antepodius

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by antepodius 6y ago
The problem, as always, is that the plebs will listen to it and get the wrong idea. Our venerable grandfather, of course, is smart enough to recoil from wrongthink; it's the human masses out there he's aiming to keep fed with the
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by antepodius 6y ago
It always comes down to feeding the right message to the plebs, doesn't it?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Someone might listen because they believe the world is more complicated than a one-dimensional 'political' model would imply, and that the vast majority of reality and the human experience lies outside of the select few categories
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by antepodius 6y ago
I'm sure that'd be an entertaining show to watch, interrupted every 5 seconds for nitpicking corrections of minutae.
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by antepodius 6y ago
A panasonic tactical technical response team is enroute to your house, ETA 15 minutes.
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by antepodius 6y ago
The highest-brow 'orange man bad'.
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by antepodius 6y ago
rent-free
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by antepodius 6y ago
In this case, it isn't about money, but proficiency.
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by antepodius 6y ago
You just need to accelerate and move around in space, which is equivalent to rotating your spacetime velocity vector slightly towards the spatial axes. Or be under gravity.
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by antepodius 6y ago
I want it to be true, therefore it is. There doesn't have to be a 'logical' basis for values. You can just declare them, and go from there, and as long as you don't end up with contradictions you're fine. If you d
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by antepodius 6y ago
Or not horny enough. pornsitedotcom's a poor substitute for physical intimacy.
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by antepodius 6y ago
I suppose you don't have any right to put solar panels on your home, then, given that they're full of chemical waste that remains dangerous indefinitely.
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by antepodius 6y ago
That's fine. They who breed will inherit the earth!
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by antepodius 6y ago
Which may well devalue someone's house as much as tearing down a supporting wall would...
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by antepodius 6y ago
I wonder what the most efficient way to move bulk amounts of water out of earth's gravity well would be? It's probably mostly like any bulk freight lifted to orbit/escape: you could pump it up space elevators, assuming you co
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by antepodius 6y ago
Nobody's telling you you're not allowed to die, and I'll always be on the libertarian end of that equation. Just please don't stop people from trying to live.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Would you accept your mortality if you were standing on a track in front of an incoming train, and could live longer by walking sideways? Aging is, in principle, is engineering problem. The sooner and more people start to work on it, the s
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by antepodius 6y ago
It's an economic problem. Right now, there's this torrent of new minds to come up with new ideas thanks to their lack of preconceptions, so there's no effort put towards alternatives. There's a lot of possibilities that
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by antepodius 6y ago
We could populate it equally well with people who live a healthy half-century. And think of the progress that would be possible with that sort of population turnaround! Will you join me in making this dream come true?
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by antepodius 6y ago
The guy who owns the company ends up owning the machine, not necessarily the guy who made the machine. It takes a certain amount of backbone to maneuver yourself on top of the monkey pile. Being a clever slave who can make useful machines
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by antepodius 6y ago
You can disable it client-side if you, the viewer, don't want your ip visible to the peers. As it's opt-out, most people won't do it, so the host can still reap the benefit of the p2p system. Aside from that, another goal of
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by antepodius 6y ago
The torrent system's nice if it works, but the main draw is having a nice interface and being able to host your own stuff.
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by antepodius 6y ago
Your job will demand an always-online webcam at your desk, to ensure you're sufficiently miserable.
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by antepodius 6y ago
The origin and socially acceptable justification for an algorithm says little about the algorithm itself.
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by antepodius 6y ago
The GP proposes a supposedly useful heuristic. If it's useful, people using it will benefit (on average). Do you think people would not benefit from this heuristic, correctly applied? Or are you against the quote because of wider soc
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by antepodius 6y ago
What's the difference between 'habits' and 'discipline'?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Is nethack (ASCII mode) art?
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by antepodius 6y ago
Would it be illegal for a newly pregnant woman to go and interview for 10 jobs, each of which she then never sets foot in because she immediately goes on pregnancy leave while still being paid for them all? Asking for a friend...
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by antepodius 6y ago
The point is explicitly to use materials from the moon.
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by antepodius 6y ago
The POV's perfectly valid, because it's a set of values, which can't really be invalid per se. But if I had the chance to pick my own values, I wouldn't want to have ones that were antimemetic.

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