And why wouldn't nature take advantage of such a relatively simple and effective pattern, given all of the emergent behavior it producrs plus the ability to adapt? Human egos are probably the reason we also resisted the…
Yes. In fact, nearly everything is perceived as tribalistic us-vs-them team sports now, including politics.
You'll get more buy in on your ideas if you didn't present them so bitterly. Your comment seems like you were let down after getting highly attached to the theory.
Yep, alcohol is one of a very small number of recreational drugs that can kill addicted people who quit cold turkey. Even hospitals have to provide ethanol to heavy drinkers to prevent withdrawal.
Terrence McKenna had a theory that psychedelics jump started civilization by making us more open to cooperation.
> It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it. Intentionally obfuscating the data¹ also requires time effort and costs. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674097
Community sounds nice until you notice that any organized collection of humans inevitably succumbs to the will of sociopaths.
There are substances to let you debug/rewire your brain, but they are usually illegal because if enough people used them, it might threaten those who prefer things to stay they way they are.
Adults justify everything they do by relating how it adds to their productivity. Even a vacation anecdote must include something about how the break is justified by increasing net productivity.
> I'd be happy to send them back there and let them see for themselves. I'm curious how you intend to do this.
Are you challenging others here to broadcast significantly more feasible scenarios in a public forum? How does one respond to you with evidence of much more practical attacks without potentially accelerating their…
> I also purchased fistfuls of silica gel packets, and I toss one into each bag when I seal it up. Keep in mind that not everything stores optimally at very low humidity. I was surprised to learn (from a recent thread…
There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".
"Your potential" is part of a greater fairy tale told to gifted students to make them contribute significantly more to society at the cost of their own mental health when the rewards never materialize.
You're trying to apply logic to religion.
Who gets to define those moral rights?
If anything, the more popular the work, the faster it should be put into the public domain. A kid growing up obsessed with a franchise is unlikely to ever be permitted to create and sell derivative works within their…
Nearly every convenience of modern civilization is funded with taxpayer money, so that reasoning is without merit.
What is fundamentally unsustainable is the positive feedback loop of maintaining secrecy or exclusivity on information.
> the permit process for medical compounds takes years and costs billions Seems like we are coming up on a limit where if they put that much more money into R&D + marketing, then won't be able to afford the product…
> A friend of mine (who’s a very brilliant mathematician) once told a story that, in the beginning of the ages, God was making up a dictionary of all the words that would be used in language. And one day he visited the…
If Tipper Gore weren't such a prude, there might have been enough votes to overcome that butterfly ballot issue.
I seem to recall Church of the SubGenius had something about this.
Same goes for a job writing closed source. This whole industry has gone off a cliff.
Laws aren't enforced against large companies.
And why wouldn't nature take advantage of such a relatively simple and effective pattern, given all of the emergent behavior it producrs plus the ability to adapt? Human egos are probably the reason we also resisted the…
Yes. In fact, nearly everything is perceived as tribalistic us-vs-them team sports now, including politics.
You'll get more buy in on your ideas if you didn't present them so bitterly. Your comment seems like you were let down after getting highly attached to the theory.
Yep, alcohol is one of a very small number of recreational drugs that can kill addicted people who quit cold turkey. Even hospitals have to provide ethanol to heavy drinkers to prevent withdrawal.
Terrence McKenna had a theory that psychedelics jump started civilization by making us more open to cooperation.
> It requires employer time and effort and has a cost associated with it. Intentionally obfuscating the data¹ also requires time effort and costs. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674097
Community sounds nice until you notice that any organized collection of humans inevitably succumbs to the will of sociopaths.
There are substances to let you debug/rewire your brain, but they are usually illegal because if enough people used them, it might threaten those who prefer things to stay they way they are.
Adults justify everything they do by relating how it adds to their productivity. Even a vacation anecdote must include something about how the break is justified by increasing net productivity.
> I'd be happy to send them back there and let them see for themselves. I'm curious how you intend to do this.
Are you challenging others here to broadcast significantly more feasible scenarios in a public forum? How does one respond to you with evidence of much more practical attacks without potentially accelerating their…
> I also purchased fistfuls of silica gel packets, and I toss one into each bag when I seal it up. Keep in mind that not everything stores optimally at very low humidity. I was surprised to learn (from a recent thread…
There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".
"Your potential" is part of a greater fairy tale told to gifted students to make them contribute significantly more to society at the cost of their own mental health when the rewards never materialize.
You're trying to apply logic to religion.
Who gets to define those moral rights?
If anything, the more popular the work, the faster it should be put into the public domain. A kid growing up obsessed with a franchise is unlikely to ever be permitted to create and sell derivative works within their…
Nearly every convenience of modern civilization is funded with taxpayer money, so that reasoning is without merit.
What is fundamentally unsustainable is the positive feedback loop of maintaining secrecy or exclusivity on information.
> the permit process for medical compounds takes years and costs billions Seems like we are coming up on a limit where if they put that much more money into R&D + marketing, then won't be able to afford the product…
> A friend of mine (who’s a very brilliant mathematician) once told a story that, in the beginning of the ages, God was making up a dictionary of all the words that would be used in language. And one day he visited the…
If Tipper Gore weren't such a prude, there might have been enough votes to overcome that butterfly ballot issue.
I seem to recall Church of the SubGenius had something about this.
Same goes for a job writing closed source. This whole industry has gone off a cliff.
Laws aren't enforced against large companies.