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by pnut 11y ago
I would rather be poor in Cornwall, than rich in Dallas.
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by pnut 11y ago
The last few paragraphs really hit home for me - The Singularity is already here... Corporations are thinking machines with all relevant constitutional prerogatives available. Humans are already in service to them, much as animals are to us
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by pnut 12y ago
While not debating the facts of your statement, I would contend that the only legitimate exercise of an owner's rights in the context of a corporation are to seek profit through commerce. Political speech, religious beliefs, and other
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by pnut 12y ago
The entire US Civil War was the asking and unambiguous answering of your question. What makes a government of any age so important is that a military rebellion was attempted directly against the national government, and was brutally put dow
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by pnut 12y ago
Yeah, I waited in line for 2 hours one day to taste the holy Franklin sacrament - lo and behold, no better than Salt Lick. And as a bonus, no hipsters.
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by pnut 12y ago
Not related to water per se, but I've lived in Austin for over 6 years now, and can confidently say it was a mistake to move here for me. Where do you go when you want to get out of town? Big Bend? New Orleans? Sure, 8 hours later... A
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by pnut 12y ago
When was the last time you heard a Republican politician on the national stage raise an issue that was not obviously directed at their base, or donors? A comment that plainly stated a fact in a noninflammatory way? Or proposed a course of a
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by pnut 12y ago
Seriously, I'd much rather have night vision prosthetic eyes and not make trees into light sources.
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by pnut 12y ago
Say I program a drone to constantly fly in front of you. Every time you open your mouth to speak, it blows an air horn away from you, noise-cancelled towards you. Your person has not been violated, but your ability to be heard has been obli
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by pnut 12y ago
In the time you've spent whining on this forum, you could have made many times your proportional contribution to this endeavor. I'm in agreement w/ all the downvoters here - you are absolutely entitled to whatever opinion you
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by pnut 12y ago
Can some bored billionaire please throw $100M at this project? Talk about revolutionary, true automated pure math would be a human milestone on par with very few developments in history.
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by pnut 12y ago
In the late 80's, I snuck past the barricades and explored the engine room for over an hour. It was part of a boy scout excursion that had us camping on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, so we had after-hours access to th
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by pnut 12y ago
So plant bushes or bamboo!
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by pnut 13y ago
Maybe one day we'll extend natural life expectancy so far that suicide and drugs are the primary causes of death? Is immortality the presumed goal?
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by pnut 13y ago
because subliminal liberal mind control, duh!
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by pnut 13y ago
I experienced VR decades ago in an SGI cave, circa 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environm... Which is about the same time PC graphics were picking up, and games like Descent came into existe
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by pnut 13y ago
The existing systems were created out of necessity, and were fundamental to the establishment of the middle class. You talk about Roman College as if it were something available to the destitute, 70-year old serf? Come on. Today we have mil
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by pnut 13y ago
Well, to be fair, the article says the two Republican congressmen actually just dangled some innuendo, but stopped short of providing evidence, naming names, or specifically citing what was gained by each party under the suggested arrangeme
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by pnut 13y ago
2nd choice is my native conversational language. 1st choice is thought.
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by pnut 13y ago
The toothpaste is out of the tube already, people know what freedom online tastes like. Bad news for old money - the Internet has an appetite for rentier blood. This will not be tolerated long term.
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by pnut 13y ago
I was about to write something similar to this. So someone with 40% of the company thinks the other guy with equivalent ownership isn't worth his share? What if that guy thinks the same thing about you? The other guy apparently has emp
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by pnut 13y ago
Have you ever actually had a mortgage? The majority of your mortgage payment goes directly to interest, NOT equity. Equity contributions only ramp towards the very end of the term. Up front, you are paying mostly interest.