banach

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   by banach 9y ago

   It depends on ow you organize it, but ideally most decisions would be taken on the level of the people who are affected by it. If Joe doesn't understand before the election, he will understand after, and if he doesn't like the res
2. 62.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   Oh, they mean a "mail box".
3. 63.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   Journalism and activism under dictatorships are easy examples, if you reject it as a fundamental value/right.
4. 64.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   Rock climbing and (mostly audio) books.
5. 65.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   What could possibly go wrong?
6. 66.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   Can I host a blog that criticizes Putin on one of these servers?
7. 67.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   I don't havet this problem with software that uses sensible typography. The availability of workarounds is no excuse for poor defaults.
8. 68.▲
   by banach 9y ago

   Any text coming out of Wolfram for the past 20 years has been borderline illegible by default because it is so small. I have never needed glasses, but this has annoyed me ever since I was a child.
9. 69.▲
   by banach 10y ago

   Good idea.
10. 70.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I think you are. Sprawl can be mitigated by regulation: http://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_sub... https://ctr.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubs/0_4420_2.pdf
11. 71.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    Sure, looks interesting!
12. 72.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I agree, and of course I would like us to do both, but in light of announcements like these: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear... all I am saying is that we need to keep our pr
13. 73.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    Nice one. I will make sure to bring out entropy next time someone accuses me of not thinking of the long run.
14. 74.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I don't like to recommend books in these situations, but in this case you might find "Command and Control" interesting. It describes a huge number of near-disasters that I, for one, had never heard about (e.g. armed thermonuc
15. 75.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I can assure you that I am not trolling. I am simply convinced that most of our problems are well within our control. Unfortunately, fatalism seems to be very chic today.
16. 76.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    One of the main issues with the current societal debate is that simple issues are being presented as complex. This makes us incorrectly expect complex solutions to our issues.
17. 77.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I understand your concerns, but I am not taking my ideas out of thin air. Here are some references to corroborate my claims. Ways to address climate change: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/people-still..
18. 78.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
19. 79.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    > the social movements that youth were involved in during the 60's and 70's were far more widespread (and much more radical) than those of today I am not sure that is the case. Contrast popular opposition to the Vietnam war, wh
20. 80.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    Your point being?
21. 81.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    >Do you seriously think that any of the following global political challenges: > > - convince everyone on Earth to implement changes that are bad for them, like not eating animal-based foods, with only the promise of "maybe in
22. 82.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    Do you really think that adopting a sustainable way of life is unfeasible, while establishing a self-sustaining colony on another planet is? Many of the changes I am talking about are already taking place. For example, renewables have rece
23. 83.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    It is not, and we can, but it seems like some of us need to re-evaluate their priorities: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear...
24. 84.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    OK, you had me at "because we can" :)
25. 85.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    You are right, but in this case my friends are a pretty good sample of the over-all population. I live in Sweden, where 10% of the population is vegetarian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country . This
26. 86.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    These are orthogonal issues. You are right that avoiding these kinds of catastrophic events will require technology (many solutions other than colonization have been proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impac
27. 87.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I think that the pursuit of knowledge is a really good way to spend your time, but I do not like when simple solutions to real problems are sidelined in favor of the latest buzzword-oriented technology fetish. In times when the president-el
28. 88.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I have actually seen a surprising trend to the contrary among my friends. These are people with very different backgrounds (anything from the hardly-ever-employed working class to researchers), but over the past year I can count at least fi
29. 89.▲
    by banach 10y ago

    I don't think the issues that are putting Earth in danger are the result of some immutable, unfortunate human nature. I think they are the result of a system that could be changed as easily as it was put in place. Many of the pathologi
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    by banach 10y ago

    Many of the cultural advances commonly associated with civilized society (universal suffrage, free speech, public education, public healthcare, a living wage and a reasonable work week, etc) were all inconceivable just 150 years ago. Today,