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by zpeti 5y ago
> SpaceX is a bad replacement for a well funded NASA Please, explain exactly how you came to this conclusion. And use numbers, costs of R&D, costs of launches, etc. I'm absolutely baffled you could think this.
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by zpeti 5y ago
To people like the commenter it's much better if everyone is suffering than if some people aren't and some are.
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by zpeti 5y ago
By basically any metric the world is the best place for humans it's ever been. Absolutely poverty has collapsed over the last few decades and will be non existent in about 15-20 years. Basically every human has gotten access to all the
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by zpeti 5y ago
The word radicalized is also way overused. Orban is seen as hateful or radicalising because he is against illegal immigration. He has made a big marketing point about this. But that doesn't mean that there aren't legitimate concer
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by zpeti 5y ago
Already linked above but here you go: https://eclj.org/free-speech/echr/blasphemy-crime-the-echr-i...
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by zpeti 5y ago
Yes, literally. Hate speech laws.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Damn, what a great idea! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this yet?
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by zpeti 5y ago
Well, we only have to go back a year, and you are saying the Trump admin is the only one speaking truth… I find it insane that Silicon Valley companies have such short memories, and can’t even comprehend that 1 year ago the same policies wo
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by zpeti 5y ago
Soooo… The Who said the virus isn’t airborne initially. They said masks don’t work initially. What’s your plan of action there? Google censors what the status quo asks them to and then flips and censors the other side the second they change
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by zpeti 5y ago
It is also slowly becoming illegal to criticise Islam. Taking Islam out of the equation do you think it’s a good idea for any religion to actually be off the table in terms of discussion?
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by zpeti 5y ago
What’s sad to me is that someone who really should be a hero to everyone in Silicon Valley, the journalist who decided to publish Edward Snowden’s stuff, at insane risk to himself, has been warning about censorship forever. (Glen greenwald)
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by zpeti 5y ago
I am non-US. How the hell is this possible? The amount of conflict of interest is unbelievable. How is this not a huge scandal?
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by zpeti 5y ago
I don’t see any countries objecting to it or threatening vetos, as has happened with some other things. Presumably this will pass. Since it’s a new form of taxation that everyone seems ok with. Perfect for any government.
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by zpeti 5y ago
In fact this is a way for the EU to introduce eu wide taxation through the back door. This is power that countries have always had, and it’s now moving into the EU realm. It’s more centralization and more eu control. So it’s a step towards
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by zpeti 5y ago
We can’t have no moderation. There are a million reasons from spam to hostile government bots etc. At least the US legally allows companies (ie prevents government censorship) to choose what they moderate, rather than almost any other count
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by zpeti 5y ago
How does that change my point? The article says the original variant had an R rate of 2.7, and delta had one between 4 and 9. That’s a big claim with no data. And thanks I understand how exponential works.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Another issue which this article ignores, and so does the fear mongering clickbait media, is how many asymptotic people we are testing now vs 6 months ago or a year ago. It’s way more. The UK especially is testing like crazy. But that means
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by zpeti 5y ago
If you don’t mind right wing politics, retalk.com
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by zpeti 5y ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. We simply don’t know. Experts couldn’t even predict COVID waves correctly (UK) but we think we can predict the entire planets ecosystem changes? I also think we need to seperate out how humans are dr
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by zpeti 5y ago
It’s funny how we came up with this amazing new tech, where the owner can access basically all the information in the world in his hands, can listen to music, watch films, basically do anything. I mean Elon basically says it turns humans in
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by zpeti 5y ago
To defend what exactly? Literally every big corporation had rainbows everywhere in the last month, almost all denounced racism and embraced BLM last year. Not much was done against BLM protests/riots. So what exactly is the free speech
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by zpeti 5y ago
So you would prefer YouTube be the arbiter of truth in the case of scientific debate, and have the power to overrule the speech of a Nobel winning scientist? How does that results in a good situation for science in the long run? Even if iv
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by zpeti 5y ago
So I wonder when all the people asking for censoring misinformation will finally realise that the “free speech extremists” were right, these censorship tools will inevitably be used by those in power for bad ends. For me the Wall Street bet
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by zpeti 5y ago
If you’re the only person willing to collect trash, people will pay you a lot of money to do it, and you’ll have a much nicer house, car, holiday, or whatever you want to spend it on. Markets are great. Felix Dennis: one of the richest peop
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by zpeti 5y ago
The extreme politicisation of this issue has caused this kind of thinking, which is simply not true. Even the IPCC, the biggest authority on climate change says that temperatures might increase 2C in the next 50 years, reducing the GROWTH i
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by zpeti 5y ago
Income inequality != it’s worse for the poor Look at every metric of poverty or things affecting the poor (literacy, hunger, access to education) and its improved like no other time in history in the last 50 years. Just because the rich got
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by zpeti 5y ago
I really don’t think this intentionally provocative and clickbait title (and content) is HN material.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Because trump sells views and ads on coverage worldwide. He was a goldmine for the media, and they made sure to make the most of it.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Its worse, people who don’t want to think of themselves as victims, and want to just move on should see a therapist as they are mentally ill. This sums up the west nicely as of 2021.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Fair enough, but that doesn’t answer my main point that history is full of really bad things, 99% of which no one has ever been held to account for (btw, why would we, no one is alive any more, so unless you believe in collective guilt it’s

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