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The Digital Energy Revolution(zone.ni.com)
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by kwk 14y ago
What's sickening is the way you devalue life by thinking you're helpless to sustain it. Life is just another phenomenon subtended by physical law. We, as intelligent creatures, have the tools necessary to use those laws to our advantage. If
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by kwk 14y ago
"We are already unsustainable, so the problem of stopping people from spawning more is really unrelated..." "Extending quality of life has the added benefit of meaning you get more bang for your buck per person..." Amen.
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by kwk 14y ago
"Would the results of its research trickle down to the masses. Or would it stay with the upper tier of society?" Only one way to find out.
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by kwk 14y ago
"We might be better off without death, but it's truly hard to say." Absolutely. We are simply actors in a complex environment; we have access to limited data points among an equation containing dizzyingly many variables. However, if none of
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by kwk 14y ago
"You're given a decent amount of time on this Earth, already make it count and move on." I hear this all the time, but I still can't wrap my head around it. If you value life, why wouldn't you want to sustain it? If you're content to die, w
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by kwk 14y ago
Why isn't this part of the national defense budget? You know, we've sunk >$1.5T over the past decade into preventing our citizens from becoming casualties of "terrorism", which account for ~0% of all fatalities in a given year. I don't