bananapub

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1081.
by bananapub 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design sometimes? it's enough of an issue that companies explicitly avoid it by having two teams.
1082.
by bananapub 5y ago
that's not an answer. what specifically about that building? in what way do you disagree with the "official" narrative and what is your proof of your counter-narrative and what is your evidence that was suppressed?
1083.
by bananapub 5y ago
sure, smart contracts are interesting but the entire field of blockchains has been poisoned by grifters, criminals and the social and environmental disaster that is proof of work cryptocurrencies. fundamentally in such an environment there&
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by bananapub 5y ago
eg?
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by bananapub 5y ago
doesn't this translate into a many year long permission to sell a drug with no evidence that it works?
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by bananapub 5y ago
> you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu there's numerous posts in previous discussions saying that in China people do, because they don't typically have a GP and so go to the hospital for any acute ailment.
1087.
by bananapub 5y ago
er, who has shown any evidence at all that covid-19 was "engineered"? this whole discussion is about the unproven possibility that it leaked from a lab.
1088.
by bananapub 5y ago
how could that be it? lots of government contractors don't do drug tests and don't get sued and do get contracts.
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by bananapub 5y ago
why do US employers have the time, money and energy to do drug testing for anything other than dangerous jobs? it's such a totally bizarre effort to to make, even aside from invading the privacy of your employers.
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by bananapub 5y ago
I in fact do want them (and all proof of work miners) to disappear.
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by bananapub 5y ago
a greenhouse gas tax isn't enough by itself - bitcoin's price may just rise high enough to justify (to bitcoin fans) mining even with the tax. the purpose of the tax isn't to change the economics of bitcoin, it is to slash
1092.
by bananapub 5y ago
that's not enough - until there is zero carbon emissions from power generation, bitcoin is creating additional carbon output by displacing something more useful. if someone wants to mine bitcoin on an island with their own solar or tid
1093.
by bananapub 5y ago
the level of damage from bitcoin is...quite astonishing. even if every single cycle was powered by renewable energy, in a world with any remaining fossil fuel power it is displacing more worthwhile loads and so directly causing emissions. I
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by bananapub 6y ago
The Greens in Australia are by and large the most rational party in the country, from the future of energy to drug policy to social policy.
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by bananapub 6y ago
well, yes, the UK has many problems including some of the above, but most Western countries are deeply flawed in terms of real freedoms - e.g. US governments routinely murder people (both official "judicial" executions and extra-j
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by bananapub 6y ago
australia goes along with america's stupidity all the time. iraq, afghanistan...Australia introduced conscription of Australians to go to help the US with vietnam.
1097.
by bananapub 6y ago
it was widely known that they were At It, but things like "they undetectably tap fibres" or "AT&T would allow mass tee-ing of traffic" were considered a bit fringe-y, in my recollection. and of course turned out to
1098.
by bananapub 6y ago
I have the exact same thought about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics - it makes way too many people go "ah yes".
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by bananapub 6y ago
it's explicitly not free trade, the entire purpose of leaving the EU was to erect barriers to trade and remove the regulation (good and...bad). "free trade" is just a phrase the Tories like to say because "we're th
1100.
by bananapub 6y ago
do you not have rent to pay? 6 years of extremely cheap 600gbp/month rent is ~$us60k
1101.
by bananapub 6y ago
amen. I've found that pushing on all these levers to improve things makes me happier and more productive, and to a lesser extent everyone else happier and more productive, too.
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by bananapub 6y ago
[ditto the UK]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts ), now 60 years later some of it is slowly being restored. surrendering rights of way was an extremely expensive thing to do.
1103.
by bananapub 6y ago
the whole thing is so bizarre as an outsider: 1. the entire economy is structured so you basically need a "job with benefits" to not be regularly ruined by healthcare costs or to at least live with the constant stress of such 2. t