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by tsol 4y ago
Plot twist; He was gonna buy puts on the company stock and make out like a bandit on his way out the door.
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by tsol 4y ago
Well not for commercial reasons no. More for expressive art.
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by tsol 4y ago
I hate both sides of this. I don't think he's a terrible scam artist or the ticket to humanities future. I think he's obviously really smart and successful, but also clearly cocky and it feels like he's trying to prove h
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by tsol 4y ago
I mean to be fair his father owned those, not him. I don't think it's fair to get him for the sins of his father, and besides there's really not a lack of examples from Elon.
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by tsol 4y ago
Are we taking billionaires on their word when they're talking about business decisions now? It was probably just a flex for him from the beginning
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by tsol 4y ago
How come people from first world countries are more concerned about overpopulation in this world countries than your own coming underpopulation problems? What will happen is what has always happened-- people will go from crowded countries t
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by tsol 4y ago
Such a weird and untrue statement. Birth control is allowed in Islam. Maybe they don't trust them because of cases like the one where the CIA ran a fake vaccine program in order to collect DNA to help catch Bin Laden[0]. Or maybe it&#x
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by tsol 4y ago
It's boringly dystopian reading the comments in these threads. Just the most banal commentary on something so severe and something involving so much collective responsibility.
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by tsol 4y ago
I think it's a common modern/ academic take on philosophy. Traditionally Greek, Christian, Islamic, Chinese, etc philosophers all lived their beliefs.
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by tsol 4y ago
Now comes the age of Abstract
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by tsol 4y ago
You'd better also drop race, ideologies, and beliefs as well. People will always find something to make you their enemy
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by tsol 4y ago
Exactly. People are acting like the conversation here for the past year+ hasn't revolved around social media companies taking responsibility for the negative effects of their products
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by tsol 4y ago
It's strange though, when it involves lgbtq or politics they suddenly understand why Twitter may need to police certain kinds of conversations. But when the actors involved are foreign, suddenly those high minded ideals turn into ambig
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by tsol 4y ago
Uhm well it's more this part; >religion does not and should not, especially with its centuries-long history of malice and suppression towards free and scientific thought That I was referring to. Show me where Zoroastrianism, Sikhism
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by tsol 4y ago
Human history stretches back 200,000 years according to some estimates. The agricultural revolution started about 12,000 year ago in multiple locations around the world. The first civilization was Sumer, started some 8,500 years ago. The fi
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by tsol 4y ago
The fact that things we have accepted as scientific fact have, in the past been proven to be utterly false points to the fact that any of the scientific facts we believe in may be false. And then there's always the possibility that you
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by tsol 4y ago
>Any religion who claims there is a God does not have proof of such. Anyone who claims God does not exist does not have proof of such.
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by tsol 4y ago
This is a totally western-centric view of history. Islam had a golden age during which algebra was created in addition to many other great scientific achievments. And it came it hand in hand with religion. In fact algebra was created to hel
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by tsol 4y ago
I don't know why people do this so often on the (english)internet. People will write off all religion, while obviously speaking from the perspective of Christianity only. People have bad experiences with Christianity, and then decide t
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by tsol 4y ago
The truth is, that's all you can say with certainty. That we don't know. Anything else is conjecture. Sometimes it's more wise to know that you don't know
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by tsol 4y ago
>No, because God is, like us, the descendant of something else, or else has infinite history. God could have no beginning. This makes sense because God exists outside of our conception of spacetime. We have to have a beginning, because i
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by tsol 4y ago
Even fruit flies can get drunk.
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by tsol 4y ago
Honestly there's probably a benefit to just avoiding more controversial tech like GMOs. There will be that much less resistance to re-introducing them back into the wild
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by tsol 4y ago
Simple, yet effective. I've heard it said modern fruits are relatively tasteless compared to their older counterparts because they are bred for size and hardiness. I wonder if these can be backcrossed as well to produce more flavorful
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by tsol 4y ago
Sounds like they pay up, unless it gets too high and then they aren't able to. I'm guessing these fines are accumulated over a few people who are heavily fined and who don't care
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by tsol 4y ago
Depression is a symptom, not exactly an illness. I mean we often treat it like one-- and call that Major Depressive Disorder-- but I expect in the future we'll be able to break it down to 'inflammatory disorder causing symptoms of
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by tsol 4y ago
The only reason I have some faith in this, is that it's enough for Verizon to make an announcement. While Musk doesn't mind looking bad, Verizon is much more risk averse and I assume they've done their homework
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by tsol 4y ago
If we can figure out mass nuclear power and efficient ocean desalination, then why couldn't everyone get to have energy intensive economies? I don't think they'll all look like America today-- but that's because we have
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by tsol 4y ago
All they have to do is statistically have a smaller rate of accidents than human drivers, and his statement would pass. And honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. Doesn't change the fact that people hate the idea of
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by tsol 4y ago
Your experience on a given subreddit is very much based on who the mods are. And as it turns out, many of them are a pain in the ass. In most of the bigger subs if you disagree with the wrong thing you're liable to get banned. Probably

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