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Biological Version of Malware Reverses Antibiotic Resistance in TB(sciencemag.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes, that's one strong benefit they have over chemical weapons, which are basically always going to leak given time, or biological agents, which can be smuggled in a human incubator. The downside of nukes almost exclusively has to do w
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You've hit on why I don't see humanity's long-term survival as very likely, and why I find the Great Filter hypothesis so compelling.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Exactly. Chemical weapons are mostly good at terrifying and murdering civilians and the otherwise unequipped and untrained. Nuclear weapons just.. kill.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're absolutely right, but they're the only thing designed to be. If they work the way they're intended, they kill everything.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
For that alone, everyone involved should lose their licenses to practice anything, up to and including simple musical instruments. It has to be one of the most basic concepts in modern medicine that the eye is fragile, precious, and if you
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That would be an excellent outcome, but given the climate around IP in this country I wouldn't want to be the one the government decided to make an example out of.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Chemical weapons are shit, sorry. They're expensive to produce, dangerous to store, and their mortal enemy is... weather. Biological weapons could, if they were properly designed and released, didn't mutate, etc... etc... Nukes ju
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Absolutely. If we had a functional government I'd say they should form a branch of the LoC to digitally preserve it all, post hast. It's hard to know what we'll be losing until it's lost otherwise.
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I live my life by that single insight: technology and progress do not change human nature . Behavior, sure, but not our nature. Human nature and nuclear weaponry are not compatible.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
None of the other weapons were world-killers. There is a difference in quality and quantity. Mustard gas is nasty, but it's ultimately not very effective. Napalm, phosphorus are cruel, but not generally more useful than a large explosi
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I found this to be true as well. I started off as an extremely rigid thinker, and it's my contact with people holding diverse views on and offline that have changed that. I'm still highly skeptical, occasionally bordering on pessi
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Right, but for that orbit to be so slow, it must be a very distant orbit.
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"Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meine Browning!" Terrible play, questionable subject matter and worse fans, but still... a good point. There's nothing wrong with culture as a concept to live through, but as a point o
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It shouldn't take that long... it's apparent today just how obvious the parallels are. Most people actively, intentionally do not think about it, which I suppose answers the questions of, "How could the Victorians have done t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"Could" is a weak argument. People could all get along and love each other, but they absolutely never will. In that sense, the "could" is really an illusion formed from an imperfect understanding of human nature as t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'd feel better about paying my taxes if they were well-spent, and not patently wasted on wars, cronyism, and the latest political whims. Some of that is to be expected, but the degree of waste in the US system is appalling and seeming
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"You can smell vinegar when you open the cans, which is one of the byproducts of the decomposition process of these films," Spriggs said. "We know that these films are on the brink of decomposing to the point where they&#x27
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That's the part that gets me the most too... I can't imagine how desperate that must have been.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Absolutely, so instead please enjoy this read of a much more grueling and revealing 40 years in Siberia. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...
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Sure, they probably would, but would they be right? Are they getting the best for their not-dollar? 9/10 New restaurants fail after all... typically investing in a restaurant is a losing bet. http://www.economist.com/bl
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's what it would be here, except that it was co-opted by the usual Horatio Alger types as a means to underpay for labor and hide that cost. Then, like so much, it just became "how it was done". We're not bright, as a
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by M_Grey 10y ago
See that is just incredibly cool. I honestly see no reason why they, or someone, shouldn't be able to make it work. The barriers would probably be having enough of an installed userbase, but that's always the problem.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I believe in altruism, but I don't believe that Elon Musk is altruistic. In fact, the way he seems happy to treat his people suggests a far less humane side, but that's neither here nor there. In any case, I don't really care
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The point of transition is always the same... control. If we could change the things that were wrong with such people, and then it was a choice for them to be so changed or remain as they are (and in jail)... that's how you transitio
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There's a certain kind of person who want power, or the appearance of power, more than anything else. They tend not to be great people, for a number of reasons. In the same way that really exceptional pro-athletes (and I don't mea
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It might even be feasible to have a system like a drive-through carwash, that instead lifts specially compatible EV's, remove the old battery "strip" from the lower portion of the car, and then install a new one. If it could
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It would probably be easier to have charging stations with people hot-swapping batteries, than charging station with extremely fast charge times. It would be a task that could be automated right out of the gate too.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
There you go then, it sounds to me like sticking with your original choice is the wise move. I for one wish you the best of luck, and wouldn't be surprised if you ended up fairly happy with your decision in the end.
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I don't know the answer either. Obviously whoever can figure it out though, stands to make a killing either way. If you invested this money with the knowledge that it was a risk, that you could lose it all, then you should probably sti

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