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Comment Re: Did the NSA just kill SMTP? (Score 1) 195

I agree that the threat is real. But we also must agree that there are real political issues that extreme groups are parasitic to; poverty, inequality, corruption and state (foreign or domestic) extortion.

The problem of terrorism isn't that they are "outside" the international community, but that they have reasons to, that are rational.

People are just people. They need proper incentive and motivation for letting themselves become extreme. We take away these incentives, extremists will become leaders of groups of one.

Comment Re: 45 years ago... (Score 1) 283

In existentialism proper, as e.g. Heidegger's analysis of Das Man under Temporality, a need to follow the front line of fashion has the clinical determination of anxiety.

I don't know the historical details of fashion, but if we're in the 2nd decade of a trend it may also be described as a norm, and a feminist critique would seem reasonable. I am a man and would not shave my stomach or chest unless it was for surgery.

Comment Re:Another hypothesis (Score 1) 313

Evidence is better than anecdotes, so thanks for the input!

Imagine typing a chapter of a book that someone dictates to you into the computer. If you've played Quake, your hands know the keyboard better than anything.You sort of daze off while typing the words you're dictated.

Writing the same chapter by hand while someone is dictating is a different task altogether. And I'd bet you'd remember more of it.

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