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by GDC7 5y ago
Unlikely thing causing no damage is no source of concern unlikely things which cause tremendous damage are for sure cause of concern because it only needs to happen once and it’s game over for the person/group/entity which find th
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by GDC7 5y ago
Microsoft bet on GUI when nobody thought it was gonna be the future
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite Microsoft is like Marylin Monroe, or Michael Jackson or that person who lived to 123 years old. You'll never see a company like that ever again in your lifetime. They did what Stand
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by GDC7 5y ago
Not knowing statistics is a form of protection against depression, sadness and anxiety. Gotta thank god that the majority of people believe bad stuff doesn't apply to them. It's a burden for few. If you want to see society collaps
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Also, pure science is the part of eventually getting useful qol improvements that absolutely cannot be done through simple short sighted private research, but proves time and time again to be invaluable Seems like a good pitch to fund
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by GDC7 5y ago
> humans survive without artificial hearts Any human will die at some point without artificial hearts, meaning all humans are slowly dying due to non availibility of artificial hearts, further meaning that all humans are slowly failing t
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by GDC7 5y ago
> So does GHB. No, the only way to die via GHB is to overdose on it. Alcohol instead sets you body on fire with inflammation and such inflammation attacks all tissues including vital ones which I mentioned and will repeat: heart, liver,
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by GDC7 5y ago
> is that people would freak out And rightfully so. What's the ROI? The hard limit for stuff which is not aimed at producing an improvement in quality of life of taxpayers should be in the dozens of millions , not billions. Quality
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Maybe Elon is right, and instead of spending tens of billions of dollars and decades on one bulletproof piece of jewelry Musk is pretty much socially incompetent, proven so many times. On this topic he discounts the fact that the type
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by GDC7 5y ago
You have it the other way around. Alcohol is legal because people love to be inebiated more than they like being stoned or on a paranoid coke binge, or nodding off due to heroin Majority rules , and so the preference with regards to the fee
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by GDC7 5y ago
A drunk person is also annoying , no? Being around a drunk person maybe also statistically unhealthy given the increased risk of falls, accidents, psychological damage? I don't know, it's one of those things where I can't poi
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by GDC7 5y ago
> In the Netherlands, the percentage of people that relapse after rehabilitating from GHB is the highest of all drugs, including alcohol. Humans love alcohol-like feelings, so the comparison is vis-a-vis against alcohol. Alcohol relapse
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by GDC7 5y ago
> I think GP is suggesting that, absent the lobbying power of the alcohol industry, you might see commercial development of safer ways of dosing alternatives. Well yes, substances are like religions, and alcohol is like Christianity. Nob
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by GDC7 5y ago
The problem is that it's really really hard to gulp down 3 bottles of liquor. Plus unlike G you are not involved in the preparation, a better comparison would be having a substance called super-duper-liquor that you'd have to dilu
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by GDC7 5y ago
> In a better world we'd have a good substitute for alcohol that had similar effects but much less serious health concerns You are thinking about self administration of GHB, but people need to be really careful because 2 mL is a rec
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Passerby are generally irrelevant to other passerby When you are in a super-optimal and franly desirable situation you are never just a passerby and thus you are never irrelevant. Jennifer Lawrance, for example is never classified as a
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Well, I just decided that building an artificial heart or defeating Parkinson or Alzheimer's, curing diabetes, solving cancer are under the umbrella of hobbies They fall under the umbrella of survival, because as things stands tod
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by GDC7 5y ago
It’s way less than a billion Plus given that they are dead I can’t see why their brains and hearts are material to the success of EV STOCKS. The dead can’t buy stocks
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by GDC7 5y ago
Well it's not that much better. Being irrelevant and being hated/laughed at are the same thing essentially. Meaning they are both something else compared to the desired outcome: being loved and respected.
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by GDC7 5y ago
Boys love for cars begins at 2 and never ends. EVs became a meme for revolutionizing the car industry in a way people perceive will be as profound as Karl Benz first car or Ford Model T. So naturally boys of every age want to be part of thi
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by GDC7 5y ago
> The thing that ties both of them is spending money on a non-productive asset, which serves as a costly signal of your wealth For a common sense person only an expensive painting serves as tool to signal one's wealth. An expensive
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by GDC7 5y ago
> The intensity of this feeling is related to your personal feeling of your self worth Calling none sense. IT'S NOT IN YOUR HEAD! There are objective levels to it. Say I work in film making and specialize on actors wardrobes , I can
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by GDC7 5y ago
Competition is not solely about the working environment. Competition also happens in the social environment both during working hours with co-workers but most importantly once you clock out. Once you clock out the competition moves to other
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by GDC7 5y ago
> play with the pros The thing is that when you live in a big city you never stop playing, once you are done competing in the work setting you actually start competing in the social setting. WHile working remotely for a company based out
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but no one in a small town looks at NYC or SF and thinks it’s a successful, nice place to live Cities are like poker tables, whereas countries are like a casino. Sitting at the highest poker table in the casino means nothing, to make i
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Tesla full self-driving fails in Brooklyn(cnn.com)
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by GDC7 5y ago
> like people paying millions for an original painting rather than getting a replica made for $100k (or whatever) for their private collection? The official art market action amounts to 50B/yr. Of the aforementioned figure the vast
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by GDC7 5y ago
Does every motorist behave the same way on the road?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> What's your point? That because I'm "somehow on the same wavelenght" as "the NFT crowd", that I have "lack of common sense" by association? No. I said "wavelenght", not "same as&qu
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by GDC7 5y ago
> I alluded to this before, but the alternate explanation is that they're not going to the museum because it offers the best fidelity, they're doing so for other reasons (eg. social clout) What % of social media posts are museu

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