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by rjf72 7y ago
Even with today's technology there's no real path to making earth literally inhospitable within the foreseeable future, sans an intentional act like somebody exploding a salted nuke in the atmosphere. But we can, and probably will
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by rjf72 7y ago
There's a fun catch here though. Earth is going to face a natural destruction sooner or later. Be it by a gamma ray burst, a super-volcanic eruption, an asteroid impact, or any of other other practically infinite number of ways it can
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by rjf72 7y ago
It kills the used market (as older vehicles are generally non-compliant) forcing consumers to buy at least relatively new vehicles.
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by rjf72 7y ago
One little nuance you have to keep in mind there is that many automakers now generally like emission regulations. The reason is because it creates a cycle of obsolescence. Make a car that will be noncompliant with expected regulations in &#
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by rjf72 7y ago
I've also observed this. It seems to me that politics (which I'll use as a reasonable proxy for controversial views) has increasingly become more like a sport than an exercise in civic responsibility. As I like data I think one wa
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by rjf72 7y ago
If somebody doesn't want to associate with somebody I think that's of course 100% fine, even if in response to nothing more than what somebody said. But if somebody chooses not to associate with somebody because of an online mob [
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by rjf72 7y ago
I think most people, especially in America, are very much for free speech. But inertia. And that inertia is especially pronounced when the mobs are going after somebody you don't agree with. Like the old poem goes: - First they came
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by rjf72 7y ago
Moral authoritarianism is quite the dangerous thing. It is at the root of every single 'evil' of times past. One has to keep in mind that these evils of times past of course did not see themselves, in general, as evils. Instead th
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by rjf72 7y ago
Oxycontin wasn't just rubber stamped for end of life cancer treatment. You're referring to when the FDA decided to further expand Purdue's drug rights enabling it to be used on 11-16 year olds. Purdue, when seeking this appro
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by rjf72 7y ago
It's not just the WHO. The same arguments apply equally to e.g. the FDA who played a similar role in this by rubber stamping the drugs. And similarly it also doesn't just end at the FDA as there are numerous smaller level regulato
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by rjf72 7y ago
I do not agree with him, but I think you're making a much more salient point indirectly. Public policy that can be readily manipulated by bad actors (as the drug industry is certainly full of) should not be used as the final say for an
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by rjf72 7y ago
There's one interesting change I've noticed in chess and in a number of other fields where we seem to be gradually are losing that je ne sais pas we once had. This [1] is a film from 1925, "Chess Fever". For one bit of
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by rjf72 7y ago
You could run this emulator against other "native emulators" (I understand your meaning but surely you see the humor there) and compare and contrast the CPU/memory usage today. I expect you'll be surprised - basing this
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by rjf72 7y ago
Can you give some examples? I think a few years ago this was somewhat reasonable but in my opinion DDG has not only matched but surpassed Google for most searches. As an example (to not make this as if I'm only asking you to do the lif
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by rjf72 7y ago
For what it's worth many things are like this. It's the same thing with genetically engineered products, also under FDA purview. There is 0 mandatory oversight. If you have the clearance to sell a potato, then you can produce any
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by rjf72 7y ago
Hacker News has a pretty cool archive feature. I'm certain if you go back about a decade you'd see a similar response on anything regarding Internet Explorer. It was the most dominant browser, by a wide margin, even when there wer
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by rjf72 7y ago
One problem you face in the United States that's not present in areas where there are focuses on rehabilitation (such as Norway) is crime culture. I grew up in a very urban poor area and gang life was something that people strove for.
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by rjf72 7y ago
Since most of your post here is just repeating yourself, I'll avoid doing the same and again implore you to read the useful thing sources I've provided to support most of every statement I've made. You seem have grossly mis
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by rjf72 7y ago
There's a reasonable related article here [1]. It discusses two different studies on the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases. The first is from Berkeley and based on limited data. It suggested there was mostly just a small
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by rjf72 7y ago
To take the other side of the argument here I'm completely against this change but I'm happy that it passed. The reason is simple: without data we're all just speculating. If I'm correct, now I will have real bias-free (
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by rjf72 7y ago
This is completely incorrect. To start with "IS, not WAS". PRISM hasn't gone anywhere and the most reasonable path here is to expect it's only substantially grown - as it already was doing at the time of its initial reve
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by rjf72 7y ago
More like borrow + sell when high, buy + return when low. Doesn't flow off the tongue as well though, have to admit.
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by rjf72 7y ago
It's ironic to see a comment like this in a thread on Snowden. It's remarkable how quick we are to forget about things such as PRISM [1]. PRISM is a government-corporate surveillance coop. Players include Apple, Google, Microsoft,
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by rjf72 7y ago
You don't need a "TOTP device". It's software. You can easily write an authenticator for a smartphone, a pc, a digital dumb phone, or pretty much anything. I think the real issue is that companies like SMS because of the
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by rjf72 7y ago
There's an extremely interesting datum that most are not familiar with. In total in the transatlantic slave trade, about 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Of these, 10.7 million survived the voyage. And of those, abo
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by rjf72 7y ago
Doesn't it strike you as odd to suggest that society was built for "white" males when such classification, as a meaningful indicator, didn't even exist until extremely recently? Irish, German, Italian, and many more are
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by rjf72 7y ago
I'm sure you probably know why Coca-Cola is called Coca-Cola. If you don't - cocaine. It was one of the key ingredients in coke's initial product. A less well known example is Vin Mariani. A French wine that was made with a m
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by rjf72 7y ago
I used to agree with you on #1 whole heartedly. It's a point I brought up many many times. But this is an issue that is not as simple as it seems. Because the catch is that employees are different. In particular a single adult working
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by rjf72 7y ago
Here are some of the latest polls on gun control [1], abortion [2], and then a mixed general bag (same sex marriage, immigration, racial stuff) [3]. To save you the clicks on guns, for instance, there numbers for more/same/less st
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by rjf72 7y ago
You are using your intuition of the past instead of any actual knowledge of such to formulate views and values. Yes, the Mongol empire was extremely tolerant of cultures by any interpretation of the word. For instance at the time religion

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