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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
Clarke was one of the true masters. He not only wrote great books but brought attention and respect to the entire genre of sci-fi. Before Clarke a government space program wouldn't have been caught dead asking for a sci-fi author's opinio
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
many issues in the next few decades will involve technology outrunning our ability to make ethical choices about their uses. what will the ultimate effects be of crops with terminator genes be? what happens when biotech created in a lab w
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
I understand, i'm usually against conspiracy theory bullshit myself. using robots on the battlefield is the only subject I get a little spooked over.
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
every depression since the big one has gotten milder. If you look at the actual numbers the people getting burned are the assholes who made idiot wagers on the housing market. The only thing that will make the recession worse is funding b
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
It's getting scary. It's not that we're going to have robots going haywire and killing people on its own. It's that the elite crust of humanity is going to use it againstt us. Think blackwater is bad now? How about when they're not even
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
fantastic quote: "We are programmed for scarcity and can't dial back when something is abundant."
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
yeah instead of letting a few businesses fail let the whole economy take a stab in the gut. great idea. these people got themselves into this with the same retarded thing humans always do: assume things will stay the same. in this case the
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
old fashioned play involved mimicing what the children saw in the adult world on a much simpler level. What do you do when you want to understand something? You make a simplistic model of it and go from there. Are the children of today
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by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
startups are like everything else. you have to do a risk/benefit analysis. If a person feels they are getting enough (salary + benefit + job security) from being employed what is the point in creating a startup? startups have their own ben