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721.
by civilian 10y ago
Sorry, semantics. I know they're are okay with corn that was bred using advanced breeding techniques. And bananas. But to hit you back with some semantics-- they're okay with certain transgenic organisms, like the yeast & mam
722.
by civilian 10y ago
I like it. I'm going to start referring to GMOs as "Advanced Varieties" and PHP as "Clarified Perl". :D
723.
by civilian 10y ago
You're committing the balance fallacy. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy I think that it's only in a few tech circles that being anti-GMO is immediately dismissed as anti-science. Living in Seattl
724.
by civilian 10y ago
I know that it's common to have namespace collisions, but their logo is so similar to Reason magazine's. https://reason.com/
725.
by civilian 10y ago
I know there's been an effort to use the word "Cannabis" as a way to sound legitimate, instead of pot/weed/marijuana. Do you react better to 'cannabis'?
726.
by civilian 10y ago
I don't know about you, but I answer "yes" to a lot of questions I don't understand.
727.
by civilian 10y ago
I don't know about you, buy my drunken singing is noticeably different than my sober singing.
728.
by civilian 10y ago
Rather than taxing oil, we could simply remove it's subsidies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States However, the user should be aware that the tax or subsidy-removal would be regressive.
729.
by civilian 10y ago
WW1 was truly unexpected-- all of the mutual alliances and it all being caused by a random assassination. WW2 was more expected. And, idk, I don't have the benefit of hindsight, but I really doubt a world war in which the US is involve
730.
by civilian 10y ago
Nuclear power doesn't have to compete with solar and wind during quiet winter nights-- it gets to compete against batteries + solar/wind. Grids with a lot of renewables are also dealing with a lot of stress on the electrical grid:
731.
by civilian 10y ago
One of Heinlein's books plays with this concept. There's a Martian race that are essentially immortal, at least from natural causes. Every 40-50 years they go through a change and become childlike for 5 years. Lack of awareness, p
732.
by civilian 10y ago
It's on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri and I was even able to play it on OSX--- GOG has packaged it with a Windows VM.
733.
by civilian 10y ago
Yeah it did. You can find the technology quotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ > “He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped i
734.
by civilian 10y ago
Pssst, go treat yourself to Stellaris!
735.
by civilian 10y ago
I've bought every Civilization game except the very first one. They're good games, but the one I really love is Alpha Centauri. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing--- I got SMAC when I was in middle school. But the faction design
736.
by civilian 10y ago
I think we should think about Advanced Chess (aka Cyborg Chess) in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess Humans already operate on a very high level of abstraction. I'm not aware of how my fo
737.
by civilian 10y ago
So, with art, I can acknowledge that the point isn't to be better. But what about collecting knowledge? Sure, you could help analyzing the genome & biology of a rare butterfly with all your free time. Say, maybe it would takes com
738.
by civilian 10y ago
I have some questions about Why.html: https://www.bitkeeper.org/why.html > Spending a lot of time dealing with manual and bad auto-merges? BitKeeper merges better than most other tools, and you will quickly develop conf
739.
by civilian 10y ago
I think it would just be hard to justify pursuing knowledge and art when the AI will also do that better than you, in it's spare cycles. I agree that there is a timeless quality to learning sports or arts that are obsolete, but at some
740.
by civilian 10y ago
The thing is that: using offshore tax havens isn't corruption . It's legal. Corruption is when you use your position or influence in the government to help yourself. (Often by helping someone else who then gives you kickbacks som
741.
by civilian 10y ago
A company ought to be able to choose who they employ. What makes Americans more deserving of an I.T. job than a team in India? You're not thinking like a global citizen.
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by civilian 10y ago
I also think there's never been a pattern of having "success metrics" tied to laws. Laws are LAW. The best we could get using current legal technology would be a built-in expiration of the law. And if the people think it&#x2
743.
by civilian 10y ago
“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” -Machiavelli
744.
by civilian 10y ago
And unfortunately, these spots would be very windy. There'd be a constant barrage of cold wind as the air in the hot side rose.
745.
by civilian 11y ago
Reality distortion field generator? That sure sounds like curiosity-driven research--- get out of here and write a real grant!
746.
by civilian 11y ago
Just wanna make sure you have these in your feed: Revolutions Podcast, History of Rome podcast (finished, but with 5 years of content), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Idk, the "get together and discuss" podcasts vary widely
747.
by civilian 11y ago
Same here. It would've been far more interesting if VR was causing night terrors. For those of you who haven't experienced them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror I've had a combination of Slee
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by civilian 11y ago
Even if it's just plain laziness-- how do we get to the point where a developer is being just plain lazy? People naturally want to do good work and want to be proud of what they do. So if people appear like they're being lazy--
749.
by civilian 11y ago
Yeah, I was thinking about that after I wrote my comment. I suppose that rational could just be defined as "what a person does", since they must have been trying to optimize for _something_. But there must be some universal optimi
750.
by civilian 11y ago
This is not a good example. Distribution, branding and maintaining retail outlets make most of the cost. Ethiopian farmers can't sell their beans for dollars because: * They haven't shipped them across the ocean * They don'

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