mrjangles

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by mrjangles 5y ago
Over the years I have read countless stories, either through the freedom of information act, or other journalist investigations, that show what is clearly a widespread pattern of government agency infiltration into not-for-profit media base
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Well probably the other way round, I love the cumulative effect more. Mostly, I think I just have a bad memory and something needs to stand out to recall it. Regardless, I feel like the lack of anyone agreeing is confirmation of what I sus
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The lesson from your comment is that, regardless of the details or whether one agrees or disagrees, these issues are incredibly complex. It is always people who want to simplify everything into good and evil / right and wrong that want
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Yeah see this isn't going to work. Currently, something tiny like 20% of the price of coal and non renewable base power comes from the cost of the actual fuel. The rest is just base costs (the price of the wires, infrastructure and t
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I followed some of the links in the comments and found this talk by Feynman given from the same period he was working at thinking machines. This part of the talk amazes me that people in 1985 were having the exact same discussions we are to
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When something has happened to me once, I can always recount it. When something has happened to me a thousand times I can never think of a single example. I've always wondered if everyone gets this or if it's just me?
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Everything that was discovered in math and physics was foreshadowed at the time. Your description means you were being taught correctly by excellent knowledgeable people. If when you moved onto deeper subjects this was no longer the case,
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Interesting you would bring up China as it is the number one famous example of an empire stagnating for thousands of years. The Roman Empire is well known to have made all of it's huge technological advancements in the beginning when t
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The relevant section from the article >“In addition to Mr. Diaz, three other witnesses (all non-Tesla contract employees) testified at trial that they regularly heard racial slurs (including the n-word) on the Fremont factory floor. Whil
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by mrjangles 5y ago
When Elon Musk said in his interview with Tim Pool that "if we don't get off planet earth right now then we never will" I thought immediately that he was talking about exactly what Peter Thiel is talking about here. (Not surp
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If you see this is an unrealistic you should talk to someone (anyone) who works in academia. Actually I work in academia so I'll start the ball rolling by telling you this isn't unrealistic.
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I'm sorry but this is such an poor attempt to nit pick the obviously false claims made by the UN back then. It's been 20 years since they said we would be past the point of no return and almost no one today believes we are past t
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Climate change already caused civilization to collapse 20 years ago according to this article published in 1990: https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 >" UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N
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by mrjangles 5y ago
I'm not sure how News Corp is earning revenue from free to air tv stations it doesn't own. I tried googling it and can't find anything so maybe you could enlighten me on this? As for your other points. If you try to stand b
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The fact people believe this sort of stuff should make it clear exactly who has the power in Australian media and who is feeding propaganda to whom. Just the facts on the matter: Murdoch owns zero (yes zero) of the 5 major public TV channel
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As the article points out, Modern was spending 500M a year on research before becoming profitable. Do you think a one time payment of 25M from DARPA was in any way relevant to their success?
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>You can't seriously believe a significant component of Earth atmosphere can change by that without effect Do you believe that CO2 is a significant component of Earth's atmosphere? Can you tell me exactly what percentage of th
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The explanation is that ideology can make good people do really evil things.
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>Scientific publishing is currently a multi-billion dollar industry, forcing scientists to pay huge sums to access or publish publicly-funded research – it's time for a democratic alternative. I'm always amazed at how easily pe
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Oh ok, thanks for that. The last I had heard was that it would take 10 launches to break even. It seems spaceX has been working very hard making refurbishing the boosters cheaper and cheaper over the last few years.
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If you want to know what caused the entire western media to change their tune and become anti-China. This here is what triggered it: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/george-soros-davos-2019-c...
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In case you aren't aware, the reason we have intellectual property is because we have 300 years of human history showing that countries without intellectual property never innovate anything. The countries of the world adopted intellec
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First, no one denies that reusability is still not profitable. This includes Musk himself and heads of all the other rocket companies who have all made it clear they aren't pursing it because these is simply no business case for it.
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I like Musk, and I've been following his progress since 2011. I always thought he seemed very intelligent and seemed to really understand what he was doing. However I have to agree with the person you are replying to. There has been
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Thomas Sowell talks about this phenomena a lot, however he describes it as an abundance of wealthy individuals who are highly educated in philosphical ideas but who have no practical or useful skills for society . It often happens in socie
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I found a great little link that compares deforestation / reforestation over time for different countries sorted by things like GDP. https://ourworldindata.org/forests-and-deforestation As you can see, most wealthy cou
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Forest cover in just about every first world country has been increasing since the the late 1970s, which predates these shows. All deforestation since then has been occurring almost exclusively in poor countries, not to mention most other