rudrigu

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by rudrigu 10y ago
Then laugh at the tragedy of your impending genetic extinction.
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by rudrigu 10y ago
Appeals to nature are suspect, appeals to the irrelevancy of nature are outright dishonest.
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by rudrigu 10y ago
The phenomenon is way too recent. A few more decades of this, and let's see.
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by rudrigu 10y ago
Antibiotics are some 90 years old. Before then, STDs were a death sentence. K-selection is civilization. r-selection is feralization. One of the goals of religion was to tame r-selected behaviors and to encourage K-selected behaviors.
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by rudrigu 10y ago
> the message that some politicians have been using ("trade agreements are evil!" "immigration is bad!" "the EU is making us abuse you!") has taken hold Or, perhaps, the dissatisfaction was there all along,
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by rudrigu 10y ago
It is safe to assume that people with non-trivial power are very seldom sincere when making public statements. If Dubai's elite's descendants will be riding camels some decades from now, then why does Dubai have a national wealth
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by rudrigu 10y ago
That is a matter of wealth preservation. What about wealth creation? How much Saudi wealth is there without stability and security? Also, why should all children inherit equally? Marry the daughters into wealth, and make sure only capable s
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by rudrigu 10y ago
Proof? How do you prove someone is being sincere?
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by rudrigu 10y ago
Quoting Samuelson, if a man marries his maid, the GDP goes down. That is how smart GDP-based arguments are. Wait until the population gets close to the carrying capacity again, and let's see how your GDP argument holds. Perhaps you onl
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by rudrigu 10y ago
> Be careful to not reproduce in excess Or, alternatively, reproduce abundantly and use your children to make alliances with families that actually do matter. You're advocating having few children in a thread related to Saudi Arabia
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by rudrigu 10y ago
Just because he said that, it does not mean he believes in it. It's feel-good baloney.
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by rudrigu 10y ago
You're living in a fantasy world in which people you admire matter. Try to make fertilizers out of "hi-tech services". Try to eat "renewables". Inventors, scientists and engineers haven't really mattered much s
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by rudrigu 10y ago
> Presidential elections in the US are always and only won by the candidates who spend the most money. Did Trump outspend Rodham?
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by rudrigu 10y ago
> What's the connection between this solution and string theory? Which string theory? The one in physics or the one in computer science?