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by smhost 8y ago
> It made him sad, he told me, to see people build things that destroy their own societies > “If you make people start thinking far more deeply and seriously about these issues,” he told me, sounding weary, “some of the things they wi
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> Enteric CH4 is a consequence of anaerobic fermentation of feed organic matter (OM) by a microbial consortium that produces substrate CO2 and hydrogen in a reduction pathway used by methanogens (Morgavi et al. 2010). Feed additives have
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by smhost 8y ago
why does bombarding tightly-packed rubidium-87 atoms with lasers cool them to minus 273.15 degrees Celsius?
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a mass protest could cause enough distraction, but that would take a lot of organizing, and we all know how good the left is at organizing.
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by smhost 8y ago
a semi-related question, can people with training in music recognize the difference between a sopranist and a soprano? because as a layperson i really can't.
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Ultimately I agree with you, I don't think this is a good thing. But I just don't see a way that we as a society can realistically address the problem of a few powerful entities having a disproportionate influence on mass culture,
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> It’s completely impossible to outlaw a corporation’s or any agent’s influence on society. Honestly. We would have to ban all marketing and mass media. The only other solution I can think of is to subject all relevant industries to some
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by smhost 8y ago
thinking about this makes me wonder whether we have any symbiosis with bacteria outside of our bodies
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by smhost 8y ago
here are the captions printed out: https://txt.fyi/+/933087e8/
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have you read marx? he didn't have any actual conception of a communist society. and anyway, that's a bit like trying to understand capitalism by only reading adam smith, which would be incoherent. and it sounds like you're
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i think what communists usually mean by a stateless society is that there's no formal document or structure that authorizes a concentration or monopoly of power within any institution.
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you're actually not making any sense. you're saying that no matter what financial system we have, nothing would change, so there's no point in changing it, and there's no point in not changing it. and if courts and polic
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that's a pretty vapid statement. aren't all crimes an "artifact of human nature"? isn't everything we do and create, for that matter? also, how would a stateless society even have the concept of legality?
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https://youtu.be/sQ3g2zS6Tuk?t=3m14s
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zizek says that the book of job is the first critique of ideology, and he calls himself a christian atheist because he thinks becoming an atheist is only possible by going through christianity. so you have it exactly backwards. or maybe not
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oh, uh, maybe. i bought the system off craigslist a few years back.
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there's not even a watermark for me. i downloaded from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I... i skipped the part during installation where it says to enter a key. after install,
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I really despise this kind of extreme reductionist binary thinking. Not only is it wrong, it makes tech people look like the intellectually empty caricatures that the general public thinks we are.
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here's that video from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbihkeOISc this sample doesn't look like 96%, but still pretty high up there.
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The lower class is angry at the billionaires because their working/living conditions are bad. The middle class is angry at the billionaires because they're the ones who end up subsidizing the poor. Bezos dumping money on poor peop
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i don't know, you'll have to ask them.
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dems probably "asked" them on behalf of cuomo not to fight it
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It's also pretty funny that the thing that is finally shifting the typical reddit/youtube hardcore gamer-atheist demographic away from their ancap ideology is lootcrates.
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the ESP that you're talking about might have been a response to broadcast (color) television, which has always been about controlling public psychology and behavior. the classic text on propaganda was written in 1928, it would be a bit
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Many people don't see it that way. People are generally understanding of changing circumstances and don't hold others to antiquated notions of masculinity.
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Not sure what you mean. This just looks to me like they're admitting they're awful at security and they're pleading/threatening the global community to help secure their ecosystem or else you're all going to be in a
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The fact that this has to be explained at all shows just how much hacker news is overrun with fascist moral relativism. There's even a guy equating nazis with jews. What the fuck happened to you people?
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i hope you will actively help to ensure that the future that is built is the one you want to be built, instead of just hoping that everything will magically work out. A lot of old-school nerds (including yours truly) had the same ideologica
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We care so little about democracy that this is actually a noteworthy thing.
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First as tragedy, then as farce, or something like that. If the banks are right about what they've been saying recently, Warren is going to be elected against the threat of seizure once the recession hits its stride.

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