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by internaut 10y ago
Great illustrating artwork. I wish people were making art like that today.
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The moderators want to de-escalate the political clickbait stories (since the upsurge with Trump's victory) for a week of political detox.
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Discussing "Version 2" will get you fired from your job. It is crime-think of the highest order. Your mind will simply slide away the words on the screen until they form an incomprehensible jumble. I used to belong to a cult. Like
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The UK, at a red brick (that's the British Ivy League). The basic cost of living (rent/council tax/water bills/food prices) has been gradually inflating while the cost of labour increased at a far more modest rate. This
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"Technology has already gutted many traditional manufacturing and working class jobs — but now it may be poised to wreak similar havoc with the middle classes." This is accurate. It is Moravec's Paradox. I keep repeating it b
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You might want to rethink that. That cultural value makes sense when there is broadly rising economic activity. In my experience parents and their children are operating in two completely different economies. To be blunt in case I risk bein
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by internaut 10y ago
Check out the Tiny House movement wallae! http://tinyhousetalk.com/category/tiny-houses/ In this respect it is we Euros who should be getting off our butts.
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That has something to do with it. However I notice we have a lot of billionaires and millionaires in comparison to the former centuries. Not many Renaissance Men or aristocratic scholar-patrons (think Lord Asriel from HDM) though. The group
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You're right, but I would retort that not all innovations are created equal. Example: The French artisans, the middle class of their time, created wonderful toys for the gentry but almost none of their wonderfully intricate work had an
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Sounds like giftgivers and bugchasers, although that is specifically sexual. What you're describing sounds like an inverted Munchausen Syndrome. I don't know if we have name for that in English. I've heard of parasites contro
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by internaut 10y ago
You're right to ask. There's a trend. In Ireland we have foolishly installed laws that made criticism of Mohammad or Jesus illegal. https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/apr/11/
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To give one example, there is a lot of people in rural communities who aren't on the grid e.g. Tiny House or RV communities. For most of those people, it is a choice between using natural gas and/or solar. A lot of them power frid
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I am aware of the associations with 'golem' and 'lugenpresse'. And I know the alt-right really hate the media. You're probably not aware fnovd, then many of the attendees were themselves Jewish, including those of &
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by internaut 10y ago
> There is a vast difference between the government banning you and reddit banning you (which they are not actually doing here, but for the sake of argument). It isn't all about public vs private. There is another frame to view this
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Take this with a pinch of salt because my memory might not be reliable. I haven't seen it working with my own eyes but I believe the concept did work, was prototyped and some were produced for the two usecases 'A' and 'L
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The website underwent a redesign in the last year or two. When I went back to revisit it maybe a year ago you only got a landing page stating the project was finished or on hold. Then I googled some information and found the rest of the sit
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by internaut 10y ago
Spencer was being deliberately provocative. He knows the media will only play a handful of sound bites to spin their tales, so he gave it to them on a platter to achieve maximum coverage. And it worked. He is now the Great Satan, which appa
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by internaut 10y ago
I'll stick my neck out and tell you I'm a quasi-neoreactionary, which more or less is to the alt-right what a Marxist is to communism. FWIW I'm not a white supremacist (or nationalist) and many NRX and alt-righters are Jews (
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by internaut 10y ago
I agree, hats off to the cinematographers (and the 'things').
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> Also, the standard Hollywood tropes weren't as bad as they could be, but still distracting. Does every film featuring the military need a painfully one-dimensional rude hawkish general who inexplicably wants to attack the enemy in
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It turns out their website is now live (it wasn't the previous time I checked) and appears open for business. Since it's up I'll just directly quote from the horse's mouth: "Velkess’s flywheel was conceived from the
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Bill Gray's Velkess project was a superior idea to Tesla's Powerwall (IMO!). It is now unfortunately defunct or at least the website says they're on hold indefinitely. Here is a youtube video explaining: https://ww
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> that's what people in the future will have to be doing for their jobs. We'll have to agree to disagree. Most post-2008 grads today are living hand to mouth in the cities. They are the new working poor. This isn't going t
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I really really disagree with this. I think the evidence is against you. The economics research shows that the 'best returns' come from early education, with diminishing returns the further progress is made. It is counter intuitiv
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Silicon Valley threatens the majority of blue collar workers last. This is Moravec's Paradox. The kinds of jobs blue collar labour does flexibly and in situ are extremely difficult for robots and AI to accomplish. The jobs that are rot
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I feel like I understand the reaction instinctively but not analytically. I recall in some Japanese restaurants there are koi swimming on the glass roof above the people eating. Is it the use of animals as decoration that's disturbing
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There's a danger of that. It is worth noting that many of SV's most interesting projects are comprehensively dosed with political ideals. Bitcoin, BitTorrent, Urbit. I'm sure you can think of more. I would also claim Google a
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By '10 years' in a hermetically sealed box I meant an experiment on Earth to understand the inputs/outputs so we could give scientific and engineering advice when something goes wrong in the Mars biosphere. Biosphere 2 failed
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I still want my magic box. Here is why: - Get rid of water and sewer pipes. That would be huge. Together with passive house technology each and every house in a city, town or countryside would be 'off grid'. That kind of independe
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Elon Musk's ticket to Mars will be less meaningful (if we take the word 'colonization' seriously) unless somebody can stick several thousand people into a hermetic sealed box and they are still alive and thriving after 10 yea

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