cynusx

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by cynusx 6y ago
Exactly, there are some issues though with getting iron spread out over such a ridiculously large area of the world. I think an efficient delivery mechanism could be to demand that plastics slowly release iron when submerged for a longer ti
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by cynusx 6y ago
Time to release the moratorium on ocean fertilization?
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by cynusx 6y ago
sounds like a legitimate service a miner could offer for (real) money
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by cynusx 6y ago
Actually they are cash break-even, the loss they report is due to GAAP-rules not allowing you to recognize cash on your balance sheet as revenue until you delivered the service. For the next 12 months they are sitting on 280.2 mil customer
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by cynusx 6y ago
I think what you are really upset about is that politicians in the US need private funding to get elected. This is usually not the case in European countries where they just ban political ads on television and provide tax-funded funding for
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by cynusx 6y ago
The solution for these types of unearned wealth is not a wealth tax but a high inheritance tax and strong anti-avoidance measures.
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by cynusx 6y ago
They will also digitalize and centralize information so that things can be checked directly in the databases of the relevant government agency
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by cynusx 6y ago
you need a bridge loan and then a property development loan, not a mortgage. What you want to engage in is property development and these are substantially higher in interest rates (and typically refinanced once everything is built). Tradit
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by cynusx 6y ago
I'd wager these are less cases of individual corruption than party-corruption aka horse-trading for influence and decisions. A classic problem parties have is that they need to take care of their party militants and their families. Thi
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by cynusx 6y ago
When it comes to accountants or financial controllers, having a track record of high integrity is actually a bonus for well-run companies. Procurement and financial controlling are both areas very sensitive to corruption and top management
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by cynusx 6y ago
yea exactly, we are naturally incentivized to cure aging. With about 10% of the worlds GDP spend going to healthcare you'd expect us to get there eventually. Right now the voyager is traveling at 17 km/s which is 0.0056% of the sp
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by cynusx 6y ago
ok, if we can have breakthroughs in propulsion (and braking) then that would be possible. My understanding is that acceleration gets exponentially more expensive at higher speeds making it practically unfeasible to build a ship like this
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by cynusx 6y ago
I think we'll get to cure aging eventually, mankind has been investing in extending life very consistently (a quick google says we spend about 10% of global GDP on healthcare). It may take a very long time to get there though, but I do
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by cynusx 6y ago
I agree current solar system would be easier to colonize and definitely economically more sensible but I do think that when lifetimes expand to be 100s of years, that the timelines on what you can invest in would expand accordingly. For exa
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by cynusx 6y ago
Travelling 11 lightyears in 10 years would require faster than light travel, which last time I checked is impossible in this version of the universe.
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by cynusx 6y ago
exactly. you'd have to send a ship with all the robotics and equipment but there's no need for intelligent beings to lose conscious time during this period. Although at this point you (=the AI) would lose 11 years transmitting you
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by cynusx 6y ago
The engineering complexity of this is orders of magnitude higher than curing aging. In this case you have to fully automate healthcare and education. Then you still have to steer these individuals towards some sort of economic goal because
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by cynusx 6y ago
Why pointless? Assuming real AI are incorporated into our economy this would be a classic case of comparative advantage. They could operate mining facilities on these planets and live to see the profits of a big mineral haul back to earth.
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by cynusx 6y ago
True, that's even more expensive though cause you need to cary the full spectrum of educational and healthcare institutions onboard
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by cynusx 6y ago
AI can be copied and all its state transmitted, this is actually one of the biggest gamechangers towards human brains. Suppose you have a real AI inhabiting a robot here on earth, it would only require to copy the AI, transmit it and boot u
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by cynusx 6y ago
So realistically we have two ways of colonizing this. Either we cure aging so a few decades of space travel wouldn't make a dent in our life and our physical ability to colonize an uninhabited environment OR we invent real AI and leave
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by cynusx 6y ago
It's interesting that law enforcement can hack it but eventually they have to burn the network because they have to make arrests using the information. They should buy/hack all these companies and then run false flag operations to
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by cynusx 6y ago
WeAreRemotely | Senior javascript engineers | Europe | Full-time | REMOTE WeAreRemotely helps US and EU companies to experiment with fully remote teams, we do that by recruiting full teams, hiring them directly and managing them for our cli
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by cynusx 6y ago
well, warrants work when you have sufficient evidence but what if you need to perform network-analysis to build sufficient evidence. Case in point is usage of stolen identity: Criminals probably already use identity theft to buy those domai
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by cynusx 6y ago
I find this a bit backward actually but I suppose it exists to be able to serve legal notices to those domains. There's a lot of issues when you operate across jurisdictions that probably won't be solved until some international t
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by cynusx 6y ago
Well, it's a two-edged sword. If you happen to live in a part of the world where freedom of speech is actively persecuted then I agree it's better the way it is. However, if you live in a world where democracy and due process is w
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by cynusx 6y ago
Yes, exactly. it's sufficiently identifying to solve the discriminatory treatment the parent pointed out
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by cynusx 6y ago
That's a fair point but usually that is solved by disclosing an additional datapoint like the date of birth of the person.
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by cynusx 6y ago
I actually agree with Facebook on this one, domain owners should have legal personalities. That said, it shouldn't necessarily include their email, phone and address. Just the legal owner name (company or person) would be sufficient.
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by cynusx 6y ago
I'm actually annoyed we still don't know the exact death rate of the virus. I am not sure if it would be that unethical to call up volunteers that reflect the general population to establish the real death rate. (even less so if y

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