nightwing
Joined 14 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
Wishing slow death is indeed extremely disturbing and stupid. Politicians that way have time to do so much more harm.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not everyone growing poor has the same experience. I also grew up much poorer than my peers, plus that was in a war torn country where we didn't even have electricity for several years. And it did not suck at all.
Your mistake is thinking that the goal of life is to minimize suffering. But that is completely wrong, only result that this goal can lead to is complete elimination of life.
The goal of life is maximizing complexity, divercity, and capacity of life.
The amount of suffering i had to experience was completly justified because i had a chance to grow up and improve the lives of others. I happened to be lucky enough to realize that chance, but my parents had no way to know beforehand if i would be successful or not, that's why they were right to try.
Comment · 5 years ago
Don't you remember people from Google saying that it should not be broken up to be able to prevent "next Trump situation"?
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectVeritas/videos/2445258202376...
Comment · 5 years ago
In this particular case it is very relevant, because Navalny himself was warning [1] that it is a dangerous precedent which is going to help the enemies of freedom everywhere. And he was absolutely right.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's true, but i hope if more people talk about it, and if techniques similar to cloning [1] get used more often in medicine, it will become possible.
[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/three-parent-baby (nuclear transfer)
Comment · 5 years ago
We need an experiment: create 100 clones of Terence Tao, wait until they become adults, and see how many of them become great scientists.
Comment · 5 years ago
But if you send another message after that, then the indicator changes to delivered. May be a bug in adding a new feature caused by developer only caring about not sending the message part.
Comment · 5 years ago
The only effective way to reduce use of anti-fungals in agriculture is to develop new resistant varieties of plants, but that is sadly blocked by people unreasonably fearing gmo.
Comment · 5 years ago
And USA and China, they are too big and a threat to everyone else.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'll try to be more careful in the future, but what part of my comment was more controversial and flame war provoking than sibling comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684910?
Comment · 5 years ago
Judging by history old fashioned moralist grounds tend to be a bit shaky, and often yield their positions;).
I don't advocate for one policy or another. In fact i'd be happy if i was wrong and the fight with numbers was actually useful. But i am rather sceptical about it, because the only argument its supporters have is "think of the children, you monster!"
Comment · 5 years ago
The law handles drawings and 3d graphics the same way as real images.
The attempt to fight indirectly clearly had not succeeded so far. And most often is used as a pretext for introducing mechanisms that afterwards are used for censorship.
I don't advocate for one policy or another. In fact i'd be happy if i was wrong and the fight with numbers was actually useful, but logic tells that it isn't.