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by balt_s 7y ago
> a threat to the whole world This is rich. In modern times, how often has China intervened in the affairs of a foreign state? I am writing this from America btw.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> the people who start companies are the most individualistic members of society. So they're all like each other in that they are all unique individuals, like the lads in Dead Poets Society!
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by balt_s 7y ago
This is a faith statement not based in objective fact. Materialism has this to say about the dead; other religions express their beliefs differently.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> What new system will we use (..) Starvation, if human history is any guide.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> A lot of clones do exist. Name three.
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by balt_s 7y ago
"Give it fifty million years, and all that will be left of our era will be a layer of rock an eighth of an inch thick with an unusually large number of radioactive isotopes and some odd carbon compounds."
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by balt_s 8y ago
Wow only 60 USD/year! They're practically giving this publically-funded resource away!
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by balt_s 8y ago
Everyone else likely missed it, but I want you to know I appreciate this joke.
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by balt_s 8y ago
Oh please, so they're suddenly far more moral than snap/insta/insert-photo-share-site-here? What an absurd reach
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by balt_s 8y ago
That's racist. /s
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by balt_s 8y ago
We're a bit past that right now.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> I really don't care for this model. Hope something comes about to intervene. Nature bats last.
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by balt_s 8y ago
This guy has led what sounds like a charmed life -- flying to places such as Spain, France, England, Denmark -- while having enough disposable income to pursue his passion project (which project is not bullshit, nor does he sound like a bul
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by balt_s 8y ago
I am more than a little frightened that many would find this an acceptable solution.
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by balt_s 8y ago
Where would you rather live and work: a random African country, or China? Does this answer change in 50 years?
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by balt_s 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+apartments+with+dron... Sounds dubious.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> If you're a fan of this line of reasoning, I recommend the author Charles Eisenstein. Check out John Michael Greer for another very clear and cogent writer on this topic.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance. This seems vulnerable to a meta-level attack: "who gets to decide what is intolerable?"
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by balt_s 8y ago
> Realistically though, the answer is that paid journalism disappears, or the Internet as we know it disappears. Increasingly lately it's looking like both will happen. Seems a touch hyperbolic. My question would be: what part of th
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by balt_s 8y ago
Conspecifics are more important than other species.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> Should parents be allowed To paraphrase: "the question is not who will let them, but who will stop them?"
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by balt_s 8y ago
Assume you live in a "first-world" nation, how do you propose to become a subsistence farmer?
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by balt_s 8y ago
Thanks for the anecdote, baby.
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by balt_s 8y ago
In the decades to come, men will look back on articles such as this and curse the existence of we moderns for our extravagant wastefulness.
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by balt_s 8y ago
You could try the browser addon "Keepa" which show some historical price data -- very useful.
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by balt_s 8y ago
That's a pretty unfair moral judgment to throw out; considering that every use of resources involves at least an implicit tradeoff, I'll go ahead and risk damnatio by wondering aloud how many people in poor countries could be save
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by balt_s 8y ago
Let's see what happens in a decade.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> We need a new internet Let me know when it's done; seems you've got your work cut out for you..
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by balt_s 8y ago
I just want to say thank you for this detailed and informative account; you have surely aided a number of people today.
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by balt_s 8y ago
> a comics megaweapon capable of blowing spacecrafts from orbit So it does have some use other than just launching probes..

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