curtainsforus

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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Get rid of child care laws, then. No taxation without representation!
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
We observe causality in our universe and day-to-day lives. If FTL movement is possible, you might expect at least some particles to be doing it, and that there'd be closed timelike curves or causality breaking happening already in nat
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Public nudity laws are authoritarian!
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
Class is cultural before it's monetary. You can give Billy-bob a million dollars- a rich hick, a hick remains. Every class tranche uses fashion to differentiate themselves from the tranche just below, while imitating the tranches abov
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
The operating systems that get fatter and slower every year?
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by curtainsforus 4y ago
The grid prefers smooth, even, intertia-backed turbine-generated power to the choppy screams of a million inverters.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
>Suppose the population falls to say, 2 Billion or something like that. Is that a big problem? There are problems with that, yes. That's fewer geniuses, who are in short supply. I like humans. The more humans, the better, quality
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
If you're wrong, surely you'll have materially harmed some people by encouraging them to do something they don't like?
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
I could imagine a world where no respectable journal would publish a conspiracy theory like 'the vaccine is worse than covid for under-25 males', and no respectable academic would touch the question because it's too radioacti
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Push the button! The rainforest is evil.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Unless it's using a low-thrust-high-efficiency drive such that significant inclination changes take a year.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Then what you're doing right now should be illegal!
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
That's why many players had methods for 'taking care of' migrants
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
>Humans dramatically increase and multiply the amount of suffering in the world I don't believe that. All the animals that are alive today would die in pain in anyway, no matter what humans do. Every deer that's shot is one n
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Of course, in the long run our goal should be to destroy the ecosphere. But yes, we need to survive till we get there.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
There's lots of labor-intensive ways to boost yields without monocultures, fertilizers, and pesticides, right? Planting complementary crops together, planting trap crops at the edges of fields to catch pests, things like that. How lon
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
>Not without destruction or suffering Imagine a world without humans. Every day, millions of animals that are able to feel pain die in horrible agony as they're eaten alive; die of hunger or disease; are afflicted by horrific paras
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
The whales died in agony before, as did the birds, and those delicate insect bodies are crushed, eaten, and dashed as quickly as they're made. Nature's a beautiful edifice built on the back of hundreds of millions of years of suff
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
I find the tone he takes in his debunking videos pretty annoying (although I agree with him on almost all of his stances on what's a scam/vaporware and what not), but when he's actually talking about his own science/scie
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
That doesn't mean it's impossible to create artificial intelligences, though, which was Dreyfus' point.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Not without people to do it with. And the people that the parent poster is talking about aren't nomads.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Would very many HN'ers get up in arms about someone copying an iphone? It's not like apple needs more profit.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
There's more freedom of speech than other western countries, there's a greater ability to bear arms than other countries...
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Should you try to overcome your survival instinct?
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
The most important thing about humans is which ones I'm allowed to attack.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Talking about nazi dogwhistling is spreading theories about a conspiracy hidden in plain sight with the goal of destroying the western order, taking over the world, and executing the genocide of several peoples. Thus, you yourself are guilt
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
You agree with fox news on half of your points?
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
Also, the spyware TV's can be sold at a discount because they make money back off selling the user's data.
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
From the perspective of an outside observer, nothing ever reaches past the event horizon- it just asymptotically approaches it. The same goes for the whole mass of the black of hole- from an outside perspective, it's smeared across th
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by curtainsforus 5y ago
You have canines. We're evolved to eat meat.

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