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by moosey 7y ago
How many years after we went to space using a central authority did it take before private enterprise could do it? How much did private enterprise depend on the technological development that arose from central and shared commitments to sc
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by moosey 7y ago
What I would recommend is that you spend some time on reddit and find them for yourself. Reddit has so many well-built communities, that it's difficult for me to suggest some. Even really vile parts of the site are good for understan
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by moosey 7y ago
Honestly, I have a strong interest in US, Chinese, European, and now Russian politics, and how they relate to the future of the humanity and all life on earth. It is clear that most real innovation happens much more quickly and decisively
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> I hate to be so harsh, but the bleeding hearts would be a lot more skeptical of housing the homeless if they started moving into their neighborhoods. I absolutely agree with this, and we can find data that supports this concept quite a
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The reason that we can and should do housing first is for two reasons. First, it's cheaper than any of the alternatives. From the NEAH, a paragraph describing those savings: > Finally, permanent supportive housing has been found to
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by moosey 7y ago
Instead of saying that a basket of options is a minimization of decisions, I would say that it's admitting that most decisions are answered with a series of statistical odds. If you can play a game where you think that the system has
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by moosey 7y ago
Why not just make it so that people that you don't interact with get auto-unfriended over time. If you just post, post, post and have no meaningful relationship beyond parasocial bullshit, then in no time, you'd be removed from t
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by moosey 7y ago
Although I'm male, I live my life surrounded by women and have a large focus on women's issues. I also see the writing on the wall: IVF technologies that are being developed today will further erode the value of men in most if no
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by moosey 7y ago
I, on the other hand, believe that fighting climate change will be a great wealth equalizer. The development of cheap energy in the form of wind and solar power, and also the need for centralization in the fight against climate change (whi
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by moosey 7y ago
When I was young, it wasn't that I was necessarily smart, but I did enjoy reading. My typical fare from when I was very young included books on biology, archeology, anthropology, etc. Everyone took this to mean that I was smart, and
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by moosey 7y ago
Based on the history of facebook and its news feed, I believe that the news feed or activity feed in general, unless it is a dumb pipe, should be considered human psychological experimentation. Under this premise, I would submit that not f
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Ultimately, we can talk about the ethics or whatever around this, but politics has nothing to do with ethics. I find it shocking that we cannot discuss the general nature of the US political system, but are willing to discuss what are ulti
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I agree. I'm not denying this. This is exactly why it should be called dominance and not privilege. And it does have real impacts on both groups.
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What I'm more interested in seeing is whether or not being in a dominant group in society reduces empathy. Historically, we might have looked at the lack of empathy of specific groups and made assumptions about the group in general, b
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Just turn on the procrastination monitor. I did it and with my reading habits, I can only post something like one or two comments a day.
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by moosey 7y ago
How hyperbolic. Everyone is on a health continuum, and I know people who are incredibly active, informed and intelligent, and further with healthy who use a variety of drugs recreationally, including nicotine. Many people use these things
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by moosey 7y ago
Soon "tell us what to think" will be so subversive that most people might not have any way to combat it. Experiments have shown that leading questions can create memories where none previously existed, and how fragile and inaccur
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The way I'm guessing that will be clarified is that if you are charging for your product, you cannot offer a lower price point for allowing data collection. This will probably boil down to professional, paid for services, being allowe
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by moosey 7y ago
I experienced something like this earlier this year, when I read about the massive loss of flying insect life. It was deep enough that I am pretty sure that I went through an identity crisis, and through the books by Yuval Noah Harari (add
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by moosey 7y ago
For those desiring an affirmative defence of the Enlightenment; reason, science, and humanism (which I think falls short ethically, but is a subset of what I try to practice), then I would strongly suggest reading "Enlightenment Now&qu
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by moosey 7y ago
Eating at a lower trophic level reduces your energy consumption and therefore your pollution output. If you are able to do that with foods that are close to the general macro and vitamin content of a burger, and it tastes about as good (or
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by moosey 7y ago
I've been thinking about extreme co-living, with people who have a shared set of values living together and sharing not just the living space, but also wealth, to such an extent that it's basically a new-age monasticism. Regardle
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My partner and bought a CSA share, and the entire food planning for each week is based on that CSA share. Often times, food is prepared on the weekend, and we eat only left overs all week. We also have a small garden outside. Between the
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by moosey 7y ago
Money is power, and that power is necessary for continued scientific development. The problem isn't that scientists came to him for that money, it's the fact that the system is built in such a way that bad actors get to retain po
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Currently, Tesla and SolarCity and others like it are dealing with current political turmoil. It's obvious to anyone with secular attitudes that we need to build up battery and renewable energy technologies. When we appeared to be mo
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by moosey 7y ago
The car is one of the ultimate goals of individualism: constant access to what Mills called "Negative Liberty", essentially the freedom to do whatever physical thing you desire to do at any given time. Unfortunately, that means t
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> We’re constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people. We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they post
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https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/intro... The archaeology community has been dealing with this for years, and supplied this interesting read. The art market, though, I assume is mostly m
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by moosey 7y ago
Your comment is a powerful acknowledgement of the dominance of your group (white male) via a technique that I've only seen a few times: specifically describing some of the perquisites of your position in society. As I've dealt wit
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Looking from the outside, dealing with problems of this scale have a number of aspects to them: remediation of the issue, understanding, prevention, and accountability. In this list, accountability stands out. A person or organization tha

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