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by rnk 4y ago
From that perspective, does anything exist to give you an accurate model of reality? Education? It's only to the control the masses and also makes money for book sellers? Science, just makes money for grant writers and equipment seller
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by rnk 4y ago
This is interesting news about the iranian drones I haven't read anywhere. Indian and Chinese media is widely available on the web, surprising this hasn't come up. Can you provide a link to some stories? My own web search found th
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by rnk 4y ago
How about a revamped scope on a different, modern aircraft that has vastly less costs to operate? That might be more financially possible.
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by rnk 4y ago
That 175 mil / year allowed for 24x7x365 days of observations. The 85 mil for this aircraft allows for what 12 x 3 hours of observations?
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by rnk 4y ago
It's illegal but companies will figure out a way to work around it. Why can't they just require your authorization as part of getting insurance? You might notice lots of services require you to give up certain privacy rights. I do
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by rnk 4y ago
120 years ago, people still went to their 'worksite' every day. For some it was in a city, but for a huge number maybe it was on your own farm (thinking of the us). People coped. Isolation was a problem then too.
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by rnk 4y ago
I can't believe you even said such a sad thing out load. You don't care what happens to others if your own sad self can keep getting all the food you want and live the good life. The world is connected, Ukraine is a tipping point
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by rnk 4y ago
Maybe not millions a month but excess deaths are a real thing. That's from loss of treatments bc of the covid impact on the entire worldwide health system, as well as people getting sick or weakened from covid, and then people dying fr
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by rnk 4y ago
Causality or correlation? Every central bank at times has to deal with inflation and deflation, increasing or reducing the money supply. Inflation today has a lot of different factors than inflation in various times in the past - huge incre
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by rnk 4y ago
The EU has had many sanctions against google, tried to force them to change various practices, just like the pointless attempts to get microsoft to make changes. None of them made any real difference.
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by rnk 4y ago
The point is don't connect the tv to the internet, connect with a cheap streaming device you bought where you control what comes through it. You can also replace that device that just plugs in via hdmi with another one if some company
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by rnk 4y ago
You could do it with the helium network now. That's a specific reason to avoid helium - it's the closest to a ubiquitous network that will let people spy on your use of ordinary electrical appliances. Unlike TVs, your next fridge
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by rnk 4y ago
We can't even define consciousness or sentience in a useful way though. You can't decide except for extremes, people propose inadequate definitions that include say brick, flowers, ants, honeybees, cars, people in a spectrum.
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by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, just like Facebook and Google can't operate in Europe, or the US isn't still spying on the whole world still. Those eu courts really control them.
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by rnk 4y ago
That is nonsensical. Maybe one country might decide to try to stop it, the internet has shown that doesn't work.
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by rnk 4y ago
Why will conventional investments have value? Why will it be safe? I could be retired and well off with say even 5 or 10 million and then large numbers of people lose their jobs, yet we can still make widgets and grow and distribute food wi
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by rnk 4y ago
Promo packets were an attempt at a way to figure out how to promote people when you had thousands of good engineers and they couldn't figure out how to decide who had most earned it. You didn't trust their manager, they had a limi
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by rnk 4y ago
Au contraire - you are the fool. I do know that bribes and lobbying are not the same thing, but that somehow, mysteriously, lobbying is effecting and so is making campaign donations to sway the votes of politicians.
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by rnk 4y ago
It's just ridiculous to claim that the US somehow sabotaged the pipeline to help LNG gas' future potential. There is infinite demand for LNG today, hugely unmet demand. It will take a least a decade of increased infrastructure and
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by rnk 4y ago
You are missing the "I can legally give your campaign a lot of money and it's called a campaign donation". There's a per person limit, but you can get all the execs at a company to give, you can bundle money together. Pl
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by rnk 4y ago
What state is that, California? I'd love to have a way to block ubiquitous surveillance, also places taking your picture when you walk into a drugstore or restaurant, uploading it. If it hasn't happened yet, we will be tracked all
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by rnk 4y ago
If you purchase eth now, how can you be sure you don't have eth that came from tornado or some other prescribed system? If I buy through a reputable seller, say coinbase, will they be able to certify my crypto is valid?
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by rnk 4y ago
I love that alignment description, that reminds me of what it was like when I was at Microsoft. Fancy VPs always did unclear things. Above them in my chain was some kind of president who had no clear role either.
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by rnk 4y ago
I'm skeptical that even mighty microsoft can make anti-competitive claims go away by complaining to their favorite regulators. They were beat up by that. Can you provide more info?
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by rnk 4y ago
It used to happen at Microsoft back in the day. I was in SQL Server and we openly talked about this happening. They literally told us being in a great, high functioning org like sql server had a certain penalty. Then top management said don
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by rnk 4y ago
There are so many fascinating stories about real things that happened. So much that was lost. It's always stunning to read these stories, or things like Marco Polo's travels - people really could travel thousands of miles and see
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by rnk 4y ago
Your point is wrong. Pretty much every other western country has much better health care than the US, better outcomes, less disease, longer life. People say they don't want to be like Canada- yet in Canada people have better outcomes t
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by rnk 4y ago
It's not a helpful description of the situation when obama was elected with all that, because similar to today there were needed democrats who were against those policies. Just like today Manchin or Sinema can block anything they want
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by rnk 4y ago
I don't think that's accurate. Many, maybe most democrats wanted national health care. Everyone I know wants it except my boomer parents and in-laws who of course have national healthcare via medicare. Some people used scare tacti
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by rnk 4y ago
Hard for immigrants to get those jobs. They might not in the locations where those jobs are, or can't pass a background check, or might have been arrested for dui 10 years ago, or maybe once wrote a hot check (which must happen way mor

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