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by xwdv 3y ago
People have no desire to donate organs only to have them go to people they might not like or wish were dead. Why give up a kidney to some baby boomer whose generation ravaged the Earth and left their children so poor? We must grow organs fr
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by xwdv 3y ago
Well that’s it then. I will startup a small crypto mining company, threaten to mine bitcoin and get paid out not to.
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by xwdv 3y ago
No way man, the iPhone was insanely addicting before 2012, maybe you just had poor friends.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Well if I knew I was leaving anyway then I would have just quietly fixed it on my own. And then immediately put in a two weeks notice and use my vacation time.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Forget about whether or not people are “working”. That’s just micromanagement. There is either work not done, or work finished. If work isn’t being finished, then people aren’t working. If it is, then people are working. That’s all you need
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t like this car, it’s infantilizing. Feels like you’re in a Pixar movie driving this thing.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Yes but there are very few places in this world where you can be a very high salary worker and not be surrounded by people getting crushed in poverty.
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by xwdv 3y ago
What about an artificial meteorite instead of an actual one?
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by xwdv 3y ago
This is the danger of living somewhere with low salaries but justifying it by low cost of living and robust government welfare. Once the rug is pulled and cost of living goes up or the government sucks you’re screwed. If you had a high sala
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by xwdv 3y ago
The Ukrainians carried guns to prevent Russians from taking over their country.
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by xwdv 3y ago
The rule of thumb is you are still way more likely to be killed by other things before being killed with a firearm. It’s not really that bad. Once you graduate from school your risk of being shot dead dramatically lowers and other normal ca
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by xwdv 3y ago
That’s not fair. If a person sitting at a wall can turn around to socialize, then I propose people sitting at a round table can just stand up and talk to each other in a circle.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t think this is how I’d design a LAN party house. I think a large round table with monitors is a more social setup, and creates equal importance amongst all the people sitting around it. There would be space in the middle section of t
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’m still not sold. How often are you getting $30k contracts that can be done in two weeks? Remote workers can still travel the world and work remotely if they can tolerate the timezone differences. I just got done with a rental in Costa Ri
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by xwdv 3y ago
I thought most tumors could be operable soon by destroying them with some kind of focused ultrasonic energy at a specific point?
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by xwdv 3y ago
Can someone explain what the appeal of solo freelancing is in the age of bountiful remote work? My typical day as a remote worker is not that different from the one described: a couple hours of work per day and mostly leisure the rest of th
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by xwdv 3y ago
I wonder if someday technology like this will advance to a point where we can create entirely new organs that can do things that weren’t possible before.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Places like South Florida with some of the highest life expectancy in the nation must be because retirees with ample money for good healthcare congregate there.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Sucks. 76 doesn’t even seem that old really, it’s like a young senior age. Plenty of people often live 10 or even 20 years longer, often without being a billionaire too.
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by xwdv 3y ago
We should think of digital information more as graffiti. It won’t be around forever, I’ve seen most of the old web that I experienced as a child simply disappear, nothing but a memory now. Enjoy information while you have it, eventually it
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by xwdv 3y ago
I think the reason is because we know the mind can take a lot more punishment than the body. Some people’s minds seem to have nearly infinite capacity for punishment, where a body can perish easily from a bad infection or wound.
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by xwdv 3y ago
You will end up in Federal Prison with no chance of parole. It is a felony to shoot down aircraft. Do not do it, it’s not cool.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I can’t believe no one but the IRS wants all this money.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Ok so where do we donate money?
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by xwdv 3y ago
It is from a real scientific theory about conformal cyclic universes.
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by xwdv 3y ago
When this universe ends and a new one begins, we may be able to leave messages to the next universes through gravitational waves. This could allow a way for our minds to be decoded and recompiled in a new universe in some structure at least
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by xwdv 3y ago
If you must have a child hormones will have little to do with it. Reproduction can be made into a very routine robotic like activity, like going to the gym.
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by xwdv 3y ago
If you fired a bullet at 450m/s at a FreeBSD machine sitting 50 feet away, it would have enough time to boot up and perform operations before being struck and destroyed by the bullet.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Oh wow, this will be the end of complicated motion capture rigs. Indie developers can do motion capture for their own complex 3D characters in the comfort of a home. Good.
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by xwdv 3y ago
It would be neat if we could find a way to gestate a child in artificial wombs a bit longer, maybe from 9 months to 18 months to have a more developed baby at birth and skip some of the more annoying early months. Then parental leave could

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