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by pharke 7y ago
Money is just a representation of the debt incurred in a "gift" economy (a "debt" economy would be a better term for it) and allows the extension of those practices to strangers or people you don't trust or can&#x27
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by pharke 7y ago
I think this is exactly the right approach. The taboo of talking about income and money has got to end, if even just within families. It's probably one of the most harmful cultural hangovers still in common practice.
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by pharke 7y ago
It sounds like the strategy is working. I wonder how many of the current successes would be possible if it operated the same as any other region of Spain. I'm not sure how far the xenophobic attitude you mention extends but it sounds m
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by pharke 7y ago
The problem isn't the choice of education or career (or job) that people wind up in. The wage gap between labourers and anyone capable of owning capital is so enormous that people on either side of it can rarely grasp its full measure.
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by pharke 7y ago
Couldn't we enhance gameplay by having the milieux generated and then giving the DM the ability to use that model to roleplay with the players? That would eliminate the problem of having to account for every possible direction the play
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by pharke 7y ago
I'd like to see someone use a procedurally generated world with a chat bot text description to add flavor to it. The author highlights the problem of procedural worlds in the article as being endless expanses of bland repetition but wh
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by pharke 7y ago
I think you'd need to define what you consider success to be. A lot of people are happy with a stable income and living in a smaller city. Unless you're always trying to live beyond your means or chasing after bigger and better st
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by pharke 7y ago
I'm wondering if this will be a good test bed for keeping other organs alive outside the body. As far as I know, the liver is the most robust organ and so makes a natural starting point for this kind of work.
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by pharke 7y ago
Instead of dropping bombs they should have just dropped cigarettes, whiskey, magazines, food, clothing and a variety of American consumer goods.
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by pharke 7y ago
I don't think cost is the main limit on population density in preferable regions. I would think zoning plays a larger role and likely drives cost. I also don't think we necessarily have a real limit on the number of preferable reg
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by pharke 7y ago
I think the opposite. I believe a lack of control, especially over one's mortality is what leads to a lot of the bad shit that happens in the world. If everyone was guaranteed their health and freedom from the shadow of death we'd
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by pharke 7y ago
Aren't phytoplankton the biggest producers of oxygen? They also reproduce a lot faster than land based plants and would be easier to work with and iterate on. Why aren't they mentioned in this article?
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by pharke 7y ago
If they were serious they would crowdfund a cubesat and track it as it orbits the Earth. It was good enough evidence to prove that Sputnik was in orbit. You can even put cameras on the things so I'm sure there's all kinds of exper
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by pharke 7y ago
So your educated opinion is that there is a grand, generations long conspiracy involving millions of people to cover up the fact that the universe works based on magic? That sounds more like lazy thinking, if you were serious about educatin
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by pharke 7y ago
Maybe they meant more of an O'Neill Cylinder, in which case you can step 'outside' onto the inner surface of the cylinder and not be in vacuum. Space habitats also have advantages over planets in that they're easier to m
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by pharke 7y ago
Maybe we just need a better way of doing short term contracts. If both parties can sign on to something that won't have huge negative consequences if it goes poorly then there's more room for experimentation. Dating already has
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by pharke 7y ago
The unfortunate thing is that people have been predicting that increased automation should lead to lower working hours and higher pay since 1930 when John Maynard Keynes predicted that we'd all be working 15 hour weeks. It's nice
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by pharke 7y ago
If there's little knowledge or consensus then we should be cautiously optimistic about any perceived progress, we shouldn't run headlong into X fixes everything territory. It's important to keep in mind that we may not know w
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by pharke 7y ago
For that experiment to be valid you'd probably want to do a control where you try the stretch, then wait doing nothing for the same amount of time that you would roll your feet and try again and another where you just rotate your ankle
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by pharke 7y ago
I think even ski goggle size would be fine for a lot of people. People make sacrifices for features, just look at the giant phones everyone is using.
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by pharke 7y ago
It would be interesting if we could institute a law that would in effect compel companies to open source their technology, patents, trade secrets, etc. after a certain amount of time to force competition and innovation. Wishful thinking I
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by pharke 7y ago
I live somewhere with high taxes on tobacco products and illegal cigarettes are a big problem. It's not a small segment of the smoking population either but it is disproportionately those who are more economically disadvantaged. Peopl
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by pharke 7y ago
You're definitely right about social presence being the key but I think combining it with the other strengths of VR will be what produces a killer app. 3D space and unlimited space by themselves may not win out but sharing those space
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by pharke 7y ago
I was extremely worried about buying a VR headset for similar reasons, I had heard a lot about the magic of it but was concerned that it would be buggy or basically a glorified screen strapped to my face. I finally made the leap and bought
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by pharke 7y ago
> I would love to be able to easily use a VR helmet in conjunction with a keyboard/mouse/hands vs. holding controllers to do more intensive computer tasks like programming. I'm looking forward to this with the Quest. I&#x
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by pharke 7y ago
Yikes, I didn't know that. I wish them luck but that is not a trivial change.
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by pharke 7y ago
There would likely be unintended consequences to raising the price of meat through a carbon tax. It creates a market for cheaper meat that there will be no shortage of producers or consumers for. How that meat is made cheaper is an open que
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by pharke 7y ago
I always forget about the concept of gravitational engineering, probably because it's just a bit scary to think about the unknowns involved. If you could mass produce small black holes and position them you could pretty easily constru
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by pharke 7y ago
A good use might be computing power whether its for storing the minds of everyone in the civilization or powering one big mind or simulating universes or maybe it's all dedicated to finding a way to reverse entropy. If we're assum
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by pharke 7y ago
You're ignoring the point I was making about capturing the infrared waste heat. It seems counterintuitive for a civilization to go to the effort of encasing their star in a shell of satellites while dumping energy as waste heat. Sure

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