> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me. It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for…
Sure. But diseases do even better when people are concentrated, especially infectious diseases which are the prime targets of vaccines.
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false…
> charlatan like Musk If Musk was a charlatan, we wouldn't have this problem. Musk would have failed to put spacelink satellites in orbit and we wouldn't have this problem. The reason why we have this problem is…
That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda. It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you…
Systems programming concerns the code between hardware and the application programmer. So pretty much kernel programming. Application programming concerns the code between kernel and the ordinary user. Essentially,…
It's quite eye opening to learn about the origins of the modern education system. The how and the why of the modern school system. Especially the people who brought the public school system from europe to america. They…
> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it? We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other. Just like industrial farming…
In other words, expect destabilization in many parts of the world. Isn't the conventional wisdom that when money leaves the system at such a quick and disorderly pace that the Fed needs to step in, that the money is…
> It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything But white sharks fight each other, kill each other and even eat each other on occasion. We know that white sharks fetuses…
> People seem to forget that democracies are supposed to be for the people. Not for corporations. Not for those in power. Not for the wealthy. That's what we are told. But if you look at actual history of democracy and…
> This would be similar to UN trade sanctions that are imposed on bad state actors. UN sanctions are not imposed on bad state actors. They are imposed on weak state actors. UN sanctions have never been imposed on the…
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The biggest backers of the ridiculous copyright and IP laws are media companies - Disney, News Corp, etc being the most egregious examples. And these companies are only getting…
> Yes there are. What are they?
> In physics we have a dozen different models of gravity We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation. Also, there is a difference between "different" models of…
Many years ago, I remember that avast was one of the antivirus software recommended over norton/mcafee/etc. Seems like all the idealistic and "good" tech/software eventually goes bad. Is it money that ultimately…
> A lot of this article reminded me of the techniques used by climate change deniers to sow doubt. And a lot of climate change advocates' technique reminds me of the religious zealots of the past. Even down to the ad…
There were dozens and dozens of "climate models" which predicted everything from global cooling to a fiery wasteland and everything in between. Of course you could go back and find a model that "predicted" correctly…
Reminds me of one of my favorite scifi short stories - Finis. I won't spoil it here, but it's definitely worth a read.
The difference between US and "a lot of European countries" is that we have global financial power and they don't. If the US truly wanted to have a wealth tax, we can make it globally binding for US companies/citizens.…
> I'm curious what their continued involvement will look like. Page and Brin, combined, are currently the majority shareholders of alphabet. Each controls 27% of the voting power ( 54% combined ). They are still in…
> Problems occur when the spent money is vacuumed up by mega companies that do not invest into the communities they operate in thereby depriving communities of the cash flow they need to survive. Feels like this is…
> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me. It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for…
Sure. But diseases do even better when people are concentrated, especially infectious diseases which are the prime targets of vaccines.
> "Lure" is a nice short word for "attract with incentives" In american english, lure has negative connotations - like pedophiles luring children with candy or human traffickers luring vulnerable people with the false…
> charlatan like Musk If Musk was a charlatan, we wouldn't have this problem. Musk would have failed to put spacelink satellites in orbit and we wouldn't have this problem. The reason why we have this problem is…
That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda. It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you…
Systems programming concerns the code between hardware and the application programmer. So pretty much kernel programming. Application programming concerns the code between kernel and the ordinary user. Essentially,…
It's quite eye opening to learn about the origins of the modern education system. The how and the why of the modern school system. Especially the people who brought the public school system from europe to america. They…
> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it? We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other. Just like industrial farming…
In other words, expect destabilization in many parts of the world. Isn't the conventional wisdom that when money leaves the system at such a quick and disorderly pace that the Fed needs to step in, that the money is…
> It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything But white sharks fight each other, kill each other and even eat each other on occasion. We know that white sharks fetuses…
> People seem to forget that democracies are supposed to be for the people. Not for corporations. Not for those in power. Not for the wealthy. That's what we are told. But if you look at actual history of democracy and…
> This would be similar to UN trade sanctions that are imposed on bad state actors. UN sanctions are not imposed on bad state actors. They are imposed on weak state actors. UN sanctions have never been imposed on the…
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The biggest backers of the ridiculous copyright and IP laws are media companies - Disney, News Corp, etc being the most egregious examples. And these companies are only getting…
> Yes there are. What are they?
> In physics we have a dozen different models of gravity We have general relativity. Newtonian gravity is kept around for legacy's sakes and ease of calculation. Also, there is a difference between "different" models of…
Many years ago, I remember that avast was one of the antivirus software recommended over norton/mcafee/etc. Seems like all the idealistic and "good" tech/software eventually goes bad. Is it money that ultimately…
> A lot of this article reminded me of the techniques used by climate change deniers to sow doubt. And a lot of climate change advocates' technique reminds me of the religious zealots of the past. Even down to the ad…
There were dozens and dozens of "climate models" which predicted everything from global cooling to a fiery wasteland and everything in between. Of course you could go back and find a model that "predicted" correctly…
Reminds me of one of my favorite scifi short stories - Finis. I won't spoil it here, but it's definitely worth a read.
The difference between US and "a lot of European countries" is that we have global financial power and they don't. If the US truly wanted to have a wealth tax, we can make it globally binding for US companies/citizens.…
> I'm curious what their continued involvement will look like. Page and Brin, combined, are currently the majority shareholders of alphabet. Each controls 27% of the voting power ( 54% combined ). They are still in…
> Problems occur when the spent money is vacuumed up by mega companies that do not invest into the communities they operate in thereby depriving communities of the cash flow they need to survive. Feels like this is…