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by kongin 5y ago
They don't because when I leave for work I don't move fast enough to have a thousand years pass for everyone else by the time I get there.
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by kongin 5y ago
People that don't exist have no wants. People that exist have wants. I exist, yet the dozen other children my parents could have had don't. You can ask them if they want to have been born, but they don't have an opinion on th
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by kongin 5y ago
>Also, I would be interested what you think the crucial difference is between not continuing to live and not being born. It is the difference between killing two children and deciding to not have 10 extra ones.
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by kongin 5y ago
Killing something alive is different to not creating a life. Asking me to kill myself is a rather poor attempt at a gotcha. The better question is why aren't you having children as often as possible if you think life is worth while. On
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by kongin 5y ago
If it caused no other harm yes. Because you would still get to live a long life, just not inflict it on someone else.
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by kongin 5y ago
>For one, it seems to me you have to basically reject all of relativistic physics if you want to maintain a perspective on the universe where only the present moment exists. This is because the relativity of simultaneity tells us that th
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by kongin 5y ago
I'm sorry but what do you call the lords of the realm coming together to outlaw workers getting paid higher wages if not a conspiracy?
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by kongin 5y ago
>I see it from the somewhat opposite view and that is that conservatives in the US at least are so easily manipulated to the point where a seemingly large portion of them now believe democracy isn't working for them and you see this
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by kongin 5y ago
China also didn't have official community transmission in December 2019 yet we were seeing people coming out of airplanes sick constantly, which allowed us to calculate their infection rates, which were then released publicly when they
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by kongin 5y ago
So that's between 150 and 250 years with the 2.5% energy consumption grows, then that much again for us to produce more energy than the sun shines on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_con
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by kongin 5y ago
>You are right, people who flippantly dismiss fusion just don't understand it. I have a couple of physics degrees, hot fusion is the energy of the future and it always will be. This is not a physics problem, this is an engineering p
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by kongin 5y ago
> Web still has by far the best developer experience + cross platform stability, not to mention the lowest barrier to entry. I would be really interested to see what happens with Tauri[1] as that looks like a more promising alternative t
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by kongin 5y ago
I've never met a mugger who got less violent when you didn't have money to give them.
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by kongin 5y ago
The death rate for Covid in even a fully vaccinated population is somewhere between 2 to 8 per million per day given Israel's current figures. Which means from 700 to 3000 deaths per million per year. And you won't be getting the
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by kongin 5y ago
That is a wildly misleading statistic. The divorce rate isn't 2.7 per 1000 marriages, which is what I assumed before clicking on the source, it's 2.7 per 1000 people in the population. The marriage rate is 6.1 per 1,000 total popu
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by kongin 5y ago
Ok, so would you say that this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28461965 should be flagged? And if it shouldn't be how are you dealing with the abuse of the function?
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by kongin 5y ago
You just pay a cook to do it for you. If you're making mid six figures it's ultimately much cheaper than a spouse.
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by kongin 5y ago
I have never had a time in my life where having less money would have produced a better outcome than having more.
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by kongin 5y ago
> There's no magic number, but CoVID-19 is the most serious public health emergency in probably a century. Do you know what AIDS is? Unlike Covid which kills something under 1 in 100 people it infects AIDS until the mid 90s was a de
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by kongin 5y ago
The 2017 flu season killed 200 Americans per million, world wide that amounts to 1,400,000 people. Should we have locked down in 2017?
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by kongin 5y ago
Yes, it's hard to keep track of which act was used to curtail what freedoms. The Sedition Act was used to silence opposition to conscription and gave us the immortal quote of "The most stringent protection of free speech would not
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by kongin 5y ago
How are you dealing with weaponised flags? I'd put more effort into posts if they weren't just removed by someone who didn't like what they said. Give than you've unflagged a half dozen of them 12 hours later.
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by kongin 5y ago
You are mistaking extending special rights to minority groups with citizens rights. We have been increasing minority rights as fast as possible with removing all the protections from dictatorships in the name of, I don't even know what
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by kongin 5y ago
> Quarantine for coronavirus, in a pandemic that’s claimed millions of lives. So are we going to do a quarantine for the flu next? A pandemic that claims up to a 2 million lives a year globally: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by kongin 5y ago
WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the war on drugs, the war on terror, now the war on covid.
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by kongin 5y ago
> When the alternative is thousands and thousands of deaths, most of us are willing to temporarily give up a bit of civil liberty. Don't worry, you'll be doing both and it won't be temporary.
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by kongin 5y ago
It's a third of Australia that's gone insane. The rest have checked out and completely ignored it. It's like a long holiday where you get paid to pretend you work. But you can't say that in polite company so you just hav
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by kongin 5y ago
And yet flu is still here. Different viruses respond differently to vaccines. It's like asking where's the dodo gone when trying to eradicate the rat.
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by kongin 5y ago
> Yes, but what do you or those people mean by “it will become endemic”. It sounds like you're tone policing people based not on what basic mathematics says, but what you want the world to be like. Eradicating covid is impossible, e
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by kongin 5y ago
This is the point where not teaching people how to multiply bites us in the ass. Without the vaccine you have a small number of cases and a large portion being severe enough to end up in hospital. With the vaccine you a have large number of

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