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by jmcqk6 3y ago
If you want to learn more about possible ways for life to have started, I recommend the books by Nick Lane, especially "The Vital Question" and "Transformer." We have several hypothesis about the origin of life, and none
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
You weren't trying to have a conversion. By your own admission, you were trying to "ruthlessly shame". If you think you can have conversations with people you are ruthlessly shaming, perhaps this interaction can demonstrate
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
And because you can't understand something, you will break the agreements of the community. I think people who look at collective agreements and ignore them should be ruthlessly shamed for disconnecting from the community and deciding
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
To what extent do you think about micro-quakes are effecting the subduction system? I've heard that we see the land deforming, building tension from the subduction, but there is also a regular cadence where the land deformation revers
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
Who are "they?" > have relied on other nations to buy our bonds. This is false. The vast majority of US government debt is held domestically. Foreign holdings have been increasing, but as of 2022, still only represents 30% of
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
I think the important thing is that that Luck can often be an outcome of hard work, but hard work does not necessarily lead to luck. The world is full of people that worked really, really hard on something and failed to achieve the specific
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
> In my experience the issue is not about taking it seriously, I've rarely met someone totally unconcerned in real life. The Republican Party just held their first primary debate among the presidential candidates. They were asked a
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
> you are fully expected to mindlessly copy and paste I think this is the disconnect. Don't mindlessly copy and paste things. Take the time to understand what's going on.
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I would say that we are stuck in a lie that other people don't matter. We are stuck in the lie that the wellbeing of other people does not affect us.
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
>but a large number of people simply don't want to "work" (ironically, since they sometimes invest more effort for less return to scam than doing a real job). As you point out, it's also not about the effort. It&#x27
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
> It could be more rational to argue that we need to stop growing humans on our most productive agricultural real estate. We can grow humans by the bushel in Montana. We can't get 12 cuttings of alfalfa per year in Montana. You&#x27
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by jmcqk6 3y ago
There is a common perspective that the physical world is computation. That doesn't mean that it's a simulation, only that information is being processed in a way that is very analogous to computation, and it is very useful for se
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
> Let's say you're a baseball fan. The average cost of a season ticket is $4,473. The average baseball fan is not buying season tickets. The average baseball fan cannot afford season tickets. The average income in the US is $3
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
> I don't understand why Westerners are so keen to make major sacrifices to quality of life in the name of fighting climate change when nothing we do will make a statistically significant impact in the long run with major population
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
Where are you finding therapy for $88/hour?
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
And then you get Xfinity canceling your internet without notice most likely. This is not a real solution.
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
The problem is that the consequences are different for every person. We treat drugs as though messing with them has a guaranteed outcome, but it's not true. Drugs effect everyone differently. People use them for different reasons. P
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by jmcqk6 4y ago
>There should be more discussion about how to store value without counterparty risk. Due to the social nature of money, this is impossible.
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
>All these extinction woes boil down to irrational fear that one day the wildlife will disappear from the planet. No, they really don't. You've massively oversimplified and then projected that onto everyone else.
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
Both of those statements can be true. That was the entire point I was trying to make. It's not bullshit. Both of those statements are true.
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
I wonder if a more productive way of looking at this type of behavior is reaction hedging. It's pretty clear that the vast majority of humans prefer reacting to understanding. Or put another way: If you assume that people will take the
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
There isn't a global limit where you can draw a line and say "good things are on one side of the line and bad things are on the other side of the line" - not when it comes to things like this. It's too bad we like to ac
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
You also gotta consider the reality that it is pretty clear that our current use is totally unsustainable, and pollution is just one of the downsides we are seeing. Things aren't entirely good or entirely bad. It can both be true that
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
>A private sector business isn't gonna send thugs with guns to forcibly shut down your business and put you in a cage after being too incompetent to take your money, they're just gonna terminate your service and/or sue you
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
>As most Bitcoin advocates would say Zoom Out. Yes Bitcoin looks volatile if you look at the past 2-3 months. However if you zoom out to 1 year Bitcoin is still up almost 300% y/y. Either you don't understand what volatility me
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but expecting police officers to stand-up to their colleagues when they are breaking the law in their presence is not unreasonable. Citizen review and oversight it definitely important and necessary. The poli
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but expecting police officers to stand-up to their colleagues when they are breaking the law in their presence is not unreasonable. Citizen review and oversight it definitely important and necessary. The poli
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
it's not hard to see why. Accountability is a major problem with the police in the US. I'm not sure there is anywhere I can trust that a bad police officer is going to face consequences for their actions. That's not to say
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
>a massively valued asset that you can't sell In this case, the value is not well defined. If you don't have a market, you cannot determine the value. You may think it's extremely valuable, but if you have no one else wi
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by jmcqk6 5y ago
>Because the jobs it will eliminate are the ones that need to verify the system works correctly. I don't understand how you recognize that, but still blame them. I don't ever want to trust pure algorithms or "machine learn

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