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by GW150914 8y ago
Bit of a nitpick, but they’re not getting their energy from those sources, they’re offsetting their use with those sources. I want to be clear that they helped build actual wind farms and didn’t just buy carbon credit “indulgences” so ful
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by GW150914 8y ago
Putting aside innocent people in jail, what about the people in for drug crimes, immigration issues, and non-violent offenses? Actually putting that aside, what exactly does someone need to do to “deserve” slavery? What’s the bar? I also
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by GW150914 8y ago
Plastics are inherently unstable over time, and that instability is exacerbated by temperature swings, and exposure to UV light. This is an issue in the art world that’s become a conservation nightmare. https://www.getty.edu&#x2F
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by GW150914 8y ago
Even if I buy your idea that human nature can change that way (and I don’t) you only tackled the ‘C’ in MICE. How do you solve Money, Ideology and Ego?
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by GW150914 8y ago
I remember these same empty arguments back in 2000, and you know what? There was a difference! It’s hard to imagine Al Gore invading Iraq, and even if that is the single concrete difference between him and Bush, that’s still a whole region
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s an odd thing to say in reply to someone who said, State craft is not for amateurs and sources on both sides routinely get hung out to dry.
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by GW150914 8y ago
I agree. It’s only impressive if their memory in other areas is at least average. If it’s just a matter of using all of your resources in one limited field then it’s far from impressive. Most people have a less singular focus, and it would
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by GW150914 8y ago
All helium that goes into a balloon is wasted, never to be recovered. In scientific applications it is typically recycled. I don’t know about SCUBA, but I’d venture to say that it’s a necessity for deep dives whereas in a balloon it’s a nov
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by GW150914 8y ago
A couple of problems with that. First you have the noise created by big egos clashing, and second, you’d lose the anonymous “accout made just for this” exposees and stories from the trenches. I think in the former case it would become painf
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by GW150914 8y ago
This story seems to resurface every few months, and the answer to the question of whether or not we’re running out of the second most common element in the known universe is still “No.” It is true that most helium is the byproduct of natura
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by GW150914 8y ago
You can spend all day criticizing people and organizations in power in the US. The most powerful people, the most powerful companies, and everything else. How is it true except as a dog whistle for conspiracies? You can literally spend all
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s also probably the kind of thing you need to know a lot about before you start accusing a religion which represents a sizable fraction of the world, and which has many existing sects and interpretations, of being a causative agent in so
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by GW150914 8y ago
How was the human rights record in Malaysia before Islam? How do the countries you listed compare in terms of women’s rights with their non-Islamic neighbors? Pakistan is a rough part of town for women, but isn’t India dealing with their ow
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by GW150914 8y ago
The price of peace with these people was a world war. I’m not eager to see the price paid again, and I want to live where they want me dead. You can feel morally superior and hug a Nazi, I’ll stick with the more practical “Hetzjagd and Nazi
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by GW150914 8y ago
What’s unfair about it? They’ve spent years making claims that turned out to be patently false, and their patents tell the story of a company that pursued something better minds have failed at, and then shows them pivoting to the boring “Ho
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by GW150914 8y ago
That’s a massive wall of text filled with claims, many of which seem sketchy at best (1000-20000 children per year in Britain is a huge range for example, the latter number being twenty times the former) and I don’t have the time to sort th
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by GW150914 8y ago
Not a one of these examples is less than chilling, even terrifying, and provokes a sense of immense outrage. Like examples of rape, murder and child abuse by total strangers it makes us all feel fearful and powerless, but it also misses a c
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by GW150914 8y ago
It also has a wired headset to a belt computing device, and a dimmer view of the real world. I’m not convinced that the FOV is worth that.
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’m not seeing a better catalogue for comparable money, just endless fragmentation with layers of paywalls to access content. What Netflix and emerging platforms have convinced me of is the value and necessity of piracy, ormthe promise of a
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by GW150914 8y ago
It never existed and was never going to exist, except as marketing and investor hype. Same with their fiber-scanning display, and everything else that doesn’t add up to, “like a Hololens, but with a much dimmer view of the real world and mo
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by GW150914 8y ago
Wow, she’s lucky that she saw so many good doctors, I think a lot would have ignored the EEG results and just assumed that it had to be psychomotor epilepsy. When you add in that some forms of her disorder (Paroxysmal Dyskinesia) respond we
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by GW150914 8y ago
Freedom is incredibly important, but people need to be clear what they want freedom from. Freedom from tyranny? Sign me up. Freedom from government censorship? Yes please. Freedom from having any standards, basic decency, and accountability
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by GW150914 8y ago
I couldn’t agree more, and moreover the odds of us giving the future something other than our waste probably depends to some extent on embracing nuclear power. If not, what we’re going to pass on might be light on radioactivity, but heavy o
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’m very pro-nuclear, we almost certainly need it while we improve renewables. However, 25,000 years or 500 years... it’s pretty much the same problem for us as a species. 500 years is significantly longer than the US has been a country, an
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by GW150914 8y ago
As others have said, ownership doesn’t precisely equal control, and certainly not in the way control can be exercised over one of these floating reactors. Also... Well the Australian government(s) aren't sane then. Yeah, hasn’t that
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by GW150914 8y ago
Because at some point you have to pay taxes, or break the law. They nailed Al Capone, and you’re not Al Capone. I suppose you could buy it in secret and never liquidate it, spend it, or declare it... and therefore never benefit from it. I g
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by GW150914 8y ago
The first three results don’t work, so maybe that’s not too useful.
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by GW150914 8y ago
If the government wants your gold or private key, they’re going to get it. How long are you going to hold out against their proverbial $5 rubber hose? Solitary confinement? Mundane legal threats?
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by GW150914 8y ago
Pay to play gets backlash from gamers with enough sophistication and experience to notice and care, which if sales figures are to be believed, until recently represented a small minority. Something like Manhunt or a serial killer sim outrag
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by GW150914 8y ago
Perfect Dark was great for that too, with the tranq darts, and the laptop gun. I remember having so much fun with friends as we figured out the most rage-inducing ways tomabuse the laptop gun emplacements. Duke Nukem 3D was fantastic as wel

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