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by gph 8y ago
Seems he's quite aware and knowledgeable about his impact, he's just the kind of person who is apathetic to the tragedy of the commons, aka why humanity can't have nice things.
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by gph 8y ago
Historically that would definitely be true, but there's a couple interesting anecdotes in the article where some of the men mention spending their time holed up alone either on their phone, watching TV, or doing various leisure activit
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by gph 8y ago
>single individuals have too much influence over international commerce and globally significant arrangements Care to elaborate? Which individuals? Sounds more like this was the culmination of an investigation by both the Commerce and Ju
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by gph 9y ago
What if you don't have any social media accounts? Are they just going to assume anyone who says they don't is lying or trying to hide something? Seems like a dumb policy to require details on a purely voluntary activity.
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by gph 9y ago
Why doesn't the EU scrap all state level VAT for an EU wide VAT?
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by gph 9y ago
This is about state-level tax revenue, not federal-level. Plenty of states don't have a sales tax.
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by gph 9y ago
Hah, yea I was just going with Catholics since they've been burned into the collective conscious as anti-birth control. Seems most of them don't actually listen to the Pope much these days.
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by gph 9y ago
Malthus was temporarily wrong at best. You are taking an extremely narrow slice of human history and extrapolating the future from it. Without a controlling global enforcement of birth control (none currently exists and undoubtedly won&#x27
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by gph 9y ago
>The global economy already produces enough for every man, woman and child. But does it produce enough for every man, woman and child in a sustainable manner, and will it be able to keep up with the Malthusian population growth that woul
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by gph 9y ago
I still feel like our mass burning/cutting down of forests for use in agriculture is the real start of the Anthropocene, which arguably began on a global scale thousands of years ago. It certainly made a large impact on the environment
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by gph 9y ago
What makes you think there would be more money than what the scammer took? You think scammers are likely to reinvest their earnings and make more than what they spend? Doubt it. This is no punishment at all.
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by gph 9y ago
That's a fair criticism. I guess when you said you weren't impressed by medicine it seemed like you were leveling that comment at the entirety of our medical establishment instead of the fact that our resources in this specific br
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by gph 9y ago
>so forgive me if we're still not that impressed by medicine. I get you're venting some pain here, but that's kind of looking a gift horse in the mouth. Modern medicine hasn't figured out every single mystery, but it&
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by gph 9y ago
Except most restaurants will have a set schedule of shifts and it's typically somewhat rare to get called in on your day off. It would be exceptionally rare to get called in on your day off from both. For uber/lyft that's not
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by gph 9y ago
Are there? Does this law apply to senior/kids discount in California as well? I've never been so I genuinely don't know.
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by gph 9y ago
If we want to be non-philosophical then most the value of bitcoin has come from unsophisticated retail investors that haven't spent half as much time thinking about the 'store of value' as you have in this post and just want
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by gph 9y ago
>as more and more money is transferred to the people Where do you think this money came from in the first place? You think the value of bitcoin was driven up by the 1%? Or magically created by gnomes like fractional reserve lending?
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by gph 9y ago
>There are structural problems in a society where expressions of love are rarer than violence. You mean basically every society ever?
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by gph 9y ago
There will be so many small time investors losing money when the bubble pops it's starting to make me wonder if it won't lead to some serious global destablization. This isn't just some investment play-thing of otherwise well
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by gph 9y ago
Hmmm, so you think it's possible that the UI was designed with the proper checks and the government officials in charge have decided not to correct the public narrative because...?
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by gph 9y ago
Weird, but really shouldn't almost the entire focus be on the terrible design and the people responsible for it in the first place? Why does Miyagi still have his job? Unless the "button pusher" was also the developer I don&#
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by gph 9y ago
Yea, but having a muscular torso doesn't preclude the male from being intelligent as well. People look at attraction in too much of a binary way. I would think it's most likely that humans look for both physical and intellectual p
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by gph 9y ago
What is the purpose of an anonymous rape kit? From your post it sounds like it doesn't really have a purpose to any criminal investigation, but if that's the case why are they even collecting it in the first place?
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by gph 9y ago
What view on alcohol and gambling? Who is being hypocritical? There's a huge range of views on both subjects, and no single view is going to be used as canon between the many various human organizations that shape public opinion and th
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by gph 9y ago
True, but a lot of those were more specific in their end goals. What exactly is China going for here? Sounds like just general AI research and advancement. That's not a bad thing, but I think it'll probably end up more like the Hu
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by gph 9y ago
OP sounds like that semi-autistic guy who asked Elon Musk if they could work together at the shareholder meeting. In his mind he's exaggerating his work/abilities while dragging down what Waymo and self-driving researchers are doi
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by gph 9y ago
The US has dumped large amounts of money and support behind huge scientific endeavors like the Human Genome Project. Certainly that example helped advance genomic science and the biotech industry in America. But it didn't quite live up
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by gph 9y ago
>Is there a fundamental difference between a 400 lb self-driving robot and a 2-ton self-driving robot There's a difference in environment. How can you seriously think "Well if they have self-driving robots in controlled warehou
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by gph 9y ago
Agreed, but I think what you call straight journalism has largely turned into creating & hyping story lines, especially outlets like the Guardian and equivalent sources on the right. It's not as egregious and they're motivated
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by gph 9y ago
>Instead, I've always thought they were good for those particularly difficult "he said / she said" cases that capture public attention. I agree, but at what price point would you say it's worth it? In principle I

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