M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
My point is simply that an American populace prepared to accept that, is more than prepared to accept far less.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh yeah, you're going to change the world by figuring out who to market baby formula to, and that internet-connected toaster is a winner. The money is good though, that's true.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I agree with you completely. I only mean that since Americans have shown willingness to commit to far more in the name of far less, this would be a trivial thing to lead them into.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Which is... funded by us. Armed by us. Guarded on the international stage by us. Even when a couple of dozen of their citizens flew airplanes into our buildings, what did we do? Shake their hands and bomb their neighbors. I grant that &quot
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Seriously... we just ate upwards of $6 trillion on a couple of wars that changed nothing for the better, and frankly people already seem largely over it, even as those wars are far from over. Clearly the public is not above being led by t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I would be more inclined to believe that war is coming. Broad regional conflict will spread, fueled by failing puppet states like KSA that are going, not to only to fail, but messily implode.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If that's the choice someone knowingly makes, then I can respect it. I worry that sometimes however, people like that honestly expect outcomes which are unrealistic, and suffer for it. Still, they should be free to choose.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think it's clear now, that the time for intervention has long since passed, and given our track record we're unlikely to improve the situation. The problem isn't increased interventionism, it's that we've already
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Chemotherapists have also faced the dilemma of whether their chief responsibility is to minimize an individual patient’s suffering or to further the search for an eventual cure. When risks to a given patient may mean benefits to future suf
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Exactly. It's Afghanistan with the Soviets, all over again... the blowback is going to be ugly and protracted.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"Mathematicians becoming data scientists..." At best you're talking about a career change, at worst you're talking about a watered-down version of your intended career.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
This is why single accounts aren't taken as gospel, because even at their best, they're not going to be entirely accurate. It's only when you're comparing many different sources who didn't know or contact each other
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by M_Grey 10y ago
We're... not talking about engineers though.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
And how often does that pride last once you see the application that work is put to? At least if you do good math, you can take pride in that .
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Scientific Scepticism Isn’t Just Politics (2011)(profmattstrassler.com)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yeah, like the IoT. I'm sorry, but we've reached the point where that level of blithe pursuit of a "different goal" is becoming destructive on a broad scale.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's sad, but the truth is that Amnesty International has had ample practice over many decades when it comes to the grim business of collecting and correlating detailed accounts of the depths of human misery. It's good to see that
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'd agree with you, except that the truth is so much more grim and obvious... nobody really gives enough of a shit to go to war. "Red lines" and all of that didn't make people care, the depth of the depravity doesn'
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by M_Grey 10y ago
•Can you walk away from a problem when the solution is “good enough,” are you able to switch between tasks or problems with relative ease? Are you OK with simple solutions to problems that could have more complicated solutions, but only wi
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...You said "evil" a lot, but what exactly is the evil part? That's a hell of a claim to make, and then only support with hyperbole and bluster.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
>What makes you think some kind of ideal democracy works best? I never said that I did.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You can't really be arguing that we enjoy the "best way for a community to be governed" do you? Pangloss? Is that you?!
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In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’(quantamagazine.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Cali represents far too much GDP, far too much raw valuable coastline to ever let go. It would be cheaper to kill every last man woman and child in the state, and repopulate it, than it would be to let it secede. Never mind what Lincoln kne
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...Moral high ground? We've been manufacturing that since Vietnam, and people still haven't caught on well enough to stop it happening again. The economic devastation brought about through secession would be the casus belli anyway
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you d
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The EU isn't a country, never has been, and the UK only joined in the early 70's. What existed before was essentially a lot of tribes who'd been at war on and off for a few thousand years.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
On what planet do you expect that the US at large is going to accept 1/7th of their economy seceding without a fight?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"Nice" is also highly situational... they're nice because they can literally afford to be.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Ironically, we're doing it to ourselves at the global scale, to ourselves and tons of other organisms. It's only when the scale is so small that we can hold it in our hands, that we start to empathize.

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