That’s all right. Now that we have a Space Force, we could probably go and make sure someone holds the rings in place so that our children 100 million years down the line can look at circular crap floating through space.
That’s nonsense. There are multiple interviews with former FBI agents saying that you cannot effectively detect if someone is lying or not, whether it is through polygraph or some other meme approach, see Joe Navarro’s recent book on body language. What you can determine is if someone is nervous about the question being asked. That’s it, not more not less. Very often that is enough to at least tip you off that something may be going on, but it may also be that the individual just has some other reason for being nerveous or surprised about the question being asked.
I would accept genetic modifications on myself for ten bucks a month if it generated more than ten bucks a months value. It is silly not to. A vision correction surgery costs around $4000 depending on where you get it. Assuming you get it -very- early at the age of 20 and live for the next sixty years, that’s a bit more than five bucks a month you are paying on an monthly basis. (It’s actually more, because you are making a lump payment and thus cannot collect interest on the sum if you were just paying an annuity on a patent) I had it done and it’s absolutely fantastic. Aside from some kind of ideological argument, if you get more out of it than you pay, it’s a great deal.
There's also a whole can of worms as to what constitutes a genetic disorder. Suppose for sake of argument that sexual preference has a genetic control (I don't believe that this is the case, but this is for the sake of argument) and some parent doesn't want (or does, as some people today may well do) their child to be a homosexual. Is that something that's permissible to "fix"?
This is not a popular opinion, but I think the whole debate around “fixing” homosexuality would be very different if (a.) there wasn’t a very bad historical precedent and (b.) there actually was a way to do so. Even if you strip out any societal stigma of homosexuality, there really aren’t many benefits to being homosexual, while the drawbacks are significant: the sex is considerably worse and limited, and you can’t have children without surrogates or medical intervention. Particularly the latter is something I have heard multiple homosexuals I know well lament about. I cannot honestly find any advantages homosexuality would bring with aside from pregnancies becoming a strictly opt-in affair. The whole violence towards homosexuals, especially homosexual men, has kind of poisoned the well when it comes to discussing this issue.
This is probably the oddest answer of the bunch. Actually somewhat dumbfounded here.
Your first point is demonstrably wrong and I am genuinely surprised that there are people on/. who believe that to be the case (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?mobile=false&i=life+expectancy,+gdp+per+capita). This is the sort of thing you should have learnt in elementary school.
You second point is a non sequitor. Both rail and road have their place, which is why we also use both. I don’t know of a single nation that only has rail. Even if you live in a city like Tokyo that has amazing rail connectivity, there are still roads everywhere, because you can’t supply a supermarket by carrying a day’s worth of goods from the nearest metro station.
The last point I don’t even know where to start. Bunkers aren’t exactly very efficient when it comes to energy costs and maintenance. Did you read too much Tolkien?
Oh my God, it’s like listening to one of those poor mentally-challenged sobs on the street yelling about the Jews controlling Nestle, Washington and the Catholic Church. Just stop already, you are embarrassing this entire site by association.
No, fuck YOU, Sir. You are the kind of spineless shit who wants all that the modern society has to offer but blame it for doing so. Don’t want to participate in roads and supermarkets everywhere? Put your money where you mouth is and go die in the woods where there are none. The said supermarkets and roads will have one consumer less to incentivize further expansion.
It is a waste if people can use it. You want to live without commercial buildings and asphalt, go right ahead. Given the average life expectancy, there will still be enough undeveloped areas of the U.S. that you can stay in until you die. Don’t give me this crap about “oh look at these shocking maps” or “oh no, this beautiful bunch of trees was removed so that a hundred families have somewhere to live” because people who have less than you don’t want to live in a bloody forest. Frankly, I find this “one rule for thee, another for me” attitude downright disgusting.
To be fair, it would not be surprising in the least if they did achieve outrageous things with CRISPR. I am not in biotech, but I have been to a number of talks about CRISPR by the people in the field and it is incredible how often something is a no-go because of legislation. There is a whole huge discussion about where to draw a line between using CRISPR to help sick people and making sure that whatever it is you helped them with doesn’t get passed on to their offspring. China just modifies away.
Now that Vitalik has made a ton of real money from his very successful brand of make believe money, I absolutely support his idea of going out there and building something that will actually contribute to the gross domestic product. Maybe he could start a hat-making company or something.
You missed the point by a mile. An increase in developed countries’ population is not the same as an increase in developing countries’ population, because developed nations generally produce high productivity offspring that trickle down utility to the developing nations. We have a lot of growth of the latter and the inverse in the former.
This idea that someone on/. is doing anyone a favor by abstaining from having children is thus completely ludicrous, because it is this user’s children and not someone in a Congo village that are most likely to make people have more “decent lives” and increase productivity that again counteracts Malthus’s ideas—the two issues raised somewhere up there. If you don’t want to have children for personal reasons, knock yourself out, but you are deluding yourself if you think you are somehow “doing your part” in making the world a better place.
That’s amazing. You belong to a minority of this planet’s population that can birth and nurture highly productive offspring—one with net negative birth rates, mind you—and drive development for the populations stuck in a perpetual limbo. Really, the smartest and most benevolent thing you can do is not have children. *facepalm*
By that the logic anti-vacation folks are the best thing ever. You are not being cold-hearted; merely following the good old “one rule for me, another for thee” hypocrisy.
One of the more popular explanations among economic historians for why regions of Africa are so underdeveloped is specifically malaria. You will notice that countries like Ethiopia that are located in more mountainous regions and thus suffer less from mosquitoes have also always been more developed. Plague and war completely wreck economic development, which ironically also leads to lower populations down the line for all cases studied to date.
As for Malthus being quoted here, cut him some slack. He lived a long time ago and didn’t sufficiently account for productivity growth.
Nobody here cares that for some companies it makes sense economically to use the solution despite being dependent on Google, just as the entire corporate world is already dependent on SharePoint.
People get hit by trains all the time while taking pictures or doing other mundane stuff. One naturally expects to hear a train arrive and thinks that one would have time aplenty to move out of the way, but they are surprisingly quiet. It’s ridiculously easy to get unintentionally killed by one. Seems that Davis joined that lengthy list—unless it was, of course, payback by the CIA for running over one of their fluorescent operatives of African heritage.
It’s pretty low down the list. A Porsche Boxster is a fairly accessible car at the same price level as a medium bracket sedan. Now compare how many Boxsters or Boxster-type cars there are out there vis-à-vis sedans in the same price bracket. Acceleration is really not all that important when your ass hurts.
Heh, no, you could have fooled me. I was sure you were a principal at a bulge bracket bank given your expert opinion on short sellers that just coincidentally runs against that of the professional consensus.
There’s also only one Twitter. What other platform gives you similar reach? You could just as well say that you can stop using the internet and get busy setting up those radio stations and printing presses.
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Yeah, we get it. The costs will be driven down by the tax payer. Just like with SpaceX, the GigaFactory and all his other projects.
Are there really people here genuinely concerned about the rings being “lost”?
That’s all right. Now that we have a Space Force, we could probably go and make sure someone holds the rings in place so that our children 100 million years down the line can look at circular crap floating through space.
That’s nonsense. There are multiple interviews with former FBI agents saying that you cannot effectively detect if someone is lying or not, whether it is through polygraph or some other meme approach, see Joe Navarro’s recent book on body language. What you can determine is if someone is nervous about the question being asked. That’s it, not more not less. Very often that is enough to at least tip you off that something may be going on, but it may also be that the individual just has some other reason for being nerveous or surprised about the question being asked.
I would accept genetic modifications on myself for ten bucks a month if it generated more than ten bucks a months value. It is silly not to. A vision correction surgery costs around $4000 depending on where you get it. Assuming you get it -very- early at the age of 20 and live for the next sixty years, that’s a bit more than five bucks a month you are paying on an monthly basis. (It’s actually more, because you are making a lump payment and thus cannot collect interest on the sum if you were just paying an annuity on a patent) I had it done and it’s absolutely fantastic. Aside from some kind of ideological argument, if you get more out of it than you pay, it’s a great deal.
There's also a whole can of worms as to what constitutes a genetic disorder. Suppose for sake of argument that sexual preference has a genetic control (I don't believe that this is the case, but this is for the sake of argument) and some parent doesn't want (or does, as some people today may well do) their child to be a homosexual. Is that something that's permissible to "fix"?
This is not a popular opinion, but I think the whole debate around “fixing” homosexuality would be very different if (a.) there wasn’t a very bad historical precedent and (b.) there actually was a way to do so. Even if you strip out any societal stigma of homosexuality, there really aren’t many benefits to being homosexual, while the drawbacks are significant: the sex is considerably worse and limited, and you can’t have children without surrogates or medical intervention. Particularly the latter is something I have heard multiple homosexuals I know well lament about. I cannot honestly find any advantages homosexuality would bring with aside from pregnancies becoming a strictly opt-in affair. The whole violence towards homosexuals, especially homosexual men, has kind of poisoned the well when it comes to discussing this issue.
This is probably the oddest answer of the bunch. Actually somewhat dumbfounded here.
/. who believe that to be the case (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?mobile=false&i=life+expectancy,+gdp+per+capita). This is the sort of thing you should have learnt in elementary school.
Your first point is demonstrably wrong and I am genuinely surprised that there are people on
You second point is a non sequitor. Both rail and road have their place, which is why we also use both. I don’t know of a single nation that only has rail. Even if you live in a city like Tokyo that has amazing rail connectivity, there are still roads everywhere, because you can’t supply a supermarket by carrying a day’s worth of goods from the nearest metro station.
The last point I don’t even know where to start. Bunkers aren’t exactly very efficient when it comes to energy costs and maintenance. Did you read too much Tolkien?
Oh my God, it’s like listening to one of those poor mentally-challenged sobs on the street yelling about the Jews controlling Nestle, Washington and the Catholic Church. Just stop already, you are embarrassing this entire site by association.
No, fuck YOU, Sir. You are the kind of spineless shit who wants all that the modern society has to offer but blame it for doing so. Don’t want to participate in roads and supermarkets everywhere? Put your money where you mouth is and go die in the woods where there are none. The said supermarkets and roads will have one consumer less to incentivize further expansion.
It is a waste if people can use it. You want to live without commercial buildings and asphalt, go right ahead. Given the average life expectancy, there will still be enough undeveloped areas of the U.S. that you can stay in until you die. Don’t give me this crap about “oh look at these shocking maps” or “oh no, this beautiful bunch of trees was removed so that a hundred families have somewhere to live” because people who have less than you don’t want to live in a bloody forest. Frankly, I find this “one rule for thee, another for me” attitude downright disgusting.
To be fair, it would not be surprising in the least if they did achieve outrageous things with CRISPR. I am not in biotech, but I have been to a number of talks about CRISPR by the people in the field and it is incredible how often something is a no-go because of legislation. There is a whole huge discussion about where to draw a line between using CRISPR to help sick people and making sure that whatever it is you helped them with doesn’t get passed on to their offspring. China just modifies away.
Now that Vitalik has made a ton of real money from his very successful brand of make believe money, I absolutely support his idea of going out there and building something that will actually contribute to the gross domestic product. Maybe he could start a hat-making company or something.
You missed the point by a mile. An increase in developed countries’ population is not the same as an increase in developing countries’ population, because developed nations generally produce high productivity offspring that trickle down utility to the developing nations. We have a lot of growth of the latter and the inverse in the former.
/. is doing anyone a favor by abstaining from having children is thus completely ludicrous, because it is this user’s children and not someone in a Congo village that are most likely to make people have more “decent lives” and increase productivity that again counteracts Malthus’s ideas—the two issues raised somewhere up there. If you don’t want to have children for personal reasons, knock yourself out, but you are deluding yourself if you think you are somehow “doing your part” in making the world a better place.
This idea that someone on
That’s amazing. You belong to a minority of this planet’s population that can birth and nurture highly productive offspring—one with net negative birth rates, mind you—and drive development for the populations stuck in a perpetual limbo. Really, the smartest and most benevolent thing you can do is not have children. *facepalm*
By that the logic anti-vacation folks are the best thing ever. You are not being cold-hearted; merely following the good old “one rule for me, another for thee” hypocrisy.
One of the more popular explanations among economic historians for why regions of Africa are so underdeveloped is specifically malaria. You will notice that countries like Ethiopia that are located in more mountainous regions and thus suffer less from mosquitoes have also always been more developed. Plague and war completely wreck economic development, which ironically also leads to lower populations down the line for all cases studied to date.
As for Malthus being quoted here, cut him some slack. He lived a long time ago and didn’t sufficiently account for productivity growth.
Nobody here cares that for some companies it makes sense economically to use the solution despite being dependent on Google, just as the entire corporate world is already dependent on SharePoint.
He isn’t; you are just entirely clueless. Trains are sneaky. https://www.popularmechanics.c...
People get hit by trains all the time while taking pictures or doing other mundane stuff. One naturally expects to hear a train arrive and thinks that one would have time aplenty to move out of the way, but they are surprisingly quiet. It’s ridiculously easy to get unintentionally killed by one. Seems that Davis joined that lengthy list—unless it was, of course, payback by the CIA for running over one of their fluorescent operatives of African heritage.
It’s pretty low down the list. A Porsche Boxster is a fairly accessible car at the same price level as a medium bracket sedan. Now compare how many Boxsters or Boxster-type cars there are out there vis-à-vis sedans in the same price bracket. Acceleration is really not all that important when your ass hurts.
Did you steal a time machine yourself? Not knowing about Asterix is at the very least just as embarrassing. Say hello to Edison from me though.
Heh, no, you could have fooled me. I was sure you were a principal at a bulge bracket bank given your expert opinion on short sellers that just coincidentally runs against that of the professional consensus.
Pray tell, how many accounting irregularities have you uncovered in your long long-buying career?
There’s also only one Twitter. What other platform gives you similar reach? You could just as well say that you can stop using the internet and get busy setting up those radio stations and printing presses.
That’s great that Twitter is doing nothing. The same can’t be said about domain name providers.
No, they are better scrutinizers. Stop making crap up, buddy.