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The link between exploding stars, clouds and climate on Earth(sciencebits.com)
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A million people are jailed at China's gulags(haaretz.com)
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San Francisco Wants to Require Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology'(reason.com)
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by chr1 7y ago
I agree that there is very little reason to want to secede from Spain, the problem is that the way Spain handled the issue adds a reason. I am not from USA, and in the region i live (ex USSR and middle east) i have seen multiple times how e
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by chr1 7y ago
They could make the algorithm customizable and let the user to control it. That would be much better than the current blackbox where you get uninteresting stories promoted because of misclicking once, and have no way to tell the algorithm a
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by chr1 7y ago
What i am trying to say is that the consequences in the current law are unreasonable and unfair, and application of that consequences escalates conflict instead of de-escalating. Application of unreasonable punishment simply will increase t
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by chr1 7y ago
If you have enough money to buy large enough plot of land and to hire enough people to work as diplomats, border control, etc. there is no real reason why you should not be able to secede and form your own country, if everyone could actuall
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by chr1 7y ago
Somehow everyone agrees that European countries losing their overseas colonies was a good thing, but neighbouring colonies are considered inseparable parts of the nation that happened to be stronger. Think how you would feel if Spain was pa
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by chr1 7y ago
The question is not about the support that independence movement has, but about unreasonable and unjust verdict. No sane justice system would imprison someone for separatism, removing them from office should have been the maximal measure a
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by chr1 7y ago
Are you sure that, existence of separate language and suppression of Catalan culture during the Franco period have nothing to do with the desire to have separate country, and only some strange superiority complex causes it?
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by chr1 7y ago
This is a very inaccurate and misleading characterization, there was no one single war, and the warring sides have changed alliances and some were wiped out completely. Until about 1920s kurds were mostly on the same side as turkish governm
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by chr1 7y ago
Chinas economic future is not quite so bright, their moronic one child policy have prepared a time bomb for them which is going to reduce their working age population catastrophically, making catching up with US very hard.
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by chr1 7y ago
All the physical theories we had so far require infinite computational power, because they work with real numbers, it's easy to say that it is wrong, but that's not really useful without saying what is right. There are several int
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by chr1 7y ago
Is there a way to find how far a model stays valid other than taking it further than it was ever intended to? I personally like to think that physics can be explained by a discrete finite automaton so quantum computers are not possible, but
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by chr1 7y ago
Are you suggesting people who do not pass exams are inherently less intelligent? I think in both cases the answer is partly, because in both cases some kind of misfortune prevents them from achieving the desired result, and brain not functi
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by chr1 7y ago
There are many traits that become available only when some other trait gets to a high enough value. For instance gossip requires speech or some other method of communication so only very few species get a chance to it (maybe dolphins? but
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by chr1 7y ago
There is no single thing having or not having which distinguishes people from other animals, the difference is in the degree at which we can use tools/mimic/create mental models etc.
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by chr1 7y ago
Good point about bots, i am happy that hn has separate protection against them and other methods of self-upvoting.
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by chr1 7y ago
You seem to have some kind of misconception about eugenics, the thing that everyone agrees to be unacceptable is "improving" mankind by forcing some people to not marry or to not have children. The thing talked about in that thr
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by chr1 7y ago
Population growth is a good thing, it will force us to build cities on mars, irrigate sahara, build floating cities on the ocean. And will help to make "produce once, use infinitely" things: art, software, science cheaper. It woul
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by chr1 7y ago
Exactly, but if basic income becomes reality, it won't happen because people will want to help the poor, but because the amount of work required to produce food will become so small that people by their mere existence will generate mor
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by chr1 7y ago
Malnourishment harms anyone, and severe malnourishment at childhood harms a lot https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/child-nutrition... but mostly in poor countries. A nice variant of basic income is minimal ta
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by chr1 7y ago
Getting low grades on exams is also linked to thinking problems in later years, we should automatically assign the same grade to all children to help them to become smarter </s>
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by chr1 7y ago
In your example if someone pointed out that quantum computers required some equations to hold with far greater precision than anything measured, so there is small but non-zero probability that it will turn out quantum computers can not wor
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by chr1 7y ago
They couldn't ruin HN because of the system of voting, flagging, and high karma requirement for downvoting. And this applies in general, the only working way to moderate is distributing the effort between users who are interested in th
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by chr1 7y ago
The question is not about what is guaranteed but about what should be guaranteed. By deciding what to show and what to hide google breaks the implicit contract made with me as a consumer: which is i gladly give up privacy, do not use an adb
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by chr1 7y ago
Maybe in part this is due to many men not considering it as a desirable human capability. If one considers reason to be much more important than emotion, strives to hide all displays of emotion, being emotionally stunted feels more like a
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by chr1 7y ago
Alternatively we could use ethanol in fuel cells, and use electric motor, unfortunately it requires either finding new catalists or a cheap source of platinum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-ethanol_fuel_cell
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by chr1 7y ago
I used to fear being a nobody, but then i came to accept that i am nobody and i never will manage to do anything that would make my name worth putting into physics textbooks. More than a decade spent studying physics turned out to be somewh
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by chr1 7y ago
We do not have technology to optimize the DNA in any real way, and most likely it will not be possible know what the effect of specific combination of genes will be without letting people with that DNA to live, so their moralization will be

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