userulluipeste

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by userulluipeste 5y ago
This is madness. Despite the pandemic we all went through and the need to avoid unnecessary human contact and proximity, despite the fact that the highest risk of infection has been demonstrably in walkable cities like New York, the old pol
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"We’re just getting more and more hypothetical in a complete vacuum of real information though right?" Not really. Both of us were counting on current human knowledge, that our galaxy is this (light years) large, that the maximu
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"Police are allowed to do that, not soldiers." It may be more that police is trained to do that compared to soldiers, as in order to be effective in what they supposed to do, they all should be specialized. And yes, when it co
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
Your math is sound, but I don't agree with all your data inputs. Specifically, that only (the engineered) radio signals would pick the attention of an alien civilization. (In fact, I think that Marconi's or most of the subsequent
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"The odds someone is interested enough to spend truly mind boggling amounts of energy (literally moving hundreds of mountains worth) and hundred of years to check us out after one of those events - and not even say hi - is low. That t
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
The history in this case may not be the best teacher. The previous instances of wiped species happened when self control was not part of the setting. Space travel has a high bar to enter and is forcing any contender to achieve a high degree
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
Yes, we are resource hungry, and yes we inadvertently wiped out species, but as resource pressured as we are, we also managed to intentionally allocate some to prevent that undesired effect in the future. We did some bad stuff when we were
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
Not necessarily a war. It may be useful to justify increased research budget(s) and a general shift to something else substantiated by the new fears.
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
vhemt.org = The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement I imagine that people attracted to this movement to either stay true to the "voluntary" aspect and pay with genetic demise for their mental susceptibility, or realize that their
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
I happen to be that sort of people that ignores people at work (whenever possible). That has nothing to do with my attitude/sentiment towards them. It's that being at work, most of the time I'm just absorbed, having something
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
I'm referring to the general sense of leaving a legacy to next generation(s), which may include improvement of the world we're commonly living in, however one may imagine such improvement. (I'm not getting more specific than
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"I care about my family more. I couldn’t tell you why, I just do, it’s my instinct." Let me rationalize that for you. In order to keep yourself at a functioning level you have to see some good in yourself, to be able to respect
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"what is the function of calling inheritance anti-democratic?" As I understand it, legacy can be (and definitely is) used as a tool for wielding power, which (democracy wise) gets naturally viewed as a problem. That's not t
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
When ADAS systems come into play, the primary concern is who's going to shoulder the blame when things fail. This autonomous driving thing is no simple nor incremental improvement, this is an overhaul in our current structure of liabil
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
Prion caused disease is indeed terrifying on individual level but, from its impact over the species' survival, it isn't that menacing. The decay takes decades, which is enough for breeding the next generation. Human life expectanc
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
This is the feel-good version that someone wanting to prevent widespread panic may attempt to sell to the public. However, considering that our defining ability, the intelligence, evolved as a tool to anticipate and address our potential pr
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
The outer space medium (with radiation and low temperature) coupled with interstellar distances acts as a very effective biocide, even against something very resistant as tardigrades. The way I see it, about encountering free floating extra
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
Nuclear power is (and I presume even more so will be) the best option for outer space energy provision use-case, and at the same time it does not present that much of an edge in using it here on Earth, considering the alternatives. Consumin
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
This is something that irks me too. If you're an authority implementing paid parking, price it appropriately so that most of the potential clients would rather chose to park and pay instead of hunting for free parking in some other par
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"Certainly they don't want to, but that's immaterial, they aren't allowed to. They are within the sphere of American order." If we are referring to the Serbia-Romania example, the peace track record is way longer
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
I share your attitude towards the (meant to be) utopia world described in Marshall Brain's novel, but I presume that this may be just a shared cultural thing. Next generations seem to value less their privacy, or at least are less will
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"The only peace humanity every knew was within the border of some empire. Otherwise it was constant war." This is a bold claim on a very much debatable subject, where it would come down to what "war" is, if it is the s
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
It's possible that the multiple parachute system to be just built-in redundancies out of functional safety reasons, so that any successfully deployed parachute to actually render the next parachute deployment unnecessary.
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
Regarding my early to mid 20s, I remember the crazy amount of information, which I was constantly attempting to ingest "to catch up", that left my mind scrambled for many years after. It was so pleasant to observe later (in my mid
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
This is beautiful only if you're not affected by unpleasant consequences. These may be (1) reduced number of available rent-able spaces (i.e. less offer on the market) due to the capped/reduced profit which cause a decrease in the
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
"Because Venus lacks a protective magnetosphere, the upper atmosphere is exposed to direct erosion by the solar wind and has lost most of its original hydrogen to space." Venus has a magnetosphere, although not as strong as Eart
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
"issues that, in 2021, effectively only C and C++ have" "I'm not sure I can think of any other languages with «pointer arithmetic». Almost nobody else is using NULL-terminated strings. And so on and so on." The
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
Organizing information and things around in general will be a nightmare without the proper tools. Doing it using paper is hard enough, then count in that most likely paper will suddenly be considered a luxury for not being an easy replenish
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
"Correlation does not imply having something to do with another." By its very definition, "correlation" means exactly "a mutual relation": https://www.dictionary.com/browse/correlation T
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by userulluipeste 6y ago
I thought it stopped due to exhausting the bar's stock, which conveniently was limited to only three drinks.

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