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by civilian 9y ago
Marx didn't take those communities into account either, so it seems fair. It was a critique of what he wrote. What existing communist communities are you thinking of?
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by civilian 9y ago
The _really difficult_ trick is building systems that won't get corrupted by the dickheads.
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by civilian 9y ago
Yup, you're right. It's a very naive ideology-- Marx himself thought that communism would naturally appear once we had anarchy. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/13/book-review-singer-on-m...
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by civilian 9y ago
Well, does a non-malignant HeLa tumor that's been artificially transplanted count? Because if so, we may have both lost our hypotheyical bets. :] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-the-HeLa-immortal-... (I can&#
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by civilian 9y ago
I'm imagine that Step 0. of Materials & Methods in new papers going forward will be: "We verified that our cell line was made of intestinal cancer cells with PCR and genomic expression tests..."
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by civilian 9y ago
Huh. I'd take a bet that it's less than a dozen. I think it would be difficult to transfer it-- you'd have to have an OB-GYN who was also do research who didn't follow proper cleaning protocols between researching and do
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by civilian 9y ago
Equifax has salary data? I hadn't heard that. //edit: Well shit, TIL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifax-breach-fallout-y...
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by civilian 9y ago
Sci-hub FTW Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior: https://sci-hub.io/http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.a... A 4-study replication of the moderating effects of greed o
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by civilian 9y ago
I can't find a citation, but I remember the tour guide saying it was 98% for _anyone_ who entered the Stasi during it's last decade of operation. (They had gotten good at extracting confessions.) Yeah, people would confess even if
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by civilian 9y ago
I've visited the Stazi jail in Berlin. It was a pre-trial jail, you would go there to await trial. During that time you were interrogated. The Stazi jail had something like a 98% success rate for extracting confessions. They used simil
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by civilian 9y ago
I don't think they're keeping everything for themselves. I think they're actually not taking in that much money from Youtube ads / youtube red.
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by civilian 9y ago
Free as in cost-- the cost is nearly free. The point is--- if the cost is nearly free, why not do it yourself? You're right that youtube/google/spotify are going to take a cut for distribution, but you really don't need
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by civilian 9y ago
I rate of people who have bad trips is very low with MDMA. You're right that it's a thing with LSD or Psilocybin. The tripping community has these ideas of "set and settings" that you should strongly adhere to. Make sure
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by civilian 9y ago
For people who are curious, here is a dosage chart: https://erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_dose.shtml It's a pretty normal dose.
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by civilian 9y ago
What's it called when a research event is always 20 years away?
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by civilian 9y ago
I think you have a very Golden-Era-of-Sci-Fi space-opera conquering view of spacefaring. Why do we need to expand? Our population growth is already levelling off. Why do we need to send _our bodies_ rather than with AI, or with our consciou
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by civilian 9y ago
Nope, it just means that our estimate for the number of alien civilizations in the galaxy has to decrease, and we needa re-examine the Drake equation. From the article: > We can never prove that aliens are not out there, only that they
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by civilian 9y ago
Well, yeah, no shit. We're obviously just looking at the "observable universe", which means light-as-it-is-arriving-now.
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by civilian 9y ago
Oh huh, I wasn't actually aware of that, but it makes sense! So I guess the loopholes aren't really there to begin with...
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by civilian 9y ago
The nice thing about perks is that they come out as company expenses--- so they don't get hit by payroll taxes or personal income taxes. Which potentially means that you get to double money spent on perks. You're right that it wou
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by civilian 9y ago
Idk, I'm not convinced. You're comparing two very different processes--- artificial flavors are a matter of organic chemistry and if we [humans] are guiding the process, then we have to get every single fraction of chemicals exact
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by civilian 9y ago
Welp I'm angry about that!
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by civilian 9y ago
Okay. I was wondering if you thought the labelling would turn people off. (America has a lot of random fear-of-science. See: anti-GMOs, anti-vaccine, anti-evolution sentiments.) Or maybe that it would be that people wouldn't actually b
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by civilian 9y ago
A better answer is hiding in your posts. It's that: We believe that humans, even criminals, have dignity and should be treated decently despite their wrongdoings. The argument, then, is that we could extend that "deserving of de
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by civilian 9y ago
Why don't you think that lab-grown meat will satisfy meat lovers? Lab grown meat is still biologically meat.
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by civilian 9y ago
Textwall is fine =] I wasn't actually familiar with Kaldor-Hicks improvement by name, but that was definitely the idea I was getting at! Kaldor-Hicks improvement is defined in a funny way (i.e. could taxes be added such that we have n
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by civilian 9y ago
uhhhhh. Do you have a second citation for "> The senate is also preparing to Grant Equifax Immunity from consumer lawsuits". A quick google search didn't reveal anything, and the website you linked to has a radical left bi
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by civilian 9y ago
If companies are operating at a significant loss, then that's just a subsidy from their investors to the common person. I use Uber because, hey, I'm happy to take money from dumb VCs. Why wouldn't local markets be able to cor
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by civilian 9y ago
How does Uber use IP, DRM, and data-hostaging to make itself worth more? :confused: Having OpenID doesn't seem like a right you can demand. Idk. If you want to, choose a service that provides that. You're right that there's a
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by civilian 9y ago
I do support unlimited H1B visas, and I would also want to liberalize H1B visas even more. I think that, because it's hard for a worker with a H1B visa to start their own company or to move between companies, the company that is sponso

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