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by beerlord 8y ago
How do you become a senior dev if there are no junior devs? A healthy company will maintain this pipeline, to keep fresh talent and fresh ideas coming in. Plus, getting down and dirty at the coalface is essential experience for a product ma
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by beerlord 8y ago
So you're saying - this is good for Bitcoin?
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More than offset by the ability to control their own currency and interest rates. They could immediately print away their external debts, for example.
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by beerlord 8y ago
The money we spend on the elderly is absolutely unsustainable - welfare and healthcare. The taxes in Europe are insane - huge social security taxes (before you even get your paycheque) and sales taxes. Yes, healthcare and education is paid
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The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization (1998)(aleph.se)
64 points by beerlord 8y ago|36 comments
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Eventually we will learn, and practice, that growing a single crop in gigantic monocultures like this is a bad idea. At what point do we run out of other varieties of crops to take genes from? I think the sustainable end point are genetical
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by beerlord 8y ago
Why don’t we establish a free market for sperm and let the best ones win? Surely people would pay a lot of money for the sperm of a gifted man? Putting some good money behind donation would then encourage more men to do it, leading to more
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by beerlord 8y ago
I would view it somewhat of another way - there is so much excess space in these Teslas, that the vehicle could be made smaller. Do we really need a frunk? What if the vehicle was made ~1m smaller instead? This is what they are doing in Chi
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by beerlord 8y ago
Millions of children will starve because they are being born by women without access to contraception, without the intelligence/education to know that having multiple children without food security is a bad idea, or because they are fo
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by beerlord 8y ago
It looks like the battery ran out, it didn't completely shred.
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by beerlord 8y ago
I don't think it matters whether there are humans in space or not. As long as we establish some kind of research or industry up there. We already know of certain types of manufacturing which is more effective or even made possible in z
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by beerlord 8y ago
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU&t=6s
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by beerlord 8y ago
Fascinating. If you were to pick an optimal global language - which would it be?
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I was an Android fanatic - I had the very first device, the HTC G1, and about 10 other devices since then. Eventually I got the Google Nexus 5, an Android flagship. Its updates ceased about a year after I bought it. I gave up and got an iPh
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by beerlord 8y ago
Ultimately most of these game studios are working for Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Valve. More pressure should be put on those mega-corporations to reduce the commissions they charge developers who release games on their pla
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by beerlord 8y ago
It already has. Look at the tariffs against them.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Was it unethical for Homo Sapiens to out-compete Neanderthals? Same concept applies here. It is merely the continued advancement of humanity biologically and genetically.
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by beerlord 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_transplant I don't think its outside of the realms of possibility for the mega-rich. Grow a clone for 20 years, and transplant your brain into a fresh body.
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by beerlord 8y ago
We will soon come to the point of realisation that billions of humans are superfluous, and that the lands they occupy would be better off as huge nature parks. Any critical farming or mining operations can be carried out mostly by robot lab
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by beerlord 8y ago
It won't be depressing at all, you will probably be raising that generation. It will raise questions over whether non-upgraded humans are obsolete...
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by beerlord 8y ago
Limited by the birth canal. C-sections make that limit obsolete.
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by beerlord 8y ago
$/kg
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by beerlord 8y ago
I think asylum is being completely misused worldwide, and is just a cover for general (illegal) immigration. It would be better to stop issuing it and pull out of the UN refugee convention altogether.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Keys from those regions are almost always region locked. What about the Humble Store? Those are mostly Steam keys. Itch.io has even less curation than Steam. It has less of a feature that people want.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Son-preference persists among second-generation migrants: https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2018/06/19/jech-2018-2106... And migration is ongoing - so the effects will continually be felt. Its not
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by beerlord 8y ago
I think the title is misleading: its not really marriage costs, its a payment to the bride/parents to account for the gender disparity in China caused by sex-selective abortions. These bride costs should be allowed to climb infinitely,
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by beerlord 8y ago
I'm not aware of any price-matching clause. None of the key resellers would exist if that was the case. Retail stores would be unable to offer sales. For Steam and Mobile, you need to create your own playerbase. Merely launching onto t
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by beerlord 8y ago
Risky, true, but also one where outsized profits are taken by the platform holders - Apple, Google, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Valve all take 30%. Whilst the console makers do deliver subsidised hardware to the masses and a lot of techni
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Its a good idea - but its missing the killer feature which I think would be the ability to access certain news article (NYT etc) through micropayments. Right now it seems like giving money away for no recognition or reward.
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by beerlord 8y ago
I'd also add that Atlassian are a well-known user of immigrant labour under an Australian visa scheme similar to the H1-B. They are hugely pro-immigration publicly also. (Despite this, their founder just bought a huge mansion in a very

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