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by wetpaws 7y ago
Nasa gives themselves and humanity too much credit. Universe don't care about anything of this. It births and kills billions of stars in a blink of a second, shatter and reshape planetary systems and obliterate entire galaxies while so
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Ethics is absolutely not an argument to postpone any kind of research. It does not solve the problem, it just hides it under a rug, essentially creating two problem out of one.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Field stuck permanently in limbo because "ethics".
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by wetpaws 7y ago
My final and unfortunate solution for this was to stop accepting phone calls altogether. Friends/relatives know to use Skype and IM, all important stuff goes to voicemail, everything else is on permanent mute and ignore. I wonder if it
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by wetpaws 7y ago
"you live long enough to become the villain" is usually a case for every large corporation
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by wetpaws 7y ago
This is my personal nightmare as a android developer, and knowing google it's not a matter of "if" but rather "when". (Google did remove my app from store once for not providing a link to a privacy policy document,
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Money is not a resource, it's just a number.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Seriously, is there anything in China nowadays that is not a bubble?
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Gold is essentially the same plus liquidity trap (think of Bitcoin and it's deflationary nature)
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Does it really matter who leaked them if content is true?
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by wetpaws 7y ago
But is physical reality truly random? :>
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by wetpaws 7y ago
People act like they are immortal, but the sad truth is that we all gonna die and no amount of FDI regulation will save us from it. All our current medical technologies a way to late to the party, if anything else we should've have the
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by wetpaws 7y ago
"the field of science progresses one funeral at a time"
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Something something "ethics" something something "no play gods"
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Why not have both?
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by wetpaws 7y ago
The problem is not an emission, the problem is the insane amount of waste.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
There is no such thing as a non-incremental major technological change, all changes in the history of humanity took time, sometimes many decades.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Tourism is not about the visiting landmarks (although it's also nice to have). Tourism is more about understanding that the world is small, the people around you are still people and that essentially we are all connected to each other.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
1) Soviets did this with a mixed success. 2) we'll do something else
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by wetpaws 7y ago
It's bad, but still 99% down from what we had in 80-s :)
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Less dead people is better then more dead people regardless of how you would look at this.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Also polio.
473.
by wetpaws 7y ago
This changes everything. 400k people a year is a penny change, I'm sure we can safely ignore them.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
You must be really fun at parties.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Better small improvement then no improvement at all
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by wetpaws 7y ago
They realize that everything is futile, including the act of suicide itself
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by wetpaws 7y ago
I've been running on IF for at least a decade. Can only eat twice a day. If i try to have breakfast, I don't feel hungry for the rest of the day and have to skip lunch. People in comments mention plateau effect, but this is kind o
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by wetpaws 7y ago
A price for a progress
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by wetpaws 7y ago
Because keeping them for you and providing a guaranteed 0% (no gain but no risk) return is already valuable, therefore they are charging some extra fee over it.
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by wetpaws 7y ago
It should be actually even less the 3.2% given the compounding effect :>

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