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by autosharp 5y ago
> at a high enough level it's possible to be a good leader without skills required to do the job few levels below Sure. But being 68 and not being able to use a computer in 2018? Not recognizing what a USB stick is? This is more abo
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by autosharp 5y ago
System error: Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used a computer[0] And did not know what to do with a USB. This person was 50 in the year 2000, has clearly given up being part of or informed about modern society, and is made
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by autosharp 5y ago
Why limit yourself to those blackouts/other disruptions caused by climate change? There are also some climate change derivatives like human plague, crops failing due to disease. And similar issues can be caused by: Carrington event, vu
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by autosharp 5y ago
> how many pixels wide would be a 200km diameter object at 11 AU? Depends on zoom and resolution of the camera.
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by autosharp 5y ago
Is what a chimpanzee might think of the white house.
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by autosharp 5y ago
> None of this bullshit really concerns me. Until they decide otherwise.
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by autosharp 5y ago
Is not a solution but an observation. Your proposal could be a better solution but until then piracy is the next-best thing for many consumers.
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by autosharp 5y ago
Is it? Who is at risk in Moscow but not in Minsk?
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by autosharp 5y ago
> Am I irrational? Time will tell. But over the last 100 years you would not have come out ahead unless you are close to retirement already.
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by autosharp 5y ago
Pensions would be funded by everyone including me, "but I can gamble better than you"
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by autosharp 5y ago
I have no idea why you are downvoted. The stock market and the housing market are at all time highs almost all the time for the last 150 years. This doesn't mean you should almost never buy stocks.
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by autosharp 5y ago
hope =/= stars show my destiny One can have plenty of hope for better explanations without a Jesus or astrologers.
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by autosharp 5y ago
It might be an instinct in the sense that language is an instinct. It just arises in every society even if you start a new one that is free of a common language / a religion.
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by autosharp 5y ago
> It is fraud and is a predatory practice preying on people's ignorance and gullibility. Not just that, but these kinds of practices (e.g. homeopathy etc too) they specifically prey on the sick and weakest members of society.
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by autosharp 5y ago
> Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border So if the farmer takes the stone and tractors it to East Russia, did the farmer accomplish more than Napoleon?
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by autosharp 6y ago
No, that is not what it says. > In multi-variable adjusted (including BMI) So after correcting for BMI, meat consumption is still bad.
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by autosharp 6y ago
> What does that mean concretely? E.g. you value your spouse more than you value a random other human. It doesn't mean you don't value the other human.
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by autosharp 6y ago
Unsure. But perhaps more important than yes or no is that the internet shouldn't be so centralized that these companies can make a choice with such a big effect.
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by autosharp 6y ago
It doesn't. Some people retire, some people leave the industry because they prefer something else, etc. All that needs to happen is that not all of them are being replaced.
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by autosharp 6y ago
On your second point I mean that there is zero marginal cost to produce a movie. To me, that makes that it cannot be compared to stealing e.g. a bag of M&M's.
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by autosharp 6y ago
The money/goods that I rob from a store cost a lot to reproduce, unlike movies. And I would scare people. This is more like me buying from store A than from store B. Am I robbing store B? Surely not giving to charity is worse than any
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by autosharp 6y ago
The economic re-allocation doesn't have to be overnight or even in a single decade. It isn't as if the revenue suddenly goes to zero and the industry is nuked.
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by autosharp 6y ago
I will spend the money somewhere else and that is where they will be working in the future.
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by autosharp 6y ago
Those people are not making less if I don't pay for a movie. The marginal revenue is all yacht money profits.
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by autosharp 6y ago
How does monogamy increase the mixing of genes? Surely polyamory (everyone having multiple partners, not just men) mixes genes more? And doesn't monogamy also reduce the pressure of natural selection?
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by autosharp 6y ago
Climate change and the corona virus would be great candidates for this common struggle that you say is missing. Why were the 9/11 response, Apollo, WWII/I etc picked up but the current opportunity for common struggle is ignored?
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by autosharp 6y ago
From the article: "A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported." Are you saying I might be a wild hamster from northeastern
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by autosharp 6y ago
> Farming doesn't have to be intensive. We get milk from a nearby farm. Given we mostly walk there the "food miles" would be precisely zero. Sure, that is nice but in no way representative. More than 99% of produced hogs d
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by autosharp 6y ago
It is funny that you mention human need for food. Hog is actually an inefficient food production method because they need to be fed more corn/soy etc than the food they produce. If your goal was to make food more accessible to the poor
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by autosharp 6y ago
The issue is very much analogous. Lots of pigs getting culled (in many cases burned and/or buried alive on a grand scale) because they are infected with diseases that are dangerous to humans. Corona included. I just keep being surprise

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