justsaysmthng

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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Not at all. I'm just trying to voice ideas out of the box of current 'scientific' dogma, with the risk of being downvoted of course. It is dogma because a lot of people blindly believe the conclusions of 'studies' t
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Here's a crazy theory of mine - just planting some seeds. Industrial scale farming is creating "institutionalized" plants - we call them "fields", but they could be looked at as industrial plant camps, were plants d
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I wonder if there will be similar political consequences in other countries. Somehow I feel like the really big fish will just shrug it off by flexing its political muscle a little and get out clean. They will point their fingers at a plot
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Your comment doesn't contain an answer to my question. Having entities in different countries for easier interface with local customers and authorities is very different from transferring ownership or large chunks of money to a company
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
The way I understand it, the offshore companies exist for the purpose of funneling money out of "onshore" companies and out of the country. Extraction of dirty money (from bribery) is also very easy to do with offshore companies.
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
I hope the world realizes that clouds are not just fluffy white things in the blue sky, but can create destructive storms too, with wind, rain and so on. Make sure your infrastructure is ready to weather such storms - have local backups and
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> because otherwise when Google disappears I'll lose a lot of useful material I have access to at the moment. Could you explain that ? Why would google disappear ?
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
The atomic bomb is the sort of scientific knowledge that many regret to have created - including the people who were in charge of their creation - Oppenheimer in the US and Sakharov in the USSR both spent their lives fighting for nuclear n
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> It is not clear to me how being able to design a small combinatorial logic circuit would directly help a potential bioterrorist. By advancing this technology. I assume (hope) we're not yet capable of spitting out DNA out of a USB
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> "You could be a student in high school and go onto the Web-based server and type out the program you want, and it spits back the DNA sequence." Woah, hold your horses right there. One of the first things I did when I learned
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Given the fractal nature of the Universe (almost everything in nature is a fractal at some scale), then it's quite possible. Every particle contains the whole Universe and the Universe contains all particles. But there's an intere
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? This can be followed up by an even "crazier" question: If so, is our Galaxy a living creature ? Going in the other direction, are cells in our bodies "living creatures" ?
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Erdogan showed his face to the world (or at least to me) when police violently dispersed the Gezi Park protesters in 2013. I suspect that the situation in Turkey only got worse since then and now the terrible terrorist attacks only add fuel
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
The world is extremely corrupt. Widespread corruption is yet another issue hanging over our civilization which we've never had to deal with before in our history. People in the western world usually don't realize just how deep the
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
In the other news, parts of India is its second year of severe drought : http://www.ibtimes.com.au/suicide-rate-indian-farmers-rise-c... I wonder if Indian farmers would accept oil instead ? The point being that fresh wate
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> The advantages of C and C++ ... don’t apply to my work. C# is nice but not cross-platform enough. > Scala is too complex. And other languages like D and Go are too new to bet my work on. So in the end you're talking about your
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Maybe it's just me, but as an C++, Objective-C and Swift programmer, React Native doesn't really appeal to me that much. At least on the iOS and Mac, I don't really want to give up on Swift in favor of Javascript. I like Reac
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Not at all. I wasn't trying to suggest any fixes. I was just rhetorically questioning the validity of our economic theory without including the "laws" of human behavior and the factors that influence it. Culture and the econ
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Some of you who are actively working on this will probably smile at my naïveté, but I'll take a wild shot at an example anyway: See people's music listening trends on Spotify (or torrents or whatever). Examine the lyrics (or lack
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
I derive my conclusion based on articles I read in financial/economic press. I know that's not a very good heuristic, but somehow I feel like economic thought is mostly based on mathematical models and political science, while th
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
I find it odd that economists generally ignore the field of human psychology / behavior in their assessments. Things like mental and physical health, addictions and substance use, thought manipulation and mind control, the fears and d
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Thank you for the tip. Curiously, the original message sparked a lot of commentary and it seems like lots of people here are feeling the pain of "unjust" moderation sometimes. Sometimes I also play the "fuck it, let them mod
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Thanks for the analysis :) I've been around for many years here on HN. I tend to change my password to something random from time to time, so I don't get too attached to my karma, burning man style. It helps. I don't think t
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Your comment is a good example. People here are willing to look at things from various angles and question things, while being respectful towards each other.
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
HN is the most intelligent and open minded online community of this size that I know online. I have deep respect for you guys and girls and your opinions are always enlightening and thought provoking. I really feel much smarter because I
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> The real cause of elite inequality is the lack of open access and market competition in elite investment and labor markets.. I stopped reading after that, because that's not the real reason. The real reason is the way these pe
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
> Church says that genome-editing techniques will remain the go-to choice for most applications ... George Church is kind of a sarcastic name for a genetic scientist.. But the ethics question is more open then ever. Didn't you imme
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
My god what a mess. I think virus writers and hackers should specifically target anti virus suites, given how much of a security risk these pose to the user. Heh, I guess they do just that. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the virus
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Science allows the development of technology and technology is responsible for most fossil fuel emissions and pollution. I agree that theoretical science in itself is neutral - the same science can be used to build technology which is clima
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by justsaysmthng 11y ago
"Why worry about things you cannot control? " My wife, my parents and most of my friends tell me when I try to bring up the climate topic. "Either do something about it or let's talk about something else, it's depre

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