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by reddog 5y ago
Agree. I found it interesting but incredibly irresponsible. Grown up me knows enough to stay away from this kind of project but 14yo me would have been sourcing laser LEDs and junked microwaves minutes after viewing. Don't understand
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by reddog 5y ago
> creating intentional artificial scarcity in a world of natural abundance Which is essentially what Bitcoin does. There is a natural abundance of numbers but crytocurrency protocols make some more scarce/valuable than others.
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by reddog 5y ago
What if the essay topic was "Tell me what a tiger looks like".
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by reddog 5y ago
> a bunch of idiots who couldn't get out of jury duty Maybe they are not idiots, just regular folks who take their civic duty seriously.
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by reddog 5y ago
Utterly gutted? How do you figure? The EPA headcount was 14,779 in 2016 and was 14,172 in 2020. https://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget
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by reddog 5y ago
Let me see what I can do... Early in the Cold War -- while the US had a nuclear monopoly -- Von Neumann was a strong proponent of an all-out, surprise first strike against the USSR by the US. "With the Russians it is not a question of
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by reddog 5y ago
I don’t like the Facebook business model either. So I don’t use Facebook.
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by reddog 5y ago
So your worried about how uranium will effect the Morlocks and the Elois? Isn't uranium a naturally occuring element that already exists underground all over the globe and has for billions of years?
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by reddog 5y ago
I have moved from Plex to Emby and finally to Jellyfin to run the Raspberry Pi media server in my camping van. The problem with Plex and Emby (other than their business model of wanting to collect a monthly fee for allowing you to watch
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by reddog 5y ago
Not having a social media presence is probably highly suspicious too. Or at least it will be soon.
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by reddog 5y ago
That's an excellent point. I don't to live in a New York/Tokyo/Stockholm chimera, I want to live in a modern version of Mayberry or Grover's Corners.
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by reddog 5y ago
>The midway point in the sea level tool you linked is actually 1.41m by 2100. No. Not sure where 1.41m is coming from. Take a closer look at the linked NASA site. You will need to click on the link labled "View global projection&qu
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by reddog 5y ago
>New Orleans will be uninhabitable. The only question is when. A very, very long time from now. According to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report sea levels are projected to rise between .57 and 1.25 meters by 2120. So unless you have wave
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by reddog 5y ago
>Pharmaceutical companies are evil I've lost count how many institutions, governments and corporations have disappointed me over the last year. But Moderna and Pfizer are not among them.
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by reddog 5y ago
Call me Mr Glass Half Full, but since cold kills 20x more people than heat shouldn't we look forward to a future where many more people survive temperature extremes? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/
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by reddog 5y ago
One downside -- an Audi Etron starts at about $70,000. At least its a downside if you don't have a lot of extra money laying around. Average cost of used car in the US is about $7000 -- thats what many of us drive. Until us unwash
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by reddog 5y ago
Last year, I read Tim Weiner's devastating book, "Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA". It goes into detail about many of the events on this timeline. I thought the book was a bit overly hostile -- surely the CIA isn't
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by reddog 5y ago
The 30 years war, the 7 years war, the crusades, the inquisition, the witch hunts can also be understood in terms of power and secular belief. That does not mean they were not also powered by religous fervor. Or the break it down: Mao is t
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by reddog 5y ago
The best example I can think of would be the Chinese cultural revolution. Millions killed and hundreds of millions had their lives destroyed because they were perceived by the "faithful" (by mostly highschool and college age Chin
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by reddog 5y ago
Yes. The classroom example of a vertically integrated monopoly has always been the big movie studio systems in the 40s. They not only made the movies but also distributed them and then owned the theaters they were shown in. This monopoly
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by reddog 5y ago
Easy choice. I'd pick food, lumber, minerals, manufacturing and energy every time over iFart apps, collateralized debt instruments, oxycontin and Disney movies. And the idea that us smart people should just outsource all that physical
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by reddog 5y ago
Isn't that the cost of the entire space shuttle program (including R&D) divided by the number of launches? I believe the real cost of turning around a shuttle flight towards the end to the program was a fraction of this. I wonder
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by reddog 5y ago
That would have to be one goddamn big meteor to make conditions on earth more hostile to human life than they already are on Mars. Much, much bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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by reddog 5y ago
Also, don’t go anywhere empty handed. Always carry a clipboard or file folder with you to get donuts from the break room.
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by reddog 5y ago
I take your point but I’m skeptical. Has any place ever seen a decline in population lead to an increase in general prosperity?
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by reddog 5y ago
Isn’t this pretty much what Thomas Kuhn said in his Structures of Scientific Revolutions back in the 60s? At one time that was hailed as one of the most important books of the 20th century.
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by reddog 5y ago
You might be interested to know that that phone also gives you access to all the worlds knowledge, all music and art, all literature and films, you can buy anything with it and have it delivered directly to you and you can instantly communi
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by reddog 5y ago
Like IBM circa 1968?
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by reddog 5y ago
Because malaria has been killing people consistently for thousands of years? You can easily add Tuberculosis to the makes-covid-look-like-sniffles list as well. Over the last 200 years 1 billion people have died of TB. https://
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by reddog 6y ago
So, in other words, you don’t know either.

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