Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The other idea is it could just be a few rotten apples giving everyone a bad name. There's no such thing as this. Honestly, is everyone these days completely ignorant of what happens when you leave a few rotten apples in a big bunc
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by Arizhel 10y ago
How's Lyft doing these days?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Also - I've noticed that there are more than a few people in software development who espouse and live a "healthier" lifestyle - going to the gym, exercising more, and other outdoor activities - things that in the past wo
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Such a proud day for our country back in November when we had these two "fine" people running against each other for the highest office in the land. Honestly, if Hillary was the best we could do for an opposing candidate, then may
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yes, that's an application of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism. That's not manipulation of gravity, it's using the MUCH stronger EM force to overcome gravity. I can overcome gravity all by myself just using my muscles
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by Arizhel 10y ago
And you think it's easier to just pack up and move to Mars than to deal with the climate change? You think it'd be easier to figure out how to grow food on Mars than to mitigate climate change-caused problems with the food chain
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What's your score? [1] [1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/how-much-of-an-asshole-are-y...
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by Arizhel 10y ago
No one's talking about perpetual motion here. Understanding the laws of thermodynamics allows us to build heat engines, which is how many of us got to work this morning. It also allows us to build nuclear reactors (or at least the st
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Sure: stars. I don't think flying through those would work out well. There's also nebulae. But that's only going to be useful when you're actually in a nebula, which isn't most of the time.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This is completely wrong. The Romans had aqueducts, they could even fill up the Coliseum with water for water shows. The Romans had concrete, and built many buildings with it. What did Europeans have after the collapse? They went back t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It does? Great; please point me to some instructions on how to build an anti-gravity device. I can easily build myself an electromagnet with some wire and a battery, so if our understanding of gravity is so great, I should be able to do t
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Technology will continue to progress. Except for temporary pauses, technology has always advanced and always will. That's not really true; just ask the ancient Romans. When the Roman Empire collapsed, technology took 1000 years to
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>a very large portion of the world's population is being left out of the debate about whether or not we should even be moving down these techno-futuristic paths >Should we become increasingly reliant on the Internet, to the point
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I think it's pretty obvious. The Romans had a continent-spanning civilization, with trade routes, aquaducts, roads, and elaborate concrete buildings and structures, and their civilization collapsed. It took over 1000 years to get bac
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by Arizhel 10y ago
It sounds like you're talking about the Bussard Ramjet. It collects interstellar hydrogen gas for use in fusion engines. The problem is that it's unlikely there's enough hydrogen floating around for it to really work.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What the heck are you talking about? Global warming is simple and easily explained by the available evidence: too much carbon in the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect. All the arguing is how much is "too much" and exact
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Just running into cosmic dust at the speed of light would not be fun. That's why you need a navigational deflector dish. http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/b4/...
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The launch cost of launching the mass of the pyramids of gaza into orbit would bankrupt the richest economies. No your hypothetical engine won't be 100% efficient. This is completely unfeasible. Not necessarily. You don't nee
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You sound a little unhinged to be honest. If you're really worried that climate change on Earth is going to cause big problems for humans (which is not an unreasonable concern; climate change threatens to cause significant sea level r
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by Arizhel 10y ago
What exactly are you saying? That once we really figure out gravity, faster-than-light travel will become possible? I've been saying that for years, and I'm no physicist. It's fairly obvious that gravity is not well unders
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>By contrast, suspend and Wi-Fi on laptops has been a perpetual headache I completely disagree about WiFi. I haven't had problems with that on Linux in many years. Maybe you're buying some really crappy WiFi chips, but I&#x27
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The problem is that you're assuming that all life is equally valuable. That's a flawed assumption, and is not true of people who are simultaneously anti-abortion and pro-execution. To them, unborn fetuses are innocent, whereas c
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have a laptop, running Linux Mint, which uses multiple monitors through a docking station. Since when does using a laptop preclude having multiple monitors? And how would people possibly stop using laptops? What are they going to switch
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Are they slacking off, or are they simply unable to hire competent people, or perhaps is the bureaucracy such that competent people are unable to do their jobs effectively?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Conservatives are afraid that liberals will change society so that being Christian isn't the default, and so that Christians can't use their group-think against everyone and pass religion-based laws. They're also afraid that
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>Replacing welfare/etc with a policy like a Basic Job (basic income but you need to work for it) might. So you think we should have make-work programs? How about this one: we'll have a giant factory, making shipping crates out
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I have to disagree about cloning dinosaurs. A true AI isn't even well-defined; would we even know one if we saw it? We don't even know how consciousness works in ourselves. Warp drive we can understand at a high level and identif
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Simple: with UBI, you can eliminate a gigantic amount of bureaucracy in administering those programs. How much time and money is wasted in employing armies of public servants to go chase after welfare recipients and make sure they aren&#x2
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>A primary focus should be on overthrowing the military industrial complex, which seems to be the source of a lot of waste... If the US didn't have its fingers in so many other governments, then it would be safer to ignore this fact
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Well, stopping abortion is part and parcel of religion. You won't find many atheists or agnostics who oppose legal abortion. Perhaps some limits on it, but not an outright banning; that's solely the province of religious people.

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