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by chr1 7y ago
Maybe its not a social norm, because state provided pensions broke that norm. If people knew that they can't live alone in old age they would be more interested in having more children, staying on good terms with them and living in th
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Viruses responsible for the common cold may have a new weak point(sciencenews.org)
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Github could be crucial in helping to win this war. The problem is not only that journals are behind paywalls (luckily sci-hub is helping here) but also the format we use for publishing and review is from last century. Github could help to
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But more importantly they die from normal processes required for life, so even without risk factors after living long enough everyone would get heart disease. Probably this is why they do not talk much about cells dying and talk about the w
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No. Vegan burgers have a small target market, and are not very appealing for most of the people. Non vegans would consider buying vegan burger if it had some advantage. Most of vegans would not consider buying normal burger even if it was b
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By that logic you can argue that banning plastic bags will decrease the use of oil, making it cheaper for those who want to burn it. Or that buying tesla makes oil cheaper and in some other place more of it gets burned. In all of these case
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If there was a use for collected plastic, a lot less of it would "get away", currently most of collected plastic ends up in landfills anyway. Burning jet fuel obtained from plastic would not decrease CO2 level, but it would not in
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Exactly, and seedless pomegranate would be even better.
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Sure vegan burgers have their target market, but if they were healthy in addition to being vegan they would appeal to a larger market.
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Many seedless plants can still reproduce by other methods. So having a seedless variety of strawberry for instance would be quite nice.
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If the goal is to get really high temperature, wouldn't a concentrator mirror work better? it should be possible to create temperatures up to 5700K
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The missing up button is a bad sign.
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ESA also relies on government funding, but its chief was saying that reusability is not needed because with reusable rockets workers would have nothing to do half of the year. And other NASA contractors didn't get much done either. S
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In a book i've read the hero was saying that if you believe the end of the world is imminent, and you are contemplating suicide, then most likely you are in a cult. Unfortunately modern environmentalism is a cult with its own armageddo
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No, please read the rest of the comment. My main example was USA vs Europe, where lower US taxes make possible things like SpaceX.
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This year Russia introduced new taxes and that worsened the already bad economic situation. Europe doesn't produce nearly the same amount of innovation and startups as US, most likely because of higher taxes on business. Because taxes
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With high taxes, governments must have huge amount of power to be able to collect and spend all the money. So then, this same people you talk about, go into the government. And usually they manage to do much more harm this way than in low t
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Boko Haram or ISIL are not killing people in the group they are killing outsiders who according to their views are enemies. This groups do not want to form their own countries, they want to take as many existing countries as possible and fo
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Neither do i, but if some people truly believe that communism/socialism can work without iron curtain keeping people inside, they should be happy about seasteading as it will give them a way to test their hypothesis.
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> cut ties with the former, and engage solely with the services of the latter, then no one's going to accuse you of tax evasion either. If your worry is that an existing government will allow some rich people to register as living o
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Why would anyone want to get rid of nation states? Merging them would create even larger and slower bureaucracies, breaking them into smaller pieces would not be allowed. The only solution is to let them be and try to build something new.
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If you are always buying groceries at the store next door, and one day find a store with better prices, would buying from the new store be "payment evasion"? The same applies to governments if your current one doesn't provide
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Most of the images are from 2008 and the html file itself from 2009 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/ . There is also an update from 2014 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html
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A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better(spectrum.ieee.org)
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He also gave an interesting ted talk about this several years ago https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fr... . It's exciting that now with tools like CRISPR it is finally possible to make this
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Jurassic Park advisor runs crowdfunding to build a dinosaur from a chicken(twitter.com)
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What ways to get faster cpu remain after this? Nanoscale vacuum-channel transistors [1] seem promising as they can work at terahertz frequencies but they do not look anywhere close to production. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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Good point, i didn't mean to say that getting nuclear weapons and ways to move them was irrational. Just that space exploration was a side effect.
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The fact that USSR was happy to spend enormous resources on anything weapon related in a hungry country doesn't speak about communism being better for space. The main reason USSR had its "firsts" was that by shear luck Korole
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Perhaps many people think that socialism and communism are such toxic ideologies that any defense of them deserves to be downvoted into oblivion. I did not downvote, but being from a former communist country i agree with the sentiment as th

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