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Comment · 9 years ago
Encrypted files that nobody but the owners can decrypt.
Comment · 9 years ago
A dream can't be failed. A dream is a dream.
Comment · 9 years ago
>Space hostile

Earth is hostile, too. A large part of human civilization is dedicated to making Earth more hospitable for humanity than it is in its natural state. We can do the same for space.

>Space empty

Only in a sense that a large container with a single fist-sized diamond is empty. It is empty on average. It contains an incredible amount of resources. Our solar system could easily house trillions of people (in O'Neill cylinders).

>for example in projects which research aging, cancer, overpopulation and disaster management in face of global warming

We already spend much more on these, than on space research.

Comment · 9 years ago
I just thought it was funnily relevant. You know, drink enough blood and you just might turn into wight...
Comment · 9 years ago
>wight loss technique

wight

Comment · 9 years ago
Keep up the good work. You are such a great example of Poe's law. I can't even
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
USA spends 50% of its budget on health-care and social security. Looks pretty socialist to me.
Comment · 9 years ago
You are complaining about free stuff.

Stop complaining about free stuff.

Comment · 9 years ago
Most biological components function in 3D space, though, not on a surface.
Comment · 9 years ago
It couldn't, because it's theoretically impossible. That's the joke.
Comment · 9 years ago
Call me back when Bitcoin can process as many transactions per second as Visa. Or, heck, even 10% as many transactions.
Comment · 9 years ago
A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.
Comment · 9 years ago
>Unless you mean that some data is shared, but cannot be modified, but this would be semantically identical to not sharing anything.

That's the gist of Rust's borrow checker. Shared data can't be modified (unless you use a Mutex or something similar, but then you need to acquire a lock, so data you can mutate is not shared).

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