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by M_Grey 10y ago
Vaping cannabis doesn't involve adulterating with flavors or fillers (necessarily). In the best case, it's a CO2 extraction of the plant, rendered into an oil, or steam distillation of the same. I would agree with you though, that
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New Material Helps Record Data with Light(sciencebulletin.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think it's safe to assume, from the total radio silence on the multiple requests to back up that claim, that the original poster probably knew that going in.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think it offends them on a basic level... after all it makes their silly purchases so much more obviously silly. It probably explains why at high income levels, people still collect so much useless shit just for the sake of having it. It&
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If I'm young and have owned more than one smartphone... Now make the exciting mental leap... what if you haven't owned a smartphone before?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"It should be obvious..." A lot of things should be obvious to people, that are not, or that they conveniently ignore. Your fantasy of human nature, is not human nature. Humans are the ones who wait for the comet to whisk them awa
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Lets not kid ourselves... you can download something from the Android store that ruins your life.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Remember, you're homeless in this scenario, so you don't get to comment on HN from your laptop or desktop. Good luck in the libraries!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Plus, there's money in prisons, not so much in complicated home-care, lifelong mental health support, and even housing. A person who's desperately ill, earns your cronies supplying the prison with soap and "food" money.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"Better" means nothing in this context anyway. Domestic breeds do not "do better" in some global sense either... often they do much worse on their own. You need to trim a horse or sheep's hooves. You need to check t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Of course it's a problem, and one you solve by educating people, not scolding them from behind lace hankies.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
By all means, show me the evidence that these "things are damn near universal, and often quite new."
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Exactly. You can be poor as dirt and still have people who throw you a bone.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You also have to be techie enough to use Android... which if you're dirt poor you might not be .
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That's not controversial at all, about half of the country seems to believe that. It's just... wrong.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't believe it's a philosophy, it's just a convenient collection of delusions held by people convinced that if the law of the jungle were the rule, they'd somehow not be a greasy smear on the pavement. If you feel th
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by M_Grey 10y ago
As JayZ once explained... Rap critics that say he's "Money Cash Hoes" I'm from the hood, stupid? What type of facts are those? If you grew up with holes in your zapatos You'd celebrate the minute you was having dou
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You make it sound like "iPhone" must mean "Brand new, cutting edge iPhone!" It could also be... old, refurbished, or "The iPhone I won" or "the iPhone I got on the best sale, " or "The iPhone I s
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The essential problem is that most people can't accumulate, synthesize, and understand the requisite knowledge to appreciate that fact. We're strongly limited by our perspectives, which tend to become more rigid with time, just as
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I doubt that they believe it, as much as they see it as a convenient philosophy to propagate. It really is the philosophy of the exceedingly short-sighted, arrogant, or just plain uneducated. You can't have even a passing knowledge of
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The only difference is the time-frame. Almost anything in history short of massive asteroid impacts has been less destructive than humanity.
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Meet Obscure Microbe Influencing Climate, Ocean Ecosystems, Perhaps Evolution(sciencemag.org)
3 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It tells you that the person advocating that philosophy has given themselves license to wield all of that enormous power you're describing, without check or balance.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's not so much intelligent life arising that matters... what matters is that they become galactic explorers. Really, there is no obvious reason why any species would want to do that, least of all resources. Besides... maybe life is m
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Brainlike computers are a black box. Scientists are finally peering inside(sciencemag.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It seems extremely unlikely that superluminal travel is possible, so at some point intelligent life becomes like magnetic monopoles... maybe they exist, but we're never going to meet while either species is alive. You're ignoring
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think it would have less long-term impacts than many would like to thin. Human nature isn't so easily changed, and over time people who don't want to believe in the discovery simply won't. We still have flat-earthers and mo
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Infinity and Beyond(aeon.co)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think it ends up being a relatively boring outcome, because then it would very strongly imply that some previous step between organic sludge, and intelligent tool users is very VERY unlikely to occur. It would be good news in a sense,
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by M_Grey 10y ago
A dark forest implies that lots of species advance without destroying themselves. One interpretation of the Great Filter basically states that self-destruction to be an inevitable feature of sufficiently advanced life. So yes... for the for

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