FredPret

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by FredPret 2y ago
You're ignoring the fact that modern technological society unlocked hundreds of lives that wouldn't otherwise have existed. Turning our backs on the industrial revolution would, in effect, "kill" these people by preventi
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by FredPret 2y ago
I think this happened when tech went mainstream. I used to love cutting-edge gadgets.
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by FredPret 2y ago
I bought an electric toothbrush from Walmart for $6.99 probably 5 years ago. It takes Oral-B brush heads and AA batteries. It's not capable of using an app. Who know being a tech guy would make me love as-simple-as-possible "retro
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by FredPret 2y ago
Not for you - I'm saying it's an issue for them : many (most? all?) university-educated women want to date their peers - men with degrees. This is a huge problem for them when the ratio of graduates are two women for each man.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It's nice for the guys to have it easy for a couple of years, but it's bad for all of us if an entire generation of women find it almost impossible to date because they want to date men with degrees and those don't exist in l
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by FredPret 2y ago
OK, here's just such a scenario: Our example community used to have ten children total, and one died of hunger. The the industrial revolution happened. Now we have 300 children, and two died of hunger. That's 288 children living m
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by FredPret 2y ago
> ignore the massive amount of overhead space I allowed for some overhead, but even ifyou double or quadruple the space requirement, it's abundantly clear that space isn't an issue. > Ontario cannot grow crops year-round, It
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by FredPret 2y ago
Which resources will be scarce, and why? Improved technology + greater demand = more resources become economical to mine. (Our deepest mines are ~5km and have actual humans toiling away in them. Heavier - and more valuable - metals tend to
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by FredPret 2y ago
They're complaining about a rise in the absolute number of hungry people, not the rate of hunger. I hope you're not arguing that the rate of hunger has done anything but gone down drastically in the past 1000 years. That there
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by FredPret 2y ago
You realize we get a say in all this right? Humanity is immensely capable of large-scale adaptation. 10k years ago we were getting chased around by sabre-toothed tigers. 1k years ago we were still dying of hunger and lack of hygiene. 100 ye
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by FredPret 2y ago
Again, that's a crazy thing to conclude from even the most pessimistic global warming predictions.
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by FredPret 2y ago
"On our way out"!? If you believe this, why? Who told you this? Do you actually think 8 billion people are about to drop dead? On the other hand, if you're deliberately spreading hyperbole to get people to act, please stop -
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by FredPret 2y ago
This comes with a wifi 7 router
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by FredPret 2y ago
You can still have transformation through personal virtue, just read the comments above. You just can't have the same magnitude of results without the steroids.
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by FredPret 2y ago
It’s not nice or effective to imply I don’t know my history because I came to a conclusion you disagree with. For all you know I’m an absolute history nut. It’s better to ask for my reasoning and explain your own opposing point of view.
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by FredPret 2y ago
What’s more - Ukraine gave up its nukes in favour of diplomatic promises. If they kept their nukes, there’d be no invasion.
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by FredPret 2y ago
If everyone in America thought that, most of us humans would be dead and the remnants of our species would speak German, Japanese, or Russian only
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by FredPret 2y ago
> Si vis pacem, para bellum. We used to have a major, major war every generation. Improved weaponry (and nukes) have been a huge force for peace since 1945. There have been only proxy wars since then and battle deaths per 100k people dro
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by FredPret 2y ago
I'm not even that old but the phrase "high school robotics" would've been pure daydreaming back then. Incredibly exciting that you can do this!
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by FredPret 2y ago
The Shinkansen cuts power to the train and then hits the breaks as soon as tremors are detected. Perhaps the rails are also designed so the train doesn't hop off.
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by FredPret 2y ago
Capitalism is fantastic. Capitalism will also sell you a regular bike with a bike treadmill if you think that's a better solution. Capitalism gave us a million different ways to get in a workout - Peloton is just one. Nobody's ma
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by FredPret 2y ago
> 12 episodes total I read John Cleese’s autobiography long ago and he mentioned the very different economics of TV in the UK vs the US. I think it was either the lack of money going into UK TV shows or the lack of a profit motive that l
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by FredPret 2y ago
If I may make some assumptions about you: 1. You're a person of a particular frame of mind who finds it easy and natural to talk to computers in programming languages 2. You knew a different language before, perhaps one you learnt at a
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by FredPret 2y ago
Interesting thing about the Gaussian curves on pages 34 & 39 giving the performance by gender and race: the smartest group, by quite a bit, is the group that put their race as "No Response".
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by FredPret 2y ago
In your example, the average SAT score will be unchanged at 1600, but the new student body will still be better from the point of view of volunteer work experience
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by FredPret 2y ago
The above attitude is an optimal one if you have a ton of cheap capital - AKA low interest rates. Once investors start demanding a high return on capital, or it's hard to even get your hands on capital, then the optimal approach is to
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by FredPret 2y ago
Why “stop linking to X”? Why does posting there make a user a “problem”? Who’s the judge of what’s a “problem” and what are the criteria, I wonder.
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by FredPret 2y ago
> I don't owe artists any royalties just because they say so. If they demand a kiss they won't get it either. I won't be bound by arbitrary restrictions around the physical matter in my possession. There's a lot of &q
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is a weird argument. Information can be any collection of bits. You can copy these easily and almost for free. But almost nobody cares about information in the abstract. I'm talking about specific, artful arrangements of bits. Lot
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by FredPret 2y ago
This is an interesting argument but at the moment the laws say piracy is illegal. And they do so in a way that is super reasonable, no kidneys involved. The pirated works were created under this understanding of the rules. In other words, m

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