HarkMamilton

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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
I think this is too little, too late. Anyone who saw an advantage to using generic programming is already using something else. They've already invested resources in something besides Go; why spend the effort to switch back for what wi
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Sure, so we'd better get started.
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Humanity is at an incredibly high extinction risk. We have all sorts of incredible new technologies that could, at the very least, knock us back to pre-industrial society. They might just kill us outright. We've already used all the ea
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Environmentalists will never be satisfied. There is always something to improve. If humanity dies or goes pre-industrial because someone engineered a supervirus and we refused to put effort into space travel, all our conservation efforts wo
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Environmentalism isn't an excuse to give up on every other aspiration humanity might hold.
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
You can still use blood from a private company for the treatments you would use "public" blood for.
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Feces are brown because they're full of expired blood cells (according to high school physiology class). So I think we're renewing it all the time.
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Back in college I donated sperm for money. It's not like I was forced into it; it was just nice to have an extra source of income besides my student job. This also enables sperm banks to retain recurrent donors, which means they can af
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by HarkMamilton 9y ago
Sperm banks manage to get very high quality, sanitary sperm despite many people doing it for the cash. The trick is to have recurrent donors you can test regularly, and to quarantine samples until they can be cleared in bulk.