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811.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Life requires usable external energy to effect that decreasing internal entropy. Usable energy is a finite resource in the universe, what happens when that runs out then? Certain death.
812.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> There's jellyfish that literally do not die from old age ever. "Biological immortality" is an equivocation. Immortality is not dying, "not aging" is not immortality as, for instance, those jellyfish definitely
813.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> As usual, immortality is the solution. I’m not sure if you’re joking or not but many people are not when they say this. Immortality is impossible in this universe given known physics. The use of the word is at best equivocation and a r
814.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> But there is truly no practical benefit for mankind to be had in trying to answer to what extent various dinosaur species were endothermic and feathered. Except we’re an insatiably curious species and it sates our curiosity.
815.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> There are fun workarounds around that oath What are the workarounds?
816.
by nyokodo 6y ago
He was a US Citizen by birth so never took the oath.
817.
by nyokodo 6y ago
No it doesn’t. Although, the oath does place limits on the exercise of any foreign citizenship. For instance a Brit who is a naturalized US Citizenship can’t run for Parliament because it would require them to give an oath of loyalty to the
818.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> around 2004 or earlier when he was writing it. That’s the year Ruby on Rails was released and exploded in popularity. Python wasn’t gone but it suddenly didn’t seem like the rocket ship waiting to launch like it had. I was surprised an
819.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> But even if they have it tomorrow, that's...what? Another four months for studies, one month before the FDA is able to meet to discuss an approval (you can't rush meetings!), two months to ramp up production, and five months
820.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Texas has 5X the population of Denmark and 5X the wind energy generation. That doesn’t sound like a great justification for your smug comment. Also, that is current generation as the rate of increase of wind and solar appears to far outstri
821.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> Like carpentry, electrician, construction, plumbing? Yes, there should be more of an emphasis on the skilled trades but I don’t think it’s an either/or. I think most of the objections to one approach over the other are answered by
822.
by nyokodo 6y ago
There are no tunnels between NZ and anywhere which can’t be said for Britain where the Channel Tunnel carried >10 million passengers per year in 2019. UK airports have traffic numbers 7 or 8 times as high as NZ airports. Sea transport an
823.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> I'm reasonably sure I could write a basic site, make it look as good as I can make things look given my sense of design, without searching. That’s cool if true but until you try it you could be fooling yourself. The other thing is
824.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> only 49% effective against the South African variant The South African data is a much smaller study without much statistical power and with an extremely wide 95% confidence interval. I’d take that figure with a grain of salt. Kudos to
825.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> 49 Tim Choate Zathras died!? Oh man!
826.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Basically half of the main cast (7 out of 14 or 15 depending on how you count) have died below life expectancy for their birth year. The causes of their deaths are all different or at least had very different comorbidities. That is really w
827.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> but what if people genuinely actually like the government? If that were the case then there would be no need for the censorship.
828.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Maybe have a channel for chat and a separate one for reading suggestions?
829.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> frequent wars The vast majority of wars in the Middle Ages would be considered mere skirmishes by modern standards.
830.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> what you saw in China to be a precusor to what will come to America America is very culturally distinct from China. Of the negative outcomes institutional collapse or maybe secession are far more likely than one-party totalitarianism.
831.
by nyokodo 6y ago
It will probably get worse before it gets better but I share your hope and supporting our hope are historical counter-cultural corrections to their over-the-top antecedents (e.g. the 60s vs McCarthyism).
832.
by nyokodo 6y ago
> It didn’t make me more likely to evaluate my belief on that it made me angry and sad and a bit silenced. People are very quick to work out whether they're being listened to or whether they're just soundboards for another&#x27
833.
by nyokodo 6y ago
If there is not an appropriate award that already exists then it should be created and then given to her and any other unsung heroes in this area. If no institution does it then it should be crowd funded and presented by a new foundation. I
834.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Yet another related syllogism: 1. We tried X as a solution for Y. 2. X didn’t work, because the basis is fundamentally flawed. 3. We endlessly superficially tweak X to try to get it to work and it fails every time but we claim X is still go
835.
by nyokodo 6y ago
>> We don't want anything to do with them in the context of an EU replacement >> We are not getting the Empire band back together CANZUK would have no political union component so how can you maintain the EU and especially
836.
by nyokodo 6y ago
No it isn’t. It’s about citizens of the largest metro areas in the country, ridiculously skewed to one party, wanting to rule over the rest of the country with no hope of being opposed. The Founders anticipated this thankfully and set up th
837.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Not to mention that, despite CS degrees being devilishly useful, college isn’t strictly necessary full stop. These days you can get your foot in the door via code schools. I worked with an excellent engineer who never went to college but ap
838.
by nyokodo 6y ago
Tibetans might beg to differ on the CCP being less oppressive to foreign populations.
839.
by nyokodo 6y ago
I don't know whether it's a hug or a slap. It's enormously hard to read but great fun! Do yourself a favor and read this article if you looked immediately at the comments.
840.
by nyokodo 6y ago
That is Dr Kory’s Senate submission from May about Methylprednisone. The submission related to this video is from December 8 on Ivermectin: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kory-20...

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