M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
Technology doesn't change who and what people are, it just empowers them. “The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known
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Molecule kills elderly cells, reduces signs of aging in mice(sciencemag.org)
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What you're describing sounds difficult, but ultimately something that can be managed. By contrast I would be concerned about the amount of time a lot of people of all ages spend on cells for RSI reasons alone. When you add a teenage s
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -Upton Sinclair
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That's a very very weak argument for conforming to a potentially harmful set of behaviors, and an old argument at that. "Go to church or your neighbors will shun you!" What an absurd amount of power and choice to cede to co
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You make it sound like I said, "No computers, no internet, no cameras, nothing!" It will also strongly depend on the temperament and character of the kid in question, but putting that aside, there's a difference between total
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Thanks, that's exactly what I was referring to, I should have been more clear.
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I know, even as a teen that's what I did, probably you too. We have to accept though, that today people are growing up with a fully fledged set of social expectations, driven by marketing and peer pressure. When I was a teen, if I want
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I have to be honest, Louis C.K. is looking more and more wise and moderate by the day. Don't let your young teens have smartphones, even when all of their friends have one. I realize that's incredibly difficult, but no one said th
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Just replace "Simulators" with "God", and you'll find that your beliefs are virtually indistinguishable from a religious conviction. In that light, the comfort it provides is by no means hard to understand.
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I agree, it tickles my apatheist spot in the same way that talk of "God" does. Questions that are obviously not within the realm of human exploration are not interesting or compelling questions; the logical equivalent of "Is
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I agree strongly with the statement about games, and it's not just about service. When I was younger, sometimes pirating was the only way to get a game... it wasn't always easy to find a copy. Music has definitely improved too, un
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...And that lizard is only as warm as it is because of quantum effects (tunneling).
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I read these comments, and I just think how much good it would do someone like Dan Brown to spend an hour with people like you. sigh More broadly your collective point applies to larger megastructures like Matrioshka Brains (concentric Dy
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Aren't you worried that by then someone will develop and train a DNN to do that?
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>What's laughable? You can choose which businesses you want to interact with anytime you want, and if you don't like their policies, choose someone else. You try to exercise your consumer rights next time you're in a hospi
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Accusations of Research Fraud Roil a Tight-Knit Community of Ecologists(sciencemag.org)
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The problem is deeper that that really. Doctors and nurses are already expected to detect and report a huge host of issues, ranging from child and spousal abuse, to malingering and drug-seeking behavior. This, in addition to increasing work
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yeah, when you're being drugged, raped, beaten, starved, threatened with death, moved around... threats like "we put a tracking chip in you, we can find you anywhere, anytime," must be absolutely terrifying. Especially since
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So you're just going to pick and choose as it suits you, and then act baffled when people point out the hypocrisy in that course? Oh.
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, and follow the rules.
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Why is it incumbent on politicians to be moral, "do the right things", but not businesses? That's a laughably arbitrary choice you're making.
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Exactly, it's all about breaking people so they won't even try to fight or escape. Drugs, abuse (physical and psychological torture really), and simply killing the ones who don't perform. It's... unbelievably brutal, and
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Horrifying. It occurs to me that even if all you were implanting was an empty metal cylinder, it would be very convincing theater, especially in the context of that level of abuse. It's hard to see a permanent solution to this that d
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Lets not pretend that a lobbying organization is somehow representing anything other than the company and its shareholders.
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That would be the aforementioned fiction I was expecting you'd trot out. You really are just abandoning anything like a moral or intellectual dimension of responsibility in favor of pure legalism, up to and including IG Farben in Nazi
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You're not wrong, but you'd have been really hard-pressed to find someone of significance who didn't already believe the Higgs mechanism was there. In the sense that mass exists, there was a high degree of expectation there t
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People who just want funding don't work on things like the LHC. If you want to solve a problem while someone is throwing money at you, then you work in defense. You shouldn't be so quick to harshly judge people who are making the
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>There's too much of the 'those who can't do, teach' mentality in software Which is so weird, since almost everyone can point to a great teacher or at least, inspirational figure who got them started, or kept them goi
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Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring(sciencebulletin.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments

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