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Good read. I wonder how you get the average person to be interested in these issues.


Run for President in an attention-grabbing way without caring about winning and say it over & over?


Lawrence Lessig tried (not quite without caring about winning, but close), but that attention-grabbing didn't work out that well.


You don't. The average person ought to do simple work and produce children, select few of which will have talent and integrity. These few have and always will make all the difference.


Why do you feel melancholy?


Maybe it's something like the French saying Le Mal du Pays

"Le Mal du Pays is usually translated as 'homesickness,' or 'melancholy. ' If you put a finer point on it, it's more like 'a groundless sadness called forth in a person's heart by a pastoral landscape"


I get the same, it's more like a contented melancholy.

Not sad, just locked into the moment, with a certain understated freedom of mind.

You're not smiling or frowing, just existing, taking it in.


Probably Kim Dotcom has done wrong, but I don't think he deserves to go to court and or prison in a country he has never resided in.


I'm not sure that can be applied consistently. Would you say the same about heads of drug cartels or human trafficking rings (not equating these to Kim, as I'm sure you understand)?


I think you should build your argument a little bit more.

I’d say, why not say that also for drug cartels? The only reasonable argument that comes to my mind is that some big cartel head might have local government influence, but that does not apply to Kim and New Zealand, right?

Another possible argument would be that the damage has been done elsewhere. But in the case of the dtug cartel, if there are victims in 20 countries that why would any third party have priority for enforcing their law?


> if there are victims in 20 countries that why would any third party have priority for enforcing their law

That's not really relevant. No one is arguing priority. "Priority" implies there's 20 countries fighting to prosecute someone and we need to resolve it. In this case, it was a cooperation between multiple countries who agreed someone needed to be prosecuted, regardless of which country did it.


The point being why should any argument in this line end up with “lets extradite him to the US”, when he is already in a cooperating country that will enforce acceptable local law. And his own country, where he resides, and where the did the purported crimes.


> The point being why should any argument in this line end up with “lets extradite him to the US”

Because New Zealand is willing to and he broke the law in the U.S. as well? Why would there be an argument at all?

You were criticizing someone's argument and brought up two points of your own that don't make sense to me. Drug cartel members DO get extradited.


When is the last time the head of pretty much any drug cartel was extradited to the USA?



https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/lead-defendant-long-running-d... maybe not head, but 3 weeks ago.

There's a bunch of these people extradited all the time.


No because they have committed serious violent crimes. Human trafficking is not the same as enabling and profiting from internet piracy.


What about the wire fraud and money laundering that he's actually accused of?


His choice was to build a lucrative service off U.S. consumers, knowing the service's popularity was in pirating content, mostly created in the U.S.


CrowdStrike makes it easy to pass your security audit. That's where the value is.


I don't really understand this line of thinking, but maybe we have different definitions of motivation. If you are not using motivation to do things what is the reason you to do things?

For me anything I do is because I am motivated to do it.


Isn't it possible, even common, to seek an outcome, but not feel inclined to do the thing that takes you toward that outcome? I don't think there's anyone who doesn't want a fit body, yet to borrow a phrase, "nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights"


Big doubt, they have obviously been right to focus on hybrids for the current market. What makes you think they will not be able to compete on whatever the next pure EV cars look like?


The old school ways still work, go to church, ask friends and family to set you up with someone ect


Big fan of apple CarPlay installed an aftermarket one in my 2004 Golf and it can make it feel more modern than some 2013 cars.


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