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by cannonpr 2y ago
I adore the lights by your company, though they seem to be incredibly hard to source in general except for high end architectural projects. I wish there was an easier way to order them directly for DYI inclined engineers willing to pay the
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by cannonpr 2y ago
So much of the conversation is about profit and economic viability of landing raw materials on Earth under current market conditions... While I don't begrudge that, I think the true game changer for orbital mining is how greater materi
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Very bad things, or maybe very good things, depends on your perspective, a reset in any case and a restructuring of debt, usually just after a crash.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
It might teach you that reality is harsh and to face it.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
So stop regulating the poisons and allow access via a non doctor path, create a framework around it, trying to give the state control over others bodies has just as many negative externalities. Also please try to keep in mind that the origi
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Dehydration, exposure, and animals will take you a lot faster than begging on the streets and trying to cling on to life or becoming a burden to your village. As far as historical examples just study Inuit, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, or Sc
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by cannonpr 2y ago
The reality of our society is that many will meet their end alone and in poverty. Is it so different from parts of our history, where the old chose to take a long walk into the wilderness before the indignity of what follows? I’m not sure.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I think you will find that cocaine actually compares very favourably and exceeds most current ones, except for the addiction potential, and the damage it did to the US foreign currency balance way back when they made it illegal.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
The ban on cocaine is kind of annoying even in its pure form, it’s a very useful local anaesthetic with good tolerance, low side effects that few people are allergic to. I have often wished it was included in some of the more advanced first
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Scifi here but the most embarrassing one I have to admit to loving is the stainless steel rat series by Harry Harrison.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Casting, machining or welding plutonium into the right shapes and purities without killing your self, or some of the other exotic metals, without killing your self or making your neighbours sick in a sub 1-3 week horizon is incredibly chall
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Nearly all industrial ones yes, that’s why some countries that care a lot about recycling use easy to recycle alloys for cans, like Japan. They also religiously keep contaminants and other bits of aluminium out.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Some countries do recycling of aluminium well, Japan for example, most don’t. Issues with contamination, sorting, pipeline, storage, just to name a few make it hard to implement well.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
There are glass fractured blades that form the same edges and diamond scalpels too, all of them show brittleness issues to lateral moves especially. The physics of steel cutting edges get very complicated in general as can be shown by an ex
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by cannonpr 2y ago
The honest truth is that the Britain of today isn’t a colonial power anymore, and is rather poor by its relative standards of the past. I feel it’s more concerned with selling its past to tourists for money more than preserving it of late.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
While I can largely accept this criticism, I’d also like to point out that it might be missing the spirit of a lot of ancient philosophers historical context. For starters a lot of their books and texts have been lost so we aren’t sure for
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Ok I’m sorry but I adore brutalist buildings. I think they can also be quite practical and re-fittable in many ways. I certain like them more than the giant tampon (The gherkin in London) or Mordor by bank (the shard). Give me another few
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by cannonpr 2y ago
You might be able to claim that for some countries, but all European data should be reliable, all countries have reasonably good cause of death recording.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
So generally speaking I don’t think extending life will take much resources once we figure out the biochemistry of it. If it does and that deprives others of their enjoyment of life, sure I get it, I will just work to make life extension ch
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by cannonpr 2y ago
A moral responsibility under which moral framework ? Why do I owe anything to my genes or the process that created me nearly by accident ? Why do I not have a moral responsibility to find a better path than random evolution ?
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I don’t think you have any evidence to say that. Our understanding of memory and complex evolved neural networks like the mind is fairly poor. On top of that, we have more evidence of the mind still acquiring new memories and choosing to co
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I want to live forever. That doesn't mean I want to remain static and unchanging or to stagnate. I want death through change, not because my mind collapses due to biological causes. If I ever stagnate, that's a form of death, and
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I loathe the hubris of modern people that feel they should impose their way of life and morals on others.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
For those complaining on this topic it’s stated on the site that there is an API available, which I presume means you don’t need the app. Personally I think this is a really nice design and I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages.
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I find a lot of these casual drug use articles to be a bit naive on safety. “It does not cause metabolites or react” well it obviously modifies several biochemical processes in order to have an effect, who knows what long term effects it ha
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I never liked tribes 2 being a tribes 1 addict. The jet sliding in 1 was a happy accident and the developers lost the original physics code that resulted in the sliding being a controllable skill. Tribes 2 had an utterly different movement
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by cannonpr 2y ago
Yes it is, a friend had their laptop stolen, the police tracked down the offenders within 2 hours and returned the items. What they also don’t tell you is that it’s a dystopian panopticon and runs on a slightly different legal system than t
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by cannonpr 2y ago
So literally ? Hard to, however there are many records of continuous invasions of Persia by Greeks of the era that are well substantiated and many torched cities that were rebuilt frequently. It might be more pertinent to say which events o
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by cannonpr 2y ago
I chose to live next to a lovely forest and get to enjoy a walk when ever I like during my workday. When working from an office I was stuck 2 hours each way in an underground tunnel, and then in a tiny box office, preconceptions are a funny
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by cannonpr 3y ago
This seems like a horrible idea considering how much plants exchange genes even cross species very easily ? Never mind what effect it might have to night pollinators and other ecosystem effects. I look forward to fast forwarding a few decad

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