IntronExon

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by IntronExon 9y ago
I’m asking a question you seem unwilling to answer. You invoked national security as a motivation to stay on the cutting edge of military science. I’m asking just what your definition encompasses, and pointing out that it’s clearly not just
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by IntronExon 9y ago
There's also an argument to be made that remaining on the cutting edge of military science is a form of national security. Your words, I’m asking who’s security? Our security while we pretend to own the world? Our security against in
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by IntronExon 9y ago
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil... That’s tens of millions, and I’m being generous in ignoring how you’ve moved the goalposts. Your thesis is simply unsupportable, sorry. Besides, we don’t know
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by IntronExon 9y ago
How many thermonuclear weapons do we need to be secure? Secure from what? Invasion? No one is invading a nuclear power.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Oh for sure, you can get much more bang for your buck out of a swarm of MIRV’ed ICBMs carrying megatons of hydrogen bombs than bayonets and muskets. I mean, just try ignoring intersecting blast waves and thermal pulses! And chlorine gas? Pf
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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by IntronExon 9y ago|2 comments
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by IntronExon 9y ago
The word used is “outraged” and not “surprised” though. I think that’s more than just a semantic point. In fact there is no mention of surprise in the article. I think that’s a reasonable reaction, whereas surprise is a straw man, largely i
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by IntronExon 9y ago
While those camps were morally reprehensible and constitutionally indefensible, the goal was not to kill people. Can we at least agree that the whole , “A secret court has ordered your death from the sky,” thing is a lot more purposefully m
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Navy to Slash Legacy F/A-18 Hornet Fleet to Prop Up Beleaguered USMC Squadrons(thedrive.com)
1 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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by IntronExon 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/drone-strikes-... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone... Whatever you think of civilian de
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Shopping Around: How Folding Basket Carriers Became Modern Nesting Carts(99percentinvisible.org)
1 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Own Pictures of Pepe the Frog(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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Fraudsters Jailed for £37m Copycat Website Scam(bbc.com)
24 points by IntronExon 9y ago|16 comments
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Absolutely, but my point is that the cost is reasonable, the wages are not, and that implies a fix. Moreover, the fix doesn’t lie with Patagonia. Even more, if the true cost of things like clothing weren’t extermslized brutally, Americans w
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Maybe the real difference is that some of us lack the empathy and imagination to consider the plight of some poor bastardized having their wedding, school, or hospital drone-striked, and some of us do. For those who can’t, this is never an
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by IntronExon 9y ago
That sounds like a problem with depressed wages, not the price of the coat.
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Photosystem II Subunit S Overexpression Increases Effiency of H2O in Crops(nature.com)
2 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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by IntronExon 9y ago
For values or “us” which are nuclear powers and their close allies. Of course if “thanks to technology” we end up destroying ourselves with nuclear weapons, climate change, or something as yet unforeseen then really what has come of it? Fix
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Not a problem, I was wrong and appreciate the feedback.
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About Half of Uber, Lyft Drivers Make Less Than Minimum Wage: Revised Estimate(thedrive.com)
2 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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Rich People Are Ruining Wine(theatlantic.com)
2 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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Pollution regulations help Chesapeake Bay seagrass rebound(sciencenews.org)
3 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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When Bogs Burn, the Environment Takes a Hit(sciencenews.org)
1 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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The Coming Conflicts Will Be Tweeted(lawfareblog.com)
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by IntronExon 9y ago
I appreciate the feedback and agree, I did a poor job. Hopefully my edit has added some much-needed substance.
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by IntronExon 9y ago
To add to what Kitsune has said, the violence has simply changed into a series of proxy wars between nuclear powers, at the expense of non-nuclear powers. The other part is that for the first time in over a thousand years, Western Europe is
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Time will tell. Bangladesh is grossly overpopulated, and struggling with hydrological and agricultural issues which may yet lead to systems collapse. India may thrive, or die in nuclear fire along with Pakistan. Until pretty recently tech
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Understood, I edited it to include more details about what I was trying to get across.
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Industry ‘Exaggerates Plastics Recycling Success’(bbc.com)
1 points by IntronExon 9y ago|0 comments
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by IntronExon 9y ago
Ok, let’s look at the Middle East and Northern Africa. Edit: Or better yet, stick with my original example of the DRC, which is not a happy tale.

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