Eerie
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Encrypted files that nobody but the owners can decrypt.
A dream can't be failed. A dream is a dream.
>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.
I just thought it was funnily relevant. You know, drink enough blood and you just might turn into wight...
>wight loss technique
wight
Keep up the good work. You are such a great example of Poe's law. I can't even
There is no stealth in space.
Therefore, instead of hiding, the aliens are going to pro-actively fry every competitor civilization by using their solar shades as a Nicoll Dyson Beam... :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtFnWh53z0
USA spends 50% of its budget on health-care and social security. Looks pretty socialist to me.
You are complaining about free stuff.
Stop complaining about free stuff.
Most biological components function in 3D space, though, not on a surface.
It couldn't, because it's theoretically impossible. That's the joke.
Call me back when Bitcoin can process as many transactions per second as Visa. Or, heck, even 10% as many transactions.
A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.
>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).
Any country that will dear to sink an US aircraft carrier will either have the means to wipe out most of US population too (Russia, China) or just won't care about the consequences (North Korea / Iran, if they think US is about to attack them). In neither case is taunting particularly efficient.
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Eerie on Thursday June 29, 2017 @12:01PM
from the self-post dept.
We all know ransomware, right? It encrypts your files and demands money. You pay, your data is decrypted.The only reason you would pay is if you believe there's a reasonable chance you will get your data back.Now imagine that for every trustworthy ransomware out there, there were 10 ransomwares that take your money but don't decrypt your files.People would just stop paying, eventually.Could...
I know someone who programs in LabVIEW for 15 years, and is horrified by the idea that he could be forced to write in a different language, because visual programming is so much better (in his opinion).
You totally could pump it out, and I suspect that's what humanity will have to do, as clearly we are not going to stop pumping it in for a while...
>In fact, even just forcibly building infrastructure without putting the groundwork of civil society, democracy and working laws in place doesn't work so much - see Soviet Union.
1. Former Soviet Union countries are much better off than Madagascar.
2. However, the best counter example is China.
>The mild sedative of alcohol to drown out the screaming void of my mind left idle without access to the internet.
Consider doing something with your mind...
My impression is that most people buy Bitcoin, expecting to sell them at higher price, while claiming that it won't crash because it has real use.
Well, tulips are also quite useful. You can't decorate your garden with Bitcoins...
>"Information wants to escape" might be less ambiguous.
"In current age, information is easy to copy and disseminate, and hard to keep from being stolen".
Nothing. It's not bingo until it includes node.js (rewritten in Rust).
>Perhaps, but then how do you build such a brand if your revenue streams depend on things like number of page impressions?
Any brand that depends on page impressions will inevitably evolve into toxic garbage.
The solution is content you pay for. Subscriptions, Patreon, donations, or mix thereof.
>Either way, since utility is unique up to scalling (e.g. Johnny could get as many times of it from a sandwich as Paul does from a near-identical sandwich), at least in choice theory "worth" is closer to having an "inherent" character than otherwise. Though this is somewhat of a stretch because these kind of comparisons are invalid.
Johnny, who is dying of thirst in the middle of the Sahara desert, would get much more utility from a bottle of water than Paul, who is sitting in a bathtub in his apartment in NY. So what's the worth of the bottle of water?
>simply having a potentially temporary demand does not mean it has an _inherent_ worth.
Just to serve as devil's advocate here:
Nothing has an inherent worth, unless you postulate the existence of "worth" as an immaterial label, like "soul".
BitCoin clearly has worth to some people right now. They keep buying it.
>For uk students Facebook is almost a requirement of the social life.
So, are you telling me that students, people at the stage of life when they are most rebellious, and their minds are most flexible, just won't be able to find any replacement for Facebook, if they wanted to?
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Against a gun, naturally. Against a knife, maybe not so mismatched. I'd not try to stab someone who is actively poking me in the face with an umbrella.
1. You don't have to use Facebook. You really, really don't.
2. Facebook is under no obligation to provide societal benefits for you. It doesn't even have a moral duty to act upon your complaints. Why? See 1. It's not a government program, you are not forced to use it, you are not even buying anything from it. You are just complaining about free stuff. So. Seriously. Just stop using it.
PS. I'm not defending Facebook here. Facebook is objectively abhorrent. I'm just stating facts. They best way to fight Facebook is to stop using it.