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by babesh 5y ago
One such data point has already been obtained. One booster didn’t land because one of the engines had burned through its bell. It was less than 10.
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by babesh 5y ago
The surface is accelerating up at you relative to the gravitational field.
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I wonder whether some group will start some gene therapy based on this research.
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by babesh 5y ago
Threatening to take medical licenses away for administering vaccines to people who weren’t eligible even if the vaccine was going to be thrown away.... and then doing a 180 and threatening to take away medical licenses if vaccines were not
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by babesh 5y ago
I worked in tech over twenty years ago and I knew multiple same sex couples back then. It wasn’t an issue at all. This was the Bay Area. May have been different elsewhere. It is still not an issue in the Bay Area.
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by babesh 5y ago
That isn’t the right characterization because there are many elderly who can neither drive nor ride a bike. They can however be passengers of public transportation or of cars. They may not want to ride on disabled mobility scooters either a
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by babesh 5y ago
You show your bias. You don't know what I have read. I have read histories of her work. Several in fact. Get your facts straight instead of trying to hide them in the name of your narrative. Here is the person you are speaking of: htt
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by babesh 5y ago
I haven’t read anywhere that said that the Moderna developer was shat on because of her gender. What I read was that the scientific establishment didn’t believe that there could be a viable delivery mechanism. So please don’t use that as ev
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by babesh 5y ago
It is not enough for the haters to dislike what you do. They have to prevent you from doing it. It doesn’t matter if you take none of their money nor government money to do so.
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by babesh 5y ago
I think it’s a power strut. Victors strutting and defining what is the truth. Somewhat common in corporate America and politics actually.
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Thanks! They should do so for each one (left and right)?
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by babesh 5y ago
You should watch the video of her accepting the award. She talks about censoring people for violating the terms of service and the four responsibilities, one of which is to their advertisers. All this in an acceptance speech for freedom of
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by babesh 5y ago
I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t fix the lost AirPods issue. If your AirPods communicate with your phone, shouldn’t your phone be able to have a record of the last time it was in communication with your AirPods and the phone’s location
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by babesh 5y ago
I wonder what that better set of measures would be. Food Shelter Health Entertainment Education Communication? Science? Even within each, you have changes not only in quantity and quality but in kind.
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by babesh 5y ago
Actually their wealth has to grow at much greater than 70% to just maintain their wealth. It has to grow .7/.3 = 233%.
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by babesh 5y ago
One flaw to UBI is that it advantages people who have more children.
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by babesh 5y ago
This is the real inequality: the lack of knowledge, the mindset, and the lack of a backstop.
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by babesh 5y ago
Suppose you tax wealth at 70% for anything over say 4 million. Now do that annually or at least periodically. What ends up happening is that unless that person’s wealth grows at greater than 70% for that period, you end up taking all their
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by babesh 5y ago
Technical talent is necessary but not sufficient. You need other things: a niche that hasn’t already been taken over due to network effects, the right design to address that market, possibly the marketing chops to get the ball rolling. Some
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by babesh 5y ago
Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.
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by babesh 5y ago
The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests. The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle. Now that it’s hand i
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by babesh 5y ago
Twitter was originally good. It was and is a technology for following people you are interested in. The corruption started because of the need to make money and how they chose to do it, namely advertising. Advertising is brainwashing based
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by babesh 6y ago
The EU CS grads that make it to the US are stronger than the average US ones. They are also stronger than the average EU ones. I think that some elite US institutions provide solid CS foundations but the classes that supply this don’t also
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by babesh 6y ago
Examples: increasing capital gains taxes, AMT for corporations above a certain revenue, increasing minimum wage, free college, free healthcare, increasing inheritance taxes, breaking oligopolies by creating competitive markets, universal ba
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by babesh 6y ago
That new technology benefited someone besides the entrepreneur. All the consumers of that technology benefited from it. Some of that technology was directed to providing services for the wealthy but a lot benefited people widely. That is bl
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by babesh 6y ago
The creation and adoption of new technology has created a lot of new wealth. This has increased inequality just as it has done in the past. This creates power disparity and envy. The creation and adoption of new technology has decreased the
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by babesh 6y ago
Facebook is power and control over several billion people and countries across the world. That is superpower level power. Mark Zuckerberg will never give up that level of power because either he wields that power or someone else will. Weak
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by babesh 6y ago
Also this means that the people in the occupied territories can’t vote.
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You can’t leave people to their own devices when another military controls entry and exit into a territory.
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by babesh 6y ago
Can they vote for seats in Israel’s government? My understanding is not.

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