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by twojacobtwo 2y ago
You clearly don't know a lot of people who aren't wealthy. The majority of people I know couldn't spend 10k on anything except absolute necessities, let alone a car. Of those who do have vehicles, none of them spend $10k&#x2F
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by twojacobtwo 2y ago
>Preaching for veganism is preaching for the genocide of those domesticated species because if they weren't raised for food they would not exist ! They existed as different, likely healthier versions of their species in the wild bef
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
There are some justifications for killing. Like if you can save many lives by killing one. But in general, I agree with you.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Having gone through a pen collecting phase, i think you need to give some details. 1. A budget. 2. Writing preferences and handedness. 3. Preferred writing surface/media. 4. Body type For 2, that would include: a) tip type - rolle
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
> Co-author Professor Dietmar Müller from the University of Sydney said: Geology ruled climate at this time. We think the Sturtian ice age kicked in due to a double whammy: a plate tectonic reorganisation brought volcanic degassing to a
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I have no expertise in this at all. How do they determine if cognitive effects only show up well above 1000? Is it possible that the testing methodologies aren't capable of detecting changes at a lower level? Edit( >In fact, at 1400
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Wouldn't the current supply ratio be more accurate, if we can't determine exact sources?
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Also, some portion of those likely shouldn't be allowed to use any channels of money transfer (criminal organizations and their ilk), as they ultimately provide negative utility to the rest of society.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I was just trying to think of how to put this succinctly. Well said! In addition, it tends to become more at odds with society as wealth inequality grows and that is at an all-time high and growing. Perhaps a signal that more people need t
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
You switched 'god', from the parent post, to 'authority'. If I did the same lexical sleight-of-hand, I could switch it to 'tyranny'. Is rejecting tyranny mature enough? Or, just leave it at rejecting god, as p
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I think your comment goes against the site's guidelines, but damned if it isn't exactly the response that the parent post deserves.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Let's be serious. This is just one logical fallacy after another. One doesn't have to be communist to think that there needs to be some control levers on wealth inequality. Even if communism were required, communism does not nec
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I'm new to web-dev (and databases), so my apologies for the potentially silly question, but what's an example situation where you would use nested aggregates and what kind of effort would it save, if it were possible?
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I imagine the OP means that Google and other giants already have the lobbying power, funds, and other resources to navigate around political blockades, while start-ups will naturally not have the money, personnel, connections etc. to do the
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Direct link to first (annotated) image: https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/images/Psyche_Imager_M... Direct link to the interactive visualization tool from article: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps&#x2
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Not the parent poster, but they could have added uncharted Oort cloud object collisions, extra-solar system objects, quasar/interstellar jets, nuclear war, runaway climate change, mega volcano/caldera eruptions, bio-engineered run
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I had the same thought as the parent poster. It may not be the most meaningful metric scientifically, but it would be great for showing average people that climate change won't necessarily be a smooth, linear, predictable climb.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I wouldn't say that qualification of it being a process necesarily communicates intentionality, and I don't think any of the uses I have seen exclude it from being a process.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Why does this comment deserve downvotes? It demonstrates perfectly what the parent comment was joking about and makes it clear that it's also just a joke.
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
I don't know why but I got stuck on the detail about his reading speed: > With a nearly photographic memory and a reading speed of 1,000 pages per hour The first couple sources I could find that had such estimates both listed ~250-3
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Since you seem to be an authority of some type on this topic, do you care to add any examples, for the sake of those who don't have as broad an understanding as you? As it stands now, it seems like you posted this just to say something
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Agreed. Though I think that the 'struggling' part creates a lag in both aspects. I think the 'gotta have a side-hustle' trend is a strong indicator of this. I would be interested in seeing the trends in number of people
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
Yeah, if you get a nail through your foot, don't pull it out! Make the nail a point of pride, as you limp through your life! Humans are supposed to suffer, after all. I have gained a great deal of value from the stoic/Buddhist tra
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
There are only so many ways and places to extract clean water for large populations in an efficient way. Once water is used, it has to go somewhere, which is back into the water system. Every person/population downstream then no longer
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by twojacobtwo 3y ago
>you are seen as a blank slate To me, this is just another angle of what the parent comment was talking about. We are not blank slates. We have millions of years of evolutionary instinct and genetics/epigenetics built into us AND w
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by twojacobtwo 4y ago
1. Assumes one knows enough about the process for getting a grant that you could a) write a proper grant application (at least as well as an e.g. uninspired rando who knows nothing but the best ways to navigate the system) and b) knows wher
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by twojacobtwo 4y ago
A few possible reasons: - Because investors typically only care only about return on investment - not everything that's beneficial to society has a monetary return, or an immediately apparent monetary return (e.g. NASA investments have
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by twojacobtwo 4y ago
That is a fair point. It is different in that it could be used without necessarily creating destructive ends. Ultimately though, once the majority of people are aware of the capabilities of the technology, is any good being done by still al
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by twojacobtwo 4y ago
We don't need to all be able to use the tech for it to be known publicly. Apply your same logic to any other easily misused tech: "We must all have easy access to bio-engineered viruses. Otherwise only..." "We all need t
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by twojacobtwo 4y ago
Wouldn't fewer people having access make your proposed scenario less likely, regardless? If other people continue to have access as well as the '3 letter agencies', the same power will still exists for the agencies, except th

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