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by gooseus 9y ago
Right, and those people looked back in horror and dismay at all the famine that did a fine job of killing their predecessors. Must any criticism of modern practices equate to an endorsement of dialing back to ancient ones? Is anybody buildi
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by gooseus 9y ago
> > Having emotional conversations with people I can't look in the eye and you are obviously quite passionate about this. > So what. Yes I try to make a difference. My passion is not the point here. You gotta take some deep br
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by gooseus 9y ago
I appreciate your long and thorough reply, though I think you got off the rails in a few parts. I wasn't looking to get into a debate regarding the ethics of eating animals vs not eating them. I'm very clear in my ethics regardin
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by gooseus 9y ago
I'm curious if the lab-grown meat will truly be ethical, which I suppose depends on your definition of ethics with regard to preserving life. What exactly are the processes by which animal meat is grown and what kind of resources are r
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by gooseus 9y ago
I'm having trouble with this article... where is the lesson they learned? No offering of what the newest generation is pursuing with naive and reckless abandon? What about what they believe currently about how a global world can be s
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by gooseus 9y ago
Jeez, must be real hard on you... while I'm sure they're delighted to be working with someone who only ever tries to relate to them based only on their own personal interests. I have an idea, how about starting a book club with yo
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by gooseus 9y ago
Jeez, if I were the financial adviser of someone this old and receiving this letter I would want to make sure that my client was still in his right mind and not being cleaned out by a nefarious relative or other con-person.
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by gooseus 9y ago
Links to credible sources or GTFO. That was rude, I know, but remember that the evidence required is proportional to the claim. Extraterrestrial machines literally flying within our atmosphere is an extraordinary claim and requires more ev
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by gooseus 9y ago
I don't understand why theaters would have a problem with this... I was under the impression that theaters made most of their money from concessions since they get almost no margin on the box office. So a service that gave people a rea
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by gooseus 9y ago
> On Thursday the FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal to eliminate the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV station in a major market. The proposal would make it easier for media companies to buy additional TV stations in
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by gooseus 9y ago
I concur, and if you want the full story you'll want to start with Michael Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ Pierson describes in the first episode how he was inspired to p
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by gooseus 9y ago
That was great, I'd love to see a full blown HN discussion on it rather than just a subthread... this part jumped out at me: > I see this as a real danger even if - especially if - we eventually succeed in meeting everyone's ne
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by gooseus 9y ago
What is your definition of social network? Mine would be a system connecting multiple entities for the purpose of socializing... or something like that. So I'd say yes, imo.
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Ask HN: What are best gifts for smart kids this holiday season (2017)?
2 points by gooseus 9y ago|2 comments
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by gooseus 9y ago
That doesn't really make sense to me... any public policy can be rendered ineffective by subsequent politicians. So a non-populist politician implements an "effective" UBI policy, but since it's only effective for a shor
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by gooseus 9y ago
I can't help but think that UBI is the modern grain dole[0] and while it sounds like a great idea on the surface and would probably work out great for a number of individuals in the short run... it will also inevitably lead to the use
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by gooseus 9y ago
I have limited sailing experience with my family as a child and this story had my BS detectors on alert when I saw how happy/healthy they were, their story of all the comms being disabled and the ridiculous story about having to huddle
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by gooseus 9y ago
Right, but stocks weren't invented and sold to the digital community as a currency. Is that no longer a thing? Does the crypto currency community acknowledge that their product is just a big gambling machine requiring the energy a
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by gooseus 9y ago
Here is a good article describing some of the limitations of sand we may face - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r... Humans brains replace themselves and the resources it take
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by gooseus 9y ago
I think this assumes far too much passiveness in the human population and treats the problem of eliminating humans like any other passive engineering problem. "Good enough" works for UI and database performance, or problems that a
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by gooseus 9y ago
Ok, but how do the robots do the terminating? How do they actually seek and destroy? Do they understand all the different ways humans know how to cloak themselves? Do they kill everything living, or will they know how to distinguish human
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by gooseus 9y ago
I have very little fear of robots in the near future because my opinion is that the best we'll be able to do is an imperfect copy of us and we're already so laughably imperfect. Even if someone programs robots specifically to take
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by gooseus 9y ago
I imagine they spent a lot of time solving crimes, asking questions like: "Where did they keep all their papers and correspondence?" "Can somebody come break into this safe we have a warrant for?" What did the cops do be
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by gooseus 9y ago
> Legislate that political news must be regulated. In what way? Establishing fact-checking institutions or empowering the FCC to fine broadcasting of false political speech? Or with libel laws to allow people to sue for false allegatio
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Ask HN: Best way to search and collect platform-agnostic podcast links?
50 points by gooseus 9y ago|36 comments
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by gooseus 9y ago
There are so many places to go online for social validation of low effort one-liners. I appreciate humor and even some snark in comments, but come on. I come here for signal, it's one of the few places I know that still has a high sig
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by gooseus 9y ago
Yep, can't disagree with that right now... still just trying to help. Cheers!
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by gooseus 9y ago
Ah yeah, I wasn't really responding to your whole thing... Honestly I wish you hadn't removed your post cause now there isn't any context for understanding all these replies. I'm curious about how close your hypothesis
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by gooseus 9y ago
I invite you to post the best example of this incel subculture. These are the guys who were elevating Elliot Roger (UCSB killer) to hero status, no?
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by gooseus 9y ago
Really?? The tone and focus of the two statements are entirely different and communicate completely different impressions of the creators relationship to the question/criticism. I mean I don't really want to get pedantic here, but

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