SamPatt

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by SamPatt 4y ago
Given that humanity has only existed for ~200,000 years, and the threats you've mentioned are unknown but likely millions or billions of years in the future, is it fair to say it's a "temporary paradise?" If we could liv
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by SamPatt 4y ago
If I realize I'm dreaming, then it becomes a lucid dream, but a timer also starts ticking. I can't usually remain dreaming for more than 30 seconds (or what feels like that long). I usually realize I'm dreaming because I&#x27
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by SamPatt 4y ago
My guess is it's frowned upon because there's a difference in choosing to take a nap, and needing to take a nap. The latter is associated with aging and physical decline.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Are you saying the current problems with inflation are caused by resource depletion, or that this is possible in theory? I'd be interested in any evidence of the former claim.
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I agree it seems worth doing, especially if you have the belief that at some point technology will advance sufficiently to allow interaction with other people again.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
This advice is almost always good regardless of circumstance. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, and being fit enough to care for yourself and others as long as you can, are life-changing decisions for the better.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
The scientists were the ones leading eugenics the last time around. Stop pretending that there's a better class of people that are the only ones trusted with certain knowledge. I'm not an accredited scientist, and neither are 99%
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by SamPatt 4y ago
The 10.000 euros is what he used to pay everything off.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
ASICs existed in 2013. But they wouldn't have been obtainable to a broke college student.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of this claim. Only a handful of people were mining Bitcoin in 2009, which is the same year it was created.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Who pays for these mapping efforts, and why?
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Serious question: do you think the bundling of products increases the chance of people committing suicide? Since these suicides are planned, it doesn't seem like needing to buy the products individually presents much of a safeguard.
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Hey now ... don't forget the hoodie
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The rapid expansion of human population since 1800 challenges this claim. We don't need an ideal climate to flourish. That's part of our species' strength: our remarkable ability to adapt.
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>all efforts to stop it faced an attack Lockdowns, and the labeling of society into "essential" and "non-essential", occurred nearly everywhere with no debate at all. The most basic freedoms guaranteed to us - the fre
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by SamPatt 4y ago
That's because the political arena is supposed to have limits. Those limits in America are clearly expressed in restrictions on the state's power, in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If ordinary citizens and their duly elected
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by SamPatt 4y ago
While I agree it's horrific, I would urge you to reconsider whether or not people who supported such policies were monsters. That's exactly the dehumanizing language that was used about people who were skeptical of lockdowns and
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Censorship of dissident medical views - many of which were later proven correct - during this period doesn't concern you? I pointed out the existence of differing viewpoints being silenced, was shouted down, and you follow this up with
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by SamPatt 4y ago
>What about the precedence of liberty this sets? In a series of weeks the government removed nearly all agency overnight and everyone complied. There was no real debate on pros and cons of the total lockdown. Not only was there no debate
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by SamPatt 4y ago
I was downvoted several times on HN for pointing out that reputable scientists were being censored on YouTube and other platforms for their dissident views on COVID. It happened here fairly often. Though less frequently here than most other
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>poisoned the well of discourse Please find me a single topic which impacts more than a roomful of people where someone isn't engaging in this type of discourse. This sounds like you justifying your former false beliefs (or at least
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by SamPatt 4y ago
Social ostracism and censorship is harm. Shutting down businesses and arresting business owners who refused to comply was harm. Wrecking supply chains and printing egregious amounts of money was harm. Yes, violence was largely avoided. But
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Are you claiming this is what happened in this specific case? That the Great Barrington Declaration was promulgated by bad actors due to support from large companies? If that's not your claim, then why are you bringing this up? Are you
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A very small bit. Readers aren't parsing sentences this closely and comparing to previous statements. Unless they come out with an editorial statement apologizing then they aren't really serious about their own involvement in cens
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by SamPatt 4y ago
>At least 11 federal agencies, and around 80 government officials, have been explicitly directing social media companies to take down posts and remove certain accounts that violate the government’s own preferences and guidelines for cove
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The fear and groupthink was so strong at the time that even pointing out the existence of dissenting voices was enough to get you labeled as a selfish grandma killer conspiracy theorist. I'm glad in hindsight more people are willing to
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>He was said to have been swallowed by the Strid in 1152 after trying to leap across. As an American it's always startling to casually see a date that far back in history, and know a specific event such as the death of a child was r
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There's some truth here, and I think it relates to the stereotype of highly intelligent people having poor social skills. If you've carried out your ideas to their logical conclusion and reached a socially inappropriate truth, wel
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Some people are better problem solvers than others. IQ is an attempt at measuring this. Why is this (admittedly imperfect) method so foolish?
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I thought it was an image at first, and was trying to mentally move the pieces on the board. After the state got too complicated I happened to tap on one of the pieces and realized it was interactive. I've played kinda similar things b

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