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by wallace_f 7y ago
Africa, China and South America have wonderful geologists and people just like America and Europe. What are you trying to say?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>The whole auto industry today is a large scale scam where we trade the environment and our health for corporate profits In theory, it should be easy to solve transport within a metro area with low-carbon solutions such as walking, bicyc
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Here, I know your meaning is about market adoption of AI, but also on the topic of AI this made me wonder why it intuitively feels to me like Jevon's model would be inadequate, but do I only have this intuition because of my educati
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by wallace_f 7y ago
What's the end game of all of this corruption with governments picking winners and losers? I mean there is a difference between reasonable regulations and just outright picking 1-2 cheaters who bribed you for the right to offer a servi
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Well I mean, yea... Modern tech is the result of scientific progress...
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Yea. Anyways, what's so controversial about my comment you responded to?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Chemistry is a science. Chemical engineering is the application of that science (to create technologies).
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by wallace_f 7y ago
By value add, I mean. But I don't know what's ambiguous about what is and isn't tech?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
99.9% of tech was developed within about the last 3-4 generations, no? Maybe arguably not true for scientific progress.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
In America our courts work better, but we still have a lot of improvement. Hopefully your countrh serves as a warning to us and not as a whipping boy.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
You say dragnet searches are rational, but your only rationalization was that "inveatigators need to do their job." That seems like remarkably lazy thinking. We have limitations for a reason, everything from separations of powers
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by wallace_f 7y ago
The examples you ask for would obviously be the topic of this conversation, which you can be reminded of by reading from the start again. Other popular examples of 2019 Gallileo's might be people like Ivar Giaever or John Stossel.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I don't even know what a Climate Change Denier is. As far as I can tell it's basically anyone who questions anything about the politics, economics, science of this issue. I don't see how it's basically anything more than
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Part of what I was trying to articulate in my comment is that I don't even know what you are accusing these people of denying. So I guess the first part to trying to communicate my comment's meaning is to understand that as far as
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by wallace_f 7y ago
What agenda in particular are you accusing her of, here? Are you suggesting it is particular to LIGO, or is it a more general, political agenda? Also, what is wrong with people who question the politics and alarmism around climate change? I
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I quickly searched for an estimate of the homeless population within LA city: ~36,000. At 1.2B that is over $33,000/person. Honestly, I wonder at what point can we look at these results and ask ourselves is it better to just give peopl
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In 2016 LA voted to spend 1.2B on the homeless, but the problem keeps growing(youtu.be)
3 points by wallace_f 7y ago|2 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Even when I was grown up I was again ripped out of yet another fantasy of nature, I guess it is my nature documentary fantasy -- about how they choke their prey to death. Apparently instead, usually they do not choke it to dearh if they eve
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by wallace_f 7y ago
This will sound objectionable, but I do not believe most people value critical thinking. In fact, to many it can offend them. Objective analysis and the ability to question assumptions, groupthink, consensus offends people. And even if it d
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NZ website leaks bank account details of citizens complying with gun buyback(reason.com)
4 points by wallace_f 7y ago|0 comments
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by wallace_f 7y ago
This argument seems shallow because the author already clearly and specifically argued that the growth in cost is not proportional to the growth in services authored. For example, one of the first arguments put forth by the author is that b
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Eliminating the majority of generation does not enable the electric vehicle market.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
That's obnoxiously ignorant. Even in high school one of my friends had their house raided and electronics, other valuables consfiscated. A dealer scapegoated him, and he had been searched and found with a pipe with resin in it. He carr
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Everyone prosecuted by the government for using this deserves compensation. In fact, why do we give government such authority over us in the first place?
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by wallace_f 7y ago
>Feynman I like Feynman's analogy of physical laws to a chess board. >"Every once in a while we get to peak at the board," 'but we don't really know the rules driving the game, we're just trying to figure
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Actually I recommend trying different games, even in the same night. And some of the old games are really good, like Command and Conquer, which seem to have their own magic to them. Have you ever been to Japan? They have gaming bars where
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Gaming has kept a few teenage friends and I close for years. I recommend not to play games like Dota which have a reputation for tilting players, or any games with a particularly competitive atmosphere.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
In Pirsig's Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he discusses mastery of writing and language as beyond that of robotic regurgitation of language rules. In fact, most languages have many exceptions and inconsistencies among their
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by wallace_f 7y ago
I've been compulsively travelling a lot. Been around the world. I am mostly not unhappy, but the problem is not applying myself and whenever I try to, I get into these gumption traps.
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by wallace_f 7y ago
Yea I really should be careful about presenting a victimhood personality, as well as in the way I perceive myself. My intention here was to explain myself honestly and I didn't expect it to come across so strongly that way. However, I

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