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by cortic 4y ago
>evolutionarily unnecessary Grieving is an evolved response to nomadic group species, so we didn't leave useful or closely related members behind; In their absence we feel compelled to 'search' for them, or be near their
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by cortic 4y ago
If the limit is unreachable except in our imagination, we can think of it as unlimited. At least for the purposes of policy right now. And i think you are being unfair conflating the current energy shortage with a hard limit that the human
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by cortic 4y ago
I don't accept that energy is a limited resource, like all other resources it requires investment. Reduce investment and you get less of that resource. Increase investment and you get more of that resource at a cheaper rate (as mass
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by cortic 4y ago
There really aren't any environmental concerns with crypto. Crypto (PoW), like any other industry, invests in energy infrastructure. The concern right now is that its sometimes cheaper to pollute than to use green energy. All our po
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by cortic 4y ago
For a very long time human beings talked to each other in groups that required no authority, only consensus; We've had a very hard time translating this online, karma, following, friending, subs and rules.. none of it is perfect. But
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by cortic 4y ago
One of the reasons we live so long is that the evolutionary pressure is not negative after reproduction; To begin with it takes 15+ years to raise human offspring to a stage where they might be able to fend for themselves. 20+ years to
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by cortic 4y ago
Skeptical about these kinds of claims, they usually are mixing up cause and effect; People who are emotionally and cognitively healthy tend to go outside more because they are healthy , i don't know how you would control for that.
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by cortic 5y ago
I'm on Enterprise, and you can't actually turn it off permanently, after a time (maybe a reboot, or scheduled that i can't find) it just turns itself back on, and usually knackers my nvidia drives, even though i have it set t
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by cortic 5y ago
Any amount of fear for someone following you that you can see, should be more for someone following you that you can't see. The fact that its inverse is a weakness of our psychology.
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by cortic 5y ago
It is fascinating even reading these comments, people falling over themselves trying to define a difference between 'some guy' recording them, and cctv (which is effectively 'some guy' recording them). It kind of reminds
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by cortic 5y ago
As the NSA recommend, disable Remote Desktop Services and its associated port (TCP 3389). But I'm also not saying don't update . I'm saying choose when you want to update and what you want to update. Use your own firewall
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by cortic 5y ago
My advice would be to take control of your own security. Microsoft do not have your best interests at heart.
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by cortic 5y ago
>How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll. Add 'Administrators' to permissions, then go back in and delete all permission entries. Basically deny windows access to its update sys
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by cortic 5y ago
>wearing a mask if you don’t have an infection reduces the risk almost not at all. I remember this, at the time we knew people who were infected (and infectious) could take more than 10 days to show symptoms, and if they didn't we
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by cortic 5y ago
Happened in the UK as well, Boris (and to be fair the WHO) told us masks were counter productive. That they might get you to stand closer to people and touch your face more, increasing your chances of getting Covid.. All presumably to sav
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by cortic 5y ago
>A house has intrinsic value. People can live in a house, store things there, or rent it out. Its value was not put into the system, it simply exists, period. Even if the market crashes, a house is still useful and can appreciate again.
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by cortic 5y ago
>To put this in simplest terms: Every cent someone makes from whatevercoin, has to be put into the system by someone else. A house appreciates in value since living space is a scarce commodity facing growing demand...it's sarcity an
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by cortic 5y ago
If you are going to change the laws, why not just make pornography legal and use the freed policing to go after illegal hacking of secure devices...
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by cortic 5y ago
I don't remember except that i found it significant, i tried to find the article i think it was a university that did the study, if i find it i will post it.
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by cortic 5y ago
>Tesla has a safety record that’s not unimpressive compared to the 36k... But when Tesla cars were then compared to similarly priced cars; that record dropped through the floor.
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by cortic 5y ago
Your argument is probably the most important and fundamental argument against surveillance there is. The reason it will be ignored is; For a million years our defense against other humans have largely been tribal, what i call the zebra def
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by cortic 5y ago
>It seems that you have completely missed the past four decades of renewable energy decreasing in price by a factor of 100x. And it seems you have completely missed the fact that investment from crypto miners helped to bring this efficie
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by cortic 5y ago
Fossil fuels being used to fill demand of any sort is its own problem. We need global carbon taxes on a Montreal Protocol level to incentivize any excess demand (investment) to target renewables. -But with this, crypto would be a great bo
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by cortic 5y ago
So he is turning down real investment in renewables in the hopes that other more agreeable investment materializes out of thin air.. meanwhile his plan crashes the price of renewable energy endangering those industries and shrinking the mar
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by cortic 5y ago
"Every watt of renewable power generated to power a crypto miner," IS investment in renewable energy.. which he would rather was not invested in renewable energy. I don't see any other way to interpret that, unless you think
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by cortic 5y ago
So you are against investment in renewables. That is not as progressive as you think.
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by cortic 5y ago
The problem with free choice is that people often make the wrong choice. -The Chinese Communist Party and Michaelt the Libertarian.
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by cortic 5y ago
That's a really great question; There are important conversations within the LGBT that would be really interesting, but asking questions that could be construed years later as homophobic, no matter now innocent can publicly destroy peo
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by cortic 5y ago
The definition of what is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic is different from person to person, mod to mod. There are plenty of rational opinions within controversial topics that are just not allowed. This is compounded with the problem o
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by cortic 5y ago
> trusting that you'll be OK so long as you've got nothing to hide. I don't think people are that stupid, they know they have everything to hide from someone , and no idea who someone is. People think they can hide in th

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