. That no one in the commercial world uses. \n\nSo if you want to sell your work, you use what your clients use. Or you go hungry.",
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      "body": "The claim Snowden died comes from an anonymous comment on a Russian news site. There's no provenance whatsoever. Further, Glenn Greenwald has stated he's been in contact with Snowden and that the man is fine. See: \n\nhttps://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/761995125824360448",
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      "body": "I have a voat account.\n\nIt won't work. It's another centralized site, owned by a corporate entity. It's replicated the broken volunteer moderation system that's allowed for cabal's control Reddit. And if you're on voat, you'll see content control already surfacing.\n\nVoat is no solution. It's just doing more of the same in the desperate hope for change.",
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Whether for trolling purposes, or to promote their political values, it soon became impossible to submit material without first the tacit support of one or another controlling group. And so a site that was started in opposition to the centralized editorial control at Slashdot fell victim to a type of centralization by proxy. \n\nSome may remember Digg. A site that promised to resolve the problem with centralized story aggregation through community voting. It was like Slashdot only without the focus on tech news. There, any kind of story would be organized by categories. Users could track their interests, and it would display a tailored front page.  But soon it too was gamed. With groups colluding to take over editorial control. Ultimately, squelching anyone who wasn't a member. And thereby destroying the site when everyone figured out the effort of their contributions had become meaningless.\n\nThe userbase mass migrated to Reddit. Who promised non-intervention. Opposition to censorship. And the values of free expression. Anyone who was on Reddit from 2005-2012 would remember this as a golden era for the site. But that era is now over. It is overtly censored, gamed and controlled by cliques of moderators. Many of whom moderate tens or hundreds of the largest audience subreddits. Creating webs of conflicting rules that give them total freedom to delete anything for any reason whatsoever. And in the process destroy the community input of hundreds or thousands of comments and  votes. All on a whim. \n\nAnd let's not forget how Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Google, et all collect users' data for the purposes of marketing and God knows what else. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm certainly fed up with the abuses those who own and run centralized systems have foisted upon the communities that initially grew and popularized their products. \n\nSo there is pent up demand for a new decentralized approach. 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To provide an open platform for creators to work and seek audience without the intervention and control of middle-men. What's happened over the last decade is a violation of everything the innovators of this technology hoped to achieve. \n\nI hope the Steemit blockchain approach is that solution. It's time for something new. Because civilization desperately needs this. It's genuinely important.",
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