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by vimacs2 5y ago
Sorry but this is absolute nonsense. Having awareness of a problem does not imply necessarily having the best possible solution and neither should pointing out the problem be gatekeeped by this stupid expectation that you suddenly need to d
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by vimacs2 5y ago
It's definitely different in the sense that the required automation, solar panel, and reusable rocket technology for bringing those dreams into reality are no longer science-fiction but a mixture of both current and near term technolog
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Reading back now, I realize my comment was indeed just dumb and borne from not properly reading the OP's comment and thinking of the anti-vaxxer movement in general, not the actually rational aversion to untested ones during the Covid
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I don't disagree there, I'm just pointing out that there is a difference between the two cases.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
They can be made as sturdy and secure as your budget and desire extends. These things would be designed from the ground up to have additional atlas piller supports for redundancy in case a ring gets damaged with many different power supplie
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Except the difference is nudity is natural and sometimes instrumental - for washing, bathroom use, and medical care for example - and denying basic healthcare to your children is not, unless you plan to be instrumental in your child's
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yes, the people who are specifically critical of abusive practices of poweful executives are the "control freaks" here. Flawless logic.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
My idea is more fun though :( On a serious note, I unfortunately don't think that would make companies behave because the problem with corporations is not specifically bad leadership but a more systematic one. Hierarchies just naturall
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Sorry for not being civil. I was feeling irate at the time and took things way overboard when a lot of your comment was probably intended to help.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Having high exhaust velocities does not mean you will have the high thrusts required to get yourself out of the earth's atmosphere. Most current proposals for Nuclear Fusion powered ships involve an exhaust that is orders of magnitude
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Instead of pulling "obvious" reasons out of your ass, how about listening to the guy's explicitly given reason instead - specifically that he wanted a gaming rig and didn't want to pay the "Apple tax". There is
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I flirted with the idea of using supersized nuclear powered aircraft as the terrestrial version of the Aldrin cycler[1] concept. Basically, these things would be designed to never land but instead run in circular paths between continents wi
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Even if we pretended that it's rational to hedge all your bets on not only having a working fusion reacter in the near term future but having the capability to miniturise it to a degree where it could be used as an engine for a launch
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm an exclusive arch user and very happy with my time but your comment pisses me off. You had a poor experience with MacOS and a great experience with Linux so naturally the OP must either be misrepresenting their experience or "
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I kind of love how this article neither glorifies nor bemoans how things used to be but instead just gives a detailed and artful description.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
No because if this was true, then we would see carbon based life do the exact same process in reverse. However, there is a limit to adaptability, particularly through the dumb and highly stochastic process of natural selection. We have no e
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I disagree with this assessment of silicon based life. While it is true that Earth's crust is mostly silicon, it's also at a temperature that would make metabolic processes using silicon very difficult until you get down to the ma
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Sorry but I'm not American so this whole whataboutism game doesn't really work on me. I actually think America are in fact the worse of the two when it comes to international activities and by a wide margin. I also do in fact boyc
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by vimacs2 5y ago
It's sad that people would lose their jobs but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. This whole argument is toxic - we can't punish a company for doing unethical things because of all the people who rely on them? I reject this a
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I'm fairly critical of the efficacy of boycotts but your anger at your friend seems motivated by a desire to rationalize your own complacency. We live in a society that is built on a fundamentally unjust framework. It's practicall
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I never recall being "so vehemently against allowing other people to make their own decisions". I also am not under any delusions that I have some unique ability of being immune to marketing. Nobody is a moron here and in reality
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Which doesn't really disprove anything. Nobody is arguing that there are armed gunman that target any company that dares deviate from the chosen path of planned obsalescence. The argument though is that the market is overwhelmingly con
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by vimacs2 5y ago
It makes you wonder what kind of clarity the images of the James Web telescope will provide when it eventually gets launched - presumably by the time we will have starships that can just go there in person. All kidding aside though, it does
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Now that's what I call a courteous roundhouse kick to the social nads courtesy of the great Chuck Norris.
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Ah yes, the "free market" argument. Remind me of how that one went with the headphone jack. Seems I have less and less choices in that department these days, especially at the flagship tier - despite it objectively being a worse d
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Which you could also do by simply making the device a little thicker and have a battery run the entire width of the device. Point is past a certain point, thinness becomes more of a drawback than a benefit, especially given the trade-offs i
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Seems like a deliberate design choice, not some inevitable consequence of modernity. Why exactly does the board need to be cell phone sized when the actual form factor of even a netbook is substantially larger?
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by vimacs2 5y ago
I would point out though that while he might have been wrong on the X1 Carbon, you still have not really dismantled the key argument - that you don't need to embrace soldered RAM to get laptops that are thin enough . At a certain poin
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Way overstating your case. PC's might be on the decline but they are still far far from being a "rounding error for the semiconductor industry". Laptops also make up a major component of that still very alive market so no, I
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Except then you would also have to explain exactly what those billions of minds are running on and have the ability to predict with 100% accuracy their future state at any point - something which is impossible under our current mathematic

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