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by nkoren 10y ago
That's what struck me too. As a white person, it has never once occurred to me that I might get fined for walking around after 10pm. Because I never would be.
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by nkoren 10y ago
I've founded two companies, employed many people, and brought in millions of pounds business to the UK. This is not a zero-sum game. None of this has been at the expense of a single UK citizen. The rules have not given UK citizens any
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by nkoren 10y ago
Yes, but: 1.) This doesn't help startups -- only large companies that can afford to go through the expensive and laborious visa-permit process. 2.) As a foreign worker, since your residency depends on employment, you're in a far w
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by nkoren 10y ago
Then it's not "UBI". The "U" stands for "Universal", and the lack of conditionalities is the most important factor in not creating the perverse incentives of existing benefits systems -- eg., rewarding peo
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by nkoren 10y ago
> So "lousy" NYC has almost double the number of wheelchair accessible stations as "great" Boston, and 8 times the total number of stations. That's comparing apples to watermelons. Boston has a population of 650,
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by nkoren 10y ago
I don't disagree with you as far as the effectiveness of polemic; more the ethics of it. Built on a rational/empirical foundation, a good polemic can engage hit people in both the guts and the brain. That's fine. But a
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by nkoren 10y ago
I'm no fan of pesticides -- far, far, from it -- but this is unadulterated ideological polemic. Reading the actual report, the argument can be summed up as: 1. Pesticides are bad. 2. Pesticides are bad. 3-8. Pesticides are ba
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London-to-Paris electric flight in a decade(bbc.co.uk)
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by nkoren 10y ago
Texas is 695,662 km^2. That's larger than the combined area of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Great Britain (682,034 km^2), which have a combined population of more than 174 million people. So, yes, Texas is comparati
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by nkoren 10y ago
> should society devote its limited resources to reversing past wrongs, or on preventing future extinctions? This needs to be called out as the idiotic fallacy that it is. Not sure if "straw man" quite covers it, but it's
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by nkoren 10y ago
Whoah, thanks for the tip!
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by nkoren 10y ago
Just wanted to send a note to icantdrive55 of the sibling comment: your comment is dead for some reason. Looking through your history, you seem to have a long track record of making on-topic, non-glib, non-ad-hominem posts, so there's
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by nkoren 10y ago
Start by researching this: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/250000-slingatron-kicks...
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by nkoren 10y ago
A lot of idiots on that forum. "Hey, in just two minutes of casual thinking about this, I've identified a flaw which a professional working on this for years has been unable to see!" Um, yeah, not so much. The concept may hav
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by nkoren 10y ago
That is outrageously wonderful. Thank you!
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by nkoren 10y ago
That's a great way of dispersing life , but a very bad way of dispersing biospheres . The Gaia Hypothesis is that the planet is a higher-order system of organisation relative to conventional living organisms, roughly analogous to how
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by nkoren 10y ago
Touché -- Provided that, as part of the jumping-off process, the fleas are figuring out how to grow new dogs. (Analogy: terraforming.)
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by nkoren 10y ago
If Earth is a living organism, then we -- with our understanding of rocketry and biospherics -- would be its reproductive organs. Which means that the Gaia is just beginning to reach sexual maturity. Organisms hitting puberty are notoriousl
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Jeff Bezos' moon colonization plans(washingtonpost.com)
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by nkoren 10y ago
This is true. All the space engineers I knew were saying, at the time, that scaling wings is a hell of a lot harder than scaling rockets. And it has been. Plus, air-launch introduces an extra element of operational complexity, and extra man
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by nkoren 10y ago
Yep, that's exactly what it does, and indeed, we've worked with quite a few NGOs and nonprofits! If you're interested, send a note on the website's contact form. Mention that you found out about it from Nathan on Hacker
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by nkoren 10y ago
Yeah, the messaging around both companies needs to get a lot better. Futurescaper is a tool for collaboratively creating and analysing crowd-sourced systems maps. The purpose of doing this is to better understand the dynamics of a complex p
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by nkoren 10y ago
In reverse order: Thanks for asking about Podaris! Yes, there are a handful of planners using it. We soft-launched a little over a year ago, and since then have been working with a small group of planners from my personal network. They&#x27
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by nkoren 10y ago
Agreed. This is not a problem that is tractable on an individual level. Sure, if everyone became a vegetarian and cycled to work and only partook of goods and services that were part of a circular economy, then the world would be a place. B
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by nkoren 10y ago
"Not me... yet!" https://twitter.com/RichardGarriott/status/83632784187673804...
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by nkoren 10y ago
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island > Population: 6,600
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by nkoren 10y ago
Nuclear power plants usually dump their tertiary cooling water into the ocean. That's not a great situation for the local sea life (within a few hundred meters, IIRC), but doesn't have much significance beyond that. That is severa
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by nkoren 10y ago
When those "true facts" are the personal details of journalists and their families, researched and published specifically to make them fear for their safety. If you think that maliciously doxing people is perfectly fine as long as
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by nkoren 10y ago
Oh yeah, it's not remotely legal by any standard whatsoever. The problem is that it's virtually impossible to prove. In my friend's case, she was at the director level of a large publicly-traded company. Particularly as you a
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by nkoren 10y ago
A friend of mine experienced a somewhat worse level of harassment at her job. She lawyered up and quickly received an offer for a non-trivial silver parachute, and a mutual non-disparagement agreement on her way out the door. Seemed like a

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