Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
It's amazing these companies don't have a "buy your way out of trouble" service. I'm sure this guy would be willing to pay a few hundred $ to have a human resolve it. Perhaps that option would create a new set of co
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by Hondor 10y ago
Even if we can do sustained fusion, that doesn't make it a game changer. It looks like it will be hugely expensive. It's easy to say "fuel is nearly free and unlimited!" but that's also true of solar power and solar
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by Hondor 10y ago
Any prediction requires us to wait to see what really happens. I don't think it's fair to say that 30 years is too long to wait and that it's therefore not falsifiable. Science has made claims in the past that took much longe
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by Hondor 10y ago
Is there anything untrue in that quote? Don't we accept that stopping carbon emissions now won't do anything to the climate for at least a few decades? He clearly says "manage the immediate effects". Are you disagreeing
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by Hondor 10y ago
You seem to be focusing on the word "opposite" which I think was used in quite a reasonable way here, even if not technically accurate. Does that actually change the validity of his complaint? That fabricated data was published in
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by Hondor 10y ago
The sad problem with climate change is that otherwise sensible people are willing to put intellectual honesty aside in the name of "we desperately need to convince everyone that a disaster is coming so they'll be scared into preve
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by Hondor 10y ago
It seems they've got about 90,000,000 subscribers, so 500,000 is only half a percent drop. As the article projects, it'll still be many years before they're disrupted out of business.
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by Hondor 10y ago
A positive thing is that with so much centralized internet (facebook, twitter, etc), rather than isolated websites, there's not much they'll be able to read from it just by the domain. Are you on the facebook terrorist group or th
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by Hondor 10y ago
They could open the border with Mexico, just as the UK opened the "border" with Poland. If that happened, it would be undeniably a freeing of the labor market. That means the participants are individually deciding where to go, rat
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by Hondor 10y ago
Yes, we have a very non-free labor market. It's designed to keep poor people poor and rich people rich.
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by Hondor 10y ago
What makes Americans more deserving than Mexicans? Do Americans contribute something during their childhood which is repayed as wages in adulthood? Or is it the same factor that makes whites more deserving than blacks - i.e. membership of t
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by Hondor 10y ago
Artificially banning a class of workers isn't really the free market. They're not leaving to make more efficient use of their labor. Just as banning black workers would up the wages for white workers according to the free market.
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by Hondor 10y ago
They won't pay them more because they're losing their jobs and leaving the country. They're going to earn less in Mexico. Just because they're outside the country doesn't mean they're not human beings anymore.
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by Hondor 10y ago
More like how it saved South Korea. Saving usually hasn't worked, but that's one clear counterexample.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Patents are to incentivise inventions. If an HIV patient could patent their antibodies, that would limit their usefulness while also giving no incentive to anyone to invent better ones, since you can't invent them - just wait and hope
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by Hondor 10y ago
How is who your employer was private? I would never expect that to be confidential nor upset if it became public. Surprised, yes, but what's the harm? Your workmates all knew you worked there and could have tattled on you.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Good riddance to function keys. They're slowly being pushed out of reach on many computers but my fairly new PC laptop still has sysrq and break keys. That's pretty objectionable.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Americans should love this. Artificially inflated food prices are what tariffs and a lack of trade agreements are for. That causes local consumers to pay more to support local producers rather than paying a fair international price. How can
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by Hondor 10y ago
Are you sure that wasn't "bush"?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Careful, some/most(?) of the lawsuits aren't because of risking patient's lives. They're for things like defrauding investors. They're not somehow more guilty because they also happened to do some other wrong thing
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by Hondor 10y ago
What's the difference? Biggest sounds more familiar to me. Maybe local cultures differ? For that matter, why would you ever need the word "large"? Doesn't "big" always have the same meaning?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Unlikely because the earthquakes were on the East coast of New Zealand, away from Australia.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Wonderful to see more CC0 use compared to a lot of "free" art on the internet that burdens the users with keeping track of attribution requirements and including the license text and all that tediousness.
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by Hondor 10y ago
What are the motives of people who want to stop this development?: "In July, San Jose sued to stop the project, saying it would create 25,000 jobs but provide 1,350 apartments at most. That would shift “the environmental burden and exp
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by Hondor 10y ago
Methane isn't the most potent greenhouse gas as stated in the article. Water vapor is both the most potent and the most abundant. It also has a positive feedback loop so the hotter the Earth gets, the more water vapor goes into the atm
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by Hondor 10y ago
The argument that a deflationary currency is doomed to fail has been made many times too. But it's not a very strong one since Bitcoin isn't forced on anyone like a national currency, so it doesn't behave in all the same way
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by Hondor 10y ago
Bills of rights don't address the problem of the majority voting to define crimes that suit themselves and punish the people who commit them, even if they're not very bad. For example, various drug and sex related laws that keep c
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by Hondor 10y ago
Another explanation is that the people reporting it were lying and stopped their false reports when the investigation was happening to protect their lie.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Wow. 27 years for burning down your business and claiming insurance, even when it doesn't kill or seriously injure anyone, and the value is only ~$200,000. Guilty or innocent, that's a completely obscene sentence! How can anyone i
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by Hondor 10y ago
> experience the horror of a collapsing civilization. Wait, what? Is there any serious prediction of global warming causing collapsing civilization? How would that happen? Hordes of starving Americans abandoning their jobs and storming C

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