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by GW150914 8y ago
Aren’t some of these mega corps contemplating building their own employee cities? We could see people forced to re-learn just what a company town implies, and all out of a drive to centralize in SV and lower housing costs.
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by GW150914 8y ago
The irony of course is that all participants here feel the same, but with different conclusions. It’s a shame thst we couldn’t have a functional conversation without derailing into what amounts to faith based arguments, but there we are. In
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s Bloomberg, so it’s possibly not beggering belief that this is little more than a PR piece for Intel. I’m not saying it’s paid for or anything, but PR agencies are always there with the outline of a story for reporters too lazy to bothe
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by GW150914 8y ago
Drop the bone already, it’s not what he’s been saying. His point, and an excellent, nuanced point at that, is trying to explain that generalizing from limited occurrences within a community as resulting from the fact that the community is X
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by GW150914 8y ago
To paraphrase Morty, “That sounds like getting subsidies with extra steps.”
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by GW150914 8y ago
It depends on how wealthy you want to be. If you want a few billion, no doubt. I’d you want Bezos money... much harder. If you want to be the first trillionaire, the equivalent of temple railroad barons for space? No, this is pretty much it
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by GW150914 8y ago
Living space for a hundred people? Where are you getting that? Space for a 100 people on one of their planned 1hour trips to anywhere on the globe, sure, but that’s decidedly not living space. Again, putting side the hype so many of you are
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by GW150914 8y ago
Are you kidding? It’s expected to replace the Falcon Heavy for LEO launches and further bring down the $/kg for launches. To say it only makes sense for Mars goes against both common sense, and SpaceX’s own claims. From Wikipedia: BFR
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by GW150914 8y ago
What is the evidence of that, aside from “stuff Musk says” of course? Everything they do seems geared to commercial launches, which make sense, and stands to open up LEO enormously. I’m not seeing a realistic path to Mars outside of verbiag
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by GW150914 8y ago
What I don't do though is tell you that you're not allowed to listen to them either. No one has said that about Jones, not Apple, or Youtube, and certainly not PayPal. They chose not to publish him or process his payments, and t
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by GW150914 8y ago
He was so consistently and predictably wrong that it was actually useful. You could bet against him and win every time, and in a way that kind of wrongness is as valuable as being prescient. He’d proclaim the death of the mouse, or the irre
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by GW150914 8y ago
When that modern Frederick Douglass is deplatformed, we can talk, instead of this hysterical “when the world ends where will you be?!” shit. If you have something more than slippery slopes to offer, and comparing Alex Jones to Frederick Dou
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by GW150914 8y ago
Let’s make a deal, when they start to come for the modern equivalent of a Frederick Douglass, I’ll care, and we’ll still be high up on the list with plenty of time to fight. Until then this feels a lot more like a slippery slope fallacy, an
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by GW150914 8y ago
Uh huh... that poem had more than one line, and if it started with your version the response would broadly be, “get back to me in a few lines and I’ll start fighting.” Even the fallacy you’re invoking is a slope and not a cliff . The rep
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by GW150914 8y ago
Quoting blihp: Note that the screenshot of the email notifying him indicated they were going to 'put all outside columns on hiatus.' That sounds like pure cost cutting to me. It sounds like the magazine is dead or dying.
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by GW150914 8y ago
I know the US has very lax laws around these things, but doesn’t that rise to the level of defamation/libel even there? Out and out accusing someone of serial murder and child rape seems a bit much.
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by GW150914 8y ago
My point is that it is pointless to have these conversations here, because no exchange of ideas takes place, no intellectual curiosity is satisfied, and bad faith arguments are the norm. You may not like that point, but that doesn’t make it
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think some people also use abstract principles as canards when they actually identify with said edge cases. Either way, it’s exhausting and pointless and poisons every conversation online (and some off) that touch on these issues. It’s li
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by GW150914 8y ago
I truly wish the predictable conversation to follow could be something other than the inevitable bike shedding over what constitutes free speech, slippery slopes, and conspiracy theories. In a dozen submissions of similar topics the comment
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by GW150914 8y ago
To be fair, you keep using words like “measure” and “compare” which implies an interval or something more than space right there. Without time how can you take a measurement or make a comparison? If I throw a ball to you and we both nite a
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by GW150914 8y ago
You could try a bit of roleplay with your friends, script out some different ways to get the point across and so on. The most important thing is that you talk to this person sooner rather than later, when you’ll be unable to control your em
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by GW150914 8y ago
Highly editorialized title. The original (sane) title is So You Want to Launch a Rocket? The FAA is Here for You . This is especially eggregious given the overall positive tone of the post, see: The point is, you do need federal permissio
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s relatively easy to introduce something, but much harder to take it away unless its usefulness has passed.
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by GW150914 8y ago
In 2018, "extreme poverty" widely refers to earning below the international poverty line of $1.90/day (in 2011 prices, equivalent to $2.07 in 2017), set by the World Bank. This measure is the equivalent to earning $1.00 a da
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by GW150914 8y ago
Only if you read neo-fascism/far-right populism and conservative as the same things, in which case I’d say... yes. I’d point out that by no means did I attempt to conflate those things with conservatism though. I think being moral an
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by GW150914 8y ago
It would be interesting if you were right. Have you read any of Larry Niven’s work? In his Known Space novels, especially later Ringworld books the idea of “wireheads” is extensively considered. The outlook adopted seems to be what you’re i
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’m also wondering to what degree this represents a triumph of economic, political and social reform, and to what extent it might be a triumph of massaging the definition of “extreme poverty” and other accounting or semantic fuckery. Edit:
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by GW150914 8y ago
I think we have bigger fish to fry closer to home when it comes to preserving whatever versions of democracy we have. We’re not going to effectively fight China when we do so much business with them, and a war would be catastrophic. Meanwhi
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by GW150914 8y ago
The short answers are “complexity” and “targeting” essentially. How do you stimulate or inhibit what you want to target and only what you target, especially when as you point out we’re bags of mostly water? Looking at something like stimula
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by GW150914 8y ago
You’re not wrong, but at the same time what’s the solution that isn’t just a matter of the people complaining manipulating global information flow in the way they like? Most of the time behind the flashlight-under-the-chin tales of potent

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