I have been to burger king a little too often lately and I would be totally fine with a 0.75g planet now.
The "life corridor" is certainly very narrow. But I am sure there are at least some places.
Maybe we find a world near a smaller red dwarf, which will last for trillions of years. Maybe we also don't make that planet uninhabitable in a few thousand years, for once.
I think marketing departments would quickly notice that most crawlers won't execute all the fancy Blinkenlights.
I would assume that it will take a while for tooling in any other language to get to a javascript level. I think WASM will mainly be support for the latter. Do some excessive calculations.... and yeah, excessive Blinkenlights.
You'd be surprised, marketing departments generally do not have a clue about that specific type of thing. Hell eBay's operations apparently doesn't from my experience. It's incredibly easy to game marketing, and internet marketing is mindlessly easy without the invasive stalking.
Libertarianism seems to lack some of the contradictions that liberlism seems to suffer from (freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves)
Still, since Liberalism tries to find a balance in its inherent values, Libertarianism seems to be dogmatic without any further depth. Dreamy technocrats or wishful anarchists, who would get angry if labeled as such.
The US is indeed different here, but I would stand to my opinion, that Liberals generally have far more thought-provoking arguments.
> freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves
depends strongly on the POV I'd argue. I think I know what you mean: If you don't enforce equality by taking away freedoms naturally an inequality will emerge.
One could also argue that this desired freedom doesn't exist, because the moment you have that imbalance you automatically have a large group of people who suffer less freedom due to less wealth/power.
One might even argue that limitations can create freedoms. Because murder is usually a crime that is punishable by law, it is much easier to create non-violent business in modern, western countries. Few people would say that they are less free because murder is taken out of most people's equation.
"(freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves) "
I don't think that freedom and equality of opportunity exclude each other any more than freedom excludes itself. Frankly I would go one further and say that equality of opportunity is freedom, and that rules impinging on equality of opportunity is impinging on freedoms as well.
It is not a contradiction that freedom can exclude freedom. My freedom to own land excludes your freedom to do what you want with it, etc.
Reducing equality to equality of opportunity is already a huge concession in favor of freedom.
> equality of opportunity is freedom
Until you get restricted, because you posses an opportunity others are lacking and in consequence, it gets taken from you.
> My freedom to own land excludes your freedom [...]
This is an example of freedom colliding with itself, but arguing this case is much easier, since both get exactly the same rights and therefore an equal amount of freedom that cannot be maximized any further. It is a lot harder to to balance freedom and equality.
Granted, there are a lot of cases where increased equality increases freedom. This is why I think that liberals are generally smarter.
"Reducing equality to equality of opportunity is already a huge concession in favor of freedom."
I see the other 'popular' equality, equality of outcome, as, in it's most extreme form, a complete totalitarian nightmare, that doesn't hold freedom back, but completely annihilates it.
"Until you get restricted, because you posses an opportunity others are lacking and in consequence, it gets taken from you."
Why would this inevitably lead to you having an opportunity taken from you, rather than working to extend this to others. This is much more realistic as to how the world works. I don't have my opportunity to work taken from me because someone is unemployed, instead they are helped to get opportunities to work (help with education or transport etc).
I think the important step is to say, that we can't have unlimited freedom (or opportunities) for everyone in society, but that trying to reach as much as possible is a worthwhile cause. And that, of course, the devil is in the details.
To me, TARGET2 is a politically acceptable way for rich euro countries (Germany) to transfer money to the poor ones (Greece), in exchange for the poor ones accepting the fact that the rich countries deciding EU policies.
That was a shitty argument. It already failed to establish what is commonly refered to by "negative" in this context. You could criticise the term, that it is too general to hint at a wrongly infered statement in a special case. But the author does something else without really establishing anything. Going to dig in my garden now.
Unfortunately this is very true. For medical devices, you need to mostly use certified parts. Need a touchscreen? It needs to withstand very strong disinfectants and maybe you have hard requirements for leakage currents. There are 3 possible vendors left. None of them has drivers for systems that would be far better than windows xy.
Vendors probably think that all their customers use windows anyway for non-discernible reasons.
I do believe in objective truth, even if not realistically achievable and perhaps not philosophical mainstream. But if it is also simpler and more interesting, that is an additional plus and probably more correct.
I also admit to having premises and no problem to reflect upon them. Only to some of them I keep a sentimental relationship. A frame of reference might always be needed. But why should the frame be special?
Subjective to me is the relevance of the assumption about truth. The same can be said about a lot of discussions about conscience and general perception.
The "life corridor" is certainly very narrow. But I am sure there are at least some places.
Maybe we find a world near a smaller red dwarf, which will last for trillions of years. Maybe we also don't make that planet uninhabitable in a few thousand years, for once.