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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'd add that even if it received funding through private enterprise, it would still be infused with the politics of said backers - whether intentionally or not. The best you could possibly achieve is funding purely through small time (
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Terrible take entirely divorced from reality and filled with hubris. Just because you are not personally witness to it doesn't somehow divorce you from the animals that sustain your life either directly or indirectly. Like it or not, y
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Who is giving 5 year olds 100% pure ethanol or ethanol at all for that matter?
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by vimacs2 5y ago
We don't really know because the sandtrout have been all but outright confirmed to be alien in origin - probably the only known example of alien life in the Dune universe. Maybe this was expanded on post-Chapterhouse but I don't c
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'll grant you that but we already have something that represents ownership in the real world - contracts. I'm not clear what advantages NFTs bring to the table for non-digital assets.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
That's exactly why I'm throwing the stones. Most corporations are still merely observing NFT's from a distance but if it gets any traction and more companies start embracing it, the next step will be to legislate this fantasy
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by vimacs2 5y ago
What are these "real world applications", pray tell?
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by vimacs2 5y ago
They're "fine" to the extent that the vacuum is fine - they are complete non-entities with zero worth beyond what grifters and idiots attribute to them. I will cast a hail of stones on the concept of copyright gone (even more
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Integration is not desirable though for most of the authorities involved. It threatens the existing power structures of such gated communities. It also risks creating a sense of universal worker solidarity that could lead to the resurgence
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Why do you think they keep crying about "critical race theory" while simultaneously being unable/unwilling to define it? That's their manufactured opposing force right there.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
What's laughable is the insinuation that any population would be willing to start an insurrection over the absence of fucking Facebook.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is that it's a clever budgeting strategy that outsources all the expensive R&D and production costs to their biggest ally. Israel took and continues to take billions of dollars of funding
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by vimacs2 5y ago
These don't reproduce in that way though. They require existing skin cells that they then corrall into balls akin to themselves. Even if grey goo was a serious existential risk (it isn't because the classic doomsday scenario ignor
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by vimacs2 5y ago
As much as I long for the day I get to see the world and myself be assimilated into grey gooey unity, the whole gray goo scenario is terribly implausible for the same reason why it has never happened despite having self replicating machines
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yeah, that wouldn't work at all but then again, inaccurate science was far from the only problem that movie had imo. One possible solution is to ionise the air near the walls and then use a magnetic field to contain it. This would not
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by vimacs2 5y ago
OP is referencing an open air habitat so a comparison with the ISS doesn't make sense. Open air designs do actually work once you scale up the size of the habitat enough. This is where we get the idea of Bishop rings which use a wall a
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This is true. What's happening is the THC causes a delay on the onset of REM sleep. Theoretically, this should cause a sudden ramp up of dreams when you take a hiatus from cannabis use. However, this does not happen to me personally wh
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by vimacs2 5y ago
That humans had a major role in the extinction of wooly mammoths is likely correct. However this cannot be said for the megafauna in Australia: https://theconversation.com/aboriginal-australians-co-existe... Our propensity
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'd go a step further and say that technology is nature. Humans just represent another way for nature to enhance the permutation of new possibilities. For thousands of years, we acted like the animal analogue to the fungal mattes that
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by vimacs2 5y ago
My comment was more in reference to the fact that it is now legal for UK companies to dump raw sewage into the water. It means that the practice will likely proliferate to other less well funded regions.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
In fairness, vaping marijuana and specifically vaping "the lower end of pure sativa" is not at all representative of the wider cannabis smoking public. In places where it's illegal in particular, you're stuck with whatev
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Mammals will probably get somewhat of an easier ride through the Thames since at least they're not getting their oxygen through the water.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Shame though for the rest of the country that might not necessarily be able to bankroll such a project.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yes, very efficient. Meanwhile nearly all of the peasantry subsisted on rice and suffered from malnutrition and frequent birth defects. Also, this has nothing to do with capitalism. It's just exchange of money which had existed long be
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by vimacs2 5y ago
What an idiotic comment. Not liking and making rape jokes = "lacking social awareness"? The fact that somebody would act different if they grew up in a different environment isn't an argument for anything. If I grew up in Jim
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Except it had little to do authoritarianism or communism, it had to do with the fact that at the time, telecommunication technology had not sufficiently proliferated in the rural communities for individuals aside from the beauracrats sent b
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Will all due respect and speaking as somebody who hates the CCP, painting the "Great Leap forward" as anything other than a tragedy borne from massive government incompetence and a breakdown of communication is propoganda. The US
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yes as well as the republic itself. It's a garbage system designed to keep power out of the grasp of the commons, which only has merit in relation to even worse systems like monarchies or fascism.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yes there was and sure, in the short term the Imperium seemed a good deal - until the wrong person takes the position of emperor which inevitable lead to mass terror and destruction. Something which had happened a number of times in Rome&#x
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by vimacs2 5y ago
> It’s a shame they decided to improve upon the existing hardware and took much longer than initially expected, but that’s what life with rockets used to be before SpaceX showed rapid iteration is a better path. Uhm, I think you're

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