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by simmerup 5y ago
1. Yes, to the extent they’re afraid to speak their minds to their children for fear of government intervention 2. Yes, but additionally there is no rule of law in China. Judges will do what the CCP tells them to rather than what the law bo
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by simmerup 5y ago
Wow, losing your job because a Twitter mob gets its panties in a twist over something you’ve said sucks. No doubt about that. It doesn’t even compare to the consequences of getting dragged away in a van by some henchmen of the CCP. Have you
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by simmerup 5y ago
If the US was like China you’d get a visit from the secret police for posting something so disparaging about your country. It’s actually embarrassing how ignorant you are of your privilege while glorifying a country that is persecuting mill
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by simmerup 5y ago
Sounds like they might not even know they broke it
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by simmerup 5y ago
You look through history and see many instances of soldiers refusing their superiors commands to massacre civilians, or even superiors knowing their options are constrained due to their soldiers politics. This invisible check on power is lo
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by simmerup 5y ago
China is just really good at hiding the negative aspects of their system. If the US could just disappear all the people that suffer under capitalism their system would probably look exceptional also.
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by simmerup 5y ago
You sound like you would benefit from a more positive attitude
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by simmerup 5y ago
Learning piano as an adult gave me a new sense of humility about people in fields other than mine
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by simmerup 5y ago
The BBC is getting worse and worse sadly.
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by simmerup 5y ago
The problem comes from the fact that educated, wealthy middle classes are not fungible I'm the same way peasants are. You can crush a thousand peasant farmers and replace them easily, you can't do that with the middle class withou
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by simmerup 5y ago
We lost our best and brightest to the corporate machine. Young intelligent people don’t aspire as much to a life of service anymore, but a life of getting paid. Not sure how we inspire the bright people to get back into the civil service.
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by simmerup 5y ago
Dehumanising is the Silicon Valley status quo.
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by simmerup 5y ago
And when they break the replacement? Or they piss off the guards so the replacement somehow takes months to get to them? It’s cruel.
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by simmerup 5y ago
What the author of this article should realise is that Silicon Valley can go back to basics because it doesn’t matter at all when they fail. Real life problems aren’t like that.
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by simmerup 5y ago
What happens when a rowdy prisoner breaks the VR headset and is suddenly trapped alone in a box for 10 years. What state do you think he’ll be in when he’s let out? Ridiculous idea
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by simmerup 5y ago
Same with ugly words like ‘grok’ and ‘meatspace’
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by simmerup 5y ago
That’s why the CCP has tanks
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by simmerup 5y ago
At the same time in the modern day you don’t make money by conquering people and skimming their taxes, you make money by selling them shit. You can’t sell anything to the dead
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by simmerup 5y ago
Wow, minimum of 100k before they'll convert into real money. That's one way to stop a bankrun.
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by simmerup 5y ago
I guess Tether make it hard to withdraw dollars for a reason.
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by simmerup 5y ago
So if 0.26% of tether is withdrawn into currency the coin would collapse? Am I reading that right?
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by simmerup 5y ago
The fact that a stable coin should be assumed to be high risk betrays a major problem of the crypto crowd.
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by simmerup 5y ago
Is that not a photoshop? The teeth look like they blur into the mouth
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by simmerup 5y ago
What was she meant to say? ‘Yeah, go ahead and take it all’
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by simmerup 5y ago
Hopefully policy makers will target both consumers and industry in order to tackle this crisis. Otherwise when we’re talking to our kids, and they’re asking us what we did to stop the climate crisis, all we’ll be able to say is ‘Child, I ga
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by simmerup 5y ago
This is definitely possible and very cool, though I'm not sure I'd ever want to live in a space settlement. But the OP aims for galaxy-scale settlement, which is the context I was replying too
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by simmerup 5y ago
Just to warn you it's a very pessimistic take on human space adventure, so has the potential to bum you out
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by simmerup 5y ago
Space by Stephen Baxter explores the uniform idea you have
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by simmerup 5y ago
I meant by conscious effort. However, if you’re happy with this, I guess we could just launch balls of biological matter at different planets and be content that in a few thousand years the balls may land and start the seed of life. But it
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by simmerup 5y ago
It’s very possible we have about as much chance of colonising the nearest star as an ant colony has of getting from Australia to America. In which case our earth will probably end up looking like one of those suffocated ponds that expanded

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