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by restalis 7y ago
I've been to India, but I never had the "pleasure" of encountering anything like what you describe. Is that mob beating a kind of sentence (i.e. legally commissioned) or is it something one may face anywhere else with people
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by restalis 7y ago
Areas involving human interaction may indeed risk a decline in the provided (or at least perceived) quality when automated, compared to its non-automated best case scenario . However, aside from possible technical issues (that may also aff
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by restalis 7y ago
Also a small pedantic note: we call it "pandemic" only when we are referring to the global scale of the disease. When the context is limited only to some region then it's just "epidemic".
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by restalis 7y ago
"the Government can be tackle it if situation arises. Until then we are still in Stage 2 of the pandemic. We don't need to worry about expanding capacity at least for now." I found this reference¹ on that doctor's AMA:
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by restalis 7y ago
Although I agree with your arguments as the cause China stagnated in 20th century, I think that what socialdemocrat referrs to is China under the last period of Qing dinasty (e.g. Yizhu, Zaichun, Zaitian, and other emperors).
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by restalis 7y ago
We have or had in Europe something else under the meqning of "dowry". The groom asking in mariage a bride had to prove that he had the means to provide and usually had to have a household (or at least land, in case of peasantry) r
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by restalis 7y ago
You are implying that there should be "optimal" levels in wealth inequality, but do we really have relative limits/levels for any other unequality aspect (strength, speed, height, age, or beauty) to say there should be one on
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by restalis 7y ago
"When people are inhibited from meeting their basic needs legally by structural impediments to their progress like severe inequality, they sometimes try to meet their needs via methods that are destructive to society, like crime, whet
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by restalis 8y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is that one uses the early retirement as a driving goal that ultimately helps one grow. Yes, you may afford to retire and live mediocre if you want, but would you now, with your newly realized pote
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by restalis 8y ago
That's because (at least in my case) starting something out of creative desire and finishing a project are stimulating different parts of the brain. First is that mind itch associated to problem solving, the second is the satisfaction
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by restalis 8y ago
Here's a market strategy: write off-shots of your long novels as teasers. Make them tasty (as their primary reason is to give the readers a taste for the main piece), make them as close in style as possible to the main work, although y
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by restalis 8y ago
They attempted to use parts of a frozen cell, not to revive it. What they describe would be closer to cloning then anything else. I wonder here, what is the current cloning rate of success for the procedure they tried here but with fresh
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by restalis 8y ago
"This is what most people misunderstand about Columbus. He did not discover America, he discovered the way to go there and back which required sailing first South looking for passat and returning by sailing North and then catching wes
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by restalis 8y ago
Lacking technology to do things any better would excuse us for having that kind of attitude, but we happen to do have technology. We'll need the knowledge and experience of growing stuff on a mass scale artificial environments.
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by restalis 8y ago
"that would have been «technologically superior» to what the native Americans would have had, since they had boats, not ships" Technological superiority as in "the air [or aura] of invincibility"¹ that conquistadors ac
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by restalis 8y ago
The new tactic is to push smoking practice in movie scenes. Though (I don't know for a fact but I presume that) smoking went naturally in movies before, when the actors were actual smokers and choose to have a cigarette in some movie s
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by restalis 8y ago
"Mansa Abu-Bakr, ruled the empire until 1312, when he abdicated to go on an expedition. Abu-Bakr was obsessed with the Atlantic Ocean and what lay beyond it. He reportedly embarked on an expedition with a fleet of 2000 ships and thous
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by restalis 8y ago
One of the reasons we have a society at all is to prevent us hunting each other for whatever reason, all for the common good. When that stops working, the society falls apart. Good luck going through a communist revolution better than other
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by restalis 8y ago
"Is it really that hard to see that people having more wealth than they can spend in a lifetime while others can't afford healthcare is an issue?" Yes, because it lies on assumptions that I'm not sure I'd understa
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by restalis 8y ago
Then maybe let's try to take an active role against demagogues (and any other possible factors who's effect is taken for granted as damaging) and prevent in this way social destabilization, instead of this scorched-earth tactic in
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by restalis 8y ago
"the world's eight richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50%" What exactly is objectively bad about that? (I don't condone nor condemn that level of inequality in any way, just curious.)
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by restalis 8y ago
The poor being in a struggle to survive may have a wealth of source reasons. Mismanagement (not necessarily limited to the financial aspect of their lives) is the first thing that comes to mind.
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by restalis 8y ago
1) "Wealth inequality is bad for social stability." That may be true only on a raw/natural level. People also have a lot of other traits that may naturally threaten the social stability. The solution was education, and enfo
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by restalis 8y ago
You provide a good depiction of the current state but that still does not explain why some person that has as much as 100'000 others do is inherently a bad thing. Tilting the system in their favor may be undesirable for the society at
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by restalis 8y ago
Running it in a VM under a Linux host is exactly how a lot of involved people have it, the reason being that that setup was more accessible, more stress-tested, and thus got more stable compared to a real-hardware setup. The goal however is
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by restalis 8y ago
"is it basically impossible to salvage all the stability work from the Linux kernel?" If you'll search through ReactOS codebase, you'll definitely encounter Linux pieces of code, thus it's safe to assume ReactOS d
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by restalis 8y ago
I argue that space-faring civilization goal should be independent of alien encountering.
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by restalis 8y ago
I think the comment was made in relation to star's age, as it is one of the oldest in our galaxy. If life requires time to develop, this planet gave it a good shot at that. Also, the planet's climate may have been more favorable
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by restalis 8y ago
Let's say we'd eventually find those other living organisms. What then? (BTW, the odds of that life to be a sentient one are much lower.)
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by restalis 8y ago
Indeed, it's sad to see that high of a price for one's recognition. That reminds me of Pieter Hintjens' words - "Ironic that dying turned out to be the greatest marketing stunt of my life."

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