ba2plus

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by ba2plus 6y ago
Network just keeps getting more and more relevant every year. Every time I hear the "We're in the boredom-killing business!" rant, I think of all those dead-eyed fake-smile influencers.
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by ba2plus 6y ago
Actually, I was thinking of my own country, Canada. There's still occasional small outbreaks, but aside from some limits on large gatherings and some requirements to self-isolate when traveling between certain provinces, things are sta
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by ba2plus 6y ago
Short term? No, definitely not. Short-term economic pain was going to happen regardless of policy. Stay open and let the virus spread like wildfire, or shut down and ship helicopter money to people to prevent social unrest - either one brin
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by ba2plus 6y ago
I'm not talking about mask policies. I'm talking about "get employees back to work at all costs to save profits" policies.
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by ba2plus 6y ago
With garbage HVAC systems that were built half a century prior by the lowest bidder and largely unmaintained since then.
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by ba2plus 6y ago
Wall Street has decreed that capitalism must go on at all costs. That requires workers to show up to work. That requires that workers don't need stay home to watch kids. And that requires that kids not be at home during business ho
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by ba2plus 6y ago
And a Starlink network would mean an instant global Martian internet.
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by ba2plus 6y ago
There's been some really interesting ideas for a new generation of telescopes that Starship's cargo capacity could enable. Telescopes on the far side of the moon are the classic example. They'd be shielded from the sun for 14
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by ba2plus 6y ago
Mars could be the key to opening up the entire solar system. It's close enough to the sun for solar power to be practical, it's proven to have the mass amounts of subsurface ice and atmospheric CO2 needed for Sabatier-process meth
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by ba2plus 6y ago
When I conquer the world, I'm going to make June 2 a global holiday in honour of Clair Patterson. Despite his not being a medical professional, he's easily on par with Jonas Salk, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, and other more fa
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by ba2plus 6y ago
>If the above don't work, we could be looking at mass unemployment, unbearable private and government debt, and more civil unrest Given the fact that there's never been a successful coronavirus vaccine, and that there's a
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by ba2plus 6y ago
>Serial Experiments Lain: Godly programmer Alternatively, a godly program.